Sep 7 – 11, 2015
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  1. 9/7/15, 11:00 AM
    UNICORE Summit 2015
    UNICORE Summit 2015 homepage

    The UNICORE Summit is the annual meeting of the UNICORE community. It provides a unique opportunity for UNICORE users, developers, administrators, researchers, service providers, and managers to meet.

    Participate to share your experience, present recent and planned developments, learn about the latest...
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  2. Prof. Achim Streit (KIT-SCC) (KIT-SCC)
    9/7/15, 2:00 PM
  3. Dr Thomas Hartmann (SCC)
    9/7/15, 2:30 PM
  4. Dr Paul Millar (DESY)
    9/7/15, 2:45 PM
    Plenary Talks
    Software-Defined Storage
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  5. Dr David Kelsey (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,)
    9/7/15, 4:00 PM
    Plenary Talks
    Unused IPv4 network addresses are a scarce resource. The deployment of IPv6 networking across the world is well underway. Some large IT distributed infrastructures, such as the Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, are starting to deploy dual-stack IPv6/IPv4 services to support IPv6-only clients. New networking protocols, such as IPv6, always bring new challenges for operational...
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  6. Dr Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti (Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain))
    9/7/15, 4:45 PM
    Plenary Talks
    Our society has benefited from Space exploration in many ways. Many of the inventions we use nowadays have their origin in or have been improved by Space research. Computer Science is not an exception. This talk will introduce the application of Cloud Computing done by the speaker in the context of different Mars missions: Mars MetNet (Spain-Russia-Finland), MSL Curiosity (NASA) and...
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  7. Ms Danah Tonne (KIT)
    9/8/15, 9:00 AM
    Plenary Talks
    The long-term preservation of information is a crucial requirement for scientific progress in every research community. In former times hammer and chisel were the tools of choice to preserve the cultural heritage, nowadays the digital world introduces additional and novel challenges. Obsolete formats and technologies, a quick decay of storage media or power outages are just a few examples...
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  8. Dr Peer Hasselmeyer (NEC)
    9/8/15, 9:40 AM
    Data Center Management
    Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a paradigm shift in the networking domain. It has recently become a hot topic and it is expected to change the way we think about networks and how we architect them. In this talk we will look at what SDN is, how it can be realized, and what the impact on networking, mainly in the data center, is. The SDN architecture will be explained, the abstractions used...
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  9. Dr Engelbert Quack (SAP SE, Head of Consulting Area Data & Technology)
    9/8/15, 10:40 AM
    Plenary Talks
    How does the Digital Transformation change business models and which new business models arise? How do processes and business segments have to change and what is the role of IT within this development? To answer these questions we will look at the new technologies in a comprehensive way with a special focus on Big Data. Get to know SAP as the global market leader for business software and...
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  10. Jürgen Krebs (Hitachi Data Systems)
    9/8/15, 11:20 AM
    Big Data
    Big Data ist eines der treibenden Themen unserer Zeit. Wie sieht jedoch die Praxis aus? HDS versucht in ihrem Vortrag den Spagat zwischen Theorie und der realen Anwendung zu schlagen.
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  11. Dr Mario Lassnig (CERN)
    9/8/15, 1:00 PM
    In this workshop, the students will learn how to use relational and non-relational databases to build multi-threaded applications. The focus of the workshop is to teach efficient, safe, and fault-tolerant principles when dealing with high-volume and high-throughput database scenarios.

    A basic understanding of the following things is required:
    - A programming language (preferably...
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  12. Felice Pantaleo (CERN)
    9/8/15, 1:00 PM
    Programming Techniques
    While the computing community is racing to build tools and libraries to ease the use of heterogeneous parallel computing systems, effective and confident use of these systems will always require knowledge about the low-level programming interfaces in these systems. <\p> This workshop is designed to introduce the CUDA programming language, through examples and hands-on exercises so as...
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  13. Dr Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti (Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain))
    9/8/15, 1:00 PM
    Never been into Cloud Computing before? Do you think that an extra computing power is crucial for your research? Do you have some neat parallel codes that your institution doesn’t allow you to execute because the cluster is full? Maybe this tutorial is for you!

