welcome to the 48 th hpc user forum meeting september 2012

Welcome To The 48th HPC User Forum

MeetingSeptember 2012



Important Dates For Your Calendar Important Dates For Your Calendar

FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS:

2013 Meetings: April 29 – May 1, Tucson, Arizona September 9 to 11, Boston, Massachusetts October 2013 in Asia

2014 Meetings: April 7 to 9, Santa Fe, New Mexico September 15 to 17, Seattle, Washington October 2014 in Europe

Thank You To Our Sponsors! Thank You To Our Sponsors!

Gold Intel HP

Silver Altair Engineering AMD Appro International IBM

Bronze Bright Computing Mellanox Panasas

Monday:

Dinner – AMD & Appro

Tuesday:

Breakfast – Bright Computing

Lunch – Altair Engineering

PM Break – Panasas

Dinner – Intel and HP

Wednesday:

Breakfast -- Mellanox

Lunch – IBM

DinnerThanks to:

AMD & Appro

DinnerThanks to:

AMD & Appro

Tuesday Dinner Vendor Updates: 10 MinutesTuesday Dinner Vendor Updates: 10 Minutes

• Altair• Appro• Cray• IBM• Nvidia• Mellanox• Panasas• Parallel Scientific• SGI• Xyratex

DinnerThanks to:

AMD & Appro

BreakfastThanks to:

Bright Computing

DinnerThanks to:

AMD & Appro

BreakfastThanks to:

Bright Computing


Gold Intel HP



Monday:


Tuesday:





Wednesday:


Lunch – IBM

Introduction: LogisticsIntroduction: Logistics

Ask Mary if you need a receipt We have a very tight agenda (as usual)

Please help us keep on time! Note that the buses leave at 6:15pm

for the special dinner event

Review handouts Note: We will post most of the

presentations on the web site Please complete the evaluation form

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Welcome AndNew Chairman Announcement

Steve FinnHPC User Forum

Chairman

Welcome AndNew Chairman Announcement

Steve FinnHPC User Forum

Chairman

We Welcome

Jim Kasdorf

As The New Chairman

And

Rupak Biswas

As Vice Chairman

Steering Committee MembersSteering Committee Members

• James Kasdorf, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Chairman• Rupak Biswas, NASA Ames, Vice Chairman • Earl Joseph, IDC, Executive Director• Vijay Agarwala, Penn State University• Alex Akkerman, Ford Motor Company • Doug Ball, The Boeing Company• Jeff Broughton. NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Lab • Paul Buerger, Avetec• Chris Catherasoo, Caltech• Jack Collins, National Cancer Institute• Steve Conway, IDC Research Vice President• Steve Finn, Cherokee Information Services• Merle Giles, NSCA/University of Illinois• Doug Kothe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory• Paul Muzio, City University of New York• Michael Resch , HLRS, University of Stuttgart• Vince Scarafino, Industry Expert

HPC User Forum MissionHPC 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

IDC HPC

Research Plans

IDC HPC

Research Plans

2013 IDC HPC Research Areas 2013 IDC HPC Research Areas

End-user based MCS reports: 1. HPC industries/applications/workloads report2. HPC system software and middleware report3. HPC storage and interconnect report4. HPC processors/co-processors/accelerators5. The emerging synergy of HPC and Big Data report

A new mid and lower end tracking of the HPC market (BOF at 5pm to 6pm today)

New And Potentially Disruptive Technologies: Big data Co-processors All types of flash/SSDs New software solutions Government programs to help bring to market new capabilities

The ROI With HPC S

2013 IDC HPC Research Areas 2013 IDC HPC Research Areas

Special HPC Research Areas & Reports: The evolution of government HPC budgets Emerging markets including China, Russia, etc. SMB and SMS research The evolution of clouds in HPC Scaling of software – issues and soultions A new user-based data tracker product -- looking at

leadership computing best practices and data center attributes

Worldwide Petascale and Exascale Initiatives

S

The HPC Market Since 1996 The HPC Market Since 1996

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IDC HPC Market ForecastIDC HPC Market Forecast

S

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Agenda: Day One MorningAgenda: Day One Morning

8:05am HPC Topic #1: The Economic Value of HPC and the Industrial Use of HPC• The Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations at

RPI, James Myers (25 min)• Industrial Engagement at the San Diego Supercomputer Center,

Ron Hawkins, San Diego Supercomputer Center (25 min)• Data Analysis and Visualization for the DoD HPCMP, Paul

Adams, ERDC (25 min)• Manufacturing Extension Program (MEP), Dan Luria, The

Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center (10 min)9:30am Sequoia System Update, Terri Quinn, Lawrence Livermore National

Laboratory (25 min)9:55am Break10:25am HPC Topic #1: The Economic Value of HPC and the Industrial Use of HPC

(cont.)• Computational Research for Engineering and Science - Ground

Vehicle" (CRES-GV) Program, Daniel Kedziorek and Robert Smith, US Army RDECOM-TARDEC (25 min)

• Energy Efficiency Issues, Greg Rottman, ERDC (25 min)• Meet the Middle: Changing the Way America Builds, Jon Riley,

