insideHPC Events Calendar

The European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC) conference is the premier European forum for experts in computer architecture, programming models, compilers and operating systems for embedded and general-purpose systems. Associated workshops, tutorials, special sessions, several large poster session and an industrial exhibition will run in parallel with the conference. Learn more.

As heterogeneous node architectures are becoming more prevalent for mainstream computing systems, the requirement for simple and platform portable programming methods manifests in a number of different programming strategies. Application developers that want to migrate existing to or develop new applications for these novel platforms, are looking for best-practice approaches that offer a reasonable results in a short period of development time. As a result domain specific languages as well as directive based programming methods are welcome strategies when targeting heterogeneous system architectures, since they can abstract the underlying hardware specific details of low-level programming approaches and have shown to offer very good productivity. The holy grail for all such strategies is to achieve not only a platform portability but also offer an application performance the is comparable to the low-level programming models on multiple platforms without code changes. The proposed workshop will solicit papers and presentations both on the methodology of these approaches as well as best-practice experiences from early adopters. Learn more.

The HPC Advisory Council, together with Stanford University, will hold the HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference 2016 on February 24-25, 2016, at the Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center on the Stanford University campus. The conference will focus on High-Performance Computing (HPC) usage models and benefits, the future of supercomputing, latest technology developments, best practices and advanced HPC topics. In addition, there will be a strong focus on new topics such as Machine Learning and Big Data. The conference is open to the public free of charge and will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists and industry affiliates. Learn more.

The Rice University Oil and Gas High Performance Computing (OG HPC) Conference (Wednesday, March 2 and Thursday, March 3, 2016), is the premier meeting place for networking and discussion focused on computing and information technology challenges and needs in the oil and gas industry. Learn more.

The main goal of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Interconnection Networks in the Exascale and Big-Data Era is to gather and discuss in a full-day event the latest and most prominent efforts and advances, both from industry and academia, in the design and development of scalable high-performance interconnection networks, especially those oriented to meet the Exascale challenge and Big-data demands. Learn more.

Registration is now open for the inaugural Nimbix Developer Summit. With an impressive lineup of speakers & sponsors from Mellanox, migenius, Xilinx, and more, the event takes place March 15 in Dallas, Texas. The recently released Nimbix Cloud, powered by JARVICE 2.0, represents the state of the art in High Performance Computing and High Performance Data Analysis capabilities available as an on demand, elastic service. The company is bringing together application developers, HPC system engineers, and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to discuss the innovation and challenges involved in enabling compute and data intensive workflows in the cloud. The summit agenda features topics such as hardware acceleration, coprocessing, photorealistic rendering, bioinformatics, and high performance analytics. The sessions will conclude with a panel of developers discussing how to overcome challenges of creating and optimizing cloud-based applications. Learn more.

Supercomputing Frontiers 2016 is Singapore’s annual international conference that provides a platform for thought leaders from both academia and industry to interact and discuss visionary ideas, important global trends and substantial innovations in supercomputing. You are invited to submit 4-page extended abstract by February 8, 2016. The focus areas for this conference include but are not limited to: Exascale, Applications, Interconnects, Hardware and Future Architectures, Languages, InfiniCortex, Automata Processors. Learn more.

The HPC Advisory Council and the Swiss Supercomputing Centre will host the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2016 in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 21-23, 2016. The conference will focus on High-Performance Computing essentials, new developments and emerging technologies, best practices and hands-on training. The conference will focus on the following topics:

• High Speed Networks
• High Performance and Parallel I/O
• Communication libraries: MPI, SHMEM, PGAS
• GPU computing, CUDA, OpenCL
• Big Data
• Advanced topics / Technologies / development / the road to Exascale
• Hands-on: clustering, network, troubleshooting, tuning, optimizations

The conference will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists, students and industry affiliates for cross-training and to discuss recent HPC developments and future advancements. Please make sure to register early to ensure your seat at the conference. Learn more.

Rich Brueckner

Manufacturing is enjoying an economic and technological resurgence with the help of high performance computing. In this webinar, you’ll learn how the power of CAE and simulation is transforming the industry with faster time to solution, better quality, and reduced costs.

Rich Brueckner of insideHPC will take you through a set of manufacturing case studies with companies who have successfully deployed high performance computing solutions for competitive advantage. Presenters include:

• Rich Brueckner, Editor in Chief, insideHPC
• Rob Walsh, VP Business Development for Cloud Solutions, Altair
• Tony DeVarco, Director Business Development, Manufacturing, SGI

Date: March, 31st 2016  / Time: 12:00 Eastern / 9:00 AM Pacific

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GTC is largest and most important event of the year for GPU developers and the entire ecosystem. The conference attracts developers, researchers, and technologists from some of the top companies, universities, research firms and government agencies from around the world. Learn more.

The themes under consideration by our Technical Program Committee cover an exciting array of technology options and issues facing data center managers as they look to support the evolving needs of their users. The workshop will benefit anyone who develops or deploys OpenFabrics Software as well as assist data center managers and administrators with solving challenges in keeping their fabrics at their highest performance.

