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Dell EMC HPC Community  
March 25 - 27, 2019  |  Austin, TX

with optional lab tours and 1x1s with Dell EMC executives on March 28, 2018
This Community meeting focuses on the shared challenges of developing and using HPC systems through a combination of presentations, discussions, and networking sessions with HPC leaders.  Members will be able to take advantage of opportunities for 1x1 meetings with Dell EMC executives and technical staff. 

We encourage customers from all regions and HPC segments to participate in the Community! We welcome any volunteers who wish to present at the next event.
​Contact 
Ed Turkel.

Sessions

  • The Convergence of HPC and AI
  • HPC in the Cloud
  • The New Memory/Storage Hierarchies
  • The Changing Storage Landscape 
  • New Technologies, Performance and Customer Updates 

Working Groups

  • Requirements for Servers
  • Requirements for Storage
  • Liquid Cooling Technologies
  • Deeper Dive into HPC/AI Innovation Lab

AI Workshop

Accelerated Introduction to Machine Learning presented by
  • Jay Boisseau
  • Jeff Kirk
  • John Lockman
  • Luke Wilson​

Keynote Speakers

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Thierry Pellegrino
Dell EMC
VP Business Strategy & HPC Solutions Server and Infrastructure Systems
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Dan Stanzione 
TACC
University of Texas at Austin
Associate Vice President for Research
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Trish Damkroger
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Intel
Vice President 
Intel Data Center Group
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Brendan McGinty
NCSA
University of Illinois
Industry Director
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Robert Crovella
Nvidia
Director, Field Application Engineering, Tier 1 OEMs

Session Speakers

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Thomas Anthony
Director of Big Data Research & Analytics Lab
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Michael Bauer
Software Engineer
​SyLabs
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Tino Belli
Director of Aerodynamic Development
INDYCAR
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Jay Boisseau
AI & HPC Technology Strategist
Dell EMC
Onur Celebioglu Dell EMC
Onur Celebioglu
Senior Director & Senior Distinguished Engineer
​HPC/AI Solutions
Dell EMC
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​Antonio Cisternino
CIO
University of Pisa
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Nishanth Danapanthula
GPU Cloud Architect
Nvidia
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Jay Fleischman
Senior Fellow
AMD
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Ulrich Fuchs
European Laboratory for Particle Physics
CERN
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Frank Herold
CEO
​ThinkParQ
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Satheesh Iyer
HPC Storage Product Manager
Dell EMC
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Chris A Jones
Director of HPC Product Management
Dell EMC
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Alasdair King
Research Computing Specialist
​University of Cambridge​
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Bill Magro
Intel Fellow and Chief Technologist
Intel
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Ashwin Srinath
Computational Scientist
​Clemson University
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Stig Telfer 
CTO
​StackHPC Ltd
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Rick Watkins
Director of Appliance and Cloud Solutions
​Altair
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Peter Waxman
VP of Sales for North America
​Mellanox
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Michael Wilde
CEO
​Parallel Works
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Na Zhang
VM Ware
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Dimitrios Ziakas
Intel

Interested in speaking? Contact Ed Turkel. 


Dell EMC HPC Community Agenda  

Monday, March 25th ​​
 
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Registration and Welcome Reception
Tuesday, March 26th
Value
7:30am - 8:30am
Breakfast Reception & Introductions
​Ed Turkel, Dell EMC
8:30am - 8:50am
Keynote |  Making Innovation Real
Thierry Pellegrino, Dell EMC
8:50am - 9:10am
Dell EMC Technology Updates
​Chris A Jones, Dell EMC
9:10am - 9:30am
Keynote | The Future of HPC
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Trish Damkroger, Intel
9:30am - 10:00am
Networking Break
10:00am - 10:20am
Keynote | HPC Meets Modern Enterprise Computing
​Robert Crovella, Nvidia
10:20am - 10:45am
Keynote | Frontera- Advancing Scientific Discovery
​Dan Stanzione, TACC
10:45am - 11:10am
Keynote | Best Practices in Industrial HPC at NCSA
Brendan McGinty, NCSA
11:10am - 11:30am
Dell EMC HPC/AI Innovation Lab Update
​Onur Celebioglu, Dell EMC
11:30am ​- 12:30pm
​Lunch & Networking
Value
HPC & AI Sessions
12:30pm - 12:50pm
HPC Workflow Automation: Predictive Modeling for IndyCar’s Driver-in-the-Loop Aerodynamic Simulators 
Michael Wilde, Parallel Works & Tino Belli, INDYCAR
12:50pm - 1:10pm
Tackling Two Trends: Confluence of HPC & AI, and On-Prem & Cloud 
​Jay Boisseau, Dell EMC
1:10pm - 1:30pm
Computing: Accelerating Science & Impacting the Real World
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Thomas Anthony, University of Alabama at Birmingham
1:30pm - 1:50pm
HPC, AI and HPDA Convergence
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Bill Magro, Intel
1:50pm - 2:10pm
The GPU Ecosystem for AI 
​Robert Crovella, Nvidia
2:10pm - 2:40pm
Networking Break
2:40pm - 3:00pm
Next Generation CPU/Accelerator Technologies for HPC/HPDA/AI
​Jay Fleischman, AMD
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Community Discussion
3:30pm - 3:50pm
InfiniBand In-Network Computing Technology for Compute Intensive Applications 
​Peter Waxman, Mellanox
​3:50pm - 4:20pm
​Panel | Intel, Nvidia, Vmware, AMD & Mellanox
4:20pm - 5:20pm
Working Groups
5:20pm - 5:30pm
Closing Remarks
7:00pm-10:00pm
Networking Fun
​Dave & Busters
9333 Research Blvd #A600
Austin, TX 78759
Wednesday, March 27th
 
