MINI SYMPOSIUM ON
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
TECHNOLOGIES, APPLICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Bangalore, India

December 20, 2006

The IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC) is the leading conference in India addressing the broad area of high performance computing and communication. The conference emphasizes the design and analysis of high performance parallel, distributed, networked and mobile sensor-based systems, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. HiPC 2006, the 13th conference in this series, will be held in Bangalore, India during December 18-21, 2006. Further information about the conference can be found at www.hipc.org.

HiPC 2006 will feature a special all-day mini symposium focused on High Performance Computing Technologies, Applications and Experience. The primary goal of this mini symposium is to bring together providers and users of HPC. The event will provide a forum for presenting the state-of-the-art in HPC platforms and technologies, for discussing best practices and for exchanging experiences. HPC applications and the experiences of application developers will be of special interest to this mini symposium. The mini symposium will consist of invited as well as contributed talks by leading experts from industry, research laboratories and universities, as well as panels and open discussions.

MINI SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS
(HiPC Mini Symposium - Part I)

Wednesday, December 20, 2006, 10:00 am - Noon

  1. Network Edge Computing - Using Learning and Cultivating Best Practices to Meet the Challenges of Next-Generation High Performance Embedded Computing, Tirumale K. Ramesh, John L. Meier, The Boeing Company. [abstract]
  2. HPC and Climate System Modelling: A User's Perspective, Ravi S. Nanjundiah, Centre for Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, IISc, Bangalore. [abstract]
  3. Grid Computing in High Energy Physics, Neeti Parashar, Purdue University Calumet. [abstract]
  4. Designing and Optimizing a Cluster File System Solution, Kalyana Chadalavada, Sanjay Lalwani, Amina