The Workshop is a collaboration, not only between the speaker and the attendees during the sessions but also between you and the organizers. We’re starting to collect input to help us develop a strong program. Be on the lookout for an upcoming Call for Sessions which will be your opportunity to offer your knowledge and insights to the OpenFabrics Alliance community and we’ll post more information on the themes and introduce you to the members of our Technical Program committee in future blogs. In the meantime, save the date and plan to join us in Monterey. Learn more.

Registration is now open for the 2016 OpenPOWER Summit, which will take place April 5-7 in San Jose, California in conjunction with the GPU Technology Conference. The three-day event will include presentations and an exhibitor pavilion where members will have the opportunity to unveil their OpenPOWER-based solutions and demonstrate performance breakthroughs achieved. The event will feature a keynote address by OpenPOWER’s leadership as well as a series of presentations by technical working groups, OpenPOWER members and end users. Learn more.

The Lustre User Group (LUG 2016) conference is the industry’s primary venue for discussion and seminars on the Lustre parallel file system and other open source file system technologies. Learn more.

The rapid growth and accessibility of new and increasingly powerful high-performance computing (HPC) technologies and hardware can enable the use of high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes based on first-principles, such as the Navier-Stokes equations, for substantially improving renewable energy power plant analysis and design, thus greatly improving power generation effectiveness while minimizing potential environmental damage. In offshore renewable energy, this requires reliably modeling the flow past wind and tidal turbines, as well as the complex physics of atmospheric flows and marine currents. The use of high-fidelity CFD for these applications relies on the massive and efficient use of HPC due to the large size of these real-world simulations. Augmenting state-of-art CFD codes with the latest HPC technologies to enable their effective use for these problems, while maintaining user-friendliness and achieving an optimal computational performance, poses significant scientific and technological challenges; addressing these challenges requires tight team-work of Engineers, Physicists of the Environment, and Scientific Computing experts. Learn more.

With a mission promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to users, the HPC User Forum organization has grown to 150 members. It is directed by a volunteer Steering Committee of HPC users from government, industry and academia, and is operated for the users by market analyst firm IDC. Learn more.

Registration is now open for the inaugural Dell HPC Community user forum, which will take place April 18-21 in Austin, Texas. "This meeting is open to all Dell HPC customers and partners. During the event, we will establish the Dell HPC Community as an independent, worldwide technical forum designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas among HPC professionals, researchers, computer scientists and engineers. Our core objective is to provide an environment in which members can candidly discuss industry trends and challenges, gather direct feedback and input from HPC professionals and influence the strategic direction and development of Dell HPC Systems and ecosystems." Learn more.

Alone, HPC and Big Data are a powerful force for change. Together, these once-discrete areas of computer science are converging to expand the realm of possibility in countless fields.

Organizations are beginning to use HPC-style architectures and expertise integrated with enterprise-level Big Data tools to manage and analyze vast datasets, as new technologies including sensor data, machine-generated data, social media and the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to generate data on a massive scale.

Join us for lunch and discover that when it comes to HPC and Big Data solutions, Dell’s approach is simple: Provide cost-effective and simplified building blocks and turnkey solutions that enable organizations of every size to make sense of their data and derive value faster.

At this lunch you will learn how to:

build efficient systems and pipelines so you can execute different stages of your workloads on same platform using the tools best suited to each task
increase bandwidth and capacity for your most demanding applications with Dell’s validated HPC and Big Data solutions
streamline and simplify system deployment and management by combining HPC with Dell services and on-going support throughout the solution lifecycle
We look forward to seeing you at this event.

To Register:
https://dell.captix.com/event/seattle042616/register

Since the conference was founded by the leading national laboratories, MSST has been a venue for massive-scale storage system designers and implementers, storage architects, researchers, and vendors to share best practices and discuss building and securing the world's largest storage systems for high-performance computing, web-scale systems, and enterprises. Learn more.

PRACEdays16 will take place May 10-12, 2016 in Prague. The conference will bring together experts from academia and industry who will present their advancements in HPC-supported science and engineering. Learn more.

Computing Frontiers represents an engaged, collaborative community of researchers who are excited about transformational technologies in the field of computing. The field of computing requires new breakthroughs to adapt to the ever-changing requirements of society, especially with respect to science. Technology is on the verge of revolutions in memory devices and systems, networks, electronic device production, machine learning, data analytics, cloud computing, techniques to improve power and energy efficiency, and many more areas. New application domains that affect everyday life are constantly emerging. Boundaries between the state-of-the-art and revolutionary innovation constitute the computing frontiers that must be pushed forward to advance science, engineering, and information technology. Early research, using far-reaching projections of the future state of technologies, provides the bases that will allow revolutionary materials, devices, and systems to become mainstream. Revolutionary breakthroughs are enabled through collaborative efforts among researchers of different expertise and backgrounds. Learn more.

