Along with the DEEP and Mont-Blanc projects, we are running a Birds of a Feather session entitled ‘Building on the European Exascale Approach. All three projects are now well established, making a comparison of Europe’s exascale approaches with that of other countries and continents particularly timely. In this session we will debate these approaches and look to build cross continent communities. The BOF runs on Tuesday 19th November from 12.15pm – 1.15pm.

Following the success of the workshop from last year, CRESTA has a workshop at SC13 on ‘Exascale MPI.’ The aim of workshop is to bring together developers and researchers to present and discuss innovative algorithms and concepts in Message Passing programming models, in particular related to MPI. This is being held in collaboration with the EPiGRAM project (a newly funded FP7 Exascale project led by KTH). The workshop runs on Friday 22nd November from 9.00am – 1.00pm.

CRESTA partners Allinea Software and Technischen Universität Dresden are hosting a tutorial on Allinea’s flagship debugger DDT and TUD’s MUST. The tutorial, ‘Debugging MPI and Hybrid/Heterogeneous Applications at Scale’ will take place on Sunday 17th November 8.30am – 5.00pm. Allinea will also be presenting a talk at a workshop on ‘Extreme-Scale programming tools’ on the 18th November 9:00am - 5:30pm.

CRESTA partner Cray is hosting a tutorial on ‘OpenACC: Productive, Portable Performance on Hybrid Systems Using High-Level Compilers and Tools’ which also runs on Sunday 17th November from 8.30am – 5.00pm.

A highlight for CRESTA at SC13 is our joint booth with DEEP and Mont- Blanc, entitled ‘European Exascale Projects’ (booth number 3741). The booth will display highlights from all three projects and we will have a range of new flyers and information on the project available. A range of CRESTA project partners will staff the booth at all times and we will be providing a program that showcases different aspects of the projects in turn. Please do come along and visit us at booth number 3741 where we will be happy to chat with you more about the project.

Finally, a number of our partners are exhibiting at this year’s event, these include: Allinea Software (1719), Cray (1313), CSC (1913) EPCC (3932) and TUD (3905). All are keen to welcome you at their booths so please do drop by.

We look forward to forward to seeing you in Denver!