Seminaris d'Innovació i Recerca en Informàtica

High performance solutions play a key role in addressing environmental issues such as climate change, natural resource management, pollution control, greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficiency, and many others. This EUMaster4HPC Summer School has an excellent programme to train students capable of solving the world's biggest challenges. EUMAster4HPC Summer School 2023 offers students a unique opportunity to experience life as a EUMaster4HPC student.

8:00-20:00

Welcome to the 2024 ACM Summer School! This year's program focuses on High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and it will also explore emerging research areas such as Quantum Computing. The 2024 ACM Summer School on "HPC Computer Architectures for AI and Dedicated Applications" will take place from 2 to 6 September in Barcelona, Spain. The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) will host the school.

9:00 - 20:00

All human activities have implications on our society. Research activity not only does but also the overall research system is based on trust. Then, responsible research conduct is of outmost importance. The goal of the course is to provide an overview of the rules and professional practices that are considered as responsible conduct of research and engineering. Ph. D. students, post-doctoral researchers and everybody involved in research and innovation must know the principles and practices that define a responsible conduct and the ones that are not appropriate and are identified as misconduct. Topics include: Introduction on Responsible Research and Innovation Research misconduct Authorship Plagiarism Peer reviews Conflicts of interest Mentor/mentee relationship Collaborative research Presenting the results Intellectual Property Information Privacy

Friday, 10:00-13:00

All human activities have implications on our society. Professional exercise in engineering, being a researcher or running innovation projects imply making decisions that are not exclusively technical, they involve ethical considerations. Theoretical sessions are complemented with numerous examples and cases.

Friday, 10:00-13:00

This course identifies topics that are both fundamental to computer architecture and relevant to the design of microprocessors of the future. The emphasis is always on insights that will be useful to the graduate student, whether he/she goes on for a PhD or joins a microprocessor design team. We will deal with principles, tradeoffs, and implementation details. We will cover mechanism (e.g., trace caches, helper threads, branch prediction, bandwidth). We will discuss the implications of multi-core on future microprocessor design. We will examine current state of the art microprocessors. In addition to the class lectures/discussions, students will carry out an out-of-class project and make a presentation on what they learn to the class. There will be a written final examination that will be taken outside of class and turned in prior to the final class meeting.

15:00-19:00

Implementation of techniques to redirect participants when navigating in VR with the walk-in-place metaphor. When walking in place, users tend to slightly drift from their original position with the danger of colliding with the physical environment. In the research work, we are interested in testing different techniques to mitigate this problem. Upon completion, it could lead to a follow-up seminar with an additional 3 ECTS by running a user study and participating in a research publication.