Seminars of Innovation and Research in Informatics

The 'Aula Lliure' project is designed so that early stage bachelor students can take advantage of the academic experience of more veteran students and thus improve their academic performance. The tuition language is catalan / spanish.

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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, 11:00-13:00

Weekly research seminar that presents the latest results in Computer Graphics and Visualization and projects developed by the ViRVIG Group.

10:30 - 11:30

This seminar provides an operative introduction to the CUDA programming language. NVIDIA CUDA is currently one of the most diffuse technologies and programming models for general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU). It represents one of the best options to speed up computer applications in various scientific fields, including numerical simulation, artificial intelligence, and data science. This seminar provides the main principal concepts of the NVIDIA architecture and CUDA programming language. The acquired concepts will be applied to a real scientific application. To enroll, please, send an email to the responsible person (see below).

Every day 2hours of theory and hands-on

This is a hackaton organized, among others, by FIB within the charity event organized every Christmas by the Catalan Television (TV3) called "La Marató": https://www.ccma.cat/tv3/marato/ For 2023, the topic for "La Marató" is sexual & reproductive health. Bitsxlamarato is a hakacton aimed at solving real challenges related to the topic proposed. Several challenges proposed by real oragnisms (hospitals, institutions, companies, etc.) are presented to the participants who must choose one of them and develop, during the three days, their computer science solution to it. You need to register via the official website. The website is updated (and registration is opened) every year, by mid-November, the latest.

2 full days (see website)

COMPSs is a programming model which is able to exploit the inherent concurrency of sequential applications and execute them in a transparent manner to the application developer in distributed computing platform. This is achieved by annotating part of the codes as tasks, and building at execution a task-dependence graph based on the actual data used consumed/produced by the tasks. The COMPSs runtime is able to schedule the tasks in the computing nodes and take into account facts like data locality and the different nature of the computing nodes in case of heterogeneous platforms. Additionally, recently COMPSs has been enhanced with the possibility of coordinating Web Services as part of the applications. COMPSs supports Java, C/C++ and Python as programming languages.

The 'Aula Lliure' project is designed so that early stage bachelor students can take advantage of the academic experience of more veteran students and thus improve their academic performance. The tuition language is catalan / spanish.

See the website

The objective of this course is to learn how to use systems with more than one memory subsystem. We will see the different options on using systems equipped with Intel's Optane Persistent Memory technology, but also looking forward to upcoming systems with HBM and CXL memories.

The objective of this course is to learn how Paraver and Dimemas tools can be used to analyze the performance of parallel applications and to familiarize with the tools usage as well as instrumenting applications with Extrae.

The objective of this course is to present to potential users the new configuration of MareNostrum and a introduction on how to use the new system (batch system, compilers, hardware, MPI, etc). Also It will provide an introduction about RES infrastructures and how to get access to the supercomputing resources available.

The tutorial will motivate the audience on the need for portable, efficient programming models that put less pressure on program developers while still getting good performance for clusters and clusters with GPUs. More specifically, the tutorial will: Introduce the hybrid MPI/OmpSs parallel programming model for future exascale systems Demonstrate how to use MPI/OmpSs to incrementally parallelize/optimize: MPI applications on clusters of SMPs, and Leverage CUDA kernels with OmpSs on clusters of GPUs

This tutorial will introduce the audience to the BSC tools for heterogenous programming on FPGA devices. It describes OmpSs@FPGA, as a productive programming environment for compute systems with FPGAs.

The aim of this course is to provide students with knowledge and hands-on experience in developing applications software for processors with massively parallel computing resources. In general, we refer to a processor as massively parallel if it has the ability to complete more than 64 arithmetic operations per clock cycle. Many commercial offerings from NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel already offer such levels of concurrency. Effectively programming these processors will require in-depth knowledge about parallel programming principles, as well as the parallelism models, communication models, and resource limitations of these processors.

The objective of this course is to explain the different components of MareNostrum 5 and to understand the design decisions taken. We also analyze how the system administration is taken in this pre-exascale system. Prerequisites: Experience on Linux system administration is required.

