Three days packed with lectures with the latest findings from the HPC world. This was the EuroHPC Summit Week 2022, a conference that took place in Paris from 22nd to 24th March. The international supercomputing event was also attended by colleagues from IT4Innovations.
About 500 participants gathered in Paris in the fourth week of March. For the first time in two years, the traditional conference on high-performance computing was held live at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie in Paris. For three days, HPC professionals, users of supercomputing infrastructures, and HPC technology vendors gained insights into what is happening in the HPC world and what plans the European Union and other active drivers of innovation are coming up with.
During the conference, among other things, EUMaster4HPC, the new pan-European Master's study programme involving IT4Innovations together with other European partners, was presented. On the third day of the conference, the PRACE Awards took place. There students Carola Ciaramelletti and Jenay Patel shone with their Molecular Dynamics on Quantum Computers project, which they worked on at IT4Innovations during the PRACE Summer of HPC. The networking event offering plenty of opportunities for face-to-face meetings was much welcomed part of the conference.
Our colleagues made a significant contribution to the conference by presenting four research projects in the poster session in the main hall. All the projects presented came from the Infrastructure Research Lab:
- Building Platform for Medical Image Segmentation Using HPC, presented by Petr Strakoš,
- MESIO – highly-parallel loader of unstructured meshes, presented by Ondřej Meca,
- Matej Špeťko presented MERIC: Energy-efficient approach for EuroHPC,
- Space was also given to another project, namely Advanced Traffic Modelling for Smart Cities Using HPC Platform, presented by Ondřej Meca on behalf.
The main organisers of the EuroHPC Summit Week 2022 / PRACEdays22 included organizations such as PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) and ETP4HPC (European Technology Platform for High-Performance Computing) in cooperation with the EuroHPC JU and the European Commission. The next conference edition will be held in Sweden in 2023.
