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PRACE Workshop on HPC Approaches on Life Sciences and Chemistry
February 17 – 18, 2012, Dedeman Sofia Princess Hotel, Sofia, Bulgaria

During two full day sessions we plan to have researchers of various of PRACE Project groups ( http://www.prace-ri.eu/ ) to present their results and plans for further research as well as their success stories in the application of supercomputers to Live Sciences and Chemistry.
Prominent researchers from a wide range of scientific communities will present their achievements and give their opinions on the current and future trends of HPC. They will outline their results, discuss success stories in adapting HPC systems to different disciplines, all the while focusing on difficulties encountered and possible solutions.
The workshop will be concluded by a panel discussion where PRACE HPC experts, together with researchers, will discuss possible improvements to the services that the current HPC ecosystem provides. The final goal is to make this PRACE Workshop to answer important questions like why HPC needs to be invested in and how HPC can bring visible and tangible influence to peoples' lives.
The following lecturers, from other than Bulgaria countries, confirmed their participation: Ivan Girotto (ICHEC, Ireland), Vit Vondrak (VSB, Czech Republic), Zdenec Dostal(VSB, Czech Republic), Vassil Aleksandrov (BSC, Spain), Murat Manguoglu (METU, Turkey), Danica Stojilkovic (IPB, Serbia), Christopher Johnson (EPPC, UK).

Please, visit http://www.prace-ri.eu/PRACE-Workshop-2012 and complete the Registration form given there.

Contact person: Krassimir Georgiev (NCSA  and IICT-BAS), This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , Tel. +359 2 979 6612

Welcome to BGSC

The Bulgarian Supercomputing Centre (BGSC), situated in the premises of the State Agency for Information Technology and Communications (SAITC) in Sofia, operates and provides access to an IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer, consisting of two racks, 2048 PowerPC 450 based compute nodes, 8192 processor cores and a total of 4 TB random access memory. Double-precision, dual pipe floating-point core acceleration is available on each core. Sixteen I/O nodes are connected via fibre optics to a 10 Gb/s Ethernet switch. When the system is enhanced with a new 10Gb/s switch in the near future, 16 more I/O nodes will be connected. The smallest partition size, available currently, is 128 compute nodes (512 processor cores).

Maximum LINPACK performance achieved: Rmax= 23.42 Tflops
Theoretical peak performance: Rpeak= 27.85 Tflops
Energy efficiency: 371.67 MFlops/W

The ranking of BGSC's system in http://top500.org list is as follows:

• November 2008 Edition - 126th place;
• June 2009 Edition - 245th place;
• November 2009 Edition - 377 place;

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National Centre for Supercomputing Applications Results for 2009 (in Bulgarian)

President Obama Honors IBM's BlueGene

Important Information for New and Existing Users - Quick User Guide (in Bulgarian)

Library -- Supercomputers at Work (description is in Bulgarian)