Plasma-PEPSC

We recently concluded the fourth Plasma-PEPSC face-to-face meeting held at Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF) on 15-16 October. Over two productive days, we had insightful technical talks from our partners and engaged in valuable discussions. The talks were focused on showcasing the progress being made with four Plasma flagship codes: BIT1, GENE, PIConGPU and Vlasiator towards addressing several grand challenges in Plasma physics.

🤖The 6th #MNHack24 has come to an end 🌐Record attendance at this edition, in which 20 teams took part with representatives from projects & centres of excellence such as Plasma-PEPSC -ESiWACE3 CEEC COE Performance Optimisation and Productivity (POP) SPACE Centre of Excellence Ruđer Bošković Institute EuPilot: Pilot using Independent Local & Open Technologies among others 👋See you next year! HPCNow! Antonio J. Peña Sergio Iserte Marta García-Gasulla Julita Corbalán

🌟 Reminder: Don’t forget to register! 🌟 We are thrilled to invite you to a three-day workshop and hackathon focused on alpaka and openPMD, two leading tools in high-performance computing. This hybrid event will offer hands-on tutorials, expert guidance, and collaborative opportunities to enhance your HPC skills. 📅 Event Dates: 23-25 October 2024 (pre-workshop session on 22 October from 10 AM to 12 PM) 📍 Format: Hybrid (In-person at HZDR or Virtual) ⏲ Registration deadline : 11 October 2024 Registration and more details here: https://lnkd.in/dNK6KstP What You Can Expect: - Hands-on Tutorials on setting up and running your first alpaka and openPMD applications. - Expert Engagement with insights, best practices, and tips. - In-Depth Coverage of alpaka’s architecture, kernel optimization, openPMD integration, and a demo with PIConGPU.

The team members of Plasma-PEPSC conduct Face to Face meetings twice a year to discuss the progress and plan the project activities for the subsequent semester. This group picture is from our last meeting held at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), in April 2024. Our team at BSC also organized an exciting workshop on porting Plasma codes to RISC-V and EPAC architectures during this meeting.

Join MNHACK24 at Barcelona Supercomputing Center, on October 7th-9th (https://lnkd.in/dQnMfUW4). All teams will have access to MareNostrum 5's accelerated and general-purpose partitions to install and test their codes on the latest European pre-exascale cluster (MN5). Register here: https://lnkd.in/d78-2wR6

We are excited to announce the upcoming Plasma-PEPSC Project Training Event "Alpaka and openPMD Workshop & Hackathon" on October 23-25, 2024, at HZDR, Dresden, Germany. This dynamic three-day workshop and hackathon will be focused on two powerful tools for high-performance computing: alpaka and openPMD. This event will bring together developers, researchers, and enthusiasts from diverse backgrounds to collaborate, learn, and innovate. Join us for an engaging and productive event which will be hosted in an on-site-online hybrid format. Whether you are new to alpaka and openPMD or an experienced user, this workshop and hackathon will provide valuable insights and opportunities to advance your skills and projects and at the end you will be ready to use these powerful libraries in your own projects. 🗓 when : October 23-25, 2024 📍where: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Dresden, Germany Know more and register now to secure your spot ➡ https://lnkd.in/dYa7JQSz

✨ We are delighted to share that Prof. Stefano Markidis (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), project coordinator of Plasma-PEPSC presented Plasma-PEPSC CoE at the special track on European projects at the 53rd international conference on parallel processing (ICPP '24) held at Gotland, Sweden on August 12-15, 2024. Prof. Markidis spoke on the primary objectives and the grand challenges that we are addressing at Plasma-PEPSC .  Plasma-PEPSC aims at enabling four lighthouse plasma simulation codes (BIT, GENE, PIConGPU, Vlasiator) from different plasma physics domains (plasma-material interfaces, fusion, accelerator physics, space physics) and important scientific drivers to exploit exascale supercomputers. EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU)

✨ We are excited to share that Dr. Michael Bussmann (Founding manager of CASUS, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), code owner and key member of Plasma-PEPSC ) delivered a keynote speech "Exascale computing solutions inspired by plasma physics simulations" at the 53rd International conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP '24) held at Gotland, Sweden on August 12-15, 2024. Dr. Bussmann spoke on the importance of high fidelity plasma simulations and their future in the exascale era. He highlighted the role of HZDR in developing algorithms and libraries facilitating the movement of their plasma simulation code PIConGPU to the exascale era. Optimizing the performance of four plasma codes including PIConGPU on European exascale systems is one of the primary objectives of Plasma-PEPSC .

Plasma-PEPSC and EXCELLERAT P2 are thrilled to invite you to the upcoming workshop "Future Fusion Digital Twins". In this workshop, leading experts in high-performance computing and nuclear fusion research come together to teach about the advanced simulation techniques, algorithms, utilizing HPC infrastructures for plasma diagnostics and building efficient future fusion devices. 📅 When: September 25-26, 2024 📍 Location: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Know more about the workshop and register at https://lnkd.in/eBefjv54 

✨ We invite you to attend the Plasma-PEPSC webinar on "Using alpaka for Portable Parallel Programming" by Mehmet Yusufoglu (HZDR, Germany). Join us on Tuesday, May 28th at 2:00 PM (CEST). Join Zoom Meeting https://lnkd.in/d69VJmq9 Meeting ID: 644 7597 5479 Password: 037419 High-performance computing (HPC) platforms worldwide utilize diverse hardware and software backends from various vendors, resulting in a heterogeneous thread-parallelism ecosystem. This diversity often leads to interoperability challenges and difficulties in porting parallel programs across different platforms. alpaka (Abstraction Library for Parallel Kernel Acceleration) addresses these issues by abstracting the underlying hardware, compiler, and operating system. alpaka is a free and open-source parallel programming library developed primarily by HZDR and CASUS. It is a header-only C++17 abstraction layer that enables developers to write portable code independent of the underlying hardware. alpaka supports various GPU backends, including HIP (AMD), CUDA (NVIDIA), and SYCL (Intel), as well as CPU backends such as OpenMP, Threads, and TBB. Additionally, alpaka extends support to FPGAs, ensuring comprehensive coverage of diverse hardware platforms. alpaka achieves "zero abstraction overhead" by directly interfacing with vendor APIs, ensuring high performance. In this webinar, we will introduce alpaka and provide a step-by-step guide to creating portable code that runs efficiently on both CPUs and GPUs. Join us to explore how alpaka can simplify parallel programming and enhance code portability across heterogeneous HPC environments.