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2022-02-14 05:58

Jornadas de Paralelismo 2020/21. Málaga, Salamanca, September 2021

The Parallelism Conference  are defined as a scientific-technical congress nationwide held annually since 1990. The basic objective character of the conference is to bring together the maximum number of researchers from different universities and national research, with the to exchange experiences, present and discuss research results, promote coordination between groups and share their ideas on trends related to parallelism, architecture and computer networks in general. 

In the context of JP2021, Maria Harita, member of HPC4EAS, has presented the research paper:

1. An Optimization Heuristic Method to solve NP-Hard problems through statistical learning. 473-480. Maria Harita, Alvaro Wong, Dolores Rexachs, Emilio Luque.

2019-10-15 12:44

Jornadas de Paralelismo 2016. Cáceres, September 2019

The Parallelism Conference  are defined as a scientific-technical congress nationwide held annually since 1990. The basic objective character of the conference is to bring together the maximum number of researchers from different universities and national research, with the to exchange experiences, present and discuss research results, promote coordination between groups and share their ideas on trends related to parallelism, architecture and computer networks in general. 

In the context of JP20019, Felipe Tirado, member of HPC4EAS, has presented the research paper:

1. PAS2P: Extendiendo análisis de aplicaciones paralela e irregulares. Felipe Tirado, Alvaro Wong, Dolores Rexachs y Emilio Luque.  Actas de las Jornadas SARTECO 2019,  pp: 259-266. ISBN-13: 978-84-09-12127-4.

2018-11-12 10:42

Betzabeth León, PhD student of HPC4EAS, attended ACACES Summer School. This summer school is organized by the HiPEAC Network of Excellence and was held in Fiuggi, Italy from 8 to 14 July 2018.

The ACACES Summer School is a one week summer school for computer architects and tool builders working in the field of high performance computer architecture and compilation for computing systems. The school aims at the dissemination of advanced scientific knowledge and the promotion of international contacts among scientists from academia and industry. A distinguishing feature of this Summer School is its broad scope ranging from low level technological issues to advanced compilation techniques. In the design of modern computer systems one has to be knowledgeable about architecture as well as about the quality of the code, and how to improve it. This summer school offers the ideal mix of the two worlds – both at the entry level and at the most advanced level.

2018-11-08 06:15

Jornadas de Paralelismo 2018. Teruel, September 2018

The Parallelism Conference  are defined as a scientific-technical congress nationwide held annually since 1990. The basic objective character of the conference is to bring together the maximum number of researchers from different universities and national research, with the to exchange experiences, present and discuss research results, promote coordination between groups and share their ideas on trends related to parallelism, architecture and computer networks in general. 

In the context of JP20018, Betzabeth León, member of HPC4EAS, has presented the research paper:

1. Identificación del Comportamiento de Entrada Salida del Checkpoint Coordinado. Betzabeth León, Daniel Franco, Dolores Rexachs and Emilio Luque. [+]

2018-10-22 06:36

The Grad Cohort Workshops are women’s meetings with masters or doctoral students in the field of computer science with the following objectives:

• Technological: Contributing to the visibility of women in the field of computer science.
• Professional: To offer participants different professional perspectives.
• Networking: Creating a space for networking between women with common interests.
• Motivation: Encourage women to pursue a long professional career in the computer industry.

Three members of the HPC4EAS research group participated in the conference on October 18-19.

2018-06-16 10:54

New contributions from HPC4EAS at ICCS2018 (Wuxi, China). ICCS is an A-rank conference in the CORE classification. 

2018-06-16 09:27

New contribution from HPC4EAS at ICIC2018 (Utrecht, Netherlands). The International Foundation of Integrated Care (IFIC) in partnership with RIVM and Vilans presented the 18th International Conference on Integrated Care “Value for People and Populations: Investing in Integrated Care”. The conference brought together researchers, clinicians and managers from around the world who are engaged in the design and delivery of integrated health and social care. 

• Computer simulation as a methodology for theoretical learning of clinical skills in nursing, Emilio Luque, Computer Architecture and Operating Systems Department, School of Engineering, University Autonoma of Barcelona (UAB), SPAIN. Vicente Villalba, Alejandro; Antonin Martin, Montserrat; Rexachs, Dolores; Luque, Emilio

2017-10-25 09:28

IPDPS 2018. 32nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium. May 21 – May 25, 2018. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

IPDPS is an international forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in all aspects of parallel computation. In addition to technical sessions of submitted paper presentations, the meeting offers workshops, tutorials, and commercial presentations & exhibits.

