DATE/TIME: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 2:30 – 5:00 pm

LOCATION: Willow B Room, Sheraton Seattle Hotel, 1400 6^th 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

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

answers@lists.bgconsortium.org

The Juelich Supercomputing Centre is happy to announce the 5th “Blue Gene/P Extreme Scaling Workshop” at Research Centre Juelich, Germany which will take place from February 14 to 16, 2011.

The purpose of the workshop is to provide application teams a chance to scale their codes across the full Blue Gene/P system JUGENE which provides 72 racks with a total of 294,912 cores. JUGENE is still the machine with the most cores world-wide. Appropriate hardware, software and support personnel will be provided to help to accomplish this task.

More information can be found under: http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc/bg-ws11/

To be announced

The Blue Gene Consortium meeting at SC’10 was held on Tuesday November 16 in New Orleans, LA at the Astor Crowne Plaza hotel.

TIME: 2:30 – 5:00

Installed Site Presentations were made by David Martin of Argonne National Labs, Bernd Mohr from Juelich Supercomputing, Tim David of the University of Canterbury (NZ), Massimo Bernaschi from IAC-CNR, Jonathon Follows from STFC Daresbury and Dinesh Kaushik from KAUST.

Attached are the presentations:

http://sc10.supercomputing.org/