Doctor Katrin Amunts is a professor of brain research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Director of the Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research at the Düsseldorf University Hospital and Director of the Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine at the Jülich Research Centre. She has been the Scientific Director of the Human Brain Project […]

In this video from PASC17, Matthias Troyer from Microsoft Research presents: Towards Quantum High Performance Computing. “A century after the development of quantum mechanics we have now reached an exciting time where computational devices that make use of quantum effects can be built. Quantum random number generators, analog quantum simulators and quantum annealers are already […]

In this video from PASC17, Jack Wells from ORNL moderates a panel discussion on Sustainable Software Development and Publication Practices in the Computational Sciences. “The goal of the PASC papers program is to advance the quality of formal scientific communication between the relative disciplines of computational science and engineering. The program was built from an observation […]

In this video from PASC17, John Shalf from LBNL moderates a panel discussion on Moore’s Law. “By most accounts, we are nearing the limits of conventional photolithography processes. It will be challenging to continue to shrink feature sizes smaller than 5nm and still realize any performance improvement for digital electronics in silicon. At the current […]

In this video from PASC17, Christoph Schär (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) presents: How to Escape from the Data Avalanche of High Resoultion Climate Models. “There are large efforts towards refining the horizontal resolution of climate models to O(1 km) with the intent to represent convective clouds explicitly rather than using semi-empirical parameterizations. This refinement would move […]

The fourth PASC Conference – co-sponsored by ACM SIGHPC – took place from June 26-28 in charming Lugano, Switzerland. We are pleased to announce that the conference attracted close to 400 attendees from 23 countries for three days of engaging interdisciplinary discussions on domain science, applied mathematics and computer science in HPC. The technical program […]

In this video from PASC17, Nicola Marzari from EPFL presents: Computational Discovery in the 21st Century. “The last decades have seen the steady and exhilarating development of powerful quantum simulation tools to describe matter at the microscopic scale. Since these simulations are performed without any experimental input or parameters, they can accelerate or replace actual […]

In this video from PASC17, Maria Grazia Giuffreda (ETH Zurich / CSCS, Switzerland) moderates a Flash Poster Session. “The aim of this session is to allow poster presenters to introduce the topic of their poster and motivate the audience to visit them at the evening poster session. Authors will be strictly limited to 40 seconds […]

In this video from PASC17, Katrin Heitmann summarizes her talk on Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe with Supercomputers. “Cosmology is in a scientifically very exciting phase. Two decades of surveying the sky have culminated in the celebrated Cosmological Standard Model. Yet, two of its key pillars, dark matter and dark energy, remain mysterious. Deep […]

In this video from PASC17 conference, Katrin Heitmann from University of Chicago presents: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe with Supercomputers. “Cosmology is in a scientifically very exciting phase. Two decades of surveying the sky have culminated in the celebrated Cosmological Standard Model. Yet, two of its key pillars, dark matter and dark energy, remain […]

The fourth PASC Conference took place in Lugano from 26 to 28 June. It has grown yet again, with close to 400 participants this time around. A photograph of the physicist Erwin Schrödinger, sailing through the air on skis in the snow-covered landscape of Arosa against a clear blue sky: it is a picture that […]

In this video from PASC17 conference, Katrin Amunts from Jülich presents: Towards the Decoding of the Human Brain. “The human brain has a multi-level organization and high complexity. New approaches are necessary to decode the brain with its 86 billion nerve cells, each with 10,000 connections. 3D Polarized Light Imaging, for example, elucidates the connectional […]

In this video from PASC17 conference, Haohuan Fu from Tsinghua University in China presents: Scaling and Optimizing Climate and Weather Forecasting Programs on Sunway TaihuLight. “The Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer is the world’s first system with a peak performance greater than 100 PFlops and a parallel scale of over 10 million cores. In contrast to other […]

Posters are an essential element of PASC17 as they provide the ideal opportunity for exchange of ideas and expertise within and between the various scientific disciplines represented at the conference. Presenters had the possibility to “pitch” their posters to the conference audience in a rapid-fire flash session held before the two-hour scheduled poster session. Posters […]

Some impressions of the last day of the PASC17 Conference in Lugano. More pictures will follow.

In this video from PASC17 in Lugano, Michele De Lorenzi from CSCS discussed the recent advancement of Piz Daint supercomputer and describes the mission of the PASC conference as the location of PASC18 next year.

Some impressions of the second day of the PASC17 Conference in Lugano.

Some impressions of the first day of the PASC17 Conference in Lugano. More pictures will follow.  

The Swiss Graduate Program “Foundations in Mathematics and Informatics for Computer Simulations in Science and Engineering” (FoMICS), led by the Institute of Computational Science (ICS) at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, is pleased to announce the first FoMICS Prize for PhD Students. Selected applicants will have the opportunity to present their research in […]

It is just a month before the start of PASC17 – in the stunning location of Lugano, Switzerland. Early-bird registration closes on Monday, May 29, so we invite you to register for the conference at your earliest convenience. The PASC Conference is focused on interdisciplinarity – bringing domain scientists, computer scientists and applied mathematicians together […]

PASC17 is pleased to announce further details on two panel discussions taking place at the conference next month. 1) Beyond Moore’s Law The first panel discussion is focused on options for extending computing beyond the end of current silicon lithography roadmaps. “Beyond Moore’s Law” will be moderated by John Shalf from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The […]

