Welcome To The 48 th HPC User Forum Meeting September 2012

1. Welcome To The 48thHPC User ForumMeetingSeptember 2012

2. Important Dates For Your Calendar • FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: • 2013 Meetings: • April 29 – May 1, Tucson, Arizona • September 9 to 11, Boston, Massachusetts • October 2013 in Asia • 2014 Meetings: • April 7 to 9, Santa Fe, New Mexico • September 15 to 17, Seattle, Washington • October 2014 in Europe

3. Thank You To Our Sponsors! • Monday: • Dinner – AMD & Appro • Tuesday: • Breakfast – Bright Computing • Lunch – Altair Engineering • PM Break – Panasas • Dinner – Intel and HP • Wednesday: • Breakfast -- Mellanox • Lunch – IBM • Gold • Intel • HP • Silver • Altair Engineering • AMD • Appro International • IBM • Bronze • Bright Computing • Mellanox • Panasas

4. DinnerThanks to:AMD & Appro

5. Tuesday Dinner Vendor Updates: 10 Minutes • Altair • Appro • Cray • IBM • Nvidia • Mellanox • Panasas • Parallel Scientific • SGI • Xyratex

6. Welcome To The 48thHPC User ForumMeetingSeptember 2012

7. DinnerThanks to:AMD & ApproBreakfastThanks to: Bright Computing

8. Thank You To Our Sponsors! • Monday: • Dinner – AMD & Appro • Tuesday: • Breakfast – Bright Computing • Lunch – Altair Engineering • PM Break – Panasas • Dinner – Intel and HP • Wednesday: • Breakfast -- Mellanox • Lunch – IBM • Gold • Intel • HP • Silver • Altair Engineering • AMD • Appro International • IBM • Bronze • Bright Computing • Mellanox • Panasas

9. Introduction: Logistics • Ask Mary if you need a receipt • We have a very tight agenda (as usual) • Please help us keep on time! • Note that the buses leave at 6:15pm for the special dinner event • Review handouts • Note: We will post most of the presentations on the web site • Please complete the evaluation form

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11. Welcome AndNew Chairman Announcement Steve FinnHPC User ForumChairman

12. We Welcome • Jim Kasdorf • As The New Chairman • And • RupakBiswas • As Vice Chairman

13. James Kasdorf, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Chairman RupakBiswas, NASA Ames, Vice Chairman Earl Joseph, IDC, Executive Director Vijay Agarwala, Penn State University Alex Akkerman, Ford Motor Company Doug Ball, The Boeing Company Jeff Broughton. NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Paul Buerger, Avetec Chris Catherasoo, Caltech Jack Collins, National Cancer Institute Steve Conway, IDC Research Vice President Steve Finn, Cherokee Information Services Merle Giles, NSCA/University of Illinois Doug Kothe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Paul Muzio, City University of New York Michael Resch , HLRS, University of Stuttgart Vince Scarafino, Industry Expert Steering Committee Members

14. Important Dates For Your Calendar • FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: • 2013 Meetings: • April 29 – May 1, Tucson, Arizona • September 9 to 11, Boston, Massachusetts • October 2013 in Asia • 2014 Meetings: • April 7 to 9, Santa Fe, New Mexico • September 15 to 17, Seattle, Washington • October 2014 in Europe

15. HPC User Forum Mission • To Improve The Health Of The • High Performance Computing Industry • Through Open Discussions, Information-sharing And Initiatives Involving • HPC Users In Industry, Government And Academia • Along With HPC Vendors • And Other Interested Parties

16. IDC HPCResearch Plans

17. 2013 IDC HPC Research Areas End-user based MCS reports: • HPC industries/applications/workloads report • HPC system software and middleware report • HPC storage and interconnect report • HPC processors/co-processors/accelerators • The emerging synergy of HPC and Big Data report A new mid and lower end tracking of the HPC market (BOF at 5pm to 6pm today) • New And Potentially Disruptive Technologies: • Big data • Co-processors • All types of flash/SSDs • New software solutions • Government programs to help bring to market new capabilities The ROI With HPC S

18. 2013 IDC HPC Research Areas • Special HPC Research Areas & Reports: • The evolution of government HPC budgets • Emerging markets including China, Russia, etc. • SMB and SMS research • The evolution of clouds in HPC • Scaling of software – issues and soultions • A new user-based data tracker product -- looking at leadership computing best practices and data center attributes • Worldwide Petascale and Exascale Initiatives S

19. The HPC Market Since 1996 S

20. IDC HPC Market Forecast S

21. Questions? Please email: hpc@idc.com Or check out: www.hpcuserforum.com

22. Agenda: Day One Morning • 8:05am HPC Topic #1: The Economic Value of HPC and the Industrial Use of HPC • • The Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations at RPI, James Myers (25 min) • • Industrial Engagement at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Ron Hawkins, San Diego Supercomputer Center (25 min) • • Data Analysis and Visualization for the DoD HPCMP, Paul Adams, ERDC (25 min) • • Manufacturing Extension Program (MEP), Dan Luria, The Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center (10 min) • 9:30am Sequoia System Update, Terri Quinn, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (25 min) • 9:55am Break • 10:25am HPC Topic #1: The Economic Value of HPC and the Industrial Use of HPC (cont.) • • Computational Research for Engineering and Science - Ground Vehicle" (CRES-GV) Program, Daniel Kedziorek and Robert Smith, US Army RDECOM-TARDEC (25 min) • • Energy Efficiency Issues, Greg Rottman, ERDC (25 min) • • Meet the Middle: Changing the Way America Builds, Jon Riley, NCMS (25 min) • • SandeepSovani, ANSYS (15 min) • 12:00pm Networking Lunch

