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@PROCEEDINGS{Binder:151286,
key = {151286},
editor = {Binder, Kurt and Münster, Gernot and Kremer, Manfred},
title = {{NIC} {S}ymposium 2014 - {P}roceedings},
volume = {47},
address = {Jülich},
publisher = {Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag},
reportid = {FZJ-2014-01274},
isbn = {978-3-89336-933-1},
series = {NIC Series},
pages = {vi, 434 S.},
year = {2014},
abstract = {As part of a well-established and very useful tradition,
the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC) has been
holding NIC Symposia biennially since 2001 in order to
present highlights of the research that is only possible by
using extensively the resources provided by the NIC and the
Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC). In June 2013, the
massively parallel machine JUQUEEN of the JSC, which
contains almost half a million processors, reached the
status of “No. 1 in Europe” on the “TOP 500” list of
supercomputers. However, the main achievement of the JSC is
not just an excellent score in this type of ranking, but the
fact that the excellent hardware performance actually does
enable really outstanding research of the highest quality in
research fields encompassing astrophysics, computational
biology and biophysics, chemistry, elementary particle
physics, materials science, condensed matter, computational
soft matter science, earth and environment, computer science
and numerical mathematics, fluid mechanics and plasma
physics. There are several ingredients which all play a
pivotal role to continuously maintain the top standard of
supercomputer based research at the NIC/JSC. In particular,
the user-friendly and very helpful staff of the JSC provides
fast and easy access to the machines and creates ample
opportunities for well-targeted training. One must keep in
mind that many of the computational codes (which often are
based on code developments extending over decades and hence
sometimes are very complex and sophisticated) are not
immediately suited for a massively parallel computer
architecture. In some cases the training and advice provided
by the JSC staff allows an adaptation of these codes. In
many cases the scientific problem is intrinsically in
conflict with a massively parallel execution of the code,
however: for these problems it is of crucial importance that
the JSC has a dual hardware strategy, providing with the
system JUROPA (which has a cluster architecture with faster,
but less energy efficient, processors and only moderate
parallelism) a “general purpose supercomputer”. This
indeed has served the needs of about $90\%$ of all the
(several hundred!) research projects, that were carried out
at the JSC in the two years since the last NIC symposium.},
month = {Feb},
date = {2014-02-12},
organization = {NIC Symposium 2014, Jülich (Germany),
12 Feb 2014 - 13 Feb 2014},
cin = {JSC},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406},
pnm = {41G - Supercomputer Facility (POF2-41G21)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-41G21},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)26},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/151286},
}