The PASC17 Conference is pleased to announce that a preliminary program is available online and that registration is now open. The PASC Conference is an interdisciplinary event in high performance computing that brings together domain science, applied mathematics and computer science – where computer science is focused on enabling the realization of scientific computation. The […]

The PASC17 Conference, an interdisciplinary conference in high performance computing that brings together domain science, applied mathematics and computer science, is pleased to announce this year’s public lecture on the topic “Supercomputers and Superintelligence.” The public lecture will be given by Horst Simon, Deputy Laboratory Director and Chief Research Officer (CRO) of Berkeley Labs, USA. […]

The PASC17 Conference, an interdisciplinary conference in high performance computing that brings together domain science, applied mathematics and computer science, is pleased to announce another of this year’s plenary presentations, “Towards the Decoding of the Human Brain.” The plenary will be given by Professor Katrin Amunts, director of the Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute of […]

The PASC17 Conference is pleased to announce that the deadline for poster submissions has been extended to February 23, 2017. Abstracts should be submitted using the conference online submissions portal. Please note that there will be no further deadline extensions. The PASC Conference is an interdisciplinary event in high performance computing that brings together domain […]

The PASC Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), invites abstracts for poster presentations at PASC17. Contributions should be submitted using the conference online submissions portal by February 9, 2017. The PASC17 Conference will be held from June 26 to 28, 2017, at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano, Switzerland. The PASC Conference […]

The PASC17 Conference, an interdisciplinary conference in high performance computing that brings together domain science, applied mathematics and computer science, is pleased to announce another of this year’s plenary presentations, “Efforts on Scaling and Optimizing Climate and Weather Forecasting Programs on Sunway TaihuLight.” The plenary presentation will be given by Haohuan Fu, Gordon Bell Prize […]

The PASC17 Conference, an interdisciplinary conference in high performance computing that brings together domain science, applied mathematics and computer science, is pleased to announce this year’s plenary presentation on the topic “Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe with Supercomputers.” The plenary presentation will be given by Katrin Heitmann, Senior Member of the Computation Institute at […]

The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) is pleased to invite industry and academic institutions to showcase their R&D at the PASC17 Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and SIGHPC. The PASC Conference, an interdisciplinary event in high performance computing that brings together domain science, applied mathematics and computer science, will be […]

ISC High Performance (ISC 2017) and the PASC Conference (PASC17) are pleased to announce that these two key events in the European HPC ecosystem are scheduled back to back in June 2017. ISC 2017, which will be held from June 18 to 22 in Frankfurt, Germany, is expected to attract over 3000 attendees, including top managers, researchers, engineers, architects […]

The PASC Conference is pleased to announce the formation of collaborative partnerships with scientific journals and that the deadline for papers submissions has been extended to January 23, 2017. The PASC17 Conference, co-sponsored by ACM SIGHPC, will be held from June 26 to 28, 2017, at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano, Switzerland. The conference […]

The PASC17 Conference, an interdisciplinary conference in high performance computing that brings together domain science, applied mathematics and computer science, is pleased to announce this year’s public lecture on the topic “Towards Quantum High Performance Computing.” The public lecture will be given by Matthias Troyer, Microsoft Research, USA. PASC17 Public Lecture: Towards Quantum High Performance […]

The PASC17 Conference would like to inform you that the submission deadline for Minisymposia proposals has been extended to January 8, 2017. We look forward to receiving your contributions through the conference online submissions portal. The PASC17 Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), will be held from June 26 to 28, 2017, […]

Jeff Hollingsworth from SIGHPC and Michele De Lorenzi from CSCS invite you to submit papers, minisymposia proposals and posters to the PASC17 Conference, an interdisciplinary conference in HPC that brings together domain science, applied mathematics and computer science. PASC17 will be held from 26-28 June 2017 in Lugano, Switzerland. For more information visit http://pasc17.pasc-conference.org/

Jack Wells from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich invite submissions for the papers program of the PASC17 Conference, an interdisciplinary conference in HPC that brings together domain science, applied mathematics and computer science. The deadline for papers submissions is December 12, 2016. PASC17 will be held from 26-28 June 2017 […]

The PASC17 Conference, an interdisciplinary conference in high performance computing that brings together domain science, applied mathematics and computer science, is pleased to announce that this year’s program will include a panel discussion on the topic “Beyond Moore’s Law.” The panel discussion will be chaired by John Shalf from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. PASC17 Panel […]

The PASC17 Conference is pleased to inform you that the online submissions portal is now open and ready to receive proposals for papers, minisymposia and posters. The PASC17 Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), will be held from June 26 to 28, 2017, at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano, Switzerland. The […]

The PASC Conference, an interdisciplinary conference in high performance computing that brings together domain science, applied mathematics and computer science, is pleased to announce that the special topic for Emerging Domains at PASC17 is HPC and Precision Medicine. Authors are invited to submit proposals for minisymposia, papers and poster contributions on the special topic, and […]

The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) is inviting submissions for the PASC17 Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and SIGHPC, which will be held at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano, Switzerland, from June 26 to 28, 2017. The PASC Conference is an interdisciplinary event in high performance computing that brings […]

The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) is pleased to announce that submissions will open shortly for the PASC17 Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Submissions are invited for papers, minisymposia and poster presentations. PASC17 will be held from June 26 to 28, 2017, at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano, Switzerland. PASC17 Conference […]

We are pleased to announce that the PASC17 Conference will take place June 26-28, 2017 in Lugano. The conference will be kindly hosted by the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI).