July 16, 2025 - by CSCS
We would like to invite you to join CSCS Staff for the event “CSCS User Lab Day 2025 – Meet the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre”, to be held on Friday, August 29, 2025, at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Social Work.
This year the User Lab Day will be covering what is new on the Alps infrastructure.
Please find the agenda below:
- 10:00 – 10:25 Registration and Coffee
- 10:25 – 10:30 Welcome and Agenda
- 10:30 – 11:15 Scientific keynote: "Nanoscale Device Simulation at the Exascale", Professor Mathieu Luisier, ETH Zurich
- 11:15 – 11:45 Plenary Session: "Engineering the User experience on Alps”, Dr. .Jonathan Coles
- 11:45 – 12:45 Morning Parallel Sessions: "How to use and build HPC software at CSCS: a practical introduction", Dr. Ben Cumming, CSCS // "Interactive Computing on Alps", Dr. Tim Robinson, Prashant Kanduri, Juan Dorsch, CSCS
- 12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
- 13:45 – 14:30 Plenary Session: “General Information for Users on Alps", Dr. Luca Marsella, CSCS
- 14:30 – 15:30 Afternoon Parallel Sessions: "Containers on AlpsAlberto Madonna", Dr. Theo Manitaras, Dr. Nicholas Browning, CSCS // "Running and developing on Grace Hopper", Dr. Sebastian Keller, Dr. Fabian Bösch, Dr. Jean Favre, CSCS
- 15:30 - 16:00 Plenary Session: "STORAGE: A story about the lifecycle of a projects", Dr. Fawzi Roberto Mohamed, Dr. Matthias Kraushaar, CSCS
- 16:00 - 16:30 Q&A User Community to CSCS
- 16:30 Final Remarks & Farewell Coffee Apero
More details are available on the event page >
Registration is mandatory but without charge and is now open! Please register here >
Deadline for registration: Sunday, August 17, 2025.
We look forward to seeing you in Lucerne!