Date: December 10, 2025, 16:00–17:30

Speaker: Dr. Rosa M. Badia (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)

Location: (Hosted by ITCC)

     Weyertal 121, 50931 Cologne
     ITCC (Google Maps, OpenStreetMap)
     Room 1.03

Title: Task based programming for distributed computing

Abstract: With Exaflop systems already here, High-Performance Computing (HPC) involves increasingly larger and complex supercomputers. At the same time, the user community is aware of the underlying performance capabilities and is eager to leverage them by developing more complex application workflows. Moreover, current application trends aim to use data analytics and artificial intelligence combined with HPC modeling and simulation. PyCOMPSs is a parallel, task-based programming model for Python. Based on simple annotations, sequential Python programs can be executed in parallel on HPC-clusters and other distributed infrastructures. The talk will present the latest developments in PyCOMPSs, along with an introduction to the Dislib, a machine learning library developed on top of PyCOMPSs. 
The presentation will feature application examples which were developed using PyCOMPSs.