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+title:  "RSEHPC@ISC25 Workshop"
+start_date: 2025-06-13
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+Tools and Techniques for Continuous Integration and Benchmarking, 13th June 2025, ISC, Hamburg
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+It has long been understood that there is a strong overlap between the fields of HPC and RSE. Although the two are not entirely congruent, the techniques used and the communities are closely interlinked.
+For the second time an RSEHPC workshop will be held at ISC.
+In this workshop, the focus will be placed on discussing the impact, usages, and implementations of continuous integration and benchmarking for heterogeneous, extreme-scale HPC systems.
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+Submission for lightning talks contributions will open soon.
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+It has long been understood that there is a strong overlap between the fields of HPC and RSE. Although the two are not entirely congruent, the techniques used and the communities are closely interlinked.
+For the second time an RSEHPC workshop will be held at ISC.
+
+When developing research software, it is often relevant to track its performance over time. It is even vital when targeting HPC architectures. Changes to the software itself, the used toolchains, or the system setup should not compromise how fast users obtain their results. Ideally, performance or scalability should only ever increase. Hence benchmarking should be an integral part of testing, in particular for HPC codes. At the same time, up-to-date benchmarks that are publicly available can advertise the code and the machines running them, informing users how to set-up the software in the most ideal way or whether they are achieving the expected performance. To limit the burden on developers, the aforementioned steps should be automated within continuous integration (CI) practices, introducing continuous benchmarking (CB) to it. For HPC, an added complexity is the requirement of more than the usual CI backends, with access to longer running steps, more resources than available on a single node, and a diverse range of architectures that the software needs to be tested on.
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+In this workshop, participants will be able to exchange ideas, approaches, good practices, but also obstacles on the way to continuous benchmarking on HPC systems. Driven by three keynote talks which will set the stage, participants are encouraged to share their own experiences, both from a users and from an operations perspective. To foster this exchange, we foresee the second part of the workshop to provide a stage for participants to contribute their expertise, and experience with lightning talks. For the lightning talks a light-weight submission will be set up and reviewed by well known international RSE and HPC experts.
+In addition, we foresee a part where open questions to the audience will be posed, helping everyone to add their thoughts to this event.
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+Topics include, but are not limited to:
+-​ User’s perspective: How do users experience the existing solutions? Is there
+something missing, from technological solutions to convenience?
+-​ Operations’ perspective: What does it take for hosting sites to start and to maintain
+an CI/CB infrastructure? What are benefits, what are burdens?
+-​ Success stories and scary tales: where did CI/CB help to identify problems? Where
+could it have helped? And what did hinder the adaptation of CI/CB?
+-​ Past, present, future: what are lessons learned and what does a wishlist look like?
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+The RSEHPC@ISC25 will be held in-person on 13th June 2025 in Hamburg.
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+### Contribution submissions:
+To present a lightning talks at RSEHPC@ISC25 use the form below. RSEHPC@ISC25 will emphasise an open and inclusive atmosphere and we encourage proposals from a diverse range of areas and backgrounds.
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+The deadline for submissions is 28 Feb 2025.
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+### Organising committee:
+- René Caspart (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
+- Robert Speck (Forschungszentrum Juelich)
+- Stefanie Reuter (ECMWF)
+- Matthew Archer (University of Cambridge)
+- Andy Turner (EPCC)
+- Daniel S. Katz (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
+- Jayesh Badwaik (Jülich Supercomputing Centre at Forschungszentrum Jülich)
+- Weronika Filinger (EPCC, University of Edinburgh)
+- Sarah Neuwirth (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz)
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+<!-- Claire Wyatt (Forschungszentrum Juelich and former community manager RSE UK)
+Neil Chue Hong (EPCC and Software Sustainability Institute) -->
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+### Code of conduct:
+As an ISC co-located workshop we follow ISC’s code of conduct, which can be found  [here](https://isc-hpc.com/contact-code-of-conduct/)
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