March 23 — NCSA’s Private Sector Program brings together private, university, and government organizations with the goal of creating economic and societal impact through high-performance computing and data analytics.
Agenda summary
- May 2, Monday evening: [partners only] PSP VIP dinner (by specific invitation)
- May 3, Tuesday, 8am-5pm: [partners only] technical workshop and strategy meetings
- May 3, Tuesday evening, 5:30pm tour, 6:30pm: public/partner dinner at Spurlock Museum (all attendees are invited)
- May 4, Wednesday, 8am-5pm: public/partner sessions followed by all-attendee dinner at NCSA
- May 5, Thursday morning: public/partner sessions ending at noon
A more detailed agenda will be posted on the 2016 meeting webpage soon.
Partner-only workshop topics may include: foundations of data science, analytics using R, data center strategies, modern data storage, security, asymmetric solver approaches for physics applications, next-gen sequencing, next-gen CPUs, software performance tools and strategies, streaming data analytics techniques
Annual Meeting topics may include: competitive HPC, economic impact, modern workforce education, interoperability of HPC and HPDA (high-performance data analytics), HPDA’s need for speed, modern architecture impact on applications, IOT in multiple sectors, training/education in a convergent world, complex research, and more.
Complete travel, registration, and agenda: http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/
- Theme: The New World Order of HPC
- When: May 3-5, 2016 (Tuesday – Thursday)
- Where: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark Street, Urbana IL, 61801
Current 2016 PSP Partners
- Manufacturers: Caterpillar, Deere, Dow, GE, P&G, Rolls-Royce, Siemens
- Software Technology: Adaptive Computing, Allinea, Charmworks, CU Aerospace, Cycle Computing, The HDF Group, Illinois Rocstar, QuesTek Innovations
- Hardware Technology: AMD, Cray, DataDirect Networks, Dell, Intel, Seagate
- Oil & Gas: BP, ExxonMobil Upstream Research
- Agriculture and Life Sciences: Abbvie, Agrible, Mayo Clinic, Syngenta
- Institutes/Projects: Dark Energy Survey, Illinois Applied Research Institute, Milwaukee Institute, Illinois Prairie Research Institute
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Source: NCSA