Norfolk, Virginia
April 13-15, 2015
Marriott Norfolk Waterside
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Preliminary Agenda | 56th HPC User Forum
Monday, April 13, 2015
5:00pm Registration Starts
6:30pm Welcome Dinner Reception and Short Vendor Technology Updates
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
7:15am Networking Breakfast
8:15am Meeting Welcome and Announcements
• Chairman’s and Co-chairman’s Welcome, Paul Muzio and Rupak Biswas
8:30am HPC Market Update and IDC’s Top Growth Areas for 2015 and Beyond, Earl
Joseph, Steve Conway and Bob Sorensen
Session Chair: Jack Collins
8:45am Focus Area: HPC in the Life Sciences
• Computational Challenges from New Instruments and Initiatives, Raul Cachau, National Cancer Institute
• HPC and Big Data in the Life Sciences, Kenneth Buetow, Arizona State University (invited)
• HPC Requirements for Bioscience, Ari Berman, BioTeam
10:15am Break
10:45am Focus Area: HPC in the Life Sciences (Continued)
• Blue Brain Project, Henry Markram (invited)
• Using HPC for Drug Design from First Principles, Fred Hausheer, BioNumerik
Pharmaceuticals (invited)
11:45am Intel technology update: R&D plans for HPC going forward
12:00pm Networking Lunch
Session Chair: Jim Kasdorf
1:00pm Technology Focus Area: HPC Storage/Data Management
• PSC new architectural directions
• Storage Talk 2: Kasdorf will pursue TACC
2:00pm Technology Focus Area: High Performance Data Analysis
• The Research Data Alliance, Fran Berman
• Next-Generation Commercial Analytics: How the HPC Community Can Help, Arno Kolster and Ryan Quick, PayPal
• NASA Earth Exchange, Rami Nemani
3:30pm Break
4:00pm Short Talks: HPC Innovation Excellence Award Winners
4:30pm CFD 2030 Project, Mujeeb Malik, NASA
5:00pm HPC User Site Update #2: aim for NIH speaker
5:30pm Networking Break
6:30pm Special Dinner Event
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
7:15am Networking Breakfast
8:10am Welcome: Paul Muzio, Rupak Biswas, Earl Joseph and Steve Conway
Session Chair: Rupak Biswas
8:15am Focus area: HPC in the Life Science (continued)
• Rock Science to Cancer – Turning DOE Research into Social Impact Projects, Dani Ushizima, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• HPC Cloud Computing for Bioscience, Andrew Carroll, DNAnexus (invited)
• Ebola Research Using HPC, Kevin Shinpaugh, Virginia Bioinformatics (invited)
9:45am Break
10:15am Panel: HPC in the Life Sciences or other panel
11:00am Vendor technical update #2: Lenovo R&D Plans for HPC Going Forward
11:15am Vendor technical update #3: IBM R&D Plans for HPC Going Forward
11:30am HPC User Site Talk #3:
12:00pm Networking Lunch
Session Chair: Suzy Tichenor
1:00pm DOE National Laboratories – Two Panels of the panel of 3 Coral participants: a) awards evaluation process overview and benchmarks and b) code portability
• ORNL, ANL, NERSC, Others?
2:30pm Vendor R&D Plans: How HPDA Requirements are Changing Their HPC Designs
• IBM, HP, Dell, Cray, SGI, 1 other
3:30pm Break
4:00pm NASA Langley: Vision 2030
4:30pm MLB Moneyball talk (if Vince Gennaro accepts)
5:00pm Meeting Wrap-Up, Paul Muzio, Rupak Biswas, Earl Joseph and Steve Conway
5:30pm Steering Committee Meeting
6:30pm Steering Committee Dinner
