Successful Collaboration with CoEs
We cooperate very successfully with other EuroHPC JU Centres of Excellence in HPC. We do this by providing POP performance assessments and second-level services, and by disseminating results achieved through joint events or coordinated publications. These services can take the form of assessment campaigns, in which POP analyses all application codes belonging to a CoE within a specified timeframe, or single performance services for a specific CoE lighthouse code.
A highlight of the first 18 months of the project was the successful ChEESE measurement campaign, which was documented in a joint webinar. The Project section of our Resource for Co-design website provides a list of CoEs, along with the list of outcomes of services we performed for them. Two workshops were held at HiPEAC25, which were co-organised with ChEESE, EoCoE, ESiWACE3, EXCELLERAT, MaX, MultiXscale and SPACE, to disseminate CoE success stories and project outcomes. Finally, we organised a workshop on "Readiness of HPC Extreme-Scale Applications" at ISC 2024 and ISC 2025 with contributions from CEEC, HiDALGO2, ChEESE, MaX, ESiWACE, dealii-X, EXCELLERAT, MultiXScale and SPACE.
Effective Training in Performance Analysis Methods and Tools
We continue to successfully organise and carry out training activities related to POP performance analysis metrics, methods, and tools. Project partners BSC, HLRS, INESC-ID, IT4I, FZJ, RWTH and UVSQ combine their training activities within the framework of the Virtual Institute – High Productivity Supercomputing (VI-HPS). Workshops and tutorials are organised in close collaboration with the host organisation to meet the specific needs of the audience. Training events can be tuning workshops lasting three to five days or tutorials conducted in collaboration with HPC-related conferences. Tuning Workshops are our main training initiative, in which around 15 to 30 participants receive instruction and guidance on applying POP tools to their own parallel application codes, along with advice on potential optimisations. Feedback from participants helps to direct the development of tools towards user needs, as well as improving tool documentation and ease of use. Coordinated training materials on tools are available, with an emphasis on hands-on exercises using POP tools individually and interoperably. The training activities are supplemneted by one-hour webinars on HPC performance tools and parallel programming.
As a result, 111 participants in hands-on training learned how to apply the POP methodology to their application codes within the first 18 months of the project. A list of training events can be found here.
Stong Emphasis on Gender Diversity and Inclusion
We strongly believe in gender diversity and inclusion, and we are committed to promoting these values in all aspects of our work. Building on our success in organising two HPC training sessions for women by women during POP2 in 2021 and 2022, we continue to consider inclusivity and diversity when organising events. When organising two workshops at the HiPEAC25 conference togther with other CoEs, we paid special attention to achieving gender balance when inviting speakers, which resulted in 74% of speakers being female. Even more encouraging was the gender balance among workshop attendees: 56% women and 44% men, resulting in a balanced gender distribution. When you consider that 74% of all conference attendees were male, this represents a remarkable achievement. Finally, POP experts co-organised the ISC25 BoF "Super(computing)heroes" and provided two speakers for the "Gender Balance in HPC" panel at the EuroHPC Summit.
Older Sucess Stories and Customer Testimonials
from POP1 and POP2 can be found here.