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Supercomputing: To Infinity and Beyond

Program Schedule

24-26 March 2009

Time	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
9:00	Supercomputing: To Infinity and Beyond - Are We Flying or Are We Falling with Style? Dr. Stephen Wheat Senior Director Intel Corporation	Petascale Application: When Processors Spend More Time Talking than Working Dr. Eng Lim Goh Senior VP & CTO SGI	8:30am Breakfast Start Petasort: How to Sort 1PB of Data in Under a Day Dr. Christopher Colohan Software Engineer, Google
10:00	HPC and Finance Dr. Gregory McRae Professor, MIT/Morgan Stanley	Cyber Security in a Research Environment Alex Kent Special Advisor to Associate Director, Los Alamos National Lab
11:00	Break	Break	HPCC in Weather Forecasting Leslie Hart Forecast Systems Laboratory, NOAA
11:15	Leadership Computing at NCCS: An Enabling Partner for Breakthrough Science Dr. James Hack Director, National Center for Computational Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Metagenomics and HPC Dr. William Feiereisen Director HPC, Lockheed Martin Corporation	But why not Industry? Loren Miller President, DataMetric Innovations
11.45	Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications Prof. Wolfgang Gentzsch Disseminator Advisor, DEISA, Germany	Sequoia: Petascale Computing for Weapons Science and Uncertainty Quantification Dr. Matt Leininger Deputy for Advanced Technology Projects, Lawrence Livermore National Lab	Women & Technology Leadership Dr. Telle Whitney President & CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women & Technology
12:15	HPC for Space Applications Dr. Charles Norton Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA	HPC Trends for 2009: Where the Growth Is Addison Snell Vice President/General Manager, Tabor Research	Conference Wrap Up
12:45	Lunch	Lunch
2:00	The Future of Supercomputing: Exaflops, R&D and Procurement in the Near Term Moderator: Erik DeBenedictis Sandia National Laboratories Panelists: Dr. Thomas Sterling, LSU Prof. Wolfgang Gentzsch, DEISA Dr. Stephen Wheat, Intel Dr. James Ang, Sandia National Labs	The Future of Supercomputing: An Industry View Moderator: Bob Feldman President & CEO, HPC Marketing Panelists: Lynn Lewis, Microsoft Dr. Mark Fernandez, SGI Dr. David Race, Appro International Scott Misage, HP Barton Fiske, SUN
3:30	Break	Break
4:00	Distributed Data Storage and Retrieval Dr. Hank Dardy Naval Research Laboratory	High Performance for Defense of Coastal Cities Dr. Jay Boris Chief Scientist, US Naval Research Lab
4:30	53 Teraflops Playstation Cluster Mark Barnell HPC Director for Advanced Computing Architectures, Air Force Research Lab	Petascale Simulations of Turbulent Jet Flames Dr. Jacqueline Chen Group Leader, Sandia National Laboratories
5:00		HPCC Research: A NSF Perspective Steve Meacham Senior Science & Technology Advisor, National Science Foundation
6:00	Networking Reception	Reception & Dinner Newport Art Museum