Welcome To The 48 th HPC User Forum Meeting September 2012

Important Dates For Your Calendar FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: 2013 Meetings:  April 29 – May 1, Tucson, Arizona  September 9 to 11, Boston, Massachusetts  October 2013 in Asia 2014 Meetings:  April 7 to 9, Santa Fe, New Mexico  September 15 to 17, Seattle, Washington  October 2014 in Europe

Thank You To Our Sponsors! Gold  Intel  HP Silver  Altair Engineering  AMD  Appro International  IBM Bronze  Bright Computing  Mellanox  Panasas Monday:  Dinner – AMD & Appro Tuesday:  Breakfast – Bright Computing  Lunch – Altair Engineering  PM Break – Panasas  Dinner – Intel and HP Wednesday:  Breakfast -- Mellanox  Lunch – IBM

Dinner Thanks to: AMD & Appro

Tuesday Dinner Vendor Updates: 10 Minutes Altair Appro Cray IBM Nvidia Mellanox Panasas Parallel Scientific SGI Xyratex

Welcome To The 48 th HPC User Forum Meeting September 2012

Dinner Thanks to: AMD & Appro Breakfast Thanks to: Bright Computing

Thank You To Our Sponsors! Gold  Intel  HP Silver  Altair Engineering  AMD  Appro International  IBM Bronze  Bright Computing  Mellanox  Panasas Monday:  Dinner – AMD & Appro Tuesday:  Breakfast – Bright Computing  Lunch – Altair Engineering  PM Break – Panasas  Dinner – Intel and HP Wednesday:  Breakfast -- Mellanox  Lunch – IBM

Introduction: Logistics Ask Mary if you need a receipt We have a very tight agenda (as usual)  Please help us keep on time!  Note that the buses leave at 6:15pm for the special dinner event Review handouts  Note: We will post most of the presentations on the web site  Please complete the evaluation form

Welcome And New Chairman Announcement Steve Finn HPC User Forum Chairman

We Welcome Jim Kasdorf As The New Chairman And Rupak Biswas As Vice Chairman

Steering Committee Members James Kasdorf, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Chairman Rupak Biswas, NASA Ames, Vice Chairman Earl Joseph, IDC, Executive Director Vijay Agarwala, Penn State University Alex Akkerman, Ford Motor Company Doug Ball, The Boeing Company Jeff Broughton. NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Paul Buerger, Avetec Chris Catherasoo, Caltech Jack Collins, National Cancer Institute Steve Conway, IDC Research Vice President Steve Finn, Cherokee Information Services Merle Giles, NSCA/University of Illinois Doug Kothe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Paul Muzio, City University of New York Michael Resch, HLRS, University of Stuttgart Vince Scarafino, Industry Expert

Important Dates For Your Calendar FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: 2013 Meetings:  April 29 – May 1, Tucson, Arizona  September 9 to 11, Boston, Massachusetts  October 2013 in Asia 2014 Meetings:  April 7 to 9, Santa Fe, New Mexico  September 15 to 17, Seattle, Washington  October 2014 in Europe

HPC User Forum Mission To Improve The Health Of The High Performance Computing Industry Through Open Discussions, Information- sharing And Initiatives Involving HPC Users In Industry, Government And Academia Along With HPC Vendors And Other Interested Parties

IDC HPC Research Plans

2013 IDC HPC Research Areas End-user based MCS reports: 1.HPC industries/applications/workloads report 2.HPC system software and middleware report 3.HPC storage and interconnect report 4.HPC processors/co-processors/accelerators 5.The emerging synergy of HPC and Big Data report A new mid and lower end tracking of the HPC market (BOF at 5pm to 6pm today) New And Potentially Disruptive Technologies:  Big data  Co-processors  All types of flash/SSDs  New software solutions  Government programs to help bring to market new capabilities The ROI With HPC S

2013 IDC HPC Research Areas Special HPC Research Areas & Reports:  The evolution of government HPC budgets  Emerging markets including China, Russia, etc.  SMB and SMS research  The evolution of clouds in HPC  Scaling of software – issues and soultions  A new user-based data tracker product -- looking at leadership computing best practices and data center attributes  Worldwide Petascale and Exascale Initiatives S

The HPC Market Since 1996 S

IDC HPC Market Forecast S

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Agenda: Day One Morning 8:05amHPC Topic #1: The Economic Value of HPC and the Industrial Use of HPC The Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations at RPI, James Myers (25 min) Industrial Engagement at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Ron Hawkins, San Diego Supercomputer Center (25 min) Data Analysis and Visualization for the DoD HPCMP, Paul Adams, ERDC (25 min) Manufacturing Extension Program (MEP), Dan Luria, The Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center (10 min) 9:30amSequoia System Update, Terri Quinn, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (25 min) 9:55am Break 10:25amHPC Topic #1: The Economic Value of HPC and the Industrial Use of HPC (cont.) Computational Research for Engineering and Science - Ground Vehicle" (CRES-GV) Program, Daniel Kedziorek and Robert Smith, US Army RDECOM-TARDEC (25 min) Energy Efficiency Issues, Greg Rottman, ERDC (25 min) Meet the Middle: Changing the Way America Builds, Jon Riley, NCMS (25 min) Sandeep Sovani, ANSYS (15 min) 12:00pmNetworking Lunch