The Best Practices in Deploying Intel® Omni-Path Architecture webinar will provide attendees with information about:
• Designing Intel Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA) fabrics – overview of configurations and options
• Installing Intel OPA fabrics – best practices and tools
• Getting applications running on Intel OPA fabrics
With these insights and the opportunity to ask questions of the Intel experts, attendees will be able to understand the best path to deploying, configuring and running applications on the new Intel OPA.

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This one-day workshop covers the essential introductory aspects of the Apache Hadoop and Spark ecosystems. After completing the workshop attendees will gain an understanding Hadoop's technical value proposition and acquire hands-on experience with some basic Hadoop tools including Spark (with Zeppelin GUI). Approximately 30% of the workshop time is devoted to assisted hands-on exercises.  Learn more. 

The In-Memory Computing Summit 2016 is the only industry-wide event of its kind, tailored to IMC related technologies and solutions. It’s the perfect opportunity to reach technical IT decision makers, implementers and developers who make or influence purchasing decisions in the areas of in-memory computing, Big Data, Fast Data, IoT and HPC.

Attendees include CEOs, CTOs, VPs, IT directors, IT managers, data scientists, senior engineers, senior developers, architects and more. It is a unique forum for networking, education and the exchange of ideas — ideas that power the new world and future of Fast Data. Learn more.

Distributed & Embedded-High Performance Computing (de-HPC) pronounced as “The HPC” is a four day HPC symposium organized by Centre for Studies in Resources Engineering (CSRE), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, supported by Syncthreads Computing & HPC Advisory Council (HPCAC). The de-HPC symposium is a maiden attempt with the vision to bring the Indian HPC academic and industrial community under one roof, alongside international counterparts, and provides them a platform to collaborate and work towards solving bigger inter-disciplinary and practical challenges.

The first ever Indian Student Supercomputing Challenge (ISSC) will also be organized alongside the de-HPC symposium. The purpose of this competition is to introduce the next generation of students to the high performance computing community and its technology. Learn more.

We would like to invite you to the upcoming third edition of the Emerging Technology ‘EMiT’ conference to be held June 2-3 in Barcelona, Spain. Building on the successes of the previous two years, EMiT 2016 aims to continue to provide a platform to discuss cutting edge advancements in emerging computing technologies and techniques. The conference will bring together leading key figures in the emerging computing communities, developers and end users of new software & state-of-the-art hardware, with its untapped capabilities, along with vendors from across the international arena. Learn more.

Due to the changing financial environment, corporations must keep up with the continuous trends, get prepared for the arising challenges and learn how to stay ahead of the game.

In recent years, both the US and the EU market have started to adjust to the post-financial crisis status, while still paying attention to the importance of the emerging markets. Their Risk Culture objectives has been shifting; Market-,Credit- and Operational Risk still play an important part in Risk Management; however on one hand now organizations must prioritize on the Regulatory and Compliance Risk, and on the other put a vital focus on Cyber Risk. The fundamental aim for banks now is to stay liquid, ensure a credit Risk Cycle, and exploit their Credit Portfolio Management.

The Volatility vs. Stability, which is your path will bring together industry professionals from the banking, insurance and investment sector, uniting both the Corporate and Supervisory side of Risk Management. The event offers an excellent opportunity to meet with key decision makers, leading financial and banking experts in Risk Culture, and provides an outstanding platform to learn more about the best practices in Risk Management. Learn more.

Also known as the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing, PASC16 is a leading event for researchers in computational science and high performance computing. Learn more.

The High Performance Consortium for Advanced Scientific and Technical (HP-CAST) computing users group works to increase the capabilities of Hewlett Packard Enterprise solutions for large-scale, scientific and technical computing. HP-CAST provides guidance to Hewlett Packard Enterprise on the essential development and support issues for such systems. HP-CAST meetings typically include corporate briefings and presentations by HPE executives and technical staff (under NDA), and discussions of customer issues related to high-performance technical computing. Learn more.

As the largest HPC conference in Europe, ISC 2016 will be attended by over 3,000 academicians, industry leaders and end users from around the world. The ISC exhibition annually attracts around 160 organizations, including supercomputing, storage and network vendors, as well as universities, research centers, laboratories and projects. Learn more.

The University of Alberta, a leading teaching and research institution in Canada, has announced today a partnership with CUCCIO and Compute Canada to host a joint conference in 2016. The conference will combine two annual national conferences, CANHEIT, under the direction of CUCCIO, and the High Performance Computing Symposium (HPCS), under the direction of Compute Canada.

The joint event will offer a platform to cultivate the latest best practices, opportunities and challenges in advanced research computing and IT in higher education. CANHEIT will provide discussion on challenges and opportunities within the higher education environment. HPCS will provide insight into new tools, techniques and discoveries in computational intensive research. Learn more.

The Dell HPC Community will hold their user group meeting on Monday, June 20 at the Movenpick Hotel in Frankfurt. Held in conjunction with ISC 2016, the Dell HPC Community event will feature keynote presentations by HPC experts and a networking breakfast to discuss best practices in the use of Dell HPC Systems. Learn more.

