In this video from PASC16, Sandip De from EPFL describes his poster: A Periodic Table of Molecules. “A graphical-representation of a database[1] of more than 7000 molecules containing non-homogeneous mix of C, N, O and S atoms has been generated using a non-linear dimensionality reduction algorithm (sketch-map[2]) so that molecules with similar composition and geometry […]

In this video from PASC16, Marina Marinkovic from CERN describes her poster: Platform Independent Profiling of a QCD Code. “The supercomputing platforms available for high performance computing based research evolve at a great rate. However, this rapid development of novel technologies requires adaptations and optimizations of the existing codes for each new machine architecture. In […]

In this video from PASC16, Dimosthenis Pasadakis from Università della Svizzera italiana describes his poster: Estimation of Drag and Lift Coefficients for Steady State Incompressible Flow of a Newtonian Fluid on Domains with Periodic Roughness. “Rough boundaries impose several challenges to fluid simulations. Their difficulty stems from the fact that resolving the small scale rough […]

In this video from PASC16, Iris van Zelst from the Institute of Geophysics at ETH Zürich describes her poster: Coupling Geodynamic Seismic Cycle and Dynamic Rupture Models. “Diverse modelling techniques that span large spatial and temporal scales are required to study the seismicity in subduction zones. Our seismo-thermo-mechanical (STM) seismic cycle models solve million year […]

In this video from PASC16, Annick V. Renevey from ETH Zurich describes her poster: The Importance of N-Methylations for the Stability of the β6.3-Helical Conformation of Polytheonamide B. “Polytheonamide B (PTB) is a highly cytotoxic transmembrane cation channel consisting of 49 residues, of which more than half are posttranslationally modified. Epimerizations result in alternating L- […]

In this video from the PASC16 conference, Nicola Marzari from EPFL and Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich share their perspectives on the event. “The PASC Conference is a platform for interdisciplinary research across the areas of computational science, high-performance computing, and various domain sciences. PASC16 builds on a successful history with 350 international attendees in […]

In this video from the PASC16 conference, Paul Woodward from the University of Minnesota shares his perspectives on the event. Thanks to Rich Brueckner from insideHPC Media Publications for recording the video. For the full list of the PASC16 video please visit the PASC16 Video Gallery.

In this video from PASC16, Chris Johnson from the University of Utah gives his perspective on the conference and the latest trends in HPC visualization. Thanks to Rich Brueckner from insideHPC Media Publications for recording the video. For the full list of the PASC16 video please visit the PASC16 Video Gallery.

In this video from PASC16, Andrew Lumsdaine from Indiana University gives his perspectives on the PASC16 Conference. Thanks to Rich Brueckner from insideHPC Media Publications for recording the video. For the full list of the PASC16 video please visit the PASC16 Video Gallery.

In this video from PASC16, Peter Messmer from Nvidia gives his perspectives on the conference and his work on co-design for high performance computing. Thanks to Rich Brueckner from insideHPC Media Publications for recording the video. For the full list of the PASC16 video please visit the PASC16 Video Gallery.

In this video from PASC16, Peter Bauer from ECMWF shares his perspectives on the conference and his work with high performance computing for weather forecasting. Thanks to Rich Brueckner from insideHPC Media Publications for recording the video. For the full list of the PASC16 video please visit the PASC16 Video Gallery.

In this video from the PASC16 conference, Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich presents: The ACM PASC Papers Program. Part 1 Part 2 Thanks to Rich Brueckner from insideHPC Media Publications for recording the video. For the full list of the PASC16 video please visit the PASC16 Video Gallery.

We would like to share with you some moments of the PASC16 Conference in Lausanne.    

In this video from the PASC16 conference, Paul Woodward from the University of Minnesota presents: Simulations of Hydrogen Ingestion Flashes in Giant Stars. “My team at the University of Minnesota has been collaborating with the team of Falk Herwig at the University of Victoria to simulate brief events in the lives of stars that can […]

In this video from the PASC16 conference, Chris J. Pickard from University of Cambridge presents: Random Explorations of Material Structure Space. “The use of stochastic optimisation strategies for first principles structure prediction is now well established. There are many examples of these techniques making genuine discoveries. Ab Initio Random Structure Searching (AIRSS), in which initial […]

In this video from the PASC16 conference, Beth Wingate from the University of Exeter presents: Challenges for Climate and Weather Prediction in the Era of Heterogeneous Computer Architectures: Oscillatory Stiffness, Time-Parallelism, and the Slow Manifold. “For weather or climate models to achieve exascale performance on next-generation heterogeneous computer architectures they will be required to exploit […]

PASC16 is grateful to EPFL for hosting this event at the SwissTech Convention Center, to the sponsors for their support and to all participants for contributing to a rich and rewarding program. See you in June 2017 in Lugano for PASC17. Here you can see some impressions of the last day of PASC16:

Some impressions of the first day of the PASC16 Conference. More pictures will follow.

