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57th HPC User Forum includes Major Session on New Financial, Innovation and Job Creation ROI Data

By R&D Editors | August 17, 2015

The 57th HPC User Forum is taking place in Broomfield, CO, from September 8-10, 2015.IDC has announced that the 57th HPC User Forum, taking place in Broomfield, CO, from September 8-10, 2015, will include a major session on new return on investment (ROI) with high performance computing (HPC) data.

IDC reports that it now has over 325 ROI examples that generated either financial ROI or innovation ROI with HPC. The financial ROI from HPC in revenues generated per dollar invested in HPC was an amazing $515 in the new study. The job creation ROI in the study also was strong. IDC will present the new data, results and provide the full data set to all attendees.

Other major sessions on the agenda for the 57th meeting will look at weather/climate change, high performance data analysis (HPDA)/big data, energy efficiency, the new National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI), emerging HPC technologies and high performance storage. Top experts will speak on these high-innovation, high-growth areas of the HPC market. Attendees also will hear about government initiatives to get ready for future-generation supercomputers, and a disruptive technologies panel will examine technology that could change the HPC industry.

This meeting’s sponsors include Altair, AMD, Bright Computing, Engility, HP, Intel, Mellanox, Panasas, and SUSE.

57th HPC User Forum Agenda

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

5:00pm         Registration Starts

6:30pm         Welcome Dinner Reception and Short Vendor Technology Updates

 

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

7:15am         Networking Breakfast

8:00am         Meeting Welcome and Announcements

  • Chairman’s and Co-chairman’s Welcome, Paul Muzio and Rupak Biswas
  • HPC Market Update, Earl Joseph, Steve Conway and Bob Sorensen

Session Chair: Paul Muzio

8:15am         Focus Area: HPC in the Earth Sciences 

  • High Performance Computing for the Louisiana Coastal Master Plan, Zachary Cobell, ARCADIS-US
  • Evolution of NASA Earth Science Data Systems in the Era of Big Data, Christopher Lynnes, NASA
  • Using HPC to Inform Climate Change Policy Decisions, Eugene Dzedzits, City University of New York

9:45am         Break

10:15am       Focus Area: HPC in the Earth Sciences (Continued)

  • MITgcm And How High Performance Computing Has Led To Significant Scientific Discoveries In Earth Science, Christopher Hill, MIT
  • The New York City Solar Map, Paul Muzio, City University of New York
  • HPC at NCAR, Rich Loft, NCAR

11:45pm       Vendor Technical Update: HP R&D Plans for HPC

12:00pm       Networking Lunch

 

Session Chair: Jim Kasdorf

1:00pm         Technology Focus Area: HPDA/Big Data and Storage

  • HPDA at a large financial services company, Clayton Chandler, Credit Suisse
  • Technical Update on Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS), Scott Fadden, IBM

2:00pm         Vendor Technology Update: Intel R&D plans for HPC

2:15pm         Update on the ROI with HPC, Highlighting HPC Success Stories, Earl Joseph, IDC

2:45pm         Break

3:15pm         HPC Best Practices: Lessons observed from 40+ HPC procurement & service review projects, Andy Jones, NAG

3:30pm         HPC site update: UNLV/NCSEE, Joe Lombardo

4:00pm         Best Practices in Private Sector Cyber Security, Bob Sorensen

4:30pm         HPC site update: NOAA

5:00pm         Networking Break

6:30pm         Special Dinner Event: 6:30pm — 9:00pm

 

Thursday, September 10, 2015

7:15am         Networking Breakfast

8:10am         Welcome: Paul Muzio, Rupak Biswas, Earl Joseph and Steve Conway

 

Session Chair: Rupak Biswas      

8:15am         Panel on US Plans for Advancing HPC: Implications Of The White House Executive Order and NSCI

  • Panel moderator: Bob Sorensen
  • OSTP
  • NASA
  • NSF
  • And a number of other agencies

9:30am         Open Forum Discussion and Q&A of the NSCI Plans and Directions

10:00am       Break

10:15am       Disruptive Technology Panel: Panel members are asked to present in 2 to 3 minutes a disruptive technology that could change the HPC industry.

  • Each presenter is asked to use 3 slides: a) what is the disruptive technology, b) Why it is disruptive – what it does for the end user? And c) What do you expect it will do in the market place?
  • Then two of the HPC User Forum steering Committee members will probe: 1) Is this really a disruptive technology? 2) Who will likely be able to use it? And 3) What can be done to bring it to market sooner?

11:15am       HPC User Site Update

11:45am       Vendor Technology Update: AMD

12:00pm       Networking Lunch

 

Session Chair: Suzy Tichenor

1:00pm         Panel: Energy Efficiency and Renewables Panel, Moderated by Steve Hammond, NREL

  • HPC in Energy Applications, Steve Hammond, NREL  
  • Wind Plant Flow Physics, Michael Sprague, NREL 
  • Simulations for Enhanced Drilling Techniques, Joel Moxley, ForoEnergy
  • Materials by Design, Vladan Stevanovic, NREL

2:30pm         Vendor Technical Update

2:45pm         Break

3:15pm         HPC Site Update

3:45m            EU/European HPC Plans for the Next Decade, Steve Conway, IDC

4:15pm         HPC site update: Doug Kothe, ORNL

4:45pm         Meeting Wrap-Up, Paul Muzio, Rupak Biswas, Earl Joseph and Steve Conway

 

  • Register for the 57th HPC User Forum, September 8-10, 2015 at the Omni Interlocken Hotel in Broomfield (Denver), Colorado.
  • Questions? Send an e-mail to [email protected]

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