Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting 
November 11-12, 2018  |  @SC18 Conference  |  Dallas, TX

The Dell EMC HPC Community event will feature keynote presentations by HPC experts and a networking event to discuss best practices in the use of Dell EMC HPC Systems. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to:
  • receive updates on HPC strategy, product and solution plans from Dell executives and technical staff and technology partners;
  • meet with Dell technical staff and provide feedback and help to influence those plans;
  • discuss and share information with other HPC experts;
  • participate in technical and application discussions of new methods, techniques, and solutions​.
*Registration is closed. For more information, please contact us. 

Previous Events

​​​​-June 2018​​​​​​​​​​​​
​-March 2018​​​​​​
- November 2017​​​​​​
- September 2017​​​​
- June 2017​​
- March 2017
​- November 2016
​- June 2016
- April 2016

Keynote Speakers

​Thierry Pellegrino
VP, Server Strategy and HPC
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Dell EMC
Dan Stanzione
​Associate Vice President for Research & 
Executive Director

TACC

Dell EMC HPC Community Agenda  

Sunday, November 11, 2018
6:30pm-9:30pm - Networking reception
Reunion Tower
300 Reunion Blvd. E
Dallas, TX 75207



Monday, November 12, 2018
8:00am-2:00pm - Meeting
Fairmont Dallas
1717 N Akard St.
Dallas, TX 75201

Draft Agenda: subject to change
7:30am-8:00am
Breakfast & Registration
8:00am-8:15am
Introductions
8:15am- 8:35am
Dell EMC Executive Update
​Thierry Pellegrino, VP of HPC, Dell EMC
8:35am- 9:05am
Keynote: Frontera- Advancing Scientific Discovery
Dan Stanzione, Executive Director, TACC
9:05am- 9:20am
Intel Contributions to the Frontera Project
Brian Dietrich, District Sales Manager, Intel
9:20am- 9:35am
InfiniBand In-Network Computing Technology 
​Gilad Shainer, VP of Marketing, Mellanox
9:35am- 9:50am
Enabling the World’s Fastest Academic Supercomputer with High-density Direct Liquid Cooling
​Brandon Peterson, Senior Program Manager – Data Center Solutions at CoolIT Systems 
9:50am-10:20am
Networking Break
10:20am-10:40am
The Great Lakes System, the World's First with Mellanox HDR 200 InfiniBand
​Brock Palen, Director Advanced Research Computing , University of Michigan
10:40am-11:00am
The Pitzer System, with Direct Liquid Cooling for Maximum Efficiency 
Alan Chalker, Program Director, Ohio Supercomputer Center
11:00am-11:20am
Discussion
11:20am-11:35am
Tesla T4 and TensorRT Server 
​Bob Crovella, OEM Technical Enablement Manager, NVIDIA                                                  
11:35am-12:35pm
Lunch
12:35pm-12:55pm
Supercomputing Wales – Delivering Compute Capability to Researchers across Wales
​Christine A. Kitchen and Martyn F. Guest, Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff (ARCCA) 
12:55pm-1:10pm
Update to the Ready Solution for HPC Storage with Lustre
​Jyothi Bhaskar, Senior Systems Engineer, HPC/AI Engineering, Dell EMC
1:10pm-1:25pm
Cambridge, Dell EMC, and Intel: the Data Accelerator CoDesign Update 
​Alastair King, U. Cambridge
1:25pm-1:55pm
Future Processor Panel
Jimmy Pike, Dell EMC + Intel, NVIDIA & AMD
1:55pm-2:00pm
Closing Remarks
​Ed Turkel, Dell EMC

Networking Reception

Reunion Tower
300 Reunion Blvd. E
Dallas, TX 75207

Meeting Location

Fairmont Dallas
1717 N Akard St.
Dallas, TX 75201
*Note: Attendees are financially responsible for their own travel and hotel arrangements.
If you are employed by a public agency or healthcare institution, please note that participation in this learning event will be provided at no cost to attendees. Attendees may opt to attend the networking reception. For the precise cost of this event, please contact Monika Gupta. By registering for this event you certify that to the best of your knowledge, you are not currently part of a bid evaluation team with respect to an opportunity to which Dell is a party; and that: (1) you have verified with your ethics counsel your ability to accept these gifts or other things of value, or (2) you will make payment to the vendor for the items listed as required by law.

Community Partners

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