[Crib-list] TODAY -- SPEAKER: Dr. Frank Baetke (Hewlett Packard) -- Computational Research in Boston Seminar -- Friday, April 16, 2010 -- 12:30 PM in Room 32-124. (fwd)

[Shirley Entzminger]

T O D A Y . . .
			COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON SEMINAR


DATE:		FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 2010
TIME:		12:30 PM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 124

(Pizza and beverages provided at 12:15 PM outside Room 32-124.)


TITLE:		High Performance Computing Distinguished Lecture


SPEAKER:	DR. FRANK BAETKE   (Hewlett-Packard)


ABSTRACT:

1.	Academic & Research Environments in Asia and Europe:
Grid and Cloud Implementations for HPC and Special Customer Sites

Academic and Research HPC environments in Asia and Europe underwent 
significant changes in the past years. Widely established standards at 
processors, node, interconnect and software level helped significantly to 
ease cross-site and cross-country collaboration and load-balancing. 
Examples of typical environments will be shown and future trends and new 
challenges including the potential use of HPC Clouds will be discussed. 
Very specialized customers sites with dedicated environments will also be 
addressed.

2.	Towards Peta-scale Systems:
The European PRACE Initiative and High-End System Trends.

The European Community maintains a "European Roadmap for Research 
Infrastructures" and has recently established a high-end computing 
initiative (PRACE) as part of that roadmap. It is seen as an essential 
component to maintain Europe's technological competitiveness, to keep 
Europe attractive for researchers and to support innovative industrial 
developments. Background, structure, planned system architectures and HP's 
concepts towards Peta-scale computing will be discussed

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Dr. Frank Baetke biography
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Dr. Baetke manages HP's Global HPC-Technology Program for academic and 
research institutions. Dr. Baetke is a director & board member of HP-CAST, 
the world-wide user group of HP-HPC; he is an advisory board member of the 
International Supercomputing Conference (ISC); a member of the Indian 
Supercomputing Conference (HiPC) steering committee; he also serves on the 
committees of several international High Performance Computing 
conferences. Dr. Baetke was Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat) at the 
Technical University of Munich and joined Convex Computer Corporation in 
1986, and thence HP's High Performance Computing Division via acquisition 
of Convex , in 1995. Frank Baetke holds a master's degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in 
engineering and a Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in applied physics from the Technical 
University of Munich.  He has published numerous articles in the field of 
high-performance computing as well as contributions in related areas. He 
is a member of German Society of Informatics, the Society of Astronomy, 
ACM, IEEE and the Max Planck Society. He became a Fellow of the 
International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in 2009. He is based with 
Hewlett Packard in Munich, Germany.

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