Welcome To The 46 th HPC User Forum Meeting At: Imperial College July 2012

Thank You To Our Sponsors!

New HPC Innovation Award Program:

Welcome Steve Finn HPC User Forum Chairman

Important Dates For Your Calendar 2012 HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: International Meetings:  2012 Imperial College, UK, July 5 & 6  2012 HLRS/University of Stuttgart, July 9 & US Meetings:  2012 April 16 to 17, Richmond, Virginia  2012 September 17 to 19, Dearborn, Michigan

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

Steering Committee Members Steve Finn, Cherokee Information Services, 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 Paul Buerger, Avetec Steve Conway, IDC Research Vice President Jack Collins, National Cancer Institute Jeff Broughton. NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Merle Giles, NSCA/University of Illinois Chris Catherasoo, Caltech James Kasdorf, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Doug Kothe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Paul Muzio, City University of New York Michael Resch, HLRS, University of Stuttgart Vince Scarafino, Industry Expert

Agenda: Day One 13:00HPC User Forum Welcome/Introductions, Steve Finn (Chair, HPC User Forum), Earl Joseph (IDC) and Steve Conway (IDC) 13:10Welcome/Introductions, Peter Haynes, Imperial College London 13:30IDC Worldwide HPC Market Update, Earl Joseph, Steve Conway 14:00HPC Developments and Funding in the UK, Andrew Jones, NAG 14:30HPC at Imperial College London. Introduction, Simon Burbidge ONTEP: Quantum-Mechanical Simulations at the Nanoscale, Nick Hine Tackling Data Analysis Challenges in Genome Informatics Using HPC, Michael Mueller Centre for Computational Methods in Science and Engineering, Paul Kelly Applied Modelling and Computation Group, Gerard Gorman 15:30Break 15:45Vendor Technical Update: Andrew Carr/Matthew Foxton, Bull 16:00The Impact of HPC and Data-Centric Computing in Cancer Research, Jack Collins, National Cancer Institute Big Memory = New Science, James Kasdorf, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 17:00Vendor Technical Update: Torben Kling Petersen, Xyratex 17:15CRESTA Program Update, Stephen Booth, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre 17:45After-Meeting Socializing

IDC HPC Market Update

Welcome To Day 2 Of The HPC User Forum Meeting

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Important Dates For Your Calendar FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: International Meetings:  2012 Imperial College, UK, July 5 & 6  2011 HLRS/University of Stuttgart, July 9 & US Meetings:  2012 April 16 to 17, Richmond, Virginia  2012 September 17 to 19, Dearborn, Michigan

Agenda: Day Two Morning 8:45Welcome/Logistics – Earl Joseph and Steve Finn 9:00HPC-related activities at STFC Daresbury, Jonathan Follows, Daresbury Laboratory 9:30"Blue Waters" Update, Irene Qualters, National Science Foundation 10:00Interdisciplinary Network for HPC Algorithm Development, Nicholas Dingle, University of Manchester 10:30Break 11:00Urban Analytics: Big Cities and Big Data, Paul Muzio, City University of New York 11:25Vendor Technical Update: Graham Russell, Altair 11:55HPC Midlands: Collaboration between Universities and Industry, Martin Hamilton, Loughborough University 12:25HPC in Evolutionary Biology, Andrew Meade, University of Reading 12:55Technology Findings from a University HPC Center, Vijay Agarwala, Pennsylvania State University 1:20Close of Meeting

Important Dates For Your Calendar FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: International Meetings:  2012 Imperial College, UK, July 5 & 6  2011 HLRS/University of Stuttgart, July 9 & US Meetings:  2012 April 16 to 17, Richmond, Virginia  2012 September 17 to 19, Dearborn, Michigan

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