52nd HPC User Forum
April 7-9, 2014 – Santa Fe, New Mexico
La Fonda on the Plaza Hotel
“Emerging Trends in HPC”
HPC User Forum Agenda
Meeting Focus Areas:
• Industrial partnerships initiatives and programs
• Technology focus: processors, coprocessors and accelerators
Monday, April 7, 2014
5:00pm Registration Starts
6:30pm Welcome Dinner Reception and Short Vendor Technology Updates
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
7:15am Networking Breakfast
8:05am Meeting Welcome and Announcements
• Chairman’s and Co-chairman’s Welcome, Jim Kasdorf and Rupak Biswas
8:15am HPC Market Update, Earl Joseph, Steve Conway and Chirag Dekate
8:30am HPC Leadership Project Talk: Trinity Next-Generation Supercomputer, Doug Doerfler,
Sandia National Laboratories
9:00am Focus Area: HPC Industrial Partnership Initiatives
This session will showcase case histories reported by public and private sector participants
in the growing number of industrial partnership programs springing up around the world
• Case history from the UK’s Hartree Centre (Daresbury Sci-Tech Campus), Adrian
Wander, STFC
• Case history from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Jeff Wolf, LLNL
• Endemic Industrial Partnership Program, Merle Giles, NCSA
• 10:30am Break
• Example of a RENCI partnership with industry, Stan Ahalt, RENCI
• Overview of large industrial LANL partnerships with EMC, Proctor and Gamble, and
Chevron, including suggestions for best practices
12:00pm Networking Lunch
1:00pm Focus Area: Processors, Coprocessors and Accelerators
• Speakers will discuss the current status, performance results, market trends and
experiences with x86 processors, GPGPUs, MIC, ARM, Atom, SPARC and others
• Micron’s Automata Processor, Paul Dlugosch
• Open POWER.org, Mike Paolini
2:30pm Vendor Technology Update
3:00pm Break
3:30pm Energy-Efficient Supercomputing, Steven Hammond, NREL
4:00pm The CREATE Ships Navy Enhanced Sierra Mechanics (NESM) project, Adam Hapij,
Weidener and Associates
4:30pm HPC Resilience, Nathan DeBardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory
5:00pm Measuring ROI from HPC investments, Earl Joseph, IDC
5:30pm Networking Break and Time for 1-on-1 Meetings
6:30pm Special Dinner Event
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
7:15am Networking Breakfast
8:00am Welcome and Introductions: Jim Kasdorf, Rupak Biswas, Earl Joseph and Steve Conway
8:05am Focus Area: Major Initiatives in Europe and Asia
This session will feature speakers representing key HPC initiatives outside of the U.S.
• Germany, UK, France, Japan, China, etc.
• The EU Flagship Graphene Project, Tomas Lofwander, Chalmers University of
Technology
• CEA-Bull-Teratec Industrial Partnership, Herve Mouren, Teratec
• HPC Industrial Engagement Initiatives: Realities, Myths and Dreams, Andy Jones,
NAG
10:15am Break
10:45am Vendor Technology Update
11:00am A Rare Look at Real World Data Analysis of Supercomputer Faults – DRAM, SRAM, and
GPGPUs, Nathan DeBardeleben, LANL
11:30am Preparing Applications for Next Generation IO/Storage, Gary Grider, LANL
12:00pm Networking Lunch
1:00pm Featured Talks: HPC Innovation Award Winners
Recent winners of the IDC HPC Innovation Excellence Award will discuss their
achievements and how they measured/quantified their results to qualify for the award.
1:30pm Disruptive Technologies Panel — Panelists will briefly present potentially disruptive
technologies – Moderator: Earl Joseph
• System vendors: HP, IBM, Cray, SGI, Inspur, etc.
• New processor directions: Intel, Nvidia, AMD, ARM, TI, etc.
• Software providers: Altair, SUSE, etc.
• Storage vendors: EMC, etc.
2:30pm HPC Storage Challenges and Their Future Implications, Henry Newman, Instrumental
3:30pm Break
4:00pm HPC Leadership Project Talk: NERSC-8 Next-Generation Supercomputer, Katie
Antypas, NERSC
4:30pm HPC Leadership Project Overview: CHORAL
5:00pm Meeting Wrap-Up, Jim Kasdorf, Rupak Biswas, Earl Joseph and Steve Conway
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