- Day 1 • Saturday, November 14, 2009
| Morning General Session |
Opening
Speaker: Marc Hamilton – Vice President HPC and Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
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Power and cooling at all scales. From node packaging to facilities
Speaker: Nicolas Dube – Ph.D., Datacenter Solutions, HPC Sales, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
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Storage for Campus Cluster Condo environments. Pitfalls and opportunities
Speaker: James Pepin – Chief Technology Officer Clemson University |
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Meteorology and Climate panel session
Reinhard Budich – Max Planck Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany
Tim F. Pugh – Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research (CAWCR) Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
Henry Tufo – Associate Professor, Dept.of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, Computer Science Group Head, Scientific Computing Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
Panel session moderated by Michael Brown, HPC Marketing, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
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Henry Tufo PDF |
| HPC Software session |
HPC Trends, Challenges, and Virtualization
Speaker: Josh Simons – Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Inc. |
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Achieving Optimal Performance with Nehalem
Speaker: Jeremy Week – Senior Staff Engineer, Performance Library, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
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Capitalizing on Chip Multi Processing
Speaker: Ruud van der Pas – Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Developer Tools, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
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Sun File System Strategy
Speaker: Peter Bojanic – Director Lustre Group, Sun Microsystems Inc. |
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High Performance Data Management panel discussion
End users
James Pepin – Chief Technology Officer Clemson University
Stephen Monk – Sandia National Laboratory
Sun Microsystems
Harriet Coverston – Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Peter Bojanic – Director Lustre Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Session moderated by Sean Cochrane
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| CLUMEQ Colossus: a cool HPC tower
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Marc Parizeau – Deputy Director of CLUMEQ, Professor of Computer Engineering, Laval University, Quebec City (QC), Canada |
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- Day 2 · Sunday, November 15, 2009
| Morning General Session |
Centre for High Performance Computing Cape Town - Africa's largest HPC cluster
Speaker: Happy Sithole – PhD, Director, Centre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town, South Africa |
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Sandia: The Red Sky Story, Building a Petascale, Midrange Capacity System
Speaker: Rob Leland – Director, Computing and Network Services, Sandia National Laboratory |
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UniCluster 5.0
Speaker: Tom Verbiscer, Univa UD |
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Sun's HPC Benchmarking Update
Speaker: Yan Fisher, Technical Marketing Benchmark Lead, Systems Group |
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SSD performance
Speaker: Larry Mcintosh – Principal Engineer, Global Engineering Solutions, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
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NVIDIA's new Fermi Architecture for HPC computing
Speaker: Thomas Reed, – Solutions Architect, NVIDIA |
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| Afternoon General Session |
AMD G34 Magny-cours for HPC
Speaker: Joshua Mora, Ph.D. – Sr. Member Technical Staff, Performance CoE, AMD |
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Change at HPCVL
Speaker: Ken Edgecombe – Executive Director, HPCVL, Canada |
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Intel: Technologies and Platforms Addressing HPC Challenges
Speaker: David Barkai – HPC Computational Architect, Intel HPC |
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HPC Interconnect Technologies
Speaker: John Fragalla – Principal Technologist, High Performance Computing, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Department Of Defense (DoD) High Performance Modernization Program Office for HPC Storage Lifecycle Management (SLM)
Constantin Scheder – Director and Chief Architect, General Atomics, Nirvana Division |
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Sun's HPC Roadmap
Speaker: Andy Bechtolsheim, Chief Architect and Senior Vice President, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
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Closing thoughts
Speaker: Marc Hamilton – Vice President HPC and Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
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