Panels

This year the committee will form two or three panels to focus on concepts and discussions of the evolution, new developments, performance and price ratios, scaling, and management of various components of clusters.

The Panels will consist of 5-6 experts in the field. Each panelist will have 10 minutes to present what he/she considers the most salient points of the technology that would be of interested to the conference attendees. Following these short presentations there will be a Q&A session. The panel chair will lead with 1-2 questions and then the session will be opened to questions from audience.

Our primary focus areas this year are Interconnects and Application Data Storage (global file systems). The Chair will consider other topics. You can voice your interest for another topic area by sending email to the Panel Chair.

Interconnects: Is Exascale End-of-the-line for Commodity Networks?

Tuesday, September 27th 2011

Moderator: Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Panelists:

Ahmad Afsahi (Queen's University, Canada)
Ron Brightwell (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
Richard Graham (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
Torsten Hoefler (Blue Waters Directorate, NCSA, UIUC, USA)
Scott Pakin (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
D. K. Panda (Ohio State University, USA)
Shinji Sumimoto (Fujitsu, Japan)
Liquan Xiao (National University of Defense Technology, China

Accelerated Computing: From Research Projects to Mainstream Computing

Wednesday, September 28th 2011

Moderator: Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Panelists:

Donald Becker (NVIDIA, USA)
Lars Koesterke (Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA)
Jun Makino (National Astronomical Observatory, Japan)
Chuck Moore (AMD, USA)
Nash Palaniswamy (Intel Corporation, USA)

Storage in HPC: Are Parallel File Systems the (Only) Future?

Thursday, September 29th 2011

Moderator: Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Panelists:

Carlos Maltzahn (UC Santa Cruz, USA)
Shinji Sumimoto (Fujitsu, Japan)
Brent Welch (Panasas, USA)
Peter Braam (Xyratex, USA)
André Brinkmann (PC2, University of Paderborn, Germany)

Contact

Please contact the Panel chair for more information:
Kamil Iskra, Argonne National Laboratory, USA, panels@ieeecluster.org