Blue Gene Consortium Meeting at SC 2011
DATE/TIME: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 2:30 – 5:00 pm
LOCATION: Willow B Room, Sheraton Seattle Hotel, 1400 6th Avenue, Seattle, WA
With BG/Q’s official release imminent, this meeting will create a venue for discussing the impact of BG/Q on some of HPC’s most critical questions. To effectively facilitate discussion, we’ll break out into discussion groups.
2:30 Reception and refreshments
3:00 Welcome
3:05 Round the room introductions of the key BG/Q folks (IBM, BG/Q site, etc.)
3:15 Breakout into discussion groups – starter topics (Other topics may be proposed):
- The Bifurcation of approaches to leadership computing (GPGPU and Threads)
- Application portability, scalability and characterizing your problems
- Applications of BG/Q in the commercial computing pipelines
4:05 4-5 minute reviews from topic leaders (3-5 topics)
4:30 Summarize and discuss trends among these topics
4:50 Moving forward with the BG Consortium
5:00 Wrap up and close
SPONSORS:
Mr. David Turek, Vice President, Deep Computing, IBM
Prof. Rick Stevens, Associate Laboratory Director, Argonne National Laboratory
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