IPDPS represents a unique international gathering of computer scientists from around the world. Now, more than ever, we prize this annual meeting as a testament to the strength of international cooperation in seeking to apply computer science technology to the betterment of our global village.

Dr. Elisa Heymann, member of HPC4EAS, is member of the Program Committee.

2017-06-28 09:31

2017-06-15 12:00

The following publications have been accepted at the prestigious International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2017), Zurich, Switzerland.

1. M. J. Alghazzawi, Tashakor, G., Borges, F., and Suppi, R., “Crowd Evacuation Modeling and Simulation Using Care HPS”, Procedia Computer Science, vol. 108, pp. 2453 – 2457, 2017.
2. Z. Liu, Rexachs, D., Epelde, F., and Luque, E., “Support managing population aging stress of emergency departments in a computational way”, Procedia Computer Science, vol. 108, pp. 149 – 158, 2017.
3. C. Jaramillo, Rexachs, D., Epelde, F., and Luque, E., “Virtual Clinical Trials: A tool for the Study of Transmission of Nosocomial Infections”, Procedia Computer Science, vol. 108, pp. 109 – 118, 2017.
4. S. Mendez, Rexachs, D., and Luque, E., “Analyzing the Parallel I/O Severity of MPI Applications”, in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, Madrid, Spain, pp. 953-962, 2017.

2017-05-30 05:07

During the first quarter of the year we were visited by Dr. Javier Balladini and Ms. Marina Morán of the Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Neuquén, Argentina.

The purpose of the visit was to discuss and work on the joint research topics and to focus on the thesis topics of Ms. Moran oriented to Power consumption in fault tolerance of HPC systems.

2017-05-24 02:20

TAPEMS, 2017. 2nd International Workshop on Theoretical Approaches to Performance Evaluation, Modeling and Simulation

Analyzing the Parallel I/O Severity of MPI Applications
Authors: Sandra Mendez, Dolores Rexachs, Emilio Luque

Photos: [a], [b]

2017-05-24 02:16

Mr. Santiago Noriega, Doctorate candidate. Facultad de Informática – National University of La Plata. Argentina.      
Objective of the stay: To define the doctorate propossal in the HPC Scope.

2017-04-05 12:36

Ms. Ramona Elizabeth Galeano, Student of the Master in Information Technology and Communication with emphasis in Software Engineering at the stage of thesis preparation. Facultad Politécnica – National University of Asunción and the Catholic University of Asunción.
       
Objective of the stay: To implement the Ambulatory Consultation Simulator for the Hospital de Clínicas – Dependent of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the National University of Asunción.

2016-10-06 06:57

Jornadas de Paralelismo 2016. Salamanca, September 2016

The Parallelism Conference  are defined as a scientific-technical congress nationwide held annually since 1990. The basic objective character of the conference is to bring together the maximum number of researchers from different universities and national research, with the to exchange experiences, present and discuss research results, promote coordination between groups and share their ideas on trends related to parallelism, architecture and computer networks in general. 

In the context of JP20016, Carlos Rangel, member of HPC4EAS, has presented the research paper:

1. Methodology for the efficient execution of applications on multi-core HPC environments. Carlos Rangel, Alvaro Wong, Dolores Rexachs and Emilio Luque.

2016-07-05 01:20

2016-04-21 08:20

Jorge Villamayor, Ph.D Student working in HPC4EAS research group, presented a paper “Distributed Coordinated Checkpoints with Replication for Automatic Recovery” on PP4REE 2016 (Workshop on Parallel Programming for Resilience and Energy Efficiency) of
PPoPP 2016. This workshop encourage works to provide energy-efficiency resilience.

More information on: http://conf.researchr.org/track/PPoPP-2016/PP4REE-2016-papers

2016-04-21 08:17

Jorge Villamayor, Ph.D Student working in HPC4EAS research group, was invited to presented his work “Runtime Characteristics for Fault Tolerance: RADIC Architecture” on a European Cooperation In Science and Technology (e-COST) meeting.
The e-COST Action is Runtime Verification beyond Monitoring (ARVI). Runtime verification (RV) is a computing analysis paradigm based on observing a system at runtime to check its expected behavior. RV has emerged in recent years as a practical application of formal verification, and a less ad-hoc approach to conventional testing by building monitors from formal specifications.