7:30am - 8:15am
Breakfast Reception & Introductions
Ed Turkel, Dell EMC
Value
​Cloud Sessions
8:15am - 8:35am
Cloud Technologies for GPU Computing
Nishanth Danapanthula, Nvidia
8:35am - 8:55am ​
Experience Using Singularity at Clemson University 
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Ashwin Srinath, Clemson University
8:55am - 9:15am ​
Sylabs and the Expanding Singularity Container Ecosystem
Michael Bauer, Sylabs
9:15am - 9:35am
Leveraging Virtualization and Cloud Technologies for Research and Engineering Workloads
Na Zhang, VMWare
9:35am - 10:05am
Networking Break
10:05am - 10:25am
The Case for a Scientific OpenStack - A Case Study
​Stig Telfer, ​StackHPC Ltd 
10:25am - 10:45am
Altair HyperWorks Unlimited – Turn-key HPC private cloud for CAE Engineering
Rick Watkins, Altair
10:45am - 11:15am ​
Community Discussion ​
11:15am - 11:35am
HPC and the ALICE Experiment at CERN
​Ulrich Fuchs, CERN
11:35am - 12:35pm
Lunch & Networking
12:35pm - 1:35pm
Working Groups
Value
The Changing Memory/Storage Landscape Sessions
1:35pm - 1:55pm
Dell EMC Storage Update
​Satheesh Iyer, Dell EMC
1:55pm - 2:15pm
Intel's Memory and Storage Hierarchy
​Dimitrios Ziakas, Intel 
​2:15pm - 2:35pm
How BeeGFS excels in extreme HPC scale-out environments
​Frank Herold, ThinkParQ
2:35pm - 3:05pm
Networking Break
3:05pm - 3:25pm
Cambridge, Dell EMC and Intel: The Data Accelerator CoDesign Final Report 
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Alasdair King, University of Cambridge
3:25pm - 3:45pm
Reimagining Storage Access
​Antonio Cisternino, ​ University of Pisa
3:45pm - 4:15pm
Community Discussion
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Dell CTO Views: How HPC Will Evolve & Expand
Jay Boisseau w/ Jimmy Pike, Jeff Kirk, and Kurtis Bowman, Dell EMC
5:00pm - 5:30pm​
Town Hall
5:30pm - 5:40pm
Closing Remarks
Thursday, March 28th
  • AI Workshop: Accelerated Introduction to Machine Learning 
  • Tours of TACC (Frontera system), AMD Campus and the HPC and AI Innovation Lab
  • 1x1 meetings with Dell EMC execs and technical staff​​

Meeting Location

Renaissance Austin Hotel
9721 Arboretum Boulevard
Austin, TX 78759

Hotel Information

Renaissance Austin Hotel
9721 Arboretum Boulevard
Austin, TX 78759
(512) 343-2626
The Renaissance Austin Hotel is sold out.

DoubleTree Austin Northwest – Arboretum
8901 Business Park Drive
Austin, TX 78759
(512) 343-0888
*Note: Attendees are financially responsible for their own travel and hotel arrangements.

Connect with these Community members in Austin in March

Alpha Networks
Altair
AMD
Applied Materials
ARM Inc
Baylor University
Bright Computing
CERN
Clemson University
CSIR
GDIT
Intel
Mellanox Technologies
Motivair Corporation
National Center for Supercomputing Applications at University of Illinois
NVIDIA
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Penn State Institute for Cyberscience
Stanford University
SUSE
System Fabric Works, Inc.
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
TGEN
The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Toshiba
University College Dublin
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
University of Florida
University of Maryland
University of North Texas
University of Pisa
University of Texas at San Antonio
VMware, Inc
X-ISS

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