Program

Day 1 - Monday, September 20, 2021

8:30-8:45 Welcome and introduction to summer school

  • Sven Lončarić, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb

  • Karolj Skala, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

8:45-10:15 Infrastructures for advanced computing

  • Emir Imamagić, Head of Computer Systems Department, University Computing Centre (SRCE), Zagreb, Croatia

10:15-10:30 Q&A session with coffee break

10:30-11:15 RAPIDS: GPU-Accelerated Data Science

  • Miguel Martinez, Nvidia

11:15-12:00 Challenges of building Transformers based Natural Language Processing models

  • Meriem Bendris, Nvidia

12:00-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-17:00 Hands-on session: Advanced computing platforms and frameworks

  • Emir Imamagić, Head of Computer Systems Department, University Computing Centre (SRCE), Zagreb, Croatia

  • Davor Davidović, Research Associate, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia


Day 2 - Tuesday, September 21, 2021

08:30-10:15 Big Data Analytics and Stream Processing on Apache Spark

  • Krešimir Pripužić, Associate professor, Faculty of electrical engineering and computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia

10:15-10:30 Q&A session with coffee break

10:30-12:00 Hands-on session: Big Data Analytics and Stream Processing on Apache Spark

  • Krešimir Pripužić, Associate professor, Faculty of electrical engineering and computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia

12:00-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-15:00 DataFlow Computing for The Ultimate SuperComputer on a Chip

  • Veljko Milutinović, Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

15:00-15:15 Q&A session with coffee break

15:15-17:00 DataFlow Computing for The Ultimate SuperComputer on a Chip

  • Veljko Milutinović, Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA


Day 3 - Wednesday, September 22, 2021

08:30-10:15 Hands-on session: DataFlow Computing for The Ultimate SuperComputer on a Chip

  • Milos Kotlar, Ph.D. candidate at School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia

10:15-10:30 Q&A session with coffee break

10:30-12:00 TensorFlow: going beyond deep learning

  • Rok Hribar, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

12:00-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-15:00 Keras and deep learning through examples

  • Rok Hribar, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

15:00-15:15 Q&A session with coffee break

15:15-17:00 Large scale computing and storage in particle physics and astrophysics

  • Manuel Delfino, Senior Scientist (The Institute for High Energy Physics, Barcelona, Spain), Professor of Physics (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain)


Day 4 - Thursday, September 23, 2021

08:30-10:15 Technical introduction to blockchain technology

  • Josip Maričević, Co-Founder and CTO at Tolar.io

10:15-10:30 Q&A with coffee break

10:30 - 12:00 Hands-on session: Setting up development environment and applications

  • Igor Jerković, Core Software Engineer, Tolar HashNET

12:00-13:30 Lunch break

13:30 - 17:00 Hands-on session: Environments and applications for blockchain technology

  • Josip Maričević, Co-Founder and CTO at Tolar.io

  • Igor Jerković, Core Software Engineer, Tolar HashNET


Day 5 - Friday, September 24, 2021

8:30 - 12:00 HPC partner from industry presentation: Altair


8:30 Introduction and overview of Altair Enterprise Computing product families and tools (20m),

  • Chris Townend, Director of Enterprise Computing for EMEA, Altair

8:50 Altair PBS Professional Technology and Newest Features (20m),

  • Alex Franke, EMEA HPC Support Manager, Altair

9:10 Altair Grid Engine Technology and Newest Features (20m),

  • Marco Donauer, Customer Support Manager, Altair

9:30 *HPC Anywhere with Altair Access (45m),

  • Alex Franke, EMEA HPC Support Manager, Altair and

  • Ian Littlewood, Product Manager, Altair

10:15 *Get PBS Professional up and running in minutes (30m),

  • Alex Franke, EMEA HPC Support Manager, Altair and

  • Adarsh Patil, Technical Manager (UK and Nordics), Altair

10:45 *Budget and user quota control with PBS Professional (30m),

  • Ian Littlewood, Product Manager, Altair

11:15 Altair HPC Appliance and Cloud solution (45m),

  • Rick Watkins, Senior Director, Cloud Solution, Altair

* Detailed technical instruction, pre-recorded.


12:15-13:45 Lunch break

13:45 - 17:15 HPC partner from industry presentation: Altair

Altair Platforms:

  • IoT to collect field data by connecting to machinery/sensors

  • Data Analytics

  • Rocco Cappiello, Vice President Business Development - Engineering Analytics


Digital integration, multi-disciplinary system simulation:

  • Altair Vision in the Digital Twin domain

  • Fatma Kocer, VP Engineering Data Science Business Intelligence


Machine Learning and AI through reuse of existing simulation & operational data

  • engineering applications

  • manufacturing applications.

  • Sabina Stanescu, Sr. Director Product Management, Data Analytics


Altair One (presentation and demo)

  • Anytime, anywhere access to world-class tools and HPC

  • Combines physics-based simulation-driven design and ML-based AI-driven design to create high-potential designs earlier in development cycles

  • Rick Watkins, Sr. Director Product Management, Data Analytics


  • Monarch/KS/Panopticon (data preparation, streaming analytics capabilities, data analytics workflow, machine learning workflow)

  • Jakob Svensson, Solution Specialist Altair