1. Welcome A forum for HPC professionals and practitioners to explore trends and challenges, to drive industry requirements, and to develop a sustainable high performance computing and computational science & engineering workforce pipeline directed at industry needs. engage – educate – network

2. Workshop Organizers Logistics: –Victoria Langlais –Debbie Heath –Michelle Atkinson –Carlyn Chatfield –Ann Lugg, Doni Soward & Patrick Kurp –… –student workers Look for the gray staff t-shirt Program Committee –Henri Calandra, Total –Simanti Das, ExxonMobil –Erik Engquist, Rice University –Keith Gray, BP –Scott Morton, Hess Corp –Jan E. Odegard, Rice University –Ernesto Prudencio, Schlumberger –Paul Singer, Statoil –Amik St-Cyr, Shell –Chap Wong, Chevron

3. 2015 Concerns … or not? Will we have good attendance? Who will be here? Strong recruiting? No concerns!

4. Workshop History History of the workshop series –First workshop: 2007 during SEG in San Antonio Returned to SEG in 2008 in Las Vegas –First Rice workshop in 2008 –2018 marks the 8th workshop at Rice with –Expanded to day-and-half + ½-day tutorials –a record number of submitted abstracts –a record number of talks and sessions –a record number of registrations (and attendees) OG-HPC Workshop scalability 2015 Rice Oil & Gas HPC Workshop Another banner year! 2015 Rice Oil & Gas HPC Workshop Another banner year!

6. Amazon Web Services Arista Networks Cray Inc. DataDirect Networks Dot Hill Systems Fortinet Mellanox Technologies Micron Technology Panasas Penguin Computing Segate Altair Bright Computing CyrusOne Data Foundry Inc. Dell Inc. NetApp Omnibond One Stop Systems PCPC Direct, Ltd. Rouge Wave Software Univa Corporation Media Display Sponsor Christie

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9. 2 nd FLOOR venue map live media streaming destinations + parallel sessions No FREE coffee her but they welcome your business

10. 1 st floor event space

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12. 2015 Quick Agenda Overview Facilities, Infrastructure & Data I (Main Auditorium) Facilities, Infrastructure & Data I (Main Auditorium) Networking Reception (BRC Event Hall) Networking Reception (BRC Event Hall) Disruptive Technology Coarse-grained Seismic Algorithms:(BRC 280 & 282) Welcome & Opening Katie Antypas, NERC Bradley McCredie, IBM Welcome & Opening Katie Antypas, NERC Bradley McCredie, IBM Break with DT posters