Agenda

Tuesday 4th April

Independent arrival in Mendrisio

18:30 Registration

19:00 Welcome Dinner at Hotel Coronado

Wednesday 5th April

8:15-8:30 Welcome

Session I – Site Updates

8:30 – 9:05 Site Update CSCS – Ladina Gilly, CSCS
9:05 – 9:40 Experiences with Oil Immersion Cooling in a Processing Datacenter 2017 – Michael Garcia, CGG
9:40 – 10:15 Servers cooling themselves: perspective on adsorption cooling for data centers – Matthias Hoene, Fahrenheit AG

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break

Session II – Standards & Regulations

10:45 – 11:20 EE HPC WG: mobilizing community action to encourage energy conservation, Natalie Bates, Energy Efficient HPC Working Group, LLNL
11:20 – 11:55 Liquid cooling – Mike Patterson, Intel
11:55 – 12:30 Residual Current Monitoring (RCM) and Regulations – Frank Riedo, Riedo Networks

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

Session III – TCO

14:00 – 14:35 Ways to decrease TCO and infrastructure related costs – Willi Homberg, FZJ
14:35 – 15:10 Using TCO considerations in HPC procurements – Gert Svensson, KTH
15:10 – 15:45 TCO for adsorption cooling – Torsten Wilde, LRZ

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break

Session IV – Site Visit to CSCS

16:15 – 16:45 Bus transfer to CSCS
16:45 – 18:15 Site visit of CSCS
18:15 – 18:30 Bus transfer to Ristorante Capo San Martino for dinner
18:30 – 21:30 Conference dinner at Capo San Martino
21:30 – 22:00 Bus transfer to Hotel Coronado

Thursday 6th April

Session V – Design & Procurement

8:30 – 9:05 An approach to control the sharp fluctuations of power consumption and heat load of the HPC system – Shoji Fumyjoshi, RIKEN
9:05 – 9:40 An HPC experience with Design-Build – Steve Hammond, NREL
9:40 – 10:15 Challenges and opportunities of “slab on grade” data centre design – Jim Rogers, ORNL

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break

Session VI – Energy Storage

10:45 – 11:20 Lead Battery Life Cycle Management – Tiziano Belotti, CSCS
11:20 – 11:55 Lithium batteries – Morten Stoevering, Schneider Electric
11:55 – 12:30 Application of fuel cells for UPS – Felix Büchi, PSI

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

Session VII – Technologies

14:00 – 14:35 Power Management framework: A consistent vision to manage your cluster – Abdelhafid Mazouz, Atos
14:35 – 15:10 ABB Synchronous reluctance (SynRM) motor & drive package – Super premium efficiency for HVAC application – Huy-Hour Lor, ABB
ABB Cognisense Motors – Condition monitoring of HVAC LV motors through the Internet of Things – Tom Bertheau, ABB
15:10 – 15:45 Preventing biofilm in cooling installations with the use of ultrasound – Michael Widegren, Creando (Harsonic)

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break

Session VIII – Vendor Panel

16:15 – 16:30 IoT in the DataCenter – a vision of e2e HPC operations – Martin Hiegl, Lenovo
16:35 – 16:50 Processor Design Trends and their Implications to Cooling – Wilfried Oed, Cray
16:55 – 17:10 Path to Exascale – Options and Obstacles – Frank Baetke – HPE
17:15 – 17:30 Bull Sequana – Impact on data center infrastructure of high efficiency and high density servers – Jean-Philippe Sibers, ATOS
17:35 – 17:50 The IBM – ASTRON DOME microDataCenter technology – Ronald Luijten, IBM research – Zurich
17:50 – 18:30 Vendor Panel Discussion

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

19:00 – 21:30 Dinner at Grotto Loverciano

Friday 7th April

8:30 – 14:00 PRACE Session – 4IP/5IP Work Package 5 meeting