This is just a reminder of tomorrow's IIC Colloquium: ********************** Academic and Research Environments in Asia and Europe: Towards Petascale Systems April 14, 2010, 4:00 pm Room G-115, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge Frank Baetke, HP Worldwide Director, High Performance Computing, Research Universities & Research Labs, Hewlett Packard Abstract Academic and research HPC environments in Asia and Europe have undergone significant changes in recent years. Widely established standards have helped to ease cross-site and cross-country collaboration and load balancing. In this talk, examples of typical environments will be shown and future trends and new challenges, including the potential use of HPC clouds, discussed along with highly specialized sites with dedicated environments. In particular, 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 concepts for petascale computing will be discussed. About the Speaker Frank Baetke manages Hewlett Packard’s Global HPC-Technology Program for academic and research institutions. He is a director and board member of HP-CAST, the worldwide user group of HP-HPC; an advisory board member of the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC); and a member of the Indian Supercomputing Conference (HiPC) steering committee. He also serves on the committees of several international high-performance computing conferences. Baetke was Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat) at the Technical University of Munich and joined Convex Computer Corporation in 1986, then 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 in Munich, Germany. --------------- Reception in the Maxwell Dworkin lobby 3-4 pm. (Refreshments courtesy of Hewlett Packard.) _________ Mark your calendar for these upcoming IIC Colloquia: Wednesday, Apr. 21: Pavlos Protopapas, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and IIC/SEAS Wednesday, Apr. 28: Daniel Janies, Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University Wednesday, May 5: Jeannette M. Wing, National Science Foundation For more information about IIC colloquia and other events : http://iic.harvard.edu/events/upcoming _______________________________________________ iic-colloquium mailing list iic-colloquium(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.deas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-colloquium