September 2005 HPC User Forum Meeting Notes

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Publication Date	November 2005
Publisher	IDC
Product Type	Brief
Pages	45
ISBN Number
Product Code	IDC00686

Price

£1,685.00
approximately: $2,502 | €1,983

PDF immediate delivery

Order above formats by FAX

Summary

The September 2005 High-Performance Computing (HPC) User Forum meeting took place at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during September 26?28. The principal tasks of the meeting were:

To share information among HPC users, vendors, and IDC for improving the health of the HPC industry To explore the meeting theme of HPC "Leadership and Partnerships" in government, industry, and academia, including hardware and software challenges in moving toward petascale computing by 2010 To take advantage of the ORNL host site by learning more about leading-edge HPC developments and facilities in the field of energy

Companies Mentioned: IBM; HP; Sun; SGI; Cray; NEC; Fujitsu

Content

In This Update
- Monday, September 26
- Tuesday, September 27
  - Earl Joseph: "IDC Technical Market Update"
  - Paul Muzio: "Overview of the HPC User Forum Mission"
  - Jim Roberto, ORNL Deputy Director for Science and Technology: "Welcome and Overview of Oak Ridge National Laboratory"
  - Thomas Zacharia, ORNL Associate Director for Computing and Computational Sciences: "Leadership in Computational Science ? an Update"
  - Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee: "HPC Challenge Benchmark Suite"
  - Government Partnerships: Ways to Improve and Apply HPC in Government
  - Rupak Biswas, NASA Ames Research Center
  - Cray Henry, "HPCMP Overview: Tools for Discovery"
  - Steve Meacham: "Cyberinfrastructure Planning at NSF"
  - Gary Wohl: "NOAA's National Weather Service HPC Overview"
  - Panel Discussion: Ways to Improve and Apply HPC in Government
    - Steve Meacham, NSF
    - Gary Wohl, NOAA
    - Al Geist, OSC
    - Rupak Biswas, NASA Ames
    - Cray Henry, DoD HPCMP
    - Jack Collins, NCI
    - Keith Cartwright, Kirtland Air Force Base
    - Jim Kasdorf, PSC
    - Michael Resch, HLRS
    - Comments
  - Applying HPC to Create Industrial Leadership
    - Suzy Tichenor: "Council on Competitiveness High Performance Computing Project"
    - Bob Graybill, DARPA: "Why Petascale Computing Is Important"
  - A Successful Partnership Between Users, Academia, Government, and Vendors
    - Michael Resch, HLRS: "Applying HPC to Create Industrial Leadership"
    - Michael Heib, CTO, T-Systems: "HPC Center for Academia and Industry"
    - Joerg Stadler, NEC HPC Europe: "The Teraflop Workbench Project: a Public-Private Partnership"
    - Sharan Kalwani, General Motors: "HPC@GM"
    - David Torgersen, Pfizer Global Research and Development: " Pfizer Shared Compute-Grid Infrastructure"
  - A Model for Forming Future Partnerships and an Example in CFD
- Wednesday, September 28, 2005
  - Jill Feblowitz, IDC Energy Insights Group: "Energy ? An Industry in Transition"
  - Marie-Christine Sawley: "CSCS Development Strategy in HPC"
  - Research Developments in Energy
    - Thomas Schulthess, ORNL: "Solving a Microscopic Model for High Superconductivity"
    - Bill Kramer: "Science Driven Supercomputing: Update on NERSC and LBNL"
    - Panel Discussion: What Does HPC Need to Do to Serve the Energy Sector Better in the Future?
  - Frank Williams, ARSC: "CASC Activities"
  - Scientific Research in Academia, Addison Snell Facilitating
    - Mark Jarrell, University of Cincinnati: "A Massively Parallel Study of High Temperature Superconductivity"
  - Andrew Jones, Manchester University (United Kingdom): "Partnerships and Petaflops"
  - Marek Niezgodka: "Update on ICM/University of Warsaw"
  - Cal Ribbens, Virginia Tech: "Science on System X"
  - Panel Discussion on Readiness for Petaflop Computing (Especially Software Readiness)
  - Dan Carr: "Update on Level5 Networks"
  - Panel Discussion: Data and I/O Management in Clusters
  - Phil Kuekes, HP: "Molecular Electronics and Nanotechnology"
  - Challenges in Moving Ahead in HPC
    - Architectural Challenges in Achieving Petascale Computing
      - Paul Muzio: "Introduction to the Issues"
      - Robert Panoff, Shodor Educational Foundation
      - David Probst, Concordia University
      - Burton Smith, Cray: "Architectural Challenges for Petascale Computing"
      - Michael Resch, HLRS
    - Software Issues in Moving Toward Petascale Computing
      - Paul Muzio, AHPCRC-NCSI: "Summary of Software Issues Identified at Prior HPC User Forum Meetings"
      - Suzy Tichenor, Council on Competitiveness: "Study of ISVs Serving the HPC Market: The Need for Better Application Software"
      - Robert Graybill, DARPA: "Software Issues in Moving Toward Petascale Computing"
      - Steve Finn, Bae Systems: "The Need for Evolutionary Software Development"
  - Earl Joseph, Meeting Conclusion
Learn More
- Related Research