This Action aims to build expertise by putting together active researchers in different aspects of runtime verification, and meeting with experts from potential application disciplines. The main goal is to overcome the fragmentation of RV research by

1.   the design of common input formats for tool cooperation and comparison;
2. the evaluation of different tools, building a growing sets benchmarks and running tool competitions; and
3. by designing a road-map and grand challenges extracted from application domains.

2016-03-11 07:38

Cecilia Jaramillo, PHD student of HPC4EAS attended the ENJECT Training School (December 14-16, 2015) at Insight Centre for Data Analytics and Applied Research for Connected Health Technology Centre, University College Dublin. The objectives of the course was to focus on the translation of data into knowledge and methodological perspectives.

The course was organized by the European Network for the Joint Evaluation of Connected Health Technologies – ENJECT Cost Action. COST is the longest-running European framework supporting trans-national cooperation among researchers, engineers and scholars across Europe. HPC4EAS research group is member of ENJECT Cost Action since 2014.  

2015-12-15 05:53

Professor Silvana Gallo from UNLP held, during the month of November, a research stay in our group to discuss and participate in the research issues leading to his doctoral dissertation based on Individual Oriented Models & High Performance Simulation.

2015-10-07 06:40

Elisa Heymann: New Tutorial on Automated Assessment Tools at the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE 2015).

Software assurance tools – tools that scan the source or binary code of a program to find weaknesses – are the first line of defense in assessing the security of a software project. These tools can catch flaws in a program that can affect both the correctness and safety of the code.
The tutorial will start with basic background material about how software assessment tools work, the capabilities and limitations of such tools. It will then focus on a selection of both commercial and open source tools for C/C++ and Java, and demonstrate how to apply them to sample programs with known flaws. It will conclude with a live demonstration.

2015-10-01 08:32

The following publications have been accepted at the prestigious Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) this year takes place in California (US).

1. An Agent-Based Model for Assesment of Aedes Aegypti Pupal Productivity. Francisco Borges, Albert Gutierrez-Milla, Remo Suppi, Emilio Luque, Marylene de Brito Arduino.
2. Simulating the Micro-level Behavior of Emergency Department for Macro-level Features Prediction. Zhengchun Liu, Eduardo Cabrera, Dolores Rexachs, Francisco Epelde and Emilio Luque.
3. Evaluation of Performance & Response Capacity in Emergency Departaments.Eva Bruballa, Manel Taboada, Alvaro Wong, Dolores Rexachs, Emilio Luque.
4. Crowd Dynamics Modeling and Collision Avoidance with OpenMP. Albert Gutierrez-Milla, Francisco Borges, Remo Suppi, Emilio Luque.
5. ABMS Simulator of Propagation of Nosocomial Infection in Emergency Departaments. Cecilia Jaramillo, Dolores Rexachs, Emilio Luque and Francisco Epelde.

2015-05-08 11:00

The program committee of the ICCS 2015 (Reykjavík, Iceland, 1-3 June, 2015) has accepted for presentation and publication four contributions from HPC4EAS researchers.

Congratulations to the authors!

2014-10-30 09:26

2014-10-30 08:41

Professor Diego Encinas from UNLP held, during the month of October, a research stay in our group to discuss and participate in the research issues leading to his doctoral dissertation based Agents Modelling and Simulation Applied to Input/Output Architecture of Parallel Computers.

2014-09-28 06:35

A new paper in a IEEE CLUSTER 2014 (Madrid, Spain): Analysis of scalability: A parallel model approach (Javier Panadero, Alvaro Wong, Dolores Rexachs and Emilio Luque)

Congratulations!

2014-06-28 11:35

2014-05-14 07:10

A new article in a New Generation Computing journal published by members HPC4EAS:

New Generation Computing, April 2014, Volume 32, Issue 2, pp 123-144
Defining Asymptotic Parallel Time Complexity of Data-dependent Algorithms
    Paula Fritzsche,
    Dolores Rexachs,
    Emilio Luque

Congratulations!

