SC08 Sun Consortium Event
*** YOU ARE INVITED and REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR THE...
*** SUN HPC (High Performance Computing) CONSORTIUM AUSTIN-USA 2008
*** Nov 15th, 16th and Nov.17th, 2008
*** UPDATE: Please see the completed Sun HPC Consortium agenda at the end of this invitation.
SC08 Sun Consortium Event and Registration site: https://events-at-sun.com/hpc-austin08
Sun Microsystems' High Performance and Research Computing Team
and the Sun HPC Consortium Steering Committee are pleased to invite you to:
WHAT: High Performance Computing Consortium (including TACC Sun "Ranger" datacenter tour)
WHEN: Sun HPC Consortium: Nov.15th (begins at noon), Nov.16th and Nov.17th, 2008
WHERE: AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA
REGISTRATION:
For complete information on the event plus weekend hotel and on-line registration,
please visit - https://events-at-sun.com/hpc-austin08
HOUSING and CONSORTIUM HOTEL:
Hilton Austin Airport Hotel
9515 Hotel Drive
Austin, Texas 78719
Phone: 512-385-6767
AGENDA: attached and also viewable at https://events-at-sun.com/hpc-austin08/agenda.html
Consortium sessions will be half day on Saturday (15th) and all day on Sunday and Monday, Nov. 16-17.
TRANSPORTATION: During the week, bus transport will be provided to the SC08 Austin Convention Center
by SC08 organizers
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The complete SC08 Sun HPC Consortium event agenda and speakers list is outlined below:
Day 1 · Saturday, November 15, 2008
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Day 2 · Sunday, November 16, 2008 |
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Day 3 · Monday, November 17, 2008 |
7:30am – 8:30am | Breakfast |
8:30am – 12:30pm | Main Session |
12:30pm | HPC Consortium Austin ends |
1:30pm – 5:00pm | DTrace tutorial Thomas Nau – Ulm University, Germany |
Speakers and Presentation Topics
Presentation | Speaker | Speaker title |
Guests & luminaries | ||
Future looking HPC systems (prov.title) | Andy Bechtolsheim | Chief Architect and Senior Vice President, Network Systems, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
Sun strategy in HPC, opening talk (prov.title) | Marc Hamilton | Vice President, System PracticeNorth America Sales Region Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
HPC Product update(prov.title) | John Fowler | Executive Vice President, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
Customer presentations | ||
HPC Chip Multithreading experience at HPCVL (prov.title) | Ken Edgecombe | Executive Director of HPCVL |
Thebes Grid Middleware Consortium: Status Report and Live Demo | Arnie Miles | Senior Systems Architect, Advanced Research Computing Adjunct, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Georgetown University |
TACC cluster update(prov.title) | Karl Schulz | Acting Group Leader, Grid Development and Deployment |
TACC Ranger visualization for the TeraGrid | Kelly Gaither, UT | Associate Director, Research & Development, Visualization and Data Analysi, TACC |
Titech – Tsubame 1.2 and 2.0(prov.title) | Prof Satoshi Matsuoka | Professor, Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
U.Houston keynote talk on compiler developments(prov.title) | Prof. Barbara Chapman | Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Houston |
Experience with a New SunBlade 6000 Installation & Acceptance Testing | Prof.James Leylek | PhD, Executive Director, CU-CCMS |
Java for HPC Now: MPI Fortran vs. ProActive Java | Prof.Denis Caromel | Professor, INRIA-Univ. Nice, |
Sun Microsystems presentations | ||
Storage & OpenStorage strategy | Victor Walker | Vice president Disk Products Group , Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
Visualisation products offerings(prov.title) | Linda Fellingham | Manager of Advanced Visualization and Graphics, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
Lustre and Sun File Systems strategy(prov.title) | Peter Bojanic | Director Lustre Group, Sun Microsystems Inc. |
Solaris HPC Software, Developer Edition Beta 1 - | Art Beckman or Barton Fiske | Product Marketing Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
Key HPC Features in Sun Studio | Ruud van der Pas | Senior Staff Engineer/Technical Systems ambassador/HPC Ace, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
Sun HPC Clustertools 8 | Len Wisniewski | |
