Supercomputing: The Challenge and the Promise

Program Schedule

25-26 March 2008

 

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

9:00

HPC: The Onset of Massively Nano-scopic Parallelism
Dr. Stephen Wheat
Senior Director, Intel HPC

Systems Architectural Challenges in the Many-Core Era
Dr. Eng Lim Goh
CTO, SGI
9:45

Frontiers in Supercomputing at LLNL
John Grosh
Director, Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Petascale Computing at ORNL
Buddy Bland

Leadership Computing Facility Project Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

10:30
Break - Expo Exhibits

Break - Expo Exhibits

11:00 
New Horizons in HPC
Debra Goldfarb
President & CEO, Tabor Communications

Update on Sun's Lustre, Linux and Open Source Stratgies
Peter Bojanic
Director Lustre Engineering, SUN

11:45

Architectures & Algorithms for Millisecond-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Proteins
Dr. David Shaw
Chief Scientist, D.E. Shaw Research

HPC Trends: WHAT WILL THEY DO TO US NEXT?
Glenn Lupton
Distinquished Technologist, High Performance Computing Division, HP

12:30

Lunch - Expo Exhibits Lunch - Expo Exhibits

1:30

Exciting Advances in Telecommunications
Dr. Wesley Kaplow
CTO, Qwest

Institute for Advanced Architectures and Algorithms
Dr. Sudip Dosanjh (Co-Presentor Jeff Nichols, ORNL)
Senior Manager, Computer and Software Systems Group, Sandia National Laboratories

2:00

New Insights into Type la Supernova Explosions from Large-Scale Simulations
Dr. Donald Lamb
Louis Block Professor, Director DOE ASC Alliance Flash Center, University of Chicago