Main Street Supercomputing:
The Convergence of HPC and Grid Computing

Program Schedule

28-30 March 2006

 

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

8:30
   

Manufacturers Respond to the Server Cooling Challenge
Complimentary Full Breakfast and Tutorial by Richard Sawyer, Director, Data Center Technology, American Power Conversion

 

 

9:00

HPC - Into the Mainstream
Stephen Pawlowski
Senior Fellow, CTO & GM DEG,
INTEL Corporation

Exploiting Massive Memory to Accelerate Knowledge Discovery
Dr. Eng Lim Goh

Chief Technology Officer, SGI
10:00
Simulating the Inaccessible, Discovering the Unknown
Dr. Thomas Zacharia
Associate Laboratory Director, Computing & Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Lab

CFD at Boeing Commercial Airplanes: Today's Uses and Tomorrow's Needs
Douglas Ball
Chief Engineer, Enabling Technology and Research, Boeing Corporation

10:30  

Break - Expo Exhibits Break - Expo Exhibits High-End Computing Market Projections
Dan Little
CTO, High-End Computing Market Services

11:00

Facing the Multi-Core Fear Factor
Dr. Thomas Sterling
Professor, LSU/Caltech

What Can HPC Learn From the Enterprise IT
Dr. Songnian Zhou
CEO, Platform Computing

Conference Close

11:45

The Aerodynamics of Pringles
Thomas Lange

Director, Corporate R&D, Procter and Gamble
TeraGrid: Transforming Terascale Science
Dr. Kelly Gaither
Associate Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas

12:30

Lunch - Expo Exhibits Lunch - Expo Exhibits

 

1:30

Dust in the Wind: Challenges of Urban Aerodynamics
Dr. Jay Boris
Chief Scientist & Director, Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics Lab, Naval Research Lab
New Government Guidelines for Computer Security
Marianne Swanson

Senior Advisor for Information Technology Security, NIST

2:15

Project BlueGene/L: Progress and Plans
Steve Louis
Advanced Simulation & Computing Program, National Nuclear Security Administration, DOE HQ

Shift in the Information Detection Paradigm without a Clutch
Anthony Pressley
Chief, Center for Intrusion Monitoring and Protection, Army Research Lab

3:00

Break - Expo Exhibits Break - Expo Exhibits

3:30

Panel Discussion
"Clusters, Grids, Supercomputing or Applications: What Will Drive HPC in the Future?"
Michael Bernhardt (Moderator)
Associate Publisher, HPCWire & GRIDToday

Dr. Douglass Post, DoD HPC Modernization Program
Dr. John Medeiros, COLSA/Army
R&D Command

Dr. Miron Livny, University of Wisconsin
Bill Thigpen, NASA Ames Research Center
Dr. Kelly Gaither, TACC
Dr. Thomas Sterling, Caltech

Panel Discussion
"American HPC Enterprise Architecture in the Context of Everything Else: What Does the Real World Need?
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Moderator: Robert Feldman, HPC Marketing
Information: Anthony Pressley, ARL
Science: Jose Munoz, National Science Foundation
Industry: Ian Lumb, Scali Inc.
Energy: Dr. Thomas Zacharia, Oak Ridge National Lab
Academy: Dr. Sangtae Kim, NSF/Purdue University
Homeland Security: Capt. Geoffrey Abbott, Dept of Homeland Security

5:30

Conference Networking Reception

 

20th Anniversary Gala Reception
International Tennis Hall of Fame