2014-05-14 07:02

Mr. Albert Gutierrez, as part of their training in HPC, will attend the PATC courses (PRACE Advanced Training Centres) at Barcelona Supercomputing Center:

1. Performance Analysis Tools (May 12,13)
2. Programming ARM Based Prototypes (May 16).

2014-04-28 08:03

On April 25, 2014 Mr. Hugo Meyer & Mr. Hai Nguyen made the presentation of the progress of the PhD (last period). The evaluation was conducted by members of the Department of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems Dr. Emilio Luque, Dr Elisa Heymann and Dr. Remo Suppi with the assistance of their thesis advisors Dr. Rexachs and Dr. Daniel Franco.

Congratulations!

2014-03-05 07:48

The program committee of the ICCS has accepted for presentation and publication six contributions from HPC4EAS researchers. 

The International Conference on Computational Science  (http://iccs2014.ivec.org/ -this edition in Cairns, Queensland-) is an annual conference that brings together researchers and scientists from various application areas and computer science, to discuss problems and solutions in the area, to identify new issues, and to shape future directions for research. The ICCS is in the Top10 Conference Ranking (2nd position on Scientific Computing Conferences or 5th on High Performace Computing Conferences search) in the Microsoft Academic demonstrating the importance of this conference in this area. 

All accepted papers will be included in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series and indexed by Scopus, ScienceDirect & Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation.

Congratulations!!

2014-02-07 03:02

Hugo Meyer, Researcher of HPC4EAS held an exchange of research experience at the Distributed and Parallel Systems Group (DPS), University of Innsbruck, in December 2013 and March 2014 (http://www.dps.uibk.ac.at/en/index.html).

DPS focuses on research that enables a high degree of easy-to-use and seamless automation for flexible collaborations and computations on a global scale. Mr. Meyer will work in Prediction model for Cloud workflow applications on the FutureGrid infrastructure under OpenStack. For this research, Askalon Toolset will be used. Askalon is a programming environment for Cluster and Grid Computing and provide tools for:  automatic performance bottleneck analysis, performance modeling and prediction and performance instrumentation, measurement, & analysis.

2014-01-31 10:09

Javier Panadero, Researcher of HPC4EAS held an exchange of research experience and will present the conference Predicting
scalability of parallel message passing applications at the CESGA in in January and February 2014 (http://www.cesga.es/es/ver_nova/idnoticia/5213).

The Supercomputing Centre of Galicia (CESGA) is the centre of computing, high performance communications systems, and advanced services of the Galician Scientific Community, the University academic system, and the National Scientific Research Council (CSIC). http://www.cesga.es/

2013-11-21 07:58

2013-10-17 03:10

The IBIC Conference is dedicated to exploring the physics and engineering challenges of beam diagnostic and measurement techniques for charged particle accelerators worldwide. The IBIC2013 (16–19 September 2013) was held at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School.

Albert Gutiérrez, member of the HPC4EAS, has participated has author of the paper First Steps Towards a Fast Orbit Feedback at Alba. A. Olmos, J. Moldes, S. Blanch, X. Serra, Z. Martí, R. Petrocelli (ALBA-CELLS, Barcelona, Spain) M. Muñoz, (European Spallation Source, Lund, Sweden), A. Gutiérrez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain).

2013-10-14 03:38

Next October 24, Barcelona will host for the first time in Spain, the Amazon Web Services Summit and Javier Panadero, HPC4EAS member, has been invited to participate in this meeting.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will present in detail the Cloud Computing and how businesses and organizations of all kinds, from big business to the SME or start-up can obtain benefits of clouds reducing costs and generate more efficient and competitive environments.

The Barcelona Summit AWS will feature Matt Wood, Director of Data Scientist, and CEO Bill Murray, AWS Information Security, to explain the latest trends in Big Data and Cloud Security.

2013-10-10 12:16

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (PATC Centre of PRACE): Parallel Programming Workshop

Cecilia Jaramillo, Joe Carrión, Zhengchun Liu and Hai Nguyen (HPC4EAS Research Fellows) will assist (14-18 October, 2013) to the BSC PATC Course on Parallel Programming. The objectives of this course is: setting up the basic foundations related with task decomposition and parallelization inhibitors (using a tool to analyze potential parallelism and dependences), and understanding the fundamental concepts supporting shared-memory and message-passing programming models. The course is taught using formal lectures and practical/programming sessions on BSC HPC environment using two programming models: OpenMP for the shared-memory architectures and MPI for the distributed-memory counterparts. Moreover, Paraver will be used as the tool to understand the behavior and performance of parallelized codes.