The European Exascale Projects in cooperation with ETP4HPC cordially invite an interested global audience to our joint Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) Session at SC15 titled:
‘Taking on Exascale Challenges: Key Lessons and International Collaboration Opportunities’
Date: Thursday, November 19
Time: 3:30-5:00pm
Location: Room 13A, Austin Convention Centre
The session presents an overview on the European Exascale research agenda – covering both FP7 and H2020 initiatives. It draws first lessons learned from established projects and shares how these results influenced the focus topics of the newly funded projects starting in autumn 2015. Considerable time is devoted to a discussion with international participants on opportunities and mechanisms for global collaboration in this field.
Program
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Overview on the European Exascale Landscape (both FP7 & H2020 initiatives) |
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By Jean-François Lavignon, ETP4HPC Chairman and Atos
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| Talks | Presentation of Focus Research Areas |
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Area 1: Compute & Interconnect By Filippo Mantovani, Technical Project Coordinator Mont-Blanc, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
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Area 2: Memory & Storage and Data-intensive Real-Time By Prof. Jesus Carretero, Computer Architecture Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Dep. University Carlos III of Madrid
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Area 3: Programming Tools, Algorithms & Mathematics By Stefano Markidis, Assistant Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Panel Discussion - Featuring distinguished international guests: Mitsuhisa Sato - Co-project leader of Post-K, University of Tsukuba and RIKEN AICS Franck Capello – Senior Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
Moderated by Sai Narasimhamurthy – Staff Engineer Research, Seagate |
Please find the current agenda here.
Looking forward to seeing you in Austin!