Using HPC to Drive Economic and Scientific Competitiveness

Agenda

47th HPC User Forum at HLRS/Stuttgart

"Using HPC to Drive Economic and Scientific Competitiveness"

July 9-10, 2012 – HLRS/University of Stuttgart

Meeting Location Information: Nobelstrasse 19, Stuttgart, Germany

Meeting Focus Area: Technologies for advancing supercomputing and supercomputer technology evolution: processors, algorithms new technologies.

MONDAY, JULY 9

12:00 Lunch

13:00 HPC User Forum Welcome/Introductions, Steve Finn (Chair, HPC User Forum), Earl Joseph (IDC) and Steve Conway (IDC)

13:15 Welcome/Introductions, Stefan Wesner, HLRS

13:30 EC-Funded Bonfire Project: Experimental Cloud Infrastructure, Stefan Wesner, HLRS

14:00 FuturICT and the Living Earth Simulator, Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento

14:30 Update on MSU and the Lomonosov supercomputer, Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University

15:00 Vendor Technical Update: Bull

15:15 Break

15:30 Urban Analytics: Big Cities and Big Data, Paul Muzio, City College of New York

16:00 Scalable and Modular Parallel I/O for High Performance Computing, Edgar Gabriel, University of Houston

16:30 UV@PSC: Big Memory = New Science, James Kasdorf, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

17:00 After-Meeting Socializing

Agenda

47th HPC User Forum at HLRS/Stuttgart

"Using HPC to Drive Economic and Scientific Competitiveness"

July 9-10, 2012 – HLRS/University of Stuttgart

Meeting Location Information: Nobelstrasse 19, Stuttgart, Germany

Meeting Focus Area: Technologies for advancing supercomputing and supercomputer technology evolution: processors, algorithms new technologies

TUESDAY, JULY 10

9:00 Welcome/Logistics – Earl Joseph and Steve Finn

9:15 HPC in Germany, Michael Resch, HLRS

9:45 The Impact of HPC and Data-Centric Computing in Cancer Research, Jack Collins, National Cancer Institute

10:15 Development and Validation of Thermal Simulation Models for Li-Ion Batteries in Hybrid and Pure Electric Vehicles, Jenny Kremser, Automotive Simulation Center Stuttgart

10:45 Break

11:00 HPC and Plate Tectonics, Paul Tackley, ETH Zurich

11:30 PRACE Industrial Program, Stephane Requena, GENCI

12:00 CoolEmAll: EC Initiative to Improve Data Center Efficiency, Wolfgang Christmann, Christmann Informationstechnik

12:30 Meeting wrap up and plans for future HPC User Forum meetings, Earl Joseph and Steve Finn