Dear VSC users and friends,
we invite you to participate in the ASHPC25 - Austrian-Slovenian HPC
Meeting 2025 <https://ashpc.eu/e/ASHPC25>, which will take place at
Rimske Terme, Slovenia, from May 19 to May 22, 2025.
Continuing the tradition of the annual Austrian HPC Meetings (2015-2020)
and the Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meetings (2021-2024), ASHPC25 will bring
together users and providers of large-scale computing resources for both
academic and non-academic research and development.
Keynote speakers [1] will share insights into the latest developments in
distributed machine-learning algorithms, algorithmic developments in
computational molecular sciences, quantum computing, and the challenges
posed by climate and weather
simulations. Additionally, the meeting will provide a platform for
exchanging experiences related to the operation of large-scale computing
resources and the challenges encountered.
We are now accepting abstracts for contributed talks and posters at
ASHPC25. We encourage you to submit an abstract highlighting your work
and expertise related to High-Performance Computing (HPC). Topics may
include applications of HPC, research conducted on HPC clusters, systems
engineering (software, storage, networking, etc.), and any other
HPC-related subjects. All submitted abstracts will be reviewed, and
accepted submissions will be published.
Abstract submissions can be made at https://ashpc.eu/event/25/abstracts/
[2]until January 10, 2025.
You can download the abstract template here:
ASHPC25_abstract_template.zip [3]
Notifications regarding the acceptance of talks or posters will be sent
out by February 10, 2025.
We look forward to your valuable contributions!
Registration for ASHPC25, along with the co-located Central European
NCCs Workgroup Meeting, is now open at:
https://ashpc.eu/event/25/registrations/3/
Please register by February 15, 2025 to ensure room reservations at the
hotel, as we cannot guarantee accommodations beyond this date.
We also offer scholarships of EUR200 for students. For more information,
please refer to the Call for Abstracts and the
Registration Form, or feel free to contact us.
For further updates and details, please visit:
https://ashpc.eu/e/ASHPC25
We look forward to welcoming you to ASHPC25!
Best regards on behalf of the organizers,
VSC team
Links:
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[1] https://ashpc.eu/event/25/page/9-keynote-speakers
[2] https://ashpc.eu/event/25/abstracts/
[3]
https://ashpc.eu/event/25/attachments/88/219/ASHPC25_abstract_template.zip
Dear VSC users,
we would like to inform you about some important news and changes coming up soon
at the VSC.
First, to make the queues more efficient and ideally decrease waiting times, the
default runtime of jobs will be reduced to 1 day. The maximum time is still
unchanged at 3 days, but if no --time is given, a job will end after 24 hours.
Additionally, we encourage you to also use parameter --time-min if possible –
this is the expected minimum runtime of your job. Both these parameters will
increase the chances of your job to start earlier.
For example, if you have a job that needs at least 6 hours but might run up to 2
days, add these parameters:
#SBATCH --time=2-00:00:00
#SBATCH --time-min=06:00:00
The changes will go into effect on effect on January 7th 2025.
Second, as also requested by several users, we have created the ability for VSC
users to engage in a chat-space. There users can interact and maybe help each
other, and, as time permits, some of us will also look into it from time to
time. The chat-space is in TUmatrix and can be found and joined here:
https://matrix.tuwien.ac.at/#/room/#vsc:tuwien.ac.at. If your institution has
Matrix, you can use your account there, otherwise you can make an account at
https://matrix.org/try-matrix/. Please note that this will not be a support chat
– the support is still given via the support mail address or the support
webpage.
The chat rooms are already available for you to access.
Furthermore, a new and vastly improved documentation is now online at
https://docs.vsc.ac.at/ – there are some items still missing or not fully
covered yet, but all the basic information is there. As the missing details are
added by us, it will be replacing the current VSC wiki completely.
Best regards,
VSC-Team
