HPC Advisory Council » ParTec http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog Your contact for High Performance Computing Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:15:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 HPC Advisory Council at the 32nd HPC User Forum http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2009/04/hpc-advisory-council-at-the-32nd-hpc-user-forum/ http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/blog/2009/04/hpc-advisory-council-at-the-32nd-hpc-user-forum/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:49:37 +0000 brian http://hpcadvisorycouncil.mellanox.com/blog/?p=55 This week the 32nd HPC User Forum was held in Roanoke, Virginia. This was a great opportunity to meet, talk and hear from industry experts and end-users. There were very interesting sessions on the state of high-performance computing, the current problems, and what work is necessary to move to exascale computing. It was also a great opportunity to meet many of the HPC Advisory Council members.

The HPC Advisory Council had a session during the HPC User Forum, and I would like to thank the members that participated in the panel, and in particular to Jennifer Koerv (AMD), Donnie Bell (Dell), Sharan Kalwani (GM), Lynn Lewis (Microsoft), Stan Posey (Panasas), Lee Porter (ParTec) and Arend Dittmer (Penguin Computing).

Some of the talks at the User Forum were on HPC futures, not only on building the next PetaScale/ExaScale supercomputers, but how to make HPC easier and more productive. Platform Computing talked on HPC in a cloud and services, and NVIDIA on using GPUs. This is one of the main research activities right now in the HPC Advisory Council – enabling efficient HPC as a Service (HPCaaS) and smart scheduling strategies. Initial results are available on the HPC Advisory Council web, and you are encouraged to take a look (the focus at the event was on bioscience applications). We will extend the research to add QCD codes (quantum chemistry), with the help and support from Fermi National Lab.

We are having our first member’s conference call on May 4th, so don’t forget to accept the invite that you got, and if you did not get it, please let me know at hpc@mellanox.com.

Best Regards,

Gilad Shainer, HPC Advisory Council Chairman

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