Agenda

Tuesday 1st May

Independent arrival in Bologna

17:30 Registration in hotel lobby

19:30 Welcome Dinner at Savoia Hotel Regency 

Wednesday 2nd May

8:15-8:30 Welcome by Sanzio Bassini, CINECA

Session I – Site Updates

Chair: Carlo Cavazzini

8:30 – 9:05 SuperMUC-NG – LRZ’s next step towards an improved waste-heat recovery, Herbert Huber, LRZ 
9:05 – 9:40 Surprises and challenges in a relatively new data centre, Tiziano Belotti, CSCS
9:40 – 10:15 ENI Green Data Centre, Luca Bortot, ENI

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break

Session II – Standards & Regulations

Chair: Ladina Gilly

10:45 – 11:20 Tips, Tricks, and Trends in Liquid Cooling; the State of the Practice, Mike Patterson, Intel
11:20 – 11:55 Our datacenter world and the challenges ahead of us, Lex Coors, Interxion
11:55 – 12:30 Update from the Energy Efficient HPC Working Group (EE HPC WG), Natalie Bates, LLNL

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

Session III – Energy to solution & TCO

Chair: François Robin

14:00 – 15:10 Presentation of the results from the 3 pilot systems of the PRACE pre-commercial procurement.
CINES, Jerome Chapelle & Eric Boyer,
CINECA, Carlo Cavazzoni
JSC, Dirk Pleiter
15:10 – 15:45 TCO model for HPC procurement assessment, Eric Boyer, GENCI

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break

Session IV – Bologna Science Park and Food experience

Chair: Carlo Cavazzoni

16:15 – 16:45 Bologna science park: an infrastructure for HPC, Gaetano Maron, INFN/CNAF
17:30 – 18:00 Transer to dinner location
18:00 – 19:00 Guided tour of FICO and cocktail
19:00 – 21:30 Conference dinner at FICO

Thursday 3rd May

Session V – Heat re-use

Chair: Gert Svensson

9:00 – 9:05 Welcome
9:05 – 9:40 Making HPC Climate Positive, Erik Rylander, Fortum
9:40 – 10:15 The World’s First Climate Positive Data Center, Lars Schedin, EcoDataCenter

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break

Session VI – Energy grids & provisioning

Chair: Herbert Huber

10:45 – 11:20 Management of Energy Costs at PSNC, Norbert Meyer & Radoslaw Januszewski, PSNC
11:20 – 11:55 Advanced Power Measurement and Control for the Trinity Supercomputer, Andrew Younge, SNL
11:55 – 12:30 Public (WTO) procurement of electricity: the CSCS approach, Ladina Gilly, CSCS

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

Session VII – Technologies

Chair: Norbert Meyer

14:00 – 14:35 Direct Liquid Cooling of Datacenter equipment, Dominik Dziarczykowski, CoolIT
14:35 – 15:10 Modular Data Centers, Jean-Marc Ducos & Frédéric Souques, CEA
15:10 – 15:45 Facility Commissioning Experiences for ORNL’s Summit, the U.S. DOE’s 200PF supercomputer, Jim Rogers, ORNL

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break

Session VIII – Vendor Panel

Chairs: Herbert Huber & Ladina Gilly

16:15 – 16:30 A flexible approach for Exascale infrastructure providing best electrical and cooling efficiency for all type of nodes and interconnect fabrics, Jean-Philippe Sibers,  Atos/Bull
16:35 – 16:50  Preparing data centers for exascaleVincent Pel, Cray
16:55 – 17:10 The Future of HPC at HPE, Torsten Wilde, HPE
17:15 – 17:30 Liquid Immersion Cooling – A versatile cooling environment, John Wagner, Fujitsu
17:35 – 17:50 Behind the Scenes of Efficient Cooling, Axel Auweter, Megware
17:50 – 18:05 Water cooling technology for the Exascale computing era, Karsten Kutzer, Lenovo
18:05 – 18:35 Vendor Panel Discussion

18:30 – 18:45 Closing Session
Wrap up and outlook for next year’s infrastructure workshop.

19:30 – 21:30 Dinner at Ristorante Danilo & Patrizia

Friday 4th May

8:30 – 14:00 PRACE closed session and PRACE-5IP Workpackage 5 meeting