Students Challenge
Benchmarking and regression testing of a Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation application in HPC system.
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Overview
The objective of the students challenge 2024-2025 is the implementation of a benchmarking and regression testing framework for a Quantum Monte Carlo simulation package in HPC systems. The project targets a specific application, the QMeCha package, which has been open sourced recently. The application is distributed with a set of tests, but the organisation of the tests into various groups to facilitate development and deployment of the application, and the porting of tests into new types of systems (ARM based processors) remains an open problem.
A EuroHPC world-class green supercomputer
For this challenge, EUMaster4HPC student teams will have access to Deucalion, Portugal’s most powerful supercomputer. Deucalion is a petascale system capable of executing over 10 petaflops, or 10 million billion calculations per second. Supplied by Fujitsu Technology Solutions, Deucalion is a unique EuroHPC supercomputer that combines ARM A64FX processors with BullSequana technology provided by Eviden, an Atos-owned business specialising in advanced computing. As the first EuroHPC supercomputer based on ARM processors, Deucalion plays a pioneering role in the European Processor Initiative (EPI), which aims to develop energy-efficient microprocessors and accelerators within Europe.
Supervisor
Georgios Kafanas is a Postdoctoral researcher with HPC group of the University of Luxebmourg. His main research interests include the performance modeling of numerical algorithms and simulation softare in large scale HPC system. As a member of the HPC team of the University of Luxembourg he is responsible for developing and maintaining testing frameworks for users the use the HPC plat form to develop software.
Mentors
Each team will be followed by one mentor. Academic mentors can offer advice regarding design choices and can help students with technical issues that fall outside the scope of the project. Do you want to become a mentor?
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Timeline of the Challenge
- Launch of the challenge: the challenge officially starts on the 16 September 2024
- End of the challenge: early January 2025
- Evaluation period: January – June 2025
- Results: EUMaster4HPC Summer School 2025
Any questions?
If you have any questions regarding this challenge, please contact Georgios Kafanas.