The first annual International Workshop on Performance Portable Programming Models for Accelerators (P^3MA) will provide a forum for bringing together researchers, vendors, users and developers to brainstorm aspects of heterogeneous computing and its various tools and techniques. Learn more.

ExaComm 2016 will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing (ISC 2016), Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, June 23rd, 2016. "Extreme Scale computing is marked by multiple-levels of hierarchy and heterogeneity ranging from the compute units to storage devices to the network interconnects. Owing to the plethora of heterogeneous communication paths with different cost models expected to be present in extreme scale systems, data movement is seen as the soul of different challenges for exascale computing. On the other hand, advances in networking technologies such as NoCs (like NVLink and Storm Lake), RDMA enabled networks and the like are constantly pushing the envelope of research in the field of novel communication and computing architectures for extreme scale computing. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and software/hardware designers from academia, industry and national laboratories who are involved in creating network-based computing solutions for extreme scale architectures, to share their experiences and to learn the opportunities and challenges in designing next-generation HPC systems and applications." Learn more.

This workshop will provide a venue for the broader HPC community to further understand OpenPOWER technologies and discuss how they can be harnessed for HPC applications needs. The latest advances in OpenPOWER and how they might be used to address challenges regarding system architecture, networking, memory designs, exploitation of accelerators, programming models, and porting applications are of current interest within the HPC community and this workshop. Closely related topics also include OpenACC, OpenMP, OpenSHMEM, OpenUCX, MPI, Tools, etc. for the OpenPOWER ecosystem. As this is a novel architecture that is beginning to play a significant role in HPC, we expect this session to be well attended. Furthermore, since this is an emerging technology ecosystem, we endeavor to announce the workshop as early as possible to attract contributions. Learn more.

The TERATEC Forum brings together top international experts in high performance numerical design, simulation and Big Data, making it the major event in France and in Europe in this domain. It emphasizes again the strategic importance of these technologies for developing industrial competitiveness and innovation capacity. TERATEC Forum welcomes more than 1 300 attendees, highlighting the technological and industrial momentum of HPC and the essential role that France plays in this field. TERATEC Forum has unique features, making it an exceptional place to be for simulation and HPC practitioners and managers: the participation and the testimony of industrial and ICT leaders, the diversity and the high level of the technical workshops, the representativeness and innovation potential of exhibitors. Learn more.

Intel is offering a 4-part summer series of developer training workshop events at Stanford University to introduce high performance computing tools.

Stanford Summer Series Topics

• June 28: Intel Distribution for Python: A Scalability Story in Produc on Environments
• July 12: Three Tuning Secrets for be er OpenMP performance using VTune Amplifer XE
• July 19: Guided Code Vectoriza on with Intel Advisor XE
• July 26: Building Faster Machine Learning Applica ons with Intel Performance Libraries

Learn more.

The Czech-Bavarian Competence Team for Supercomputing Applications invites all interested researchers to a workshop on large-scale simulation  of water-related hazard scenarios. Contributed presentations are welcome (for Jun 30) on all related topics, in particular on demands and desired features of (future) simulation software, parallelisation for current and novel HPC platforms, as well as establishing scalable simulation workflows on supercomputing environments. Simulation scenarios may include rain-induced floods, storm surges, tsunamis, and similar events. Learn more.

With a conference theme of Diversity, Big Data, Science at Scale: Enabling the Next-Generation of Science and Technology, the XSEDE16 conference takes place July 17-21, 2016 in Miami.

"The XSEDE16 conference is designed to engage and directly benefit diverse communities including students, educators, researchers and practitioners across all fields of study and scholarly research, with particular emphasis placed on engaging under-represented minorities, women, and people with disabilities. The conference will provide numerous opportunities for developers, applications teams, students, innovators, CIOs, IT staff, and policy makers from academia, government, industry and other organizations to engage in discussions that will assist them in significantly advancing their effective utilization of digital resources. From experts in the field, to people who are novices to the applications of digital resources, the XSEDE16 Conference will provide a range of formal and informal opportunities for diverse communities to interact and address their needs and interests." Learn more.

The New York Scientific Data Summit (NYSDS) aims to accelerate data-driven discovery and innovation by bringing together researchers, developers and end-users from academia, industry, utilities and state and federal governments. Jointly organized by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Stony Brook University (SBU), New York University (NYU) and the IEEE Computer Society Long Island Chapter the conference will take place at NYU Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012 USA on August 14-17, 2016. Learn more.

The MVAPICH User Group (MUG) meeting has issued its Call for Presentations. The event takes place August 15-17 in Columbus, Ohio.
The number of organizations using MVAPICH2 libraries has crossed 2,600. The number of downloads from the MVAPICH site has crossed 0.37 million (377,000). The MVAPICH team would like to thank all its users and organizations! Learn more.

Join us for our 24th year of an information-packed three-day Symposium about the latest in High Performance Interconnects. IEEE Hot Interconnects is the premier international forum for researchers and developers of state-of-the-art hardware and software architectures and implementations for interconnection networks of all scales, ranging from multi-core on-chip interconnects to those within systems, clusters, and data centers. Leaders in industry and academia attend the conference to interact with individuals at the forefront of this field. Learn more.