23. Lunch Thanks to: Altair EngineeringPlease Return Promptly at 1:00pm

24. Thank You To:Altair EngineeringFor Lunch

25. Agenda: Day One Afternoon • Afternoon Session Chair: RupakBiswas • 1:00pm Technology Panel: Emerging and Potentially Disruptive Technologies: 3 Minute Technical Overviews, Panel Moderator: Earl Joseph • • HP Moonshot Update  Convey, John Leidel  Intel PHI • • Parallel Scientific  DDN, Jeff Denworth  Altair • • SGI, Eng Lim Goh  Cray, Barry Bolding  ETI • • Dell, Tim Carroll  CloudFuzion, Mike Duffy Bright • 2:00pm ORNL Industrial Partnership Project with Ford Motor Company: Automotive Large Scale Powertrain Cooling Optimization, Dr. BurkhardHupertz, Ford (25 min) • 2:30pm Vendor Technology Update: Intel (15 min) • 2:45pm Vendor Technology Update: ISVs and Using GPUs: Altair and ANSYS (15 min) • 3:00pm Why HPCs Hate Biologists, and What We're Doing About It, Titus Brown, Michigan State University (25 min) • 3:25pm Break • 3:55pm IDC HPC Market Update, Steve Conway and ChiragDekate (10 min) • 4:05pm NOAA HPC Site Update, Leslie Hart, NOAA (25 min) • 4:25pm HPC & Future Workforce Development: The Wheeling Program, Debra Goldfarb, Intel (15 min) • 4:45pm Update on HPC in the UK, Andy Jones, NAG (25 min) • 5:10pm Networking Break and Time for 1-on-1 Meetings and mid-range market BOF • 6:10pm Bus Leaves for the Reception and Special Dinner Event

26. Thank You To:PanasasFor The Break

27. Dinner Logistics • Special Dinner Event -- Buses leave at 6:15pm • Sponsored by Intel and HP

28. WelcomeTo Day 2 Of TheHPC User ForumMeeting

29. DinnerThanks to:Intel and HPBreakfastThanks to: Mellanox

30. Agenda: Day Two Morning • Morning Session Chair: Merle Giles • 8:05am Advances in Energy-Efficient Packaging/Cooling: • 8:05am Experience with Containerized HPC, Dick Boyd, University of Michigan (25 min) • 8:30am Data Center Sustainability Energy + Carbon + Water, Nicolas Dube, The Green Grid, HP (25 min) • 8:55am Panel: Vendor Technologies for Energy-Efficient Packaging/Cooling (10 minute summaries) • • IBM SuperMUC and iDataplex, VinodKarmath • • Cray, Barry Bolding • • SGI, Eng Lim Goh • 9:45am Design and Installation of Sequoia's 55PB Lustre+ZFS File System, Marc Stearman, LLNL (30min) • 10:15am Vendor Technology Updates: HP • 10:30am Break • 10:45am Technology Topic #2: Big Data and Analytics in HPC: The National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project, Brian Athey, University of Michigan (25 min) • 11:10am The New NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) Data Access Facility, Tsengdar Lee, NASA (25 min) • 11:35am A Strategy for Exascale Computing, Dylan Stark and Kyle Wheeler, Sandia National Laboratories (25 min) • 12:00pm Networking Lunch

31. Lunch Thanks to: IBMPlease Return Promptly at 1:00pm

32. Thank You To:IBMFor Lunch

33. Agenda: Day Two Afternoon • Afternoon Session Chair: Steve Finn • 1:00pm Special Keynote: Scalable Data Mining and Archiving in the Era of the Square Kilometre Array, the Square Kilometre Array Telescope Project, Chris Mattmann, NASA/JPL (30 min) • 1:30pm Baseline Configuration -- Establishing Consistency Across HPC Centers, Jeff Graham, AFRL (25 min) • 2:00pm Technology Topic #2: Big Data and Analytics in HPC: Leveraging HPC and Enterprise Architectures for Large Scale Inline Transactional Analytics in Fraud Detection at PayPal, Arno Kolster, PayPal, an eBay Company (30 min) • 2:30pm Break • 3:00pm Big Data and Analytics Vendor Panel: How Vendors See Big Data Impacting the Market and Their Products/Services, Panel Moderator: ChiragDekate • • IBM/Platform, RahitValia  SGI, Eng Lim Goh  AMD, Rick Indyke • • YarcData, RameshMenon  Dell, Tim Carroll  Appro, GiriChukkapalli • • NetApp, Dave Ellis  Altair, Ravi Kunju  Panasas, Brent Welch • • DDN, Keith Miller • 4:10pm What Industry Requires to Move Their Science and R&D Forward, Merle Giles, NCSA (25 min) • 4:35pm Data Analysis and Visualization of Very Large Data, David Pugmire, ORNL (25 min) • 5:00pm Meeting Wrap-Up

34. Thank You To Our Sponsors! • Monday: • Dinner – AMD & Appro • Tuesday: • Breakfast – Bright Computing • Lunch – Altair Engineering • PM Break – Panasas • Dinner – Intel and HP • Wednesday: • Breakfast -- Mellanox • Lunch – IBM • Gold • Intel • HP • Silver • Altair Engineering • AMD • Appro International • IBM • Bronze • Bright Computing • Mellanox • Panasas

35. Important Dates For Your Calendar • FUTURE HPC USER FORUM MEETINGS: • 2013 Meetings: • April 29 – May 1, Tucson, Arizona • September 9 to 11, Boston, Massachusetts • October 2013 in Asia • 2014 Meetings: • April 7 to 9, Santa Fe, New Mexico • September 15 to 17, Seattle, Washington • October 2014 in Europe

36. Thank YouFor Attending The 45thHPC User ForumMeeting

37. Questions? Please email: hpc@idc.com Or check out: www.hpcuserforum.com