Seminaris d'Innovació i Recerca en Informàtica

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

10:30 - 11:30

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. 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. Note: 2 ECTS are obtained when you at least teach 8 lectures (of 2h) to 2 groups of students, for a total of 32h of lectures.

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Registration for the 2024 edition of the AMD Open Hardware University design competition is now open. Categories This year's competition is expanding to including an Accelerated Computing category for AMD GPU (Instinct, Radeon) and Ryzen AI alongside the Adaptive Computing category for FPGA, SoCs (Zynq, Zynq Ultrascale+, RFSoC) and Adaptive SoC (Versal). As in previous years, there are two levels for each category; Student (undergraduates) and PhD (PhD candidates). Prizes Cash prizes of €2000 will be awarded for winning entries in each category at each level. Registration Registrations must be received by 28 February 2024, and teams have until 30 June 2024 to submit their project. Registration information, and full details can be found on the competition website along with a video gallery of previous entries and winning projects: www.openhw.eu

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, 11:00-13:00

This course is an introduction to the statistical properties of languages and their origins, that are often related to the need to reduce the cognitive effort of speakers or listeners. The course is primarily relevant to anybody interested in how languages (and animal communication) are and why. In this course, students will learn about a myriad of statistical laws of language beyond the scope of traditional courses on information retrieval, how to analyze them and how to explain them based on general principles of (human) cognition. Students will learn about the mathematical and computational models that have been developed to explain these regularities. During this journey, students will enrich their current knowledge with concepts and tools from linguistics, biology, cognitive science, information theory and multidisciplinary physics. The course is also relevant for researchers interested in evaluating or adapting algorithms, machine learning methods,...based on the real statistical properties of language. As these regularities are often the result of reducing the cognitive effort of language users, the course is also relevant to researchers interested in developing resources or systems that are easier to use or understand by humans or in developing natural language processing tools that exploit the real constraints of the human brain. The webpage of the last edition of the course (to be updated) is found here: https://cqllab.upc.edu/courses/iql/ Depending on the number of participants, the professor may replace (upon approval by students) the labs and the research project by a single research project to be developed throughout the course. Important: to enrol in this course, please, email the contact person.

Tuesdays (08:00 to 10:00) and Fridays (08:00 to 10:00)

Life in the AI Era project brings you a new learning option to enrich your competence Artificial intelligence has emerged in almost every area of life in the last decade due to the total amount of data, the development of computing capabilities, algorithms, and the increasingly seamless interconnection of different techniques. This technology fundamentally change the future of the world of work. This MOOC promotes extensive knowledge, critical reflection and debate on AI and its key impacts on society, addressing the lecturers, higher education students, Continuing Professional Development (CPD) students and other interested stakeholders, thus broadening the understanding of the main developments and the future of AI.

Online at your pace

HackUPC is back! HackUPC is the student hackathon organized by Hackers@UPC since 2016 and, currently, is the largest in Europe! A hackathon is a free event where participants have limited time (in our case 36 hours) to develop a team project from scratch. Apart from the project, there are lots of activities and talks. You'll meet people with your same interests and learn about the newest technologies. Besides, there is the possibility of networking with the sponsoring companies. This year's edition will be fully in-person and will take place on the weekend of May 3-5 at UPC Campus Nord. We'll provide you with free food, drink, and a place to sleep all weekend long! But that's not all, you'll receive merch and much more! If you don't feel prepared to come as a hacker but still want to participate, apply as a volunteer! You'll feel the hackathon atmosphere and be just like another organizer.

Full days

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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

n numerous classification applications, deep learning has achieved accuracy levels that were unimaginable just a few years ago. However, within the two primary branches of unsupervised learning ¿clustering and anomaly detection¿ the advantages of deep learning over traditional options are commonly uncertain or even non-existent. Why is this the case? Is unsupervised deep learning inadvisable when compared to shallow learning? Are they alternative or complementary approaches? In this talk, we aim to address these questions by delving into the characteristics and requirements of unsupervised learning, contrasting them with the limitations of deep learning and its current capabilities for these types of tasks. Whether for describing, modeling, or predicting the behavior of any phenomenon captured in the form of data, unsupervised learning (whether as a central component or as a support) is indispensable in data analysis. It is a key element in the next AI, given the necessity for adaptive systems capable of facing novelty and the unknown.

12:10 to 13:15

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 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.

TALENT ARENA is a space with more than 1,500 m2 of exhibition space, auditorium, workshops and sessions on Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Data Science and Microchips. In addition, attendees will be able to access exclusive conferences with prominent industry speakers including David Cuartielles (Arduino), Andrés Torrubia (AI Institute), Carlos Villavieja (Google) and many others. More information at: https://talentarena.mobileworldcapital.com/ You must register before February 18th using the code: TALENTARENA24

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Register for the NotOnlyFLOPs Winter School to spend a week immersed in the world of supercomputing. In addition to learning from experts from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, you will be able to find out about the scientific activities carried out at the center and you will have the opportunity to program on the MareNostrum supercomputer. Deadline for registration: Wednesday, 18th of January, 2023. Follow this link for registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeA2f1jsl4Srw5kJu0pZVLuBrRQro8QSmB-b-J-5dqG4X4OdQ/viewform If you have any questions, do not hesitate to send us an email to not-only-flops@bsc.es .

from 9 am to 5 pm

This student challenge aims to give EUMaster4HPC students an opportunity to present themselves during the EuroHPC Summit 2024 and showcase the master programme during the event. The students are asked to work in small teams of 4-5 on parallelising and optimising a simple numerical problem, such as an iterative solver (Conjugate Gradient), on different architectures using different parallel programming models. They would be provided access to an HPC system with different types of nodes and mentor support. The participating students have to submit a report that includes (among others) an in-depth performance and scaling analysis, the generated code, and a draft poster for presentation at the Summit. Each group will have a mentor. The student's deliverables will be assessed by a jury that will select a first and second winner. Finally, the jury will also provide feedback to each student to improve their learning experiences.

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.

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)

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

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

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

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.

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. Note: 2 ECTS are obtained when you at least teach 8 lectures (of 2h) to 2 groups of students, for a total of 32h of lectures.

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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

In this course, you will learn how to set up and use a Vulkan application, as well as implement several key features exclusive to Vulkan itself, such as Descriptor Sets, Push Constants, and Subpasses. Each aspect is explained in great amounts of detail, to ensure you really understand what all the parts mean, and how they all connect together.