Enjoy a short video showing some impressions of the various talks during the second day of the PASC16 Conference in Lausanne:

In this video from the PASC16 conference, Chris Johnson from the University of Utah presents: Big Data Visual Analysis. “We live in an era in which the creation of new data is growing exponentially such that every two days we create as much new data as we did from the beginning of mankind until the year […]

In this video from the PASC16 conference, Marc Snir from Argonne & University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presents: Exascale Computing and Beyond. “The US, like the EU and other countries, is engaged in a national initiative that aims to deploy exascale computing platforms early in the next decade. The outlines of such platforms are starting […]

Some impressions of the first day of the PASC16 Conference. More pictures will follow.

Enjoy a short video showing the lunch break of day one of the PASC16 Conference in Lausanne:

You can now find the proceedings of the papers track for PASC16 online in the ACM Digital Library: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2929908

During the PASC16 Conference a GASPI tutorial will take place. The meeting will take place on Tuesday 7 June 2016 from 10:00 to 16:00 in room BC 410, located in the “BC building”, on the EPFL campus in Lausanne. The meeting is co-located with PASC 2016 and free of charge. In the GASPI tutorial we […]

The program of the PASC16 Conference is now also available as PDF. On this page you can find both the full brochure and also the conference overview.

The PASC16 Conference registration deadline is approaching! To participate we invite you to register online by Sunday, May 29, 2016. PASC16 Conference June 8-10, 2016 SwissTech Convention Center EPFL, Switzerland www.pasc16.org The PASC Conference is a platform for interdisciplinary research across the areas of computational science, high-performance computing, and various domain sciences. PASC16, cosponsored by […]

The PASC16 Conference early bird registration deadline is approaching! To benefit from reduced participation rates you need to register online by Friday, May 6, 2016. PASC16 Conference June 8-10, 2016 SwissTech Convention Center EPFL, Switzerland www.pasc16.org The PASC Conference is a platform for interdisciplinary research across the areas of computational science, high-performance computing, and various […]

The preliminary program for the PASC16 Conference, cosponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), is now online and you are invited to register. The event will be held from June 8 to 10, 2016 at the SwissTech Convention Center, located on the campus of EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. PASC16 Conference June 8-10, 2016 SwissTech […]

The PASC16 Conference would like to inform you that the submission deadline for abstracts for posters has been extended to April 17, 2016. Guidelines for posters submission can be found here and submissions should be made via the PASC16 online submission portal by April 17, 2016. The PASC16 Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing […]

The PASC Conference is one of the outcomes of the PASC initiative (Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing). The third PASC Conference – PASC16 – will be held from 8 to 10 June 2016 at EPF Lausanne, Switzerland. Nicola Marzari, Professor of Theory and Simulation of Materials at EPF Lausanne and Co-chair of the conference, and […]

Prof. Paul Woodward of the University of Minnesota will give the last plenary talk at PASC16 Conference on Friday 10th June in the morning on “Simulations of Hydrogen Ingestion Flashes in Giant Stars”: “My team at the University of Minnesota has been collaborating with the team of Falk Herwig at the University of Victoria to […]

The PASC16 Conference would like to inform you that the submission deadline for abstracts for contributed talks has been extended to March 16, 2016. You may submit your proposal either as a standalone talk or as a contribution to one of the conference minisymposia. If you choose the latter, pease submit your proposal as a […]

Prof. Chris J. Pickard of the University of Cambridge will give a plenary talk at PASC16 Conference on Thursday 9th June afternoon on “Random Explorations of Material Structure Space”: “The use of stochastic optimization strategies for first principles structure prediction is now well established. There are many examples of these techniques making genuine discoveries. Ab […]

Prof. Beth Wingate of the University of Exeter will give a plenary talk at PASC16 Conference on the morning of the 9th June on “Challenges for Climate and Weather Prediction in the Era of Heterogeneous Computer Architectures”: “For weather or climate models to achieve exascale performance on next-generation heterogeneous computer architectures they will be required […]

Dr. Dave Nichols of Schlumberger will give a plenary talk at PASC16 Conference on the morning of the 8th June on “Large Scale Computations in Seismic Exploration”: “Seismic exploration for oil and gas has been one of the largest commercial users of high performance computing for more than 50 years. We record petabyte datasets and […]

Prof. Marc Snir of the Argonne National Laboratory will give a plenary talk at PASC16 Conference on the morning of the 8th June on “Exascale Computing and Beyond”: “The US, like the EU and other countries, is engaged in a national initiative that aims to deploy exascale computing platforms early in the next decade. The […]

The PASC16 Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), will be held from June 8 to 10, 2016 at the SwissTech Convention Center, located on the campus of EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. PASC16 Conference June 8-10, 2016 SwissTech Convention Center EPFL, Switzerland www.pasc16.org The PASC Conference is a platform for interdisciplinary research across […]

Prof. Chris Johnson of University of Utah will give the public talk at PASC16 Conference on the evening of the 8th June on “Big Data Visual Analysis”: “We live in an era in which the creation of new data is growing exponentially such that every two days we create as much new data as we […]

The PASC16 organizing committee is pleased to announce that the program of minisymposia for PASC16 is taking shape. A list of accepted minisymposia is now available online, and the majority of these are soliciting additional contributions in the form of talks. The deadline for contributed talk submissions is 2nd March 2016. For more information visit […]

The PASC16 Conference welcomes submission of abstracts for contributed talks for particular minisymposia. Descriptions of the minisymposia can be found here. Submissions should be made via the PASC16 online submission portal by March 2, 2016. We would be grateful if you could forward this communication to colleagues in your professional circles. The PASC16 Conference, co-sponsored […]

PASC today announced a lineup of world-class keynote speakers for its third annual ACM PASC16 conference, which will be held from June 8 to 10, 2016 at the SwissTech Convention Center, located on the campus of the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. The event will feature keynotes from academic and industry leaders with a special emphasis […]

Last chance to submit Minisymposia and Papers The PASC16 Conference would like to inform you that the submission deadline for Minisymposia proposals has been extended to January 24, 2016. We look forward to receiving your contributions in the form of papers, minisymposia, contributed talks and/or posters through the conference online submissions portal. We would be […]

Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology) discusses with Torsten Hoefler (PASC16 Papers Co-Chair) the challenges addressed at PASC16 and papers. The PASC16 Conference will be held at EPF Lausanne, June 8-10, 2015. The proposal should be submitted according to the following schedule: By January 15, 2016: Provide authors’ data, title (20 words) and abstract of the […]

Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing – ACM PASC 2016 Conference A new opportunity for computational science and HPC in Europe EPFL Campus Lausanne, Switzerland June 08-10, 2016 ACM PASC16 is the third conference that was initiated by the Swiss Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC). The PASC Conference is an international event for the exchange […]

In this video Bill Gropp (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) discusses with Torsten Hoefler (PASC16 Papers Co-Chair) on his memories of PASC14 and looks forward to PASC16. The PASC16 Conference will be held at EPF Lausanne, June 8-10, 2015. The proposal should be submitted according to the following schedule: By January 15, 2016: Provide authors’ data, […]

In this video Jeff Hollingsworth, vice-chair of SIGHPC, discusses with Torsten Hoefler (PASC16 Papers Co-Chair) on the benefits of PASC16 for the HPC community. The PASC16 Conference will be held at EPF Lausanne, June 8-10, 2015. The proposal should be submitted according to the following schedule: By January 15, 2016: Provide authors’ data, title (20 words) […]

In this video the PASC16 Papers Co-Chairs David Keyes (KAUST) and Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich) discuss the new papers track at PASC16. The PASC16 Conference will be held at EPF Lausanne, June 8-10, 2015. The proposal should be submitted according to the following schedule: By January 15, 2016: Provide authors’ data, title (20 words) and abstract […]

The PASC16 Conference is pleased to inform you that the online submissions portal is now open and ready to receive your contributions in the form of papers, minisymposia, contributed talks and/or posters. The PASC16 Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), will be held from June 8 to 10, 2016 at the SwissTech […]

In this video, Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich and PASC16 Papers Co-Chair) interviews Cherri Pancake, chair of SIGHPC, about ACM SIGHPC being a co-sponsor of the PASC16 Conference. The PASC16 Conference will be held at EPF Lausanne, June 8-10, 2015. Submit a contribution to PASC16 » (Paper, Minisymposium, Contributed Talk, Poster)