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Dell HPC Community
November 12, 2016 | Noon-6pm | Radisson Hotel | Salt Lake City
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Agenda
Subject to change
12:00pm Registration, lunch and welcome/introductions
12:45pm Dell EMC executive update
- Jim Ganthier, SVP, Validated Systems and HPC, Dell EMC
1:00pm Dell EMC HPC technology strategy update
- Jay Boisseau
1:15pm VMware roadmaps
- Josh Simons
1:30pm Dell EMC storage update
- Percy Tzelnic
1:45pm HPC Cloud presentations & discussion:
“OpenStack for HPC at Monash: the best of both worlds?"
- Blair Bethwaite, Monash University
“The Cambridge Bio-Cloud”
- Aladair King, University of Cambridge
OpenStack scientific working group update and discussion
2:45pm Break
3:00pm "Virtualization on the Comet Cluster”
- Shawn Strande, San Diego Supercomputer Center
"Jetstream and Cloud Research at TACC”
- Tommy Minyard, Texas Advanced Computing Center
“Containers v. Virtualization for HPC”
- Josh Simons, VMware
Discussion
4:15pm "2 TIERS™ – Game Changing Storage Architecture for HPC"
- Percy Tzelnic, Dell EMC
Storage cloud discussion
4:55pm Technology Panel: "What is your company doing to promote HPC cloud?"
- Lee Carter, VP EMEA, Bright Computing
- Evan Burness, Director of HPC Solutions, Cycle Computing
- Bill Magro, Intel Fellow & Chief Technologist, HPC Software, Intel
- Scot Schultz, Director of HPC & Technical Computing, Mellanox
- Peter Lillian, Business Development Manager, NVIDIA
- Greg Keller, Co-Founder & Principal, R-Systems
6:30pm Dinner and networking reception
12:45pm Dell EMC executive update
- Jim Ganthier, SVP, Validated Systems and HPC, Dell EMC
1:00pm Dell EMC HPC technology strategy update
- Jay Boisseau
1:15pm VMware roadmaps
- Josh Simons
1:30pm Dell EMC storage update
- Percy Tzelnic
1:45pm HPC Cloud presentations & discussion:
“OpenStack for HPC at Monash: the best of both worlds?"
- Blair Bethwaite, Monash University
“The Cambridge Bio-Cloud”
- Aladair King, University of Cambridge
OpenStack scientific working group update and discussion
2:45pm Break
3:00pm "Virtualization on the Comet Cluster”
- Shawn Strande, San Diego Supercomputer Center
"Jetstream and Cloud Research at TACC”
- Tommy Minyard, Texas Advanced Computing Center
“Containers v. Virtualization for HPC”
- Josh Simons, VMware
Discussion
4:15pm "2 TIERS™ – Game Changing Storage Architecture for HPC"
- Percy Tzelnic, Dell EMC
Storage cloud discussion
4:55pm Technology Panel: "What is your company doing to promote HPC cloud?"
- Lee Carter, VP EMEA, Bright Computing
- Evan Burness, Director of HPC Solutions, Cycle Computing
- Bill Magro, Intel Fellow & Chief Technologist, HPC Software, Intel
- Scot Schultz, Director of HPC & Technical Computing, Mellanox
- Peter Lillian, Business Development Manager, NVIDIA
- Greg Keller, Co-Founder & Principal, R-Systems
6:30pm Dinner and networking reception
Meeting Location
Radisson Hotel- Salt Lake City Downtown
215 West South Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84101 Conveniently located next to the Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center |
*Note: Attendees are financially responsible for their own travel and hotel arrangements.
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