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Report on International HPC Summer School 2024
Report on International HPC Summer School 2024
JapaneseInternational HPC Summer School 2024 was held for six days from July 7 to 12 at the Ariston Hotel Kobe. This was the International HPC Summer School's second time in Kobe, Japan. The first time was 2019. Participants in the event from Japan included ten attendees selected by R-CCS, Ivonina Mariia (Researcher, Kyushu University), Deshmukh Sameer Satish (Researcher, Fujitsu), Toshiyuki Imamura (Team Leader, RIKEN Center for Computational Science), and Takemasa Miyoshi (Team Leader, RIKEN Center for Computational Science) as mentors. A total of 120 researchers and students from the HPC field gathered from around the world.
Date | Sun, July 7 - Fri, July 12, 2024 |
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City | Kobe, Japan |
Place | Ariston Hotel Kobe |
Co-sponsored | NCSA, TACC (USA), EuroHPC JU (EU), EPCC (UK), SciNet HPC Consortium (Canada), Pawsey (Australia), NICIS CHPC, NiTheCS (South Africa) |
On the first day of the school, R-CCS Director Satoshi Matsuoka gave a keynote address titled, "AI for Science at Riken and Japan - Fugaku-LLM, Riken TRIP-AGIS, and FugakuNEXT (among others)." Discourse at the School assumed various topics for discussion. A lecture on innovative trends in natural science, applied physics, and others centered on computational science and technology had a lively question-and-answer session along with an exchange of opinions. During the "electrical" poster session using laptops, participants began with a lightning talk about their research, which then segued into deeper exchanges with the other participants.
Exercises on hybrid parallelization techniques, HPC Python, and more were held in the hands-on session using an American supercomputer (Bridges-2). Moreover, for the Parallel Programming Challenge in which there was a performance competition for a joint project, the student participants from Japan cooperated with other participants to attempt to speed up the programming process.
This School utilizes a mentor system, where small groups of participants are assigned a staff member or lecturer as a mentor, who offered a listening ear for participants to consult about their research activities and careers. Mentoring sessions were built into the School schedule, and many discussions took place within each group. Participants formed international networks and the sessions appeared to help them form more concrete plans and connections for their future careers.
A social event for participants to learn about the local culture and engage in networking was held on the top of Mt. Rokko. The event's host was Director Ei Takeuchi of the RIKEN Kobe Branch, and local institutes with deep research-education ties with R-CCS also participated.
Some of the high praise from participants included: "I was able to exchange opinions from a computational science perspective not only with those from an HPC background, but from other fields. We taught each other about our respective fields from a computational science perspective and I was able to get ideas that could be put into practice in my field;" "Listening to the panel talk on future HPCs was very nice;" "I was able to hear the thoughts of active researchers and see trends in HPCs around the world;" "We were all able to share our worries as researchers and it was helpful to hear about the experiences of active researchers."
Note: This school was supported by the COE research grant in computational science from Hyogo Prefecture and Kobe City through the Foundation for Computational Science (FOCUS).

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