EXCELLERAT P2 Shines at ISC High Performance 2024

ISC High Performance 2024 took place from 12-16 May in Hamburg, Germany, and brought together more than 3,000 attendees from 51 countries, making it a key event for the High-Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Quantum Computing (QC) communities. This year’s conference highlighted the convergence of HPC and AI, as well as introducing a track dedicated to quantum computing.

Among the project presentations at the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s booth was the introduction of EXCELLERAT P2 by Sophia Honisch (HLRS). Her presentation detailed the core codes and use cases of the Centre of Excellence, which benefit the engineering community by harnessing advanced HPC capabilities to address complex engineering challenges.

In addition to Honisch’s presentation, part of the conference was the WOIV’24: 8th International Workshop on In Situ Visualisation. This workshop, held on 16 May from 9:00 to 13:00 in Hall Y6, featured a presentation by Dennis Grieger (HLRS) on interactive in-situ visualisation. His work, part of the EXCELLERAT P2 project, presented the extension of the parallel visualisation framework Vistle with a SENSEI-based in situ module. This extension allows interactive configuration of the visualisation pipeline at simulation runtime, enabling immersive virtual environments and efficient in-transit data transfer to secondary clusters. Initial benchmarks show promising results with minimal runtime overhead as long as sufficient CPU resources are allocated.

For those who missed the event, ISC High Performance 2024 offers free on-demand access to keynote presentations, ensuring that the wealth of knowledge shared at the conference is accessible to all. The next edition of ISC will take place from 10-13 June 2025.