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Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich

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Forschungszentrum Jülich (JUELICH) is one of Germany’s largest national laboratories. With a strong background in physics and scientific computing, it is devoted to multidisciplinary research and development in the areas of health, energy & environment, and information technology. To support the research centre’s scientific mission and also to offer leadership computing power to scientists all over Germany and in Europe, the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) runs one of the most powerful scientific computing centers in Europe. Combining expertise from computational science, computer science, and applied mathematics, JSC’s research and development activities concentrate on the methodological advancement of supercomputing and the operation of supercomputers as scientific large-scale devices alongside the required information technology infrastructure for mass data storage, broadband communication, Grid computing, and multimedia.

Being an essential component of its scientific mission, research on tools for parallel programming has a long tradition in Jülich, resulting in two decades of experience in developing and using performance analysis tools for parallel and distributed applications. With the introduction of the KOJAK toolkit [Wolf et al., 03] and its highly-scalable successor Scalasca [Geimer et al., 2009], JSC maintains world-wide leadership in automatic trace analysis. JSC also provides parallel programming education, training, and tuning workshops, e.g., we taught 11 tutorials on parallel programming performance analysis at the SC conference since 1999. Finally, JSC is actively investigating innovative multiprocessor architectures including Cell/B.E.-based clusters.