Welcome to MUG 2022

The Minho Advanced Computing Center (MACC) would like to invite you to this year’s edition of the event MUG: MACC User Group Workshop, which will take place on July 7 and 8, at the Crowne Plaza hotel, in Porto.

The MACC is a member of the National Network for Advanced Computing, which aims to support the academic and business communities in the High-Performance Computing (HPC) field. The main goal is to ensure the community’s access to computational resources, thus promoting innovation in all science and business areas and enabling scientific breakthroughs or new products.

In this sense, MACC will promote another edition of MUG, a discussion forum to all potential users about HPC-related topics in Portugal and Europe. More specifically, this event aims to foster a collaborative environment between different stakeholders, promoting the adoption of advanced computing techniques and engagement with the operational team to better serve the scientific community.

“With MUG’s annual event, we aim at fostering the fast growing, highly diverse and enthusiastic MACC’s community. While MACC’s still in its early stages, its supporters, developers and users community is unsurprisingly experienced and actively involved in the larger national, European and worldwide supercomputing ecosystems. This year’s programme is a clear sign of the topicality and breadth of the subjects of interest to the MACC researchers and users: from the relevance of HPC in Portugal to the challenges faced by Europe; from the needs to the impact on academia and industry; from the path of current heterogeneous computing platforms and the demand of data science to the future HPC open ecosystems, and from training to public policy. It’s a great opportunity and we’d like you to participate in this event, connecting with our peers and benefiting from all the advantages that MACC has to offer.”

— Rui Oliveira, Director of MACC

Programme

All hours according to the current local time in Porto.

 
  • 9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.

    Registration

    9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.

    Opening remarks

    José Manuel Mendonça, INESC TEC

    9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

    The European approach to the Exascale challenge

    Anders Jensen, EuroHPC Joint Undertaking

    10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

    Networking break

    11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

    Panel: National Advanced Computing Network

    Chair: João Nuno Ferreira, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia IP (FCT)

    Discussants:

    Catarina Guerreiro, National Scientific Computing Unit & FCT

    Jorge Marques, University of Coimbra

    Luís Marques, CF-UM-UP & University of Minho

    Tiago Oliveira, University of Aveiro

    12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.

    Mare Nostrum 5

    Sergi Girona, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

  • 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

    Access to MACC resources

    Ricardo Vilaça, University of Minho, MACC & INESC TEC

    2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

    Roundtable: Challenges, concerns and requirements to efficiently enable HPC as research tool

    Chair: João Barbosa, University of Minho, MACC & INESC TEC

    Discussants:

    Alexandra Monteiro, University of Aveiro

    Carlos Silva, Instituto Superior Técnico

    Marta Rodrigues, LNEC

    Paulo Abreu, University of Coimbra

    Susana Barbosa, INESC TEC

    Tiago Oliveira, University of Aveiro

    3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

    Networking break

    4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

    Heterogeneous Computing: past, present and future

    Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol

    This session has the support of the British Embassy in Portugal

    4:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

    Quantum Computing: Fundamentals and Perspectives

    Luís Paulo Santos, University of Minho & INESC TEC

  • 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.

    HPC Open Ecosystem

    Mateo Valero, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

    9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

    Roundtable: Can fast be green? Opportunities and challenges for Europe when making HPC sustainable

    Chair: António Cunha, CCDR-N

    Discussants:

    Carlos Rojas, Instituto Superior Técnico

    Evangelos Floros, EuroHPC Joint Undertaking

    Mateo Valero, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

    Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol

    10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

    Networking break

    11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

    Energy Efficiency in Computer Architecture: From Transistors to Data Centers​

    John D. McCalpin, TACC & UT Austin

    12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.

    Sustainable HPC Project

    João Barbosa, University of Minho, MACC & INESC TEC

    Carlos Silva, INESC TEC

  • 2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

    Challenges of industry partnerships with HPC centers

    Melyssa Fratkin, TACC & UT Austin

    2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

    Panel: HPC social and economic impact

    Chair: António Sousa, University of Minho & INESC TEC

    Discussants:

    Guilherme Vaz, blueOASIS

    José Carlos Lopes, Net4CO2 CoLAB

    Miguel Nóbrega, University of Minho

    Telmo Geraldes Dias, Instituto Hidrográfico

    3:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

    Networking break

    4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

    Roundtable: Advanced Computing training

    Chair: Rui Oliveira, MACC

    Discussants:

    Fabrizio Gagliardi, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

    José Monteiro, INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Técnico

    Maria-Ribera Sancho, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

    Melyssa Fratkin, TACC & UT Austin

    5:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

    Closing

    Elvira Fortunato, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal

Speakers

  • Anders Jensen

    EuroHPC Joint Undertaking

    Keynote Speaker

  • John D. McCalpin

    TACC & UT Austin

    Keynote Speaker

  • Luís Paulo Santos

    University of Minho & INESC TEC

    Keynote Speaker

  • Mateo Valero

    Barcelona Supercomputing Center

    Keynote Speaker

  • Melyssa Fratkin

    TACC & UT Austin

    Keynote Speaker

  • Simon McIntosh-Smith

    University of Bristol

    Keynote Speaker

  • Alexandra Monteiro

    University of Aveiro

  • António Cunha

    CCDR-N

    Chair

  • António Sousa

    U.Minho & INESC TEC


    Chair

  • Carlos Rojas

    Instituto Superior Técnico

  • Carlos Silva

    Instituto Superior Técnico

  • Carlos Silva

    INESC TEC

  • Catarina Guerreiro

    National Scientific Computing Unit & FCT

  • Elvira Fortunato

    Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal

  • Evangelos Floros

    EuroHPC Joint Undertaking

  • Fabrizio Gagliardi

    Barcelona Supercomputing Center

  • Francisco Santos

    Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)

  • Guilherme Vaz

    blueOASIS

  • João Barbosa

    University of Minho, MACC & INESC TEC

  • João Nuno Ferreira

    Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia IP (FCT)

    Chair

  • Jorge Marques

    University of Coimbra

  • José Carlos Lopes

    Net4CO2 CoLAB

  • José Manuel Mendonça

    INESC TEC

  • José Monteiro

    INESC-ID & Instituto Superior Técnico

  • Luís Marques

    CF-UM-UP & University of Minho

  • Maria-Ribera Sancho

    Barcelona Supercomputing Center

  • Marta Rodrigues

    LNEC

  • Miguel Nóbrega

    University of Minho

  • Paulo Abreu

    University of Coimbra

  • Ricardo Vilaça

    University of Minho, MACC & INESC TEC

  • Rui Oliveira

    MACC

    Chair

  • Sergi Girona

    Barcelona Supercomputing Center

  • Susana Barbosa

    INESC TEC

  • Telmo Geraldes Dias

    Instituto Hidrográfico

  • Tiago Oliveira

    University of Aveiro

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