This is an expansion of the topic "OpenACC and other approaches to GPU computing" covered on last years editions of the Introduction to CUDA Programming. This course is delivered by the GPU Center of Excellence (GCOE) awarded by NVIDIA to the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in association with Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC). It will provide very good introduction to the PUMPS Summer School run jointly with NVIDIA - Further information on the 2023 PUMPS Summer school will follow soon. As an NVIDIA GPU Center of Excellence, BSC and UPC are deeply involved in research and outreach activities around GPU Computing. OpenACC is a high-level, directive-based programming model for GPU computing. It is a very convenient language to leverage the GPU power with minimal code modifications, being the preferred option for non computer scientists. This course will cover the necessary topics to get started with GPU programming in OpenACC, as well as some advanced topics.

Our long-term strategy is to focus Novartis as a leading medicines company with five priorities: embrace operational excellence, deliver transformative innovation, go big on data and digital, build trust with society, and build a new culture by unleashing the power of our people. In order for us to develop new treatments, we have to invest our resources wisely. We believe that data science can help us here, and we believe that you can help us steer big data to uncover the best solution! On Thursday 23rd November 2023 be ready to receive an exciting data science challenge on financial data. Our jury will look at your results as well as how innovative is your approach. This year it will be for three days (23 to 25 November) and online. Submit your application before 17th November 2023 at 12pm. For more information visit: https://godatathon.com/challenge/

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A Datathon is a weekend-long competition where you are challenged to work on real-world business cases from different areas of Machine Learning, AI, and Data Science. You are given some datasets in order to answer questions or implement solutions Our event will take place physically in UPC's School of Mathematics and Statistics, located in Pau Gargallo 14, Barcelona! You can find a map here. You will have access to classrooms to work with your own laptop. We will provide you with WiFi. The event will start on Saturday November 11 at 9h, when we will present the challenges. You'll be able to work for 32 hours. The event will end on Sunday 12 at 17h, when the closing ceremony will take place. All university students are allowed to attend! Some data analysis or coding skills might be useful but not required to participate. In fact, there will be a special prize for rookies! We will provide you with meals, WiFi and some nice swag. And of course, it's completely free!

Saturday and Sunday whole day

RISC-V Summit North America 2023

The objectives of this course are to understand the fundamental concepts supporting message-passing and shared memory programming models. The course covers the two widely used programming models: MPI for the distributed-memory environments, and OpenMP for the shared-memory architectures. The course also presents the main tools developed at BSC to get information and analyze the execution of parallel applications, Paraver and Extrae. It also presents the Parallware Assistant tool, which is able to automatically parallelize a large number of program structures, and provide hints to the programmer with respect to how to change the code to improve parallelization. It deals with debugging alternatives, including the use of GDB and Totalview. The use of OpenMP in conjunction with MPI to better exploit the shared-memory capabilities of current compute nodes in clustered architectures is also considered. Paraver will be used along the course as the tool to understand the behavior and performance of parallelized codes. The course is taught using formal lectures and practical/programming sessions to reinforce the key concepts and set up the compilation/execution environment.

This mini-course starts with an introduction to random geometric graphs in Euclidean space, a discussion of some of their properties and their link to percolation. Then we move on to explain hyperbolic random graphs, and finally we define more general spatial random graph models. Time permitting, we also discuss dynamic models of these graph models. No particular background is needed.

Oct 10, and Oct 11, from 9h30-11h, and from 11h30-13h

This symposium features talks and poster sessions with globally respected voices in the field of AI. In its second year, the symposium provides an international platform to examine significant advances in the field and discuss some of the most pressing questions facing humanity. This activity takes place in Milan, Italy.

Whole day

The 9th edition of the AI & Big Data Congress will be held on 27 and 28 September 2023 in AXA Auditorium, Barcelona. Organized by CIDAI and Eurecat, a key element in Catalonia's AI Strategy: Catalonia.AI AI & Big Data Congress will present trends and best practices of pioneering companies, new technological developments and their application and success stories explained in detail. Talks can be either in catalan, spanish or english.

Full two days

Online course which delves into different aspects of development in Unreal Engine and C++ coding. Some of the aspects dealt in the course are: Creating scenes, importing and integrating assets with the environment, explanation of the Lumen lighting system, behavior trees, etc.

Online course which tackles different aspects of development in the Unity Engine. Some of the concepts taught during the course are: NavMesh creation and Agents in Unity's Pathfinding System, Design Patterns and good practices, Unity Particle systems, etc.

International forum for researchers in the area of the design, analysis, and experimental evaluation and engineering of algorithms, as well as in various aspects of computational optimization and its applications.

09:00 - 16:00, 09:00 - 16:00, 09:00 - 13:00

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