All sessions will take place at the Limpertsberg Campus, with the main track in the BS 3.03 Auditorium.

Important You are expected to bring your laptop for all sessions since there will be no workstation available on site.

All tutorials proposed as practical sessions will be available on GitHub. The detailed program is available here.

Agenda - Day 1 (June 25th, 2015)

June 25th	Main Track (BS 3.03 Auditorium)	Track 1 (BS 1.04)	Track 2 (BS 3.04)
09h00-09h15	HPC School opening session – S. Varrette
09h15-10h00	Keynote 1: High Performance Computing at UL and abroad – S. Varrette
10h00-10h30	Keynote 2: UL HPC in practice: why, what, how, where to look – X. Besseron
10h30-10h45	Coffee break
10h45-12h30	Keynote 3 / PS 1A: Complementary yet key IT Survival Guide: Git, Vagrant – S. Varrette	PS 1B: Getting Started on the UL HPC platform (SSH, data transfer, OAR, modules, monitoring) – S. Diehl
12h30-13h45	LUNCH	LUNCH
13h45-14h00	Keynote 4: XCS Portal – V. Plugaru – (src)
14h00-15h45	PS 2A: HPC workflow with sequential jobs (test cases on GROMACS, Python and Java) – S. Varrette	PS 2B: MATLAB 1 (interactive, passive, sequential, XCS) – V. Plugaru	PS 2C: Virtualization on Grid’5000 platform (KVM, Xen) – H. Cartiaux
15h45-16h00	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
16h00-17h30	PS 3A: HPC workflow with Parallel/Distributed jobs: application on MPI software (test cases on OSU/HPL) – S. Varrette	PS 3B: MATLAB 2 (checkpointing, parallel) – V. Plugaru	PS 3C: R - statistical computing – J. Emeras

PS = Practical Session using your laptop

Agenda - Day 2 (June 26th, 2015)

Important Please note that the rooms for the parallel Tracks 1 and 2 are not the same as for the Day 1 sessions.

June 26th	Main Track (BS 3.03 Auditorium)	Track 1 (BCE 0.12)	Track 2 (BCE 2.08)
09h15-10h30	Keynote 5: Users’ session: UL HPC experiences
	S. Nielsen: HPC User Experience in Genetic Algorithms and Bio-IT
	R. Bisdorff: Python multiprocessing
	J. Berryman: HPC usage in the UL Soft Matter Theory Group
10h30-10h45	Coffee break
10h45-12h30	PS 4A: Software environment generation: RESIF/Easybuild – M. Schmitt
12h30-13h45	LUNCH
13h45-14h15	Keynote 6: Data management – S. Varrette – (src)
14h15-15h45	PS 5A: Bioinformatics workflows using the Galaxy portal – S. Diehl	PS 5B: Running parallel software: test cases on CFD / MD / Chemistry applications (OpenFOAM, NAMD, ASE, ABINIT, Quantum Espresso) – V. Plugaru	PS 5C: GPGPU and shared memory programming (CUDA, OpenMP and Intel TBB) – S. Varrette – Cancelled
15h45-16h00	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
16h00-17h30	PS 6A: Running bioinformatics software: test cases on Abyss, GROMACS, Bowtie2/TopHat, mpiBLAST – S. Diehl	PS 6B: Graphical Sessions and Visualization: Paraview and Rstudio under XCS – V. Plugaru – Cancelled	PS 6C: Advanced workflows on parametric jobs management (best-effort, containers, checkpointing) – H. Cartiaux

PS = Practical Session using your laptop