Supercomputers are powerful scientific instruments, continuously delivering impressive breakthroughs in fields as diverse as materials science, medicine, climate research, or fundamental sciences. We, the HPC community, tend to focus our discussions at workshops and conferences on our own hardware and software achievements, often forgetting the ultimate purpose of our whole endeavour, which is to build and operate systems that advance science and engineering, and ultimately contribute to a better society. It is therefore worth taking a step back and looking at some of the major scientific achievements that scientists around the world have been able to achieve thanks to the use of our beloved HPC infrastructures.
This talk will be the outcome of a survey performed amongst major HPC centres around the world, asking them to nominate 1-3 major scientific or engineering highlights recently published by users of their HPC systems. A selection of those will be presented, mentioning also the system architecture. Where possible, additional information will be provided, such as the code characteristics, an estimate of the computational time employed, the user support provided for porting or performance engineering, challenges encountered in the optimisation process, and the potential impact in the codesign of future HPC systems.
Speaker

Estela Suarez – SiPEARL
Estela Suarez is Senior Principal Solution Architect at SiPEARL. She has taken this role in September 2024, taking a sabbatical from her positions as Joint Lead of the department Novel System Architecture Design at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, and Associate Professor for High Performance Computing at the University of Bonn. Her expertise is in HPC system architecture and codesign. As leader of the DEEP project series, she has driven the development of the Modular Supercomputing Architecture, including the implementation and validation of hardware, software and applications. In addition, she has been leading the codesign efforts within the European Processor Initiative since 2018. She holds a Master’s degree in Astrophysics from the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain) and a PhD in Physics from the University of Geneva (Switzerland).
Event Timeslots (2)
Mon 16 – Architecture
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E. Suarez (SiPEARL)
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Mon 16 – Architecture
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E. Suarez (SiPEARL)
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