With a mission promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to users, the HPC User Forum organization has grown to 150 members. It is directed by a volunteer Steering Committee of HPC users from government, industry and academia, and is operated for the users by market analyst firm IDC. Learn more.

LUG 2016 will be a dynamic two day workshop that will explore improvements in the performance and flexibility of the Lustre file system for supporting diverse workloads. This will be a great opportunity for the Lustre community to discuss the challenges associated with enhancing Lustre for diverse applications, the technological advances necessary, and the associated ecosystem. Learn more.

Learn more about scaling with Intel® Xeon® Processors and Intel Omni-Path Architecture:

• Real application performance and efficiency from TOP500 runs
  • Advantages of Intel OPA over EDR InfiniBand
  • Performance tuning insights, highlighting important settings on Intel Xeon platforms

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Webinar - 25/100GbE and Network Automation for the Cloud - Mellanox Technologies

The inaugural ARM Research Summit is an academic summit to discuss future trends and disruptive technologies across all sectors of computing. The Summit includes talks from the leaders in their research fields, demonstrations, networking opportunities and the chance to interact and discuss projects with members of ARM Research. Learn more.

The Chief Data Officer Forum Insurance 2016 will establish a focal point of discussion for Insurance specific CDOs, CAOs and senior data professionals to evaluate the evolving demands of big data and analytics in the Insurance space and importance of championing data/analytics evangelism at an enterprise level.

This highly interactive forum, will tackle some of the insurance’s industry’s most crucial topics including price optimisation, fraud analytics, predictive modelling, customer data management, disruptive innovation, embedding a data culture within your organisation and data quality.

It will provide you with the tools needed to empower your data and analytics initiatives to bolster your business outcomes. No matter the maturity of your organisation, the two day conference will enable you to shift the cultural mindset to a data-centric approach to problem solving.

Program highlights:

• Hear perspectives from Louis DiModugno, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, AXA USA and Mark Pitts, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield on measures CDO and CAOs in Insurance need to take to successfully leverage the Big Data revolution as well as building the case for Data and Analytics as a corporate strategic asset.
• Understand the latest strategies being employed by senior data leaders at National Life Group, Zurich North America and Gen Re to resource, recruit and retain data and analytics talent within the Insurance sector
• Learn strategies from  John Hancock, Nationwide Insurance, Aflac and Trupanion on how you can better leverage your customer data and develop consumer-centric initiatives which will optimize your ROI on customer interaction through better targeted marketing, pricing, risk assessment, claims and ultimately lead to greater acquisition and retention.
• Build a culture of mature analytics with case studies from Eric Huls, SVP, Chief Data Science Officer, AllStat and Kimberly Holmes, SVP, Global Head of Strategic Analytics, XL Catlin
• Examine best measures to manage state-to-state regulation and gain insight into the future regulatory landscape within insurance with the inclusion of NAIC.
• Review the latest trends in the technological landscape and assess the impact of IoT, machine learning, telematics and automated vehicles in disrupting the established working practices of Insurances businesses whilst examining the opportunities to facilitate evidence-based decision making at all levels of the organisational hierarchy.

View the latest agenda http://www.chiefdataofficerinsurance.com/agenda

Delegate registration   http://www.chiefdataofficerinsurance.com/registration

For more information, please contact  Laurence Allen, Marketing Manager Laurence.allen@coriniumintelligence.com

EOFS and OpenSFS are organizing the sixth european lustre workshop, Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop. The event will take place in Paris at Hotel Renaissance Trocadero on September 20-21, 2016. This will be a great opportunity for Lustre worldwide administrators and developers to gather and exchange their experiences, developments, tools, good practices and more. Learn more.

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the HPC Advisory Council invite you to join fellow research pioneers from around the world and explore major contributions advancing research and development. This year’s conference and agenda encourages an interactive exchange through keynote, panel, technical and sponsor sessions and addresses a range of interests, disciplines and topics such as:

• Ushering in the Exascale Era
• Deep Learning, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
• Data Sciences and Big Data Acceleration … and much more

Take advantage of this exceptional opportunity and spectacular setting in the Northwest of Spain. Network with and learn from fellow HPC practitioners and R&D professionals. Gain deeper insight on everything from emerging technology and new developments to best practice essentials. Learn more.

With a mission promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to users, the HPC User Forum organization has grown to 150 members. It is directed by a volunteer Steering Committee of HPC users from government, industry and academia, and is operated for the users by market analyst firm IDC. Learn more.

The conference will feature customer presentations and posters from both industry and academia that focus on validations, benchmarks and case studies, as well as the latest developments for FLOW-3D presented by Flow Science’s VP of Sales and Business Development, Dr. Amir Isfahani. Learn more.

EuroMPI has issued its Call for Submissions. The aim of this conference is to bring together all of the stakeholders involved in developments and applications related to the Message Passing Interface (MPI). As the preeminent meeting for users, developers and researchers to interact and discuss new developments and applications of message-passing parallel computing, the meeting takes place Sept. 25-28 in Edinburgh.

EuroMPI 2016 will continue to focus on benchmarks, tools, parallel I/O, fault tolerance, and parallel applications using MPI, enhancements and extensions to MPI, and alternative interfaces for high-performance homogeneous/heterogeneous/hybrid systems. Through the presentation of contributed papers, poster presentations and invited talks, attendees will have the opportunity to share ideas and experiences and to contribute to the improvement and furthering of message-passing and related parallel programming paradigms. In addition to the main conference’s technical program, one-day or half-day workshops will be held. Learn more.

The European Treasury Summit is a cross-industry event which will bring together professionals from FMCG, Energy, Pharmaceutical, Automotive, Telecom, Finance and Technology sector. The conference offers a unique opportunity to network and benchmark with key decision makers of Treasury, and grants an excellent platform which will provide you with particular tools and case studies to get you ahead of the game in Treasury Management. Learn more.

The Chief Analytics Officer Forum Africa is the premier event for CAOs and senior  analytics professionals.

Providing top-level strategic advice and discussion the forum brings the senior analytics community together to discuss the most critical data and analytics challenges faced by their organisations and the wider industry as a whole.

Research conducted by Corinium shows that South African companies are beginning to realise the value that lies within their data but face numerous challenges to realising this value.

A recent Chief Analytics Officer (CAO) Roundtable highlighted that companies are not yet mature enough in their data & analytics journey to move to a CAO structure.

What does analytics mean to your organisation and how can you harness its power to improve and modernise process, performance and profitability?

Why you should attend:

• Gain insight into how to evangelise the power of analytics across your business through case studies by Absa Capital, Multichoice, Standard Bank and Zoona
• Understand how FNB Business has built a great analytics team and addressed the analytics skills shortage
• Engage in discussion groups that will cover how to encourage enterprise-wide data sharing as well as how to attach value to data through experimental use cases
• Learn how to tell the analytics story more effectively to ensure insights really do turn in to action
• Network with over 100 analytics, data and data science professionals at the only senior level analytics event in South Africa that allows you to engage with the experts most relevant to your field in neutral forum

Confirmed speakers:

• Yudvhir Seetharam , Head of Analytics: Business, FNB
• Annie Symington , HOD: Analytics, Multichoice
• Pieter Vorster , CAO, Absa Capital
• Eugene Liebenberg , Head: Client Analytics, MMI Holdings
• Ruschka Raidoo , Head: Strategic Initiatives, Customer Insights & Analytics, Standard Bank
• Morne van der Westhuizen , Head of Data Analytics, Zoona

View the latest agenda http://www.caoforumafrica.com/agenda

Delegate registration http://www.caoforumafrica.com/registration

For more information, contact Laurence Allen, Marketing Manager

Email: Laurence.allen@coriniumintelligence.com

NVIDIA’s parallel processing platforms give Google, Microsoft, CERN, IDSIA and thousands of the world’s top researchers the power to transform the world. Discover the technology that will drive your organisation’s future.

The GTC conference agenda has been designed to encourage compelling conversations between professionals across many industries, from automotive to big data analytics and manufacturing to energy. Further tracks on robotics, professional visualization and virtualisation will offer you the chance to explore some of the other technology mega-trends that will shape your work in the years to come. Learn more.

At TEF 2016, we’re gathering together to explore the next 10 years of Ethernet; as the voice of Ethernet, the Ethernet Alliance is committed to leading the industry’s long-term vision. We’re in the midst of a period of unbridled expansion and advancement that’s opening the door to new markets and applications. Even though these dynamic changes are just beginning to resonate across the technology landscape, there’s no time to waste – we need to look past those things already set in motion and begin assessing the path that lies beyond. Learn more.

With a mission promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to users, the HPC User Forum organization has grown to 150 members. It is directed by a volunteer Steering Committee of HPC users from government, industry and academia, and is operated for the users by market analyst firm IDC. Learn more.

ECMWF is putting scalability at the top of the agenda for the 17th Workshop on High-Performance Computing in Meteorology, which will take place Oct. 24-28 in Reading. The event will bring together users from Member States and around the world to discuss achievements in high-performance computing over the past two years and requirements for computing power into the future. Learn more.

The HPC Advisory Council invites you to join us on Wednesday, October 26th, in Xi’an for our annual China Conference. This year’s agenda will focus on Deep learning, Artificial Intelligence, HPC productivity, advanced topics and futures. Join fellow technologists, researchers, developers, computational scientists and industry affiliates to discuss recent developments and future advancements in High Performance Computing. Learn more.

GTC DC is a regional extension of the GPU Technology Conference held annually in Silicon Valley. GTC DC offers valuable training and a showcase of the most vital work in the computing industry today – including artificial intelligence and deep learning, virtual reality, and autonomous machines. Come connect with top GPU developers, industry and government leaders, and NVIDIA experts to discover exclusive technology demos and learn from experts first-hand at Washington D.C.’s only dedicated GPU computing conference. Learn more.

The OpenPOWER Summit Europe will take place Oct. 26-28 in Barcelona, Spain. Held in conjuction with OpenStack Europe, the OpenPOWER Summit Europe is just steps away from the Convention Center and the Hilton. Learn more.

The goal of 13th IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2016) is to establish an international forum for engineers and scientists to present their excellent ideas and experiences in system fields of distributed and parallel computing. Learn more.

AI World is the nation's largest AI business conference! More than 80 speakers (including 65+ CxO's) and dozens of sponsors and exhibitors will help you learn how to successfully harness intelligent technologies to build competitive advantage, drive new business opportunities and accelerate innovation efforts. Learn more.

The High Performance Consortium for Advanced Scientific and Technical (HP-CAST) computing users group works to increase the capabilities of Hewlett Packard Enterprise solutions for large-scale, scientific and technical computing. HP-CAST provides guidance to Hewlett Packard Enterprise on the essential development and support issues for such systems. HP-CAST meetings typically include corporate briefings and presentations by HPE executives and technical staff (under NDA), and discussions of customer issues related to high-performance technical computing. Learn more.

The Dell HPC Community is a worldwide technical forum that fosters the exchange of ideas among researchers, computer scientists, technologists, and engineers and promotes the advancement of innovative, powerful HPC solutions. Dell customers, staff, and partners are invited to become members and to attend this exclusive workshop featuring insightful keynote presentations by HPC experts, as well as valuable technical sessions and discussions. This half-day event will take place on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 12. Learn more.

This one and a half-day event brings together architecture experts and HPC industry leaders to discuss, share and highlight the latest in supercomputing.

• Learn best practices to reach peak performance
• Discuss code modernization in HPC
• Hear the latest industry-specific approaches for tackling real-life challenges in parallel programming

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The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis takes place Nov. 13-18 in Salt Lake City. As the world's largest gathering of supercomputing professionals, the annual SC conference continues to grow steadily in size and impact each year. Approximately 5,000 people participate in the technical program, with about 11,000 people overall.

SC has built a diverse community of participants including researchers, scientists, application developers, computing center staff and management, computing industry staff, agency program managers, journalists, and congressional staffers. This diversity is one of the conference's main strengths, making it a yearly "must attend" forum for stakeholders throughout the technical computing community.

The technical program is the heart of SC. It has addressed virtually every area of scientific and engineering research, as well as technological development, innovation, and education. Its presentations, tutorials, panels, and discussion forums have included breakthroughs in many areas and inspired new and innovative areas of computing. Learn more.

Kick-off your Salt Lake experience and SC16 week with the annual StartupHPC conference. Register early and secure your opportunity to engage fellow entrepreneurial explorers, executives and experts during this one day exclusive event packed with high quality content, insights, and interactions!

Leading FPGA manufacturers have recently made a concerted effort to provide a range of higher-level, easier to use, design entries for programming FPGAs, including the OpenCL framework, already widely used by the HPC community for heterogeneous computing. OpenCL is particularly appealing because it offers the potential for portability to GPUs and Xeon Phi. Such initiatives are already stimulating new interest within the HPC community around the potential advantages of FPGAs over other architectures in terms of both performance and energy consumption, with increasing relevance to the challenges faced on the road to Exascale. With this in mind, this will be a unique workshop at SC that brings together HPC and heterogeneous-computing researchers to demonstrate and share experiences on how newly-available high-level programming models, including OpenCL, are already empowering HPC software developers to directly leverage FPGAs, and to identify future opportunities and needs for research in this area. Learn more.

The DDN User Group meeting is returning to Salt Lake City for SC16. The meeting takes place Monday, Nov. 14 from 2pm-6pm at the Radisson Hotel near the convention center.

"Join your HPC community colleagues and DDN executive and technical leadership to share insights and hear how other leading global organizations are assessing and leveraging technology to raise the bar on HPC innovations and best practices. From exciting user presentations to engaging roundtable conversations and groundbreaking technology updates, this can’t-miss event provides you with ideas and inspiration to help your cutting-edge HPC initiatives transform the world. Agenda and more details to come!" Learn more.

Second International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC'16) Held in conjunction with SC16. Learn More.

We are pleased to announce that the first Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage and Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (PDSW-DISCS’16) will be hosted at SC16. The objective of this one day joint workshop is to combine two overlapping communities and to better promote and stimulate researchers’ interactions to address some of the most critical challenges for scientific data storage, management, devices, and processing infrastructure for both traditional compute intensive simulations and data-intensive high performance computing solutions. Special attention will be given to issues in which community collaboration can be crucial for problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community buy­-in, and shared tools. Learn more.

One of the hard realities is that the hardware continues to evolve very rapidly with diverse memory subsystems or cores with different ISAs or accelerators of varied types. The HPC community is in constant need for sophisticated software tools and techniques to port legacy code to these emerging platforms. Maintaining a single code base yet achieving performance portable solution continues to pose a daunting task. Directive-based programming models such as OpenACC, OpenMP tackle this issue by offering scientists a high-level approach to accelerate scientific applications and develop performance portable solutions. This enables accelerators to be first-class citizens for HPC! To address the rapid pace of hardware evolution, developers continue to explore and add richer features to the various (parallel) programming standards. Domain scientists continue to explore the programming and tools space while preparing themselves for future Exascale systems.

Held in conjunction with SC16, this workshop aims to solicit papers that explore innovative language features – their implementations, compilation & runtime scheduling techniques, performance optimization strategies, autotuning tools exploring the optimization space and so on. WACCPD has been one of the major forums for bringing together the users, developers and tools community to share their knowledge and experiences of using directives and similar approaches to program emerging complex systems. Learn more.

Over the past few years investment in quantum computing research has skyrocketed worldwide, as has interest in the potential of this revolutionary technology. D-Wave, the first quantum computing company, released its 1000+ qubit D-Wave 2X system last year, which has now been installed at NASA Ames, Los Alamos National Laboratory and USC/Lockheed Martin. Attend this seminar and learn about D-Wave's newest system, with a 2000 qubit quantum processor. Learn more.

The 3rd Annual Seagate HPC User Forum is coming to SC16 in Salt Lake City on Nov. 14.

We’re venturing well beyond legacy boundaries. Are you confused about the real future of HPC storage? Is it all flash like the hype suggests? Are reliable spinning disks still going to be relevant? Is there a better answer? Join us Monday, November 14 from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. at Seagate’s 3rd annual HPC User Forum to get your questions answered and learn about the newest HPC direction and innovations firsthand from four industry leaders. Learn more.

The biggest party at SC16 takes place on Monday night 9pm after the opening gala. So here’s the deal: we are holding the 2016 Bash in a children’s museum. Not to worry, as in years past a great bunch of vendors will be providing food, entertainment, and adult beverages. The museum has simple, safe exhibits that should not be too difficult for you and your friends. Learn more.

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Nimbix is bringing together an international group of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data enthusiasts including software developers, hardware OEM’s, users, industry analysts and more. There is no better way to facilitate information and idea exchanges, along with informative discussion than over cocktails and appetizers. Our lounge party guests are invited to enjoy cocktails including Uptime Punch, brought to you by our lounge party partner, Infomart Data Centers. Just a short walk or Uber from Salt Palace Convention Center, Stanza Italian Bistro & Wine Bar, brings contemporary chef-driven Italian fare to the plate, rooted in the classics, utilizing authentic ingredients and techniques but with a fresh approach. Learn more.

IDC will hold its annual Analyst Briefing and Breakfast at SC16. Free for attendees, the event takes place 7:15 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center. "Join IDC industry analysts as they present their expert opinions and analysis on the technical computing market and the future of high-performance computing." Learn more.

The Women in HPC network is hosting a meetup celebration at SC16. The event will take place at Nov. 15 at 7:30pm - 9:00pm at Caffé Molise in Salt Lake City. "Join us to celebrate the growing community of women in the supercomputing community and the work of WHPC. This special networking evening will include drinks and an appetizer buffet. Hosted by EPCC in collaboration with Intel, Compute Canada and McMahon Consulting, the event is a great opportunity to celebrate the work done by WHPC and meet members, founders, advocates and supporters." Learn more.

The inaugural Chief Data Scientist Forum launches November 16th-17th 2016 at the Hilton, Financial District, San Francisco and will be the premier event for high-level data science practitioners, containing essential content and new ideas to develop the leadership role for data science.
Attendees can also network and discuss their work utilizing data in an exploratory, scientifically rigorous manner to meet strategic and tactical organizational goals.
Confirmed speakers include:
• Ashok Srivastava, Chief Data Scientist, Verizon
• Yael Garten, Director of Data Science, LinkedIn
• Esteban Arcaute, Senior Director, Head of Data Science, WalmartLabs
• Rahul Todkar, Vice President, Enterprise Data Science, Charles Schwab
• Chul Lee, Head of Data Engineering & Science - Connected Fitness, Under Armour

Programme highlights:
• Winning the Talent War - Attracting and Retaining Top Data Scientists in a Hyper-Competitive Market: Understanding their motivations and discovering the key to ensuring your organizations’ data science projects excite your team

• The IT Implications of a Data Science Approach Identifying a balance between proprietary software and open source tools plus measuring impact of the shift from highly curated data to ‘data in the wild’

• Democratizing Data Science: Empowering non-technical analysts to use data science tools and make better informed judgements which lead to a greater data-driven culture

• Securing Buy In at the Highest Level to ensure that data science is trusted throughout the organization by delivering business value

• The Data Scientist as a Partner in Success - Building Positive Relations with Internal Stakeholders how can we convince other teams to work constructively with data science?

View the latest agenda http://www.chiefdatascientistusa.com/agenda
Delegate registration http://www.chiefdatascientistusa.com/register
The Inside BigData / Inside HPC community is entitled to a 10% discount on the delegate registration fee. Please quote the booking code INSIDE10 when registering.

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