Clusters, Grids, Supercomputing or Applications:

What Will Drive HPC in the Future?

This distinguished panel will weigh in on the drivers, enablers and barriers determining the future direction of High Performance Computing. The choices for high-end, data intensive computing have never seemed so abundant. But still, a number of questions arise as decision makers look to make HPC procurements that will serve their organizations for the next five to ten years. Are proprietary systems still attractive? Have grids matured enough to gain acceptance beyond the early adopters? Are applications keeping up with hardware advances? What can we look for in the next generation of application development tools? This panel is sure to be lively and entertaining offering a diverse range of opinion and insight.