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HPC User Forum Meeting Notes, October 2007: Stuttgart, Germany

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: IDC
Published: March 2008
Product Code: R104-33057
Description

The 27th High-Performance Computing (HPC) User Forum meeting took place at the University of Stuttgart's High-Performance Computing Center (Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart [HLRS]) on October 1?2, 2007. Local hosts for the meeting included HLRS Director Dr. Michael Resch, HLRS Head Uwe Kuester, and HLRS Administration Manager Agnes Lampke.

The principal tasks of the meeting were to:

Continue the HPC User Forum's dialogue between North American and European HPC users and vendors. Share information among HPC users, vendors, and IDC for improving the health of the worldwide HPC industry. Continue showcasing examples of HPC leadership and partnerships in government, industry, and academia. Explore the use of HPC in Germany's automotive industry. Survey the activities and achievements at leading university HPC centers.
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In This Update

Monday, October 1

Paul Muzio, HPC User Forum Chair: HPC User Forum Update

Earl Joseph: IDC HPC Market Update

Michael Resch, Director, HLRS: Welcoming Remarks

Lina Longhitano, Development Engineer, DaimlerChrysler: Simulation at Mercedes

The Role of Simulation in the Creation and Transformation of Knowledge

The Mercedes Car Group Development

Conclusions

Michael Resch, HLRS: HPC in Germany and Europe ? Some Remarks

Germany

Europe

Existing Projects

Conclusions

Robert Singleterry: Simulation at NASA

Classic BTE Solutions

Parallelization of BTE

Summary for Clusters

Klaus Gottschalk: IBM Technology Update

Roland Rambau: Sun Technology Update

Monika Wierse: Simulation at Porsche

Conclusion

Vince Scarafino: Ideas for Addressing Nonscaling Applications

Future Trends

Summary of the Panel Discussion in Santa Fe

Frank Baetke: HP Technology Update

Thomas Schoenemeyer: NEC's HPC Strategy ? Consistency and Innovation

NEC's Basic Direction with the New Product

The SX-Series Road Map

Future Plans

Joachim Krebs: Altair's Breakthrough Licensing Strategy for PBS Professional 9.0

Tuesday, October 2

Paul Muzio, City University of New York: Global Partitioned Address Space Programming Models

Hans Meuer, Prometheus: ISC Update

ISC 2008

Sharan Kalwani, General Motors: HPC in the Automotive Industry

HPC at GM and in the Car Industry

Rainer Weigle, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology: HPC in Earth System Sciences

Model Components

Scaling Issues

PF Solutions

Vijay Agarwala, Penn State University: Summary of University Session at the HPC User Forum Meeting in Santa Fe

Alex Akkerman: HPC at Ford Motor Company

Hardware Evolution

Job Wait Time

Web Services

CAE

Challenges

Geerd Hoffmann: HPC at the German Weather Service

Numerical Weather Prediction Systems

Future Plans Beyond 2008

New Challenges in 2010

Gordon Cook: Allinea Technology Update

Steve Finn, BEA Systems, and Jim Kasdorf, PSC: Summary of the Energy Sessions at the HPC User Forum Meeting in Santa Fe

Nuclear Fission

Nuclear Fusion

Petroleum

Renewable Energy

Highlights of Other Talks

Gerhard Wellein, Regional Computing Center Erlangen: Some Comments on Architecture and Performance Characteristics of Modern Computer Clusters

Future HPC User Forum Meetings

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