1. Agenda: Day One 13:15HPC User Forum Welcome/Introductions, Steve Finn and Earl Joseph 13:25Welcome/Introductions and Overview of HPC in NL, Anwar Osseyran, SARA 13:40Overview of HPC at SARA, Axel Berg, SARA 14:10Cloud Computing Directions in HPC from the September HPC User Forum meeting, Steve Finn and Steve Conway 14:30Vendor Technical Update, Microsoft New HPC Directions 14:45HPC Industrial Partnerships, Merle Giles, NCSA/University of Illinois 15:15Break 15:45PRACE Industry User Relations, Stéphane Requena, GENCI 16:15HPC at EXTOLL, Dr. Holger Fröning 16:45Vendor Technical Update, T-Platforms 17:00HPC Cloud Computing at SARA, Floris Sluiter, SARA 17:30After-Meeting Socializing 18:30End of First Day

2. Welcome To The 39 th HPC User Forum Meeting SARA October 2010

3. Important Dates For Your Calendar FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: International Meetings:  HLRS/University of Stuttgart, October 7/8, 2010  SARA Computing & Networking Services, Amsterdam, October 11/12, 2010  Beijing, China, October 30th 2011 US Meetings:  April 5 to 7, Houston, Texas  September 6 to 8, San Diego, California

4. Introduction: Logistics We have a very tight agenda (as usual)  Please help us keep on time! Review handouts  Note: We will post most of the presentations on the web site  Please complete the evaluation form

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6. HPC User Forum Goals Assist HPC users in solving their ongoing computing, technical and business problems Provide a forum for exchanging information, identifying areas of common interest, and developing unified positions on requirements  By working with users in other sectors and vendors  To help direct and push vendors to build better products  Which should also help vendors become more successful Provide members with a continual supply of information on:  Uses of high end computers, new technologies, high end best practices, market dynamics, computer systems and tools, benchmark results, vendor activities and strategies Provide members with a channel to present their achievements and requirements to interested parties

7. 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

8. Steering Committee Members Steve Finn, BAE Systems, Chairman Sharan Kalwani, KAUST, Vice Chairman Earl Joseph, IDC, Executive Director Vijay Agarwala, Penn State University Alex Akkerman, Ford Motor Company Doug Ball, The Boeing Company Rupak Biswas NASA/Ames 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, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory James Kasdorf, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Doug Kothe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Paul Muzio, City University of New York Michael Resch, HLRS, University of Stuttgart Marie-Christine Sawley, ETH Zurich - CERN Group Vince Scarafino, Industry Expert Robert Singleterry, NASA/Langley

9. IDC HPC Market Update

10. Top Trends in HPC The global economy in HPC appears to have leveled off  The first half of 2010 grew by 2%  We are forecasting 3% to 5% growth in 2010  The high end of the market grew by 65% in 2009! Major challenges for datacenters:  Power, cooling, real estate, system management  Storage and data management continue to grow in importance Software hurdles will rise to the top for most users  Driven heavily by multi-core processors and hybrid systems  Application scaling and performance is a problem SSDs will gain momentum and could redefine storage GPUs are seeing real tractions in certain verticals The worldwide Race on Petascale is in full speed

11. 11 HPC Server Market Size By Competitive Segments (first half of 2010) Departmental ($250K - $100K) $1,474M Divisional ($250K - $500K) $572M Supercomputers (Over $500K) $1,386M Workgroup (under $100K) $699M HPC Servers $4,131M

12. HPC Market Results: Revenues and System Units

13. HPC Vendor Revenue Shares, Q210

14. Revenue Share by Vendor Supercomputer Segment, Q210

15. HPC Server Processor/Sockets Metrics, First Half of 2010

16. Industry/Application Segments

17. HPC Server Revenue($K) Forecast 2008 - 2014

18. Growth In The Broader HPC Market

19. Conclusions  2010 is a year of evolutionary rather than revolutionary change in the worldwide HPC market  Incremental advances will help, but not resolve persistent issues, such as highly parallel programming challenges, power and cooling costs, and software licensing costs  IDC predicts the HPC market will resume growth in 2010 and grow by 3% to 5% in 2010  And then will rebuild to exceed $11 billion by 2014  The recovery will benefit HPC segments unevenly:  With hard-hit verticals such as automotive recovering more slowly than oil and gas, or government and academia  The Supercomputer segment growth will remain turbo-charged by government spending aimed at HPC leadership and “petaflop club” membership

20. Please email: hpc@idc.com Or check out: www.hpcuserforum.com Questions?

21. Agenda: Day One 13:30HPC User Forum Welcome/Introductions, Steve Finn and Earl Joseph 13:35Welcome/Introductions and Overview of HPC in NL, Anwar Osseyran, SARA 13:40Overview of HPC at SARA, Axel Berg, SARA 14:10Cloud Computing Directions in HPC from the September HPC User Forum meeting, Steve Finn and Steve Conway 14:30Vendor Technical Update, Microsoft New HPC Directions 14:45HPC Industrial Partnerships, Merle Giles, NCSA/University of Illinois 15:15Break 15:45PRACE Industry User Relations, Stéphane Requena, GENCI 16:15HPC at EXTOLL, Dr. Holger Fröning 16:45Vendor Technical Update, T-Platforms 17:00HPC Cloud Computing at SARA, Floris Sluiter, SARA 17:30After-Meeting Socializing 18:30End of First Day

22. Agenda: Day One 16:00PRACE Industry User Relations, Stéphane Requena, GENCI 16:25HPC at EXTOLL, Dr. Holger Fröning 16:50Vendor Technical Update, T-Platforms 17:05HPC Cloud Computing at SARA, Floris Sluiter, SARA 17:30After-Meeting Socializing 18:30End of First Day

23. Agenda: Day Two 9:00Welcome/Logistics – Earl Joseph and Steve Finn, BAE Systems, Summarizing the September 2010 User Forum 9:15High Performance Computing for Flight Projects at JPL, Chris Catherasoo, NASA JPL 9:45HPC at Corus (a large steel manufacturer), Dr. Eelco van Vliet 10:15Cloud Computing at Amazon, Matt Wood 10:45Break 11:00Panel on the Future of Cloud Computing in HPC Panel Members: SARA, PSC, IDC, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. 12:00HPC Directions at the U.S. National Science Foundation, Jim Kasdorf, Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center 12:30IDC HPC Award Program, Jie Wu 12:40Wrap up and plans for future HPC User Forum meetings, Earl Joseph and Steve Finn 12:45Farewell and Lunch

24. Cloud Panel Q1 When (if) will clouds be capable of replacing an entire large HPC data center?  Your center?  Someone’s else's that you know is a good fit?  If not, why not?

25. Cloud Panel Q2 Could clouds ever handle, say 25% of your current HPC workload?  If not, why not?

26. Cloud Panel Q3 One potential use of clouds is to run “backlog” workloads that are NOT currently high enough priority to run in your center  If the price was low enough would this be a good fit for clouds?  If not, why not?

27. Cloud Panel Q4 Where else do you think clouds are a good fit today and within the next year?

28. Welcome To Day 2 Of The HPC User Forum Meeting

29. Thank You For Attending The 39 th HPC User Forum Meeting

30. Important Dates For Your Calendar FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: International Meetings:  HLRS/University of Stuttgart, October 7/8, 2010  SARA Computing & Networking Services, Amsterdam, October 11/12, 2010  Beijing, China, October 30th 2011 US Meetings:  April 5 to 7, Houston, Texas  September 6 to 8, San Diego, California

31. Please email: hpc@idc.com Or check out: www.hpcuserforum.com Questions?