    The tutorial will cover the following topics:

    • Infrastructure as a Service clouds (user level) with <a...
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  14. Dr Martin Heck (KIT/EKP)
    9/8/15, 1:00 PM
    Programming Techniques
    Programming Templates
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  15. Mr Ben Jones (CERN (CH)), Mr Sven Sternberger (DESY), Mr Yves Kemp (DESY)
    9/8/15, 1:00 PM
    Data Center Management
    Puppet is a configuration management tool adopted by many institutions in academia and industry of different size. Puppet can be used to configure many different operating systems and applications. Puppet integrates well with other tools e.g. Foreman, MCollective, ...
    The workshop will feature a hands-on tutorial on Puppet allowing users to write simple manifests themselves and managing... Go to contribution page
  16. 9/8/15, 6:30 PM
    Social evening with Tarte Flambee, beer and drinks in the courtyard of building 30.22
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  17. 9/8/15, 6:30 PM
    For interested participants, we are organizing a short excursion to the SCC computing center at Campus South
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  18. Dr Björn-Martin Sinnhuber (KIT/IMK-ASF)
    9/9/15, 9:00 AM
    Plenary Talks
    Climate change as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases is a global scale challenge for today's society and future generations. Climate model simulations are important tools to test our scientific knowledge of the processes involved, and to provide projections of future changes and their impacts. After a general introduction this talk will focus on recent advances in...
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  19. Elvin Sindrilaru (CERN)
    9/9/15, 9:40 AM
    Virtualization
    Linux containers (LXC) is a technology that provides operating system-level virtualisation not via a virtual machines but rather by using a single kernel to run multiple instances on the same OS. Linux namespaces and control groups (cgroups) represent the foundation on which LXC are built. Containers are fast to deploy, they introduce no overhead or indirection as in the case of traditional...
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  20. Dr Clemens Düpmeier (KIT/IAI)
    9/9/15, 10:40 AM
    Plenary Talks
    Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana, known as the ELK stack, are three open source projects designed to ship, parse, search, analyze and visualize data, from Apache logs to Twitter streams. The Web-based Information Systems (WebIS) group of the Institute for Applied Computer Science (IAI) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) uses the ELK stack in different large scale web information...
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  21. Mr Mirko Kämpf (Cloudera)
    9/9/15, 1:00 PM
    This tutorial is limited to 12 participants. Another session of this tutorial is also available

    The workshop Spark in Scientific Applications covers fundamentale development and data analysis techniques using Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark. Beside an introduction into the theoretical background about...
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  22. Ms Diana Gudu (KIT\SCC)
    9/9/15, 1:00 PM
    Big Data
    Ceph is an open-source, software-defined distributed storage system that strives to achieve scalability and reliability through an innovative decentralised design.