Lunch Thanks to: Altair Engineering Please Return Promptly at 1:00pm

Thank You To: Altair Engineering For Lunch

Agenda: Day One Afternoon Afternoon Session Chair: Rupak Biswas 1:00pmTechnology Panel: Emerging and Potentially Disruptive Technologies: 3 Minute Technical Overviews, Panel Moderator: Earl Joseph HP Moonshot Update Convey, John Leidel Intel PHI Parallel Scientific DDN, Jeff Denworth Altair SGI, Eng Lim Goh Cray, Barry Bolding ETI Dell, Tim Carroll CloudFuzion, Mike Duffy Bright 2:00pmORNL Industrial Partnership Project with Ford Motor Company: Automotive Large Scale Powertrain Cooling Optimization, Dr. Burkhard Hupertz, Ford (25 min) 2:30pmVendor Technology Update: Intel (15 min) 2:45pmVendor Technology Update: ISVs and Using GPUs: Altair and ANSYS (15 min) 3:00pmWhy HPCs Hate Biologists, and What We're Doing About It, Titus Brown, Michigan State University (25 min) 3:25pmBreak 3:55pmIDC HPC Market Update, Steve Conway and Chirag Dekate (10 min) 4:05pmNOAA HPC Site Update, Leslie Hart, NOAA (25 min) 4:25pmHPC & Future Workforce Development: The Wheeling Program, Debra Goldfarb, Intel (15 min) 4:45pmUpdate on HPC in the UK, Andy Jones, NAG (25 min) 5:10pmNetworking Break and Time for 1-on-1 Meetings and mid-range market BOF 6:10pm Bus Leaves for the Reception and Special Dinner Event

Thank You To: Panasas For The Break

Dinner Logistics  Special Dinner Event -- Buses leave at 6:15pm  Sponsored by Intel and HP

Welcome To Day 2 Of The HPC User Forum Meeting

Dinner Thanks to: Intel and HP Breakfast Thanks to: Mellanox

Agenda: Day Two Morning Morning Session Chair: Merle Giles 8:05amAdvances in Energy-Efficient Packaging/Cooling: 8:05amExperience with Containerized HPC, Dick Boyd, University of Michigan (25 min) 8:30amData Center Sustainability Energy + Carbon + Water, Nicolas Dube, The Green Grid, HP (25 min) 8:55amPanel: Vendor Technologies for Energy-Efficient Packaging/Cooling (10 minute summaries) IBM SuperMUC and iDataplex, Vinod Karmath Cray, Barry Bolding SGI, Eng Lim Goh 9:45amDesign and Installation of Sequoia's 55PB Lustre+ZFS File System, Marc Stearman, LLNL (30min) 10:15amVendor Technology Updates: HP 10:30am Break 10:45am Technology Topic #2: Big Data and Analytics in HPC: The National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project, Brian Athey, University of Michigan (25 min) 11:10amThe New NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) Data Access Facility, Tsengdar Lee, NASA (25 min) 11:35amA Strategy for Exascale Computing, Dylan Stark and Kyle Wheeler, Sandia National Laboratories (25 min) 12:00pmNetworking Lunch

Lunch Thanks to: IBM Please Return Promptly at 1:00pm

Thank You To: IBM For Lunch

Agenda: Day Two Afternoon Afternoon Session Chair: Steve Finn 1:00pmSpecial Keynote: Scalable Data Mining and Archiving in the Era of the Square Kilometre Array, the Square Kilometre Array Telescope Project, Chris Mattmann, NASA/JPL (30 min) 1:30pmBaseline Configuration -- Establishing Consistency Across HPC Centers, Jeff Graham, AFRL (25 min) 2:00pmTechnology Topic #2: Big Data and Analytics in HPC: Leveraging HPC and Enterprise Architectures for Large Scale Inline Transactional Analytics in Fraud Detection at PayPal, Arno Kolster, PayPal, an eBay Company (30 min) 2:30pmBreak 3:00pmBig Data and Analytics Vendor Panel: How Vendors See Big Data Impacting the Market and Their Products/Services, Panel Moderator: Chirag Dekate IBM/Platform, Rahit Valia SGI, Eng Lim Goh AMD, Rick Indyke YarcData, Ramesh Menon Dell, Tim Carroll Appro, Giri Chukkapalli NetApp, Dave Ellis Altair, Ravi Kunju Panasas, Brent Welch DDN, Keith Miller 4:10pm What Industry Requires to Move Their Science and R&D Forward, Merle Giles, NCSA (25 min) 4:35pmData Analysis and Visualization of Very Large Data, David Pugmire, ORNL (25 min) 5:00pmMeeting Wrap-Up

Thank You To Our Sponsors! Gold  Intel  HP Silver  Altair Engineering  AMD  Appro International  IBM Bronze  Bright Computing  Mellanox  Panasas Monday:  Dinner – AMD & Appro Tuesday:  Breakfast – Bright Computing  Lunch – Altair Engineering  PM Break – Panasas  Dinner – Intel and HP Wednesday:  Breakfast -- Mellanox  Lunch – IBM

Important Dates For Your Calendar FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: 2013 Meetings:  April 29 – May 1, Tucson, Arizona  September 9 to 11, Boston, Massachusetts  October 2013 in Asia 2014 Meetings:  April 7 to 9, Santa Fe, New Mexico  September 15 to 17, Seattle, Washington  October 2014 in Europe

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