Welcome To The 47 th HPC User Forum Meeting At: HLRS/Stuttgart 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

IDC HPC Market Update

Agenda: Day One 13:00HPC User Forum Welcome/Introductions, Steve Finn (Chair, HPC User Forum), Earl Joseph (IDC) and Steve Conway (IDC) 13:15Welcome/Introductions, Stefan Wesner, HLRS 13:30EC-Funded Bonfire Project: Experimental Cloud Infrastructure, Stefan Wesner, HLRS 14:00FuturICT and the Living Earth Simulator, Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento 14:30Update on MSU and the Lomonosov supercomputer, Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University 15:00IDC HPC Talent Study Summary 15:15Break 15:30Urban Analytics: Big Cities and Big Data, Paul Muzio, City College of New York 16:00Scalable and Modular Parallel I/O for High Performance Computing, Edgar Gabriel, University of Houston Big Memory = New Science, James Kasdorf, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 17:00After-Meeting Socializing

Welcome To Day 2 Of The HPC User Forum 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

Agenda: Day Two 9:10Welcome/Logistics – Earl Joseph and Steve Finn 9:15HPC in Germany, Michael Resch, HLRS 9:45The Impact of HPC and Data-Centric Computing in Cancer Research, Jack Collins, National Cancer Institute 10:15 CoolEmAll: EC Initiative to Improve Data Center Efficiency, Wolfgang Christmann, Christmann Informationstechnik 11:00Break 11:15Development and Validation of Thermal Simulation Models for Li-Ion Batteries in Hybrid and Pure Electric Vehicles, Jenny Kremser, Automotive Simulation Center Stuttgart 11:45HPC and Plate Tectonics, Paul Tackley, ETH Zurich 12:15 PRACE Industrial Program, Stephane Requena, GENCI 12:45Meeting wrap up and plans for future HPC User Forum meetings, Earl Joseph and Steve Finn

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