    Distributed file systems nowadays face multiple challenges: scaling to peta-byte capacity and providing high performance, while protecting against failures. Moreover, file systems should be able to adapt to dynamic...
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  23. Mr Graeme Stewart (CERN (CH))
    9/9/15, 1:00 PM
    Programming Techniques
    In this course we will introduce how to program for concurrency in C++, taking advantage of modern CPUs ability to run multi-threaded programs on different CPU cores. Firstly, we will explore the new concurrency features of C++11 itself, which will also serve as a general introduction to multi-threaded programming. Students will learn the basics of asynchronous execution, thread...
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  24. Mr Elvin Sindrilaru (CERN (CH))
    9/9/15, 1:00 PM
    Linux containers (LXC) is a technology that provides operating system-level virtualisation not via a virtual machines but rather by using a single kernel to run multiple instances on the same OS. Linux namespaces and control groups (cgroups) represent the foundation on which LXC are built. Containers are fast to deploy, they introduce no overhead or indirection as in the case of traditional...
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  25. Mr Kajorn Pathomkeerati (KIT/IAI), Mr Samuel Ambroj Perez (KIT/SCC)
    9/9/15, 1:00 PM
    Data Center Management
    Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana, known as the ELK stack, are three open source projects designed to ship, parse, search, analyse and visualize your data, from Apache logs to Twitter streams. A short description of the components is the following:
    • Logstash allows you to ship and parse your data using a great variety of plugins. It is highly scalable.
    • Elasticsearch is a...
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  26. 9/9/15, 1:00 PM
    Second session of the puppet workshop. For details, please see the description of the first session
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  27. Ms Eileen Kühn (KIT\SCC)
    9/9/15, 1:00 PM
    The R programming language is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is widely used among statisticians and data miners.
    But especially the huge variety of available packages will make the introduction into daily business far from easy. This tutorial focuses on using R for large amounts of data. It deals with three different topics: managing data,... Go to contribution page
  28. Mr Mirko Kaempf (Cloudera)
    9/10/15, 9:00 AM
    Plenary Talks
    Apache Spark is known as the "Next Generation Framework" of Hadoop based data processing. Why, and what Apache Spark offers to the scientific community is explained in this talk. The convergence of different analysis techniques into one flexible and highly efficient processing engine allows completely new interdisciplinary analysis methods beside cheap analysis prototypes. In this presentation...
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  29. Dr Oliver Oberst (IBM)
    9/10/15, 9:40 AM
    Plenary Talks
    Since 2013 the OpenPower Foundation grew steadily to over 130 Members so far. The goal of the OpenPower Foundation is to enable a joint development and integration of different technologies around the IBM Power CPU architecture to speed up innovation. Within the foundation, Technical computing (HPC, HTC) is a focus topic for several members like NVIDIA, Mellanox, IBM and others to enable...
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  30. Mr Daniel Lee (DWD)
    9/10/15, 10:40 AM
    Plenary Talks
    The German Weather Service (DWD) provides a wide variety of services for the protection of life and property in the form of weather and climate information. One core task is safeguarding aviation, marine safety and terrestrial traffic. Another is warning before meteorological events that could endanger public safety and order. Additionally, we monitor the climate and are active in...
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  31. Mr Peter Wittenburg (RDA)
    9/10/15, 11:20 AM
    Plenary Talks
    Even examples from Psycholinguistics – a humanities discipline – show that data intensive science is changing all scientific disciplines dramatically posing unprecedented challenges in data management and processing. A recent survey in Europe showed clearly that most of the research departments are not prepared for this step and that the methods that are used to manage, curate and process data...
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  32. Matthias Reuter (Inovex), Mr Tim Roes (Inovex)
    9/10/15, 1:00 PM
    Programming Techniques
    This workshop will focus on creating modern web applications and store their data into the cloud. AngularJS is a framework that has been growing popular during the last years, due to its flexibility, its power to build rich web applications and yet its ease to use.

    During this workshop we will build a web application from scratch and we'll connect it to the cloud to easily sync your...
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  33. Mr Kaempf Mirko (Cloudera)
    9/10/15, 1:00 PM
    This tutorial is limited to 12 participants. Another session of this tutorial is also available

    The workshop Spark in Scientific Applications covers fundamentale development and data analysis techniques using Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark. Beside an introduction into the theoretical background about...
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  34. Mr Massimo Torquati (Universita di Pisa)
    9/10/15, 1:00 PM
    FastFlow is an open-source C++ research framework to support the development of multi-threaded applications in modern multi/many-core heterogeneous platforms. The framework provides well-known stream-based algorithm skeleton constructs such as pipeline, task- farm and loop that are used to build more complex and powerful pattern: parallel_for, map, reduce, macro-data-flow interpreter,...
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  35. Mr Marek Szuba (KIT\SCC), Ms Parinaz Ameri (KIT/SCC)
    9/10/15, 1:00 PM
    Big Data
    This session is an introduction to a particular NoSQL database, MongoDB.

    MongoDB is an open-source database with document-oriented storage approach. Since it doesn’t enforce any schema on data and because of its good performance, Mongo is nowadays widely used especially where unstructured data storage is needed. In addition, Mongo scales well and even provides partitioning over cluster of...

