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This paper assesses and reports the experience of ten teams working to port,validate, and benchmark several High Performance Computing applications on a novel GPU-accelerated Arm testbed system. The testbed consists of eight NVIDIA Arm HPC Developer Kit systems built by GIGABYTE, each one equipped with a server-class Arm CPU from Ampere Computing and A100 data center GPU from NVIDIA Corp. The systems are connected together using Infiniband high-bandwidth low-latency interconnect. The selected applications and mini-apps are written using several programming languages and use multiple accelerator-based programming models for GPUs such as CUDA, OpenACC, and OpenMP offloading. Working on application porting requires a robust and easy-to-access programming environment, including a variety of compilers and optimized scientific libraries. The goal of this work is to evaluate platform readiness and assess the effort required from developers to deploy well-established scientific workloads on current and future generation Arm-based GPU-accelerated HPC systems. The reported case studies demonstrate that the current level of maturity and diversity of software and tools is already adequate for large-scale production deployments.

Loomaarstiõppe lõputöö Veterinaarmeditsiini õppekaval Viimaste aastate jooksul on alpakade pidamine Eestis muutunud populaarsemaks, mistõttu alpakade aretuse teemal on üha sagedamini pöördutud veterinaararstide poole. Alpakakarja suurendamiseks kasutatakse ainult loomulikku paaritamist, sest nii veterinaararstidel kui ka alpakakasvatajatel puuduvad teadmised alpakade biotehnoloogiliste sigimismeetodite kasutamisest. Teoreetiliselt on biotehnoloogilisi sigimismeetodeid võimalik kasutada alpakade geneetilise aretusväärtuse tõstmiseks ilma loomade transportimiseta, parandades sellega loomade heaolu ja vähendades haiguste leviku riski. Praegu on kunstliku seemendamise tehnoloogia alpakadel alles algusjärgus ja raskesti kättesaadav. Embrüosiirdamise tehnoloogiaid ei kasutata Euroopas alpakakasvatustes aktiivselt, ent mujal maailmas üksikutes farmides kasutatakse seda aretusprogrammi osana. Ülevaate saamiseks alpakade aretusest ja selle arengusuundadest Eestis viidi läbi ülevaateuuring Eesti alpakakasvatajate seas. Uuringu valimisse kaasati 9 uuringu küsimustele vastanud alpakafarmi (vastanute osakaal 60%). Uuringus koguti andmeid praegusel ajal kasutatavate sigimismeetodite kohta ja lisaks uuriti aretajate huvi biotehnoloogiliste sigimismeetodite, eelkõige embrüosiirdamise tehnoloogiate vastu. Valdav osa Eesti alpakafarmidest on väikesed farmid, milles on vähem kui 15 looma. Enamik vastanutest (77,8%) peavad alpakasid hobiloomadena, millele järgnevad loomade pidamine villa tootmiseks (33,3%) ja tõulooma aretuseks (33,3%). Paaritusmeetoditest on kasutusel võrdselt nii vabapaaritus kui ka käestpaaritus. Emase alpaka seksuaalse vastuvõtlikkuse testimine on Eestis enim kasutatav tiinuse tuvastamise meetod. Transrektaalset ultraheli meetodit, mis on levinud teistel põllumajandusliikidel, alpakadel ei kasutata. Valdav enamus alpakakasvatajatest (77,8%) olid huvitatud biotehnoloogiliste sigimismeetodite kasutamisest. Embrüote importimise ja siirdamise teenuse eest oldi nõus tasuma kuni 1200€ ning embrüote loputuse ja siirdamise teenuse eest kuni 900€. Uuringu tulemused peegeldavad suurt huvi alpakade embrüosiirdamise vastu Eestis ja vajadust veterinaararstide järele selle valdkonna teadmiste omandamiseks. Sobiva embrüosiirdamise meetodi õppimiseks ja selle kasutusele võtmiseks Eestis, osales autor praktilisel koolitusel Cas-Cad-Nac farmis (Perkinsville, Vermont, Ameerika Ühendriigid). Õpitud metoodika põhineb üksikovulatsiooni protokollil, mis on lihtsam ja odavam kui superovulatsiooni protokollide kasutamine. Nimetatud metoodika suurendab ka võimalust saada kvaliteetsemaid embrüoid. Autor usub, et uurimus on kasulik kõikidele inimestele, kes on huvitatud alpakade aretusest ja alpakade embrüosiirdamise tehnoloogiatest. Over the last few years the keeping of alpacas in Estonia has become increasingly attractive, resulting in veterinarians being consulted more frequently about alpaca breeding. Currently, only natural mating is used to increase an alpaca herd because veterinarians and alpaca breeders lack knowledge regarding use of reproductive biotechnologies in alpacas. Assisted reproductive technologies theoretically can be used to accelerate the genetic merit of an alpaca herd without the need to import live animals, thus reducing the risk of spreading diseases and improving animal welfare by minimizing animal transport over long distances. At present, however, artificial insemination technology is not well developed or readily available in alpacas. Embryo transfer techologies are not utilized routinely in European alpaca herds, but in other parts of the world they are being used as a part of breeding program. To obtain a current overview of alpaca breeding and to acquire information about the future direction it could be moving in Estonia, a surveillance survey was conducted among the alpaca breeders. With a response rate of 60%, 9 alpaca farms were included in the survey. Data were collected on present alpaca breeding approaches as well as on breeder interest in assisted reproductive technologies, especially embryo transfer techologies. The vast majority of alpaca farms in Estonia are small with fewer than 15 animals. Most respondents (77,8%) kept their alpacas as hobby animals, followed by keeping for fiber production (33,3%) and breeding (33,3%). All the farms used natural mating; 50% of the animals are bred in a group, and 50% of the animals are hand mated. The alpaca female sexual receptivity test is the most commonly used method in Estonia for detecting pregnancy, whereas transrectal ultrasound (commonly used in other species) is not used. The vast majority of alpaca farmers (77,8%) were interested in assisted reproductive techologies. For buying, importing and transferring embryos, the farmers were willing to pay up to 1200€ and for embryo collection and transferring, up to 900€. The survey results reflect a great interest in alpaca embryo transfer in Estonia and the need for veterinarians to acquire knowledge in that field. A practical training was conducted at Cas-Cad-Nac farm (Perkinsville, Vermont, United States of America) to practice a suitable method for conducting embryo transfers in Estonia. The chosen method based on the single ovulation protocol, which is easier and cheaper than using superovulation protocols, as well as enhances the possibility of recovering embryos of a higher quality grade. The author believes that this research is valuable to all persons who are interested in alpaca breeding and alpaca embryo transfer technologies.