NCMS (25 min)• Sandeep Sovani, ANSYS (15 min)12:00pm Networking Lunch

Lunch Thanks to: Altair Engineering

Please Return Promptly at 1:00pm

Lunch Thanks to: Altair Engineering


Thank You To: Altair Engineering

For Lunch

Thank You To: Altair Engineering

For Lunch

Agenda: Day One AfternoonAgenda: Day One Afternoon

Afternoon Session Chair: Rupak Biswas 1:00pm Technology Panel: Emerging and Potentially Disruptive Technologies: 3 Minute

Technical Overviews, Panel Moderator: Earl Joseph• HP Moonshot Update Convey, John Leidel Intel PHI• Parallel Scientific DDN, Jeff Denworth Altair• SGI, Eng Lim Goh Cray, Barry Bolding ETI• Dell, Tim Carroll CloudFuzion, Mike Duffy Bright 2:00pm ORNL Industrial Partnership Project with Ford Motor Company: Automotive

Large Scale Powertrain Cooling Optimization, Dr. Burkhard Hupertz, Ford (25 min)

2:30pm Vendor Technology Update: Intel (15 min)2:45pm Vendor Technology Update: ISVs and Using GPUs: Altair and ANSYS (15 min)3:00pm Why HPCs Hate Biologists, and What We're Doing About It, Titus Brown,

Michigan State University (25 min)3:25pm Break 3:55pm IDC HPC Market Update, Steve Conway and Chirag Dekate (10 min)4:05pm NOAA HPC Site Update, Leslie Hart, NOAA (25 min)4:25pm HPC & Future Workforce Development: The Wheeling Program, Debra Goldfarb,

Intel (15 min)4:45pm Update on HPC in the UK, Andy Jones, NAG (25 min)5:10pm Networking Break and Time for 1-on-1 Meetings and mid-range market BOF6:10pm Bus Leaves for the Reception and Special Dinner Event

Thank You To:Panasas

For The Break

Thank You To:Panasas

For The Break

Dinner LogisticsDinner Logistics

Special Dinner Event -- Buses leave at 6:15pm

Sponsored by Intel and HP

WelcomeTo Day 2 Of TheHPC User Forum

Meeting

WelcomeTo Day 2 Of TheHPC User Forum

Meeting

DinnerThanks to:

Intel and HP

BreakfastThanks to: Mellanox

DinnerThanks to:

Intel and HP

BreakfastThanks to: Mellanox

Agenda: Day Two MorningAgenda: Day Two Morning

Morning Session Chair: Merle Giles 8:05am Advances in Energy-Efficient Packaging/Cooling: 8:05am Experience with Containerized HPC, Dick Boyd, University of Michigan (25 min)8:30am Data Center Sustainability Energy + Carbon + Water, Nicolas Dube, The Green

Grid, HP (25 min)8:55am Panel: Vendor Technologies for Energy-Efficient Packaging/Cooling (10 minute

summaries)• IBM SuperMUC and iDataplex, Vinod Karmath• Cray, Barry Bolding• SGI, Eng Lim Goh9:45am Design and Installation of Sequoia's 55PB Lustre+ZFS File System, Marc

Stearman, LLNL (30min)10:15am Vendor Technology Updates: HP10:30am Break10:45am Technology Topic #2: Big Data and Analytics in HPC: The National Library of

Medicine's Visible Human Project, Brian Athey, University of Michigan (25 min)11:10am The New NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) Data Access Facility, Tsengdar Lee,

NASA (25 min)11:35am A Strategy for Exascale Computing, Dylan Stark and Kyle Wheeler, Sandia

National Laboratories (25 min)12:00pm Networking Lunch

Lunch Thanks to: IBM


Lunch Thanks to: IBM


Thank You To: IBM

For Lunch

Thank You To: IBM

For Lunch

Agenda: Day Two Afternoon Agenda: Day Two Afternoon

Afternoon Session Chair: Steve Finn 1:00pm Special Keynote: Scalable Data Mining and Archiving in the Era of the Square

Kilometre Array, the Square Kilometre Array Telescope Project, Chris Mattmann, NASA/JPL (30 min)

1:30pm Baseline Configuration -- Establishing Consistency Across HPC Centers, Jeff Graham, AFRL (25 min)

2:00pm Technology Topic #2: Big Data and Analytics in HPC: Leveraging HPC and Enterprise Architectures for Large Scale Inline Transactional Analytics in Fraud Detection at PayPal, Arno Kolster, PayPal, an eBay Company (30 min)

2:30pm Break3:00pm Big Data and Analytics Vendor Panel: How Vendors See Big Data Impacting the

Market and Their Products/Services, Panel Moderator: Chirag Dekate• IBM/Platform, Rahit Valia SGI, Eng Lim Goh AMD, Rick

Indyke• YarcData, Ramesh Menon Dell, Tim Carroll Appro, Giri

Chukkapalli• NetApp, Dave Ellis Altair, Ravi Kunju Panasas,

Brent Welch• DDN, Keith Miller4:10pm What Industry Requires to Move Their Science and R&D Forward, Merle Giles,

NCSA (25 min)4:35pm Data Analysis and Visualization of Very Large Data, David Pugmire, ORNL (25

min)5:00pm Meeting Wrap-Up


Gold Intel HP



Monday:


Tuesday:





Wednesday:


Lunch – IBM

Thank YouFor Attending The 45th

HPC User ForumMeeting

Thank YouFor Attending The 45th

HPC User ForumMeeting

Please email:[email protected]

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