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  36. Dr Manuel Giffels (KIT\EKP)
    9/10/15, 1:00 PM
    Data Analysis
    Python is a high-level dynamic object-oriented programming language. It is easy to learn, intuitive, well documented, very readable and extremely powerful. Python is packaged with an impressive standard library following the so called "batteries included" philosophy. Together with the large number of additional available scientific packages like NumPy, SciPy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn,...
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  37. Mr Bredel Michael (FH Kufstein)
    9/10/15, 1:00 PM
    Data Center Management
    Today’s communication networks are designed around the original mechanisms of Ethernet and TCP/IP. Because of the success of these early technologies, networks grew bigger and more complex, which led to a need for more complex control options, such as VLANs and ACLs. A variety of heterogeneous network appliances such as firewalls, load balancers, IDS, optimizers, and so on, each implement...
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  38. Mr Johannes Scheuermann (Inovex\KIT)
    9/10/15, 1:00 PM
    Data Center Management
    Running traditional data centers, engineers have to face many challenges, such as running multiple different workloads. In this workshop we will have a look at such a data center and identify the challenges that have to be faced when using these architectures. After this we look at a basic use case and implement it for a traditional data center. In the next step we will have a look at...
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  39. Dr Damien Lecarpentier (EUDAT)
    9/11/15, 9:00 AM
    Plenary Talks
    This talk will provide an overview of the EUDAT initiative which has laid out the foundation of a new Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) providing solutions for finding, sharing, preserving and performing computations with primary and secondary research data on a pan-European level. By addressing the accelerated proliferation of data and the resulting challenges faced by the research...
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  40. Florian Prill (DWD)
    9/11/15, 10:15 AM
    Simulation
    Simulation in numerical weather prediction and climate forecasting has a fast-growing demand for memory capacity and processing speed. For the last decade, however, computer technology has shifted towards multi-core chip designs while at the same time on-chip clock rates have increased only moderately. The parallel implementation of DWD's operational forecast model ICON therefore follows a...
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  41. Dr Thomas Hartmann (SCC)
    9/11/15, 11:00 AM
  42. Henrik Leddin (IBM)
    9/11/15, 1:00 PM
    Big Data
    This hands-on IBM SPSS Data Mining Workshop is an instructor-led session using IBM’s data mining and predictive modeling software and is designed for those who are familiar with predictive analytics. Through this workshop you will experience first hand how IBM SPSS Modeler works and how easy it is to implement predictive analytics. Introduction in Predictive Analytics

    Exercise: IBM...

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  43. Mr Johannes Scheuermann (Inovex)
    9/11/15, 1:00 PM
    Data Center Management
    This is an additional session for deepening the tutorial on SDDC http://indico.kit.edu/indico/event/89/session/35/contribution/45 basic knowledge of SDDCs as presented in the general tutorial are required
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  44. Mr Klaus Manny (LfD BW)
    Plenary Talks
    Big Data - a new challenge for privacy?
    Besides improved techniques, e. g. Deep Learning, Big Data is characterised by huge volumes of data and numerous data categories. The algorithms and their results are not understandable for everyone. Furthermore, the data are analysed in different contexts. In contrast, the data protection laws require compliance with the key privacy principles as... Go to contribution page
  45. Mirko Kämpf (Cloudera)
    I am planning to shed light onto the theme of 'Metadata Management' in Hadoop. The Hive-Metastore exists for a long time and complementary to to it, there is HCatalog. With this Pig users and MapReduce developers can access those Metadata as well. But how do we handle time-dependent aspects of Complex Systems that consist of multiple interrelated layers represented as graphs? To handle...
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  46. Dr Paul Millar (DESY)
    Proving who you are is a prerequisite for using computer resources, but the explosion of big data resources has resulted in users who are more likely to be remote and use the resources briefly. This tension has provided the opportunity for fresh solutions that are better suited to modern scientific methods. In this talk, such challenges are presented along with their solutions, using the...
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  47. Mr Elvin Sindrilaru (CERN (CH))
    Virtualization
    Linux containers (LXC) is a technology that provides operating system-level virtualisation not via a virtual machines but rather by using a single kernel to run multiple instances on the same OS. Linux namespaces and control groups (cgroups) represent the foundation on which LXC are built. Containers are fast to deploy, they introduce no overhead or indirection as in the case of traditional...
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  48. Dr Benedikt Hegner (CERN)
  49. Dr Massimo Torquati (University of Pisa)
    FastFlow is an open-source C++ research framework to support the development of multi-threaded applications in modern multi/many-core heterogeneous platforms. The framework provides well-known stream-based algorithm skeleton constructs such as pipeline, task-farm and loop that are used to build more complex and powerful pattern: parallel_for, map, reduce, macro data-flow interpreter,...
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  50. Joint the SAP CodeJam on Friday for hands-on experiance!

    SAP CodeJam is a 5 to 6 hour hands-on coding and networking event where attendees share their knowledge and collaboratively develop with SAP technologies, platforms, and tools in a fun and casual environment. The events are developer community focused, supported by SAP, and...

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