For CMS, Heterogeneous Computing is a powerful tool to face the computational challenges posed by the upgrades of the LHC, and will be used in production at the High Level Trigger during Run 3. In principle, to offload the computational work on non-CPU resources, while retaining their performance, different implementations of the same code are required. This would introduce code-duplication which is not sustainable in terms of maintainability and testability of the software. Performance portability libraries allow to write code once and run it on different architectures with close-to-native performance. The CMS experiment is evaluating performance portability libraries for the near term future.

The alpaka library is a header-only C++17 abstraction library for development across hardware accelerators (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs). Its aim is to provide performance portability across accelerators through the abstraction (not hiding!) of the underlying levels of parallelism. In this poster we will show the concepts behind alpaka, how it is mapped to the various underlying hardware models, and show the features introduced over the last year. In addition, we will also present the software ecosystem surrounding alpaka.

Heterogeneous hardware landscapes will define the Exascale era. At the same time, keeping scientific libraries and applications portable across different hardware setups while maintaining high performance is no trivial matter. Vendor-provided programming platforms often cannot target accelerators from other vendors, and different hardware types like CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs require differently tuned algorithms for optimal performance. A solution to these issues can be found in abstraction layers that provide the user with a single programming interface while still maintaining portability and performance. In this talk, we introduce the Caravan HPC ecosystem. With the alpaka abstraction library for accelerator programming at its core and many sibling libraries for related use cases --- such as the memory access abstraction layer LLAMA or the C++ primitives library vikunja --- the Caravan ecosystem is an ideal choice for scientists and programmers setting out to tackle the challenges of the Exascale era.

The aim of the bachelor's thesis was to provide an overview of the zoological classification of camelids, their physiological and anatomical specificities – with a focus on the specifics of mineral metabolism. The basic mineral substances, their importance and recommended proportion in the diet of camelids and health disorders caused by their excess or deficiency are described in the paper. Furthermore, the sources and requirements of these minerals, the possibilities of their supplementation and the evaluation of their reserves in the organism are described. In the practical part, the evaluation of the supply of mineral substances to the organism of alpacas bred in the conditions of the Czech Republic based on blood tests is elaborated and the values are compared with the recommendations in the literature. Based on the biochemical analyses of the examined animals, no major deficiencies were found, the situation has improved as compared to previously published results and the animals are sufficiently supplied with minerals.

* Next-generation Laser-plasma Accelerators (protons and electrons) require fast and predictive 3D particle-in-cell simulations at the exascale. * PIConGPU is performance portable & available as a single source through Alpaka. * PIConGPU scales to the largest supercomputers of the world, leveraging Alpaka for running on the latest GPUs from NVIDIA (A100) and AMD (MI100) * HIP & OpenMP 5+ backends now available on Alpaka and PIConGPU. * PIConGPU performance scales on Juwels Booster and Summit machines. Starting from typical simulation applications and requirements in laser-plasma accelerators, we present the PIConGPU software stack and current scaling results on large-scale compute clusters. We show results from the Frontier CAAR project and the JUWELS Booster early-access project.

The alpaka library is a header-only C++14 abstraction library for accelerator development. Its aim is to provide performance portability across accelerators through the abstraction (not hiding!) of the underlying levels of parallelism.

Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit war es, die sonographische Hodenbeurteilung beim Alpakahengst zu verbessern und die Sonographie zur Volumenbestimmung des Alpakahodens und damit letztendlich in der klinisch-andrologischen Untersuchung zu etablieren. Ferner sollten Ergebnisse der Graustufenanalyse am Alpakahoden erhoben und herausgearbeitet werden, welche Werte gesunde Hoden in der Graustufenanalyse annehmen und ob sich pathologisch veränderte Hoden anhand der Graustufenanalyse von gesunden Hoden unterscheiden lassen.Insgesamt standen 61 Alpakahengste im Alter zwischen 9 Monaten und 8 Jahren für die Studie zur Verfügung. Die Tiere wurden einer klinisch-andrologischen Untersuchung unterzogen und neben der konventionellen B-Mode Sonographie wurde zusätzlich eine quantitative Graustufenanalyse durchgeführt. Die Volumenberechnung erfolgte auf Basis der Vermessung der Hoden per Ultraschall sowie der Vermessung der Hoden mittels Schublehre (nach Kastration). Die Volumenbestimmung basierte auf der Wasserverdrängung der Hoden (Goldstandard)., The aim of the present study was to improve the sonographic assessment of the testicles in the alpaca stallion and to establish the sonography for determination of the testicle volume of the alpaca and ultimately in the clinical andrological examination. Furthermore, the results of the gray scale analysis at the alpaca testicle and the values of healthy testicle in the gray scale analysis should be examined and worked out. It also should be checked whether pathological testicles can be distinguished of healthy testicles by gray scale analysis. A total of 61 alpaca stallions aged between 9 month and 8 years were available for the study. The animals were subjected to a clinical andrological examination and a quantitative gray scale analysis was carried out in addition to the conventional B-mode sonography. The volume calculation takes place on the basis of testicle measurement by ultrasound as well as the measurement by sliding caliper after castration. The volume determination was based on the water displacement of the testicles (gold standard).

Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit war es, die sonographische Hodenbeurteilung beim Alpakahengst zu verbessern und die Sonographie zur Volumenbestimmung des Alpakahodens und damit letztendlich in der klinisch-andrologischen Untersuchung zu etablieren. Ferner sollten Ergebnisse der Graustufenanalyse am Alpakahoden erhoben und herausgearbeitet werden, welche Werte gesunde Hoden in der Graustufenanalyse annehmen und ob sich pathologisch veränderte Hoden anhand der Graustufenanalyse von gesunden Hoden unterscheiden lassen. Insgesamt standen 61 Alpakahengste im Alter zwischen 9 Monaten und 8 Jahren für die Studie zur Verfügung. Die Tiere wurden einer klinisch-andrologischen Untersuchung unterzogen und neben der konventionellen B-Mode Sonographie wurde zusätzlich eine quantitative Graustufenanalyse durchgeführt. Die Volumenberechnung erfolgte auf Basis der Vermessung der Hoden per Ultraschall sowie der Vermessung der Hoden mittels Schublehre (nach Kastration). Die Volumenbestimmung basierte auf der Wasserverdrängung der Hoden (Goldstandard). The aim of the present study was to improve the sonographic assessment of the testicles in the alpaca stallion and to establish the sonography for determination of the testicle volume of the alpaca and ultimately in the clinical andrological examination. Furthermore, the results of the gray scale analysis at the alpaca testicle and the values of healthy testicle in the gray scale analysis should be examined and worked out. It also should be checked whether pathological testicles can be distinguished of healthy testicles by gray scale analysis. A total of 61 alpaca stallions aged between 9 month and 8 years were available for the study. The animals were subjected to a clinical andrological examination and a quantitative gray scale analysis was carried out in addition to the conventional B-mode sonography. The volume calculation takes place on the basis of testicle measurement by ultrasound as well as the measurement by sliding caliper after castration. The volume determination was based on the water displacement of the testicles (gold standard).

The poster gives an overview of the LPWFA experimental setup and explains in detail the accompanying simulation campaign.

Die Serie »Nutztiere in Sachsen« umfasste bisher neun Ausgaben: Milchrind, Fleischrind, Schaf, Ziege und Schwein; weiterhin Pferd, Legehenne, Mastgeflügel und Karpfen. Ergänzt wird die Serie um die Honigbiene sowie Lama und Alpaka. Die Faltblätter informieren in kompakter Form über Bedeutung und Bestände der Nutztiere in Sachsen und geben einen Überblick über Rassen, Zuchtziele, Leistungen sowie über Haltungsformen, Fütterung und Produktqualität. Sie richten sich in erster Linie an Personen, die ohne spezielle Vorkenntnisse an der Nutztierhaltung interessiert sind. Redaktionsschluss: 30.10.2019

The content of my bachelor thesis is a summary of current information about the principles of llama breeding in the Czech Republic. It also deals with selected types of lam. Four species are mentioned, namely: llama llama, guanaco llama, lama vicuna and alpaca llama. Furthermore, there is some information about the history, present or domestication of lam, but most of the work is devoted to the requirements for their breeding, which is important before starting to breed thoroughly study to avoid some undesirable problems that might occur over time. An important chapter is mainly how to start a lamb breeding, then how their breeding environment, specifically enclosure or housing, should look like. Other important issues include skin care, hair or hooves, and the principles of overall cleaning and disinfection of the stable. Next, the Lam registration is mentioned. Finally, there are described animal products that can be obtained from llamas, the quality of milk and meat, and also statistics of llamas in the Czech Republic and abroad.

The aim of the study was to evaluate and compare the fleece thermal insulation of Huacaya alpacas and Merino sheep. The study included 13 clinically healthy Huacaya alpacas and 14 Merino sheep. Fleece samples were taken from the trunk (lateral aspects) of each animal to measure coat fibre length and average fibre diameter. The insulating properties of each sample were determined using a calorimetric method. In addition, infrared thermographic images were taken of the trunk (lateral aspects) for both species in an indoor environment. Four regions of interest (ROIs) were determined from each thermographic image (corresponding to the coat sample sites) and the mean temperature within each ROI was calculated. Merino sheep had significantly (P, Cilj ovoga istraživanja jest procjena i usporedba vune alpaka (Huacayo alpaca) i merino ovaca kao toplinskog izolatora. Istraživanje je obuhvatilo 13 klinički zdravih alpaka i 14 merino ovaca. Uzorci vune uzeti su s lateralnog dijela trupa svake životinje kako bi se izmjerili dužina i promjer vlakana. Izolacijska svojstva svakoga uzorka određena su kalorimetrijskom metodom. Također su učinjene infracrvene termografske snimke lateralnog dijela trupa s kojega su uzeti uzorci u obje skupine u zatvorenom prostoru. Na svakoj su snimci određene četiri regije (na temelju mjesta uzorkovanja) te je izračunata prosječna temperatura. Vuna merino ovaca imala je znakovito duža i deblja vlakna od vune alpaka (P

Dockerfiles which provide environments for building and running Cupla applications.