Initial Training School
3-9 March 2016
Venue:
Building: Torre Girona – entrance from the right hand side as seen on the map
Room: Sala Gran
How to arrive:
From the Airport
Barcelona airport is at 12 Km from the city. More information about Barcelona’s airport: www.aena.es. You can arrive with different transport methods from the airport to BSC.
By taxi
In T1, you will find a taxi stand in the arrivals zone (P0) and in the Barcelona-Madrid air corridor; in T2, opposite terminals T2A, T2B and T2C. If they are available, they will show a green light with the text LIBRE or LLIURE (it means “available”). You can check fees at www.taxibarcelona.cat
By car
If you rent a car from the airport (T1), please leave “El Prat del Llobregat” and take C-32B. Continue along this route and head towards Ronda de Dalt / Lleida / Girona. Close to Barcelona, take route C-32 passing close to Cornellà del Llobregat and L’Hospitalet. Take B-20 and take Exit 10 called “Carretera d'Esplugues”. Take the street called “carrer del Gran Capità” and turn left towards Jordi Girona street.
By train
There is a Renfe suburban train. The airport station is situated opposite of terminal T2, and is connected to this terminal via an airbridge. There is also a Bus transit service between the Rail station and T1. From the airport to Barcelona Sants there is approximately 20 minutes journey. From this station, take the L3 (green line) in direction to “Zona Universitaria” and get off on the “Palau Reial” stop. You will have a 5-minutes walking distance to arrive to BSC. ( www.renfe.es)
By Bus (Aerobus)
Airport stops: Bus stops at Terminal T1 and T2 (A, B, C)
Downtown stops: This line ends at Plaça Catalunya (city center). Once there, you may take L3 of the underground to "Palau Reial" or "Zona Universitaria" stations.
By metro
Metro Line 9 Sud, l9 Sud: http://www.aeropuertobarcelona-elprat.com/ingl/metro-to-barcelona-airport-L9sud.htm
From the City Centre
Campus Nord of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya is located at the North-West corner of the city, at the end of the Green Line (L3) of the underground. In order to reach the Campus by public transport, it is advisable to use the underground. There are two stations near to the Campus, “Zona Universitària” and “Palau Reial”, both on L3.
Recommended accommodation:
Please follow the link for map of some local hotels.
Schedule:
09:45-10:00 | Welcome - Maria S. Perez |
10:00-11:30 | Climate Science - Luis Kornblueh |
11:30-12:00 | Coffee break |
12:00-13:30 | SKA Requirements and Q&A - Bojan Nikolic |
13:30-14:30 | Lunch |
14:30-16:00 | Energy issues in large scale infrastructures such as HPC and Clouds - Anne-Cécile Orgerie |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee break |
16:30-18:00 | (Parallel) file system overview and internals - Michael Kuhn |
09:30-11:30 | MapReduce and post-MapReduce approaches (Spark, Flink) – Gabriel Antoniu |
11:30-12:00 | Coffee break |
12:00-13:30 | Storage expenses - Michael Kuhn |
13:30-14:30 | Lunch |
14:30-16:30 | Network storage protocols - Pilar Gonzalez-Ferez |
16:30-17:00 | Coffee break |
08:30-09:15 | Visit to Marenostrum Supercomputer |
09:30-11:00 | Data sharing and Open data - Anna Queralt |
11:00-11:30 | Coffee break |
11:30-13:30 | Machine learning overview, Mahout - Maria S. Perez |
13:30-14:30 | Lunch |
14:30-16:00 | Task based programming models (COMPSs) and its integration with data - Toni Cortes |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee break |
16:30-18:30 | Hadoop (practical sessions) - Shadi Ibrahim |
09:30-11:30 | Trends/ Software defined storage - Sepp Stieger |
11:30-12:00 | Coffee break |
12:00-13:30 | Deduplication Technologies - Andre Brinkmann |
13:30-14:30 | Lunch |
14:30-16:00 | Cross-layer optimizations for the storage I/O software stack of large-scale HPC platforms - Florin Isaila |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee break |
16:30-18:00 | Virtualization Cloud fundamentals IaaS performances Issues - Adrien Lebre |
09:30-11:30 | SSD FTL programming - Andre Brinkmann |
11:30-12:00 | Coffee break |
12:00-13:30 | SSDs and caching in servers and the datacenter. VM Isolation in the I/O path (First part) – Manolis Marazakis |
13:30-14:30 | Lunch |
14:30-16:00 | SSDs and caching in servers and the datacenter. VM Isolation in the I/O path (Second part) – Manolis Marazakis |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee break |
16:30 - 18:30 | MPI and OpenMP course - Xavier Martorell |
Special events:
8th (Tuesday) 21:00. Dinner at Pomarada Restaurant.
Web: www.pomarada.com
Address: 78 Paseo de Gracia, Barcelona.