Accelerating Understanding, CERN 2009
 

THE
AGENDA

Day 1: 1st July 2009

Times Session Title Speaker Abstract
14:00 - 15:00 Arrival and registration    
15:00 - 18:00 Optional tour of LHC facility at CERN   Session details
18:00 - 19:00 Drinks reception    
19:00 - 22:00 Dinner and welcome speech Josh Claman
Vice President & General Manager
Dell Public
Sector - EMEA
 

Day 2: 2nd July 2009

Times Session Title Speaker Abstract
08:00 - 08:45 Refreshments on arrival    
09:00
 
Grid computing at the LHC: Massive computing at the frontier of scale, space and power - within budget
Dr. Helge Meinhard
CERN IT
  Achieving HPC performance through processor architecture, server design and parallel tools
Dr. Stephen Wheat  
HPC Chief Strategist Worldwide
Intel
11:00 Refreshment break    
  Solving the storage challenge for the LHCb Experiment - now and in the future
Dr. Beat Jost
CERN PH
Session details
  Spindles are not enough – How to keep up with the Cores Josh Goldenhar
Sr. Director, Product Management
DataDirect Networks
12:30 Lunch and Showcase    
13:45 Harnessing GPU technology in heterogeneous HPC clusters Dr. Paul Calleja
Director HPC Services,
Cambridge University
Session details
  Dell simplifying HPC in research
 
Dr. Reza Rooholamini
Director of Enterprise Solutions - Dell
 
  Our Commitment to Accelerating Understanding in
Research Computing
 
Josh Claman
Vice President & General Manager
Dell Public
Sector - EMEA
 
16:00 - 16:30 Refreshments and departure