HPC Consortium Meeting Agenda

HPC - High Performance Computing
Consortium Meeting
Crowne Plaza,
Heidelberg

Monday, June 20, 2005
Time	Speaker - Title of Presentation
8:00 a.m.	Registration opens
	Morning Session - Kurpfalz Room
9:00 a.m.	Delivering HPC Innovation, Marc Hamilton, Sun Microsystems
9:45 a.m.	Solaris and OpenSolaris, Steve Furtado, Vice President, Solaris x86 Sales, Sun Microsystems
10:30 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m.	Solving High Performance Technical Computing (HPTC) Problems with Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) Products, Dennis Kuehn, Associate Technical Fellow, Boeing
11:30 a.m.	Time for changes, Thomas Nau, University of Ulm, Germany
12:00 p.m.	Using ThinLinc in an HPC environment - some experiences, Bernd Dammann, Technical University of Denmark, Inge Wallin
12:30 p.m.	Lunch
Break out sessions	Parallel Programming & Performance Kurpfalz	HPTC Storage & Networks Palatina
1:30 p.m.	Parallel models, Nick Maclaren, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facility	Sun HPTC Storage, Larry McIntosh, Sun Microsystems
1:50 p.m.	High Performance Math Libraries on Multi-core Systems, Mick Pont, Numerical Algorithms Group, Oxford, UK
2:10 p.m.	Grid-Based Opteron Solutions for MCAE, Henry Fong, Group Manager HPTC Marketing NSG, Sun Microsystems	Boeing's Storage Architecture - High Bandwidth I/O, Dennis Kuehn, Associate Technical Fellow, Boeing
2:30 p.m.	HPC Software, Kenneth Tan, Optima Numerics	InfiniBand and HPC - Customer Success Stories, Matt Blythe, Topspin
2:50 p.m.	A parallelization environment for the generation of efficient and scalable parallel code on Sun HPC systems, Cos Ierotheou, Parallel Software Products Doc 1 Doc 2	DLR Aerospace Applications Gain Superb Scalability with Voltaire, John Asher, VP European Sales, Voltaire
3:10 p.m.	HPC Development Tools for Linux and Solaris, Michael Rudgyard, CEO and Founder, Allenea Software Ltd.	Customer case study, Steve Lyness, VP Worldwide Support, SilverStorm Technologies
3:45 p.m.	Break
	Afternoon Session - Kurpfalz Room
4:15 p.m.	Building and Benchmarking a 7TF Linux Cluster, Jim Pepin, University of Southern California, USA Doc 1 Doc 2
4:45 p.m.	A Performance Scalability Study of UltraSPARC IV+ Systems, Ruud van der Pas, Senior Staff Engineer, Scalable Systems Group, Sun Microsystems
5:30 p.m.	Sun Chip Multithreading Systems, John Fragalla, Sun Microsystems
6:00 p.m.	End of Session
6:15 p.m.	Busses to Dinner at the Heidelberg Barn

Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Break out sessions	Grid and Portal Computing - Kurpfalz
8:45 a.m.	Kick off and Introductions, Brian Hammond, Sun
8:50 a.m.	Economic models of the grid, John Darlington, Imperial College, UK Doc 1 Doc 2
9:10 a.m.	The Asia-Pacific Science and Technology Center, Simon See, Sun Microsystems
9:30 a.m.	OMII 1.0 and beyond: Architecture & Process, Steven Newhouse, OMII, UK Doc 1 Doc 2
9:50 a.m.	Utility Grid, Philip Bull, Sun Microsystems
10:10 a.m.	Handling workflow grid jobs in N1 Grid Engine, Michal Kosiedowski, Poznan Supercomputing & Networking Center, Poland Doc 1 Doc 2
10:30 a.m.	Break
10:50 a.m.	Advances in N1GE, Fritz Ferstl, Sun Microsystems
11:10 a.m.	RepliCator: A Different Approach to Data-Intensive Cluster Computing, Stephen Perrenod, eXludus Technologies, Inc. Doc 1 Doc 2
11:30 a.m.	Cosmology using MPI on the Grid, Kevin Stratford, EPCC, Scotland
11:50 p.m.	World University Network Grid, Mark Jessop, U. of York, UK
12:10 p.m.	The Swiss ATLAS Computing Prototype, Christian Haeberli, Univ. of Bern, Switzerland
	Computational Biology - Palatina
8:45 a.m.	Kick off and Introductions, Stefan Unger, Sun Microsystems
9:00 a.m.	The Bioinformatics Hub at the Madrid Science Park, José María Carazo, Parque Cientifico de Madrid, Spain
9:30 a.m.	Computer Assisted Modeling of Hormone-Receptor Complexes, John Kerrigan, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, USA
10:00 a.m.	Combining a Bioinformatics Grid with Bioinformatics Web Services, Andrei Turinsky, University of Calgary, Canada
10:30 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m.	Collaborative Design, Wataru Yamzaki, TUS
11:30 a.m.	Simulation of Hysteroscopic Interventions, Matthias Harders, ETH, Switzerland
12:00 p.m.	The International PhosphoProtein Consortium, Arun Holden, Leeds University, UK
12:30 a.m.	Lunch
	Afternoon Session - Kurpfalz
1:30 p.m.	Keynote: "Innovation Matters in HPTC", Steve Campbell, Vice President, Strategic Insight Office Sun Microsystems
2:15 p.m.	AMD's challenges in EMEA HPC, Francesco Torricelli, HPC Manager EMEA, Tim Wilkens, AMD
3:00 p.m.	Future NSG Platforms, Jan Fisher, Sr. Technical Marketing Specialist, Sun Microsystems
3:45 p.m.	Break
4:15 p.m.	Panel session - "Bridging the Gap between CIO and Scientist" Chair - Ken Edgecombe, Executive Director, HPCVL, Canada Professor John Darlington, Imperial College, UK Michael Pearce, Deputy CIO, University of Southern California Curt Hillegas, Manager, Academic Services, Princeton University, USA Steve Campbell, Sun Microsystems
5:45 p.m.	End of Consortium

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