What's New in the Sun Performance Analyzer? | Marty Itzkowitz | Project Lead for the Performance Analyzer, Sun Microsystems Inc. |
SGE update | Fritz Ferstl | Director Grid Engine Software, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
xVM portfolio and xVM Ops Center product | Prasad Paid | Sun Microsystems |
Shared QFS objects on Open Solaris and long term data retention with SAM | Harriet Coverston | Distinguished Engineer, US Engineering, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
Partners | ||
Intel(prov.title) | TBD | TBD |
AMD: Cpu performance(prov.title) | Joshua Mora | Sr Member Technical Staff, Performance CoE, Silicon Design Engineerin, AMD |
AMD: stream computing solutions(prov.title) | Ed Bickingham | |
Nvidia strategy(prov.title) | Andy Keane | General Manager Tesla Computing Products |
Voltaire HPC products update(prov.title) | Yaron Haviv | CTO, Voltaire |
Force10 High Performance GbE/10GbE Switches Enhance Sun HPC Solutions | Debbie Montano | Director of Research & Education Alliances |
Acumen: Making the multicore perform | Erik Hagersten | CEO, Acumem |
Allinea(prov.title) | TBD | TBD |
TotalView Technologies ReplayEngine Simplifies Troubleshooting | Chris Gottbrath | Director of Product Management |
Further updates to Consortium Agenda: https://events-at-sun.com/hpc-austin08/agenda.html
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
All
Sun scientific, engineering, or research computing customers or anyone
interested in high-performance computing using Sun technologies. The
meeting is designed to address a wide range of interests from
application developers to CIOs and VPs of Research.
Sun scientific, engineering, or research computing customers or anyone
interested in high-performance computing using Sun technologies. The
meeting is designed to address a wide range of interests from
application developers to CIOs and VPs of Research.
Sun
is again demonstrating its commitment to HPC by including in the
audience our worldwide HPC Aces members, which will ensure a high level
of interaction between our customers and partners, and the Sun
technical HPC community. A joint customer and Sun dinner will be
provided on both Saturday and Sunday evenings.
is again demonstrating its commitment to HPC by including in the
audience our worldwide HPC Aces members, which will ensure a high level
of interaction between our customers and partners, and the Sun
technical HPC community. A joint customer and Sun dinner will be
provided on both Saturday and Sunday evenings.
Confidential Information / NDA:
The Sun HPC Consortium agenda will include Sun-confidential information and
all attendees must sign a Confidential information Disclosure Agreement or have
an existing Agreement on file with your local Sun sales office.
ABOUT THE CONSORTIUM
The
Consortium's mission is to provide the high performance computing
community with leadership and provide a forum for information exchange
to enable the development and effective use of Sun computational tools
in achieving the business and research objectives of the Sun technical
computing community.
Consortium's mission is to provide the high performance computing
community with leadership and provide a forum for information exchange
to enable the development and effective use of Sun computational tools
in achieving the business and research objectives of the Sun technical
computing community.
Participants
represent a broad range of computing applications and environments.
The meeting format is designed to give participants the opportunity to
present HPC developments, discuss applications and needs with their
peers, and to hear and provide feedback on Sun's engineering plans.
represent a broad range of computing applications and environments.
The meeting format is designed to give participants the opportunity to
present HPC developments, discuss applications and needs with their
peers, and to hear and provide feedback on Sun's engineering plans.
Last
year's agenda and presentations of the Dresden (June 24-26, 2007) HPC
Consortium and Reno (Nov. 10-11, 2007) are on line at:
year's agenda and presentations of the Dresden (June 24-26, 2007) HPC
Consortium and Reno (Nov. 10-11, 2007) are on line at:
and
Thank you for your interest in working with Sun to better serve the High Performance Computing communities.
