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August 15, 2005

Stanford University HPC Conference

Stanford will be hosting a one day HPC conference on
Monday, August 15, 9am- 5pm.

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The conference was held in the James H Clark Auditorium.

The event will featured two sets of presentations, one on HPC concepts and the other on HPC practices. In addition, several HPC related vendors had small exhibits and made vendor presentations throughout the day.

Click on the highlighted links below to download the speaker's presentations.

Agenda for this event:
Concepts:
9:00- 9:30 Welcome to the event and comments by Parviz Moin, Stanford, Director, Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering
9:30-10:15 Concepts of Parallel Computing: Clustering and Shared Memory (Alf Wachsmann, SLAC)
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 SGI- Advances in Shared Memory Computing (Hao Pham, SGI HPC)
11:00-11:30 Future computing directions at SLAC (Richard Mount, SLAC)
11:30-12:00 Dell- HPC direction (Scott Sowarby, DELL HPC)
12:00-12:30 Lunch for participants
Practices:
12:30- 1:00 Intel- Platforms and Technologies for HPC (its big, 32Meg!) (David Barkai, Intel HPC Computational Architect)
1:00- 2:00 Building a cluster using ROCKS (Steve Jones, ICME - Greg Bruno, SDSC/Rocks - Dennis Michael, Stanford MedSchool)
2:00- 2:30 AMD- Multi Core Technology (Justin Boggs, AMD HPC Dev Center)
2:30- 2:45 Break
2:45- 3:45 Panasas Storage System - Integration into a Cluster (Steve Jones, Stanford - David Yu, Panasas - Matt Wise, AMD)
3:45- 4:15 Scheduling and Grid possibilities (Booker Bense, SLAC)
4:15- 5:00 IBM Deep Computing Team- Overview of the IBM Bluegene technology (Barry Bolding, IBM)
Vendors attending:
Intel HPC
AMD HPC Tools
Dell HPC Clusters
IBM Blue Gene
Sun HPC
SGI HPC systems
Panasas Clustered Storage
Verari Systems
Apple Computer

Posted by preese at August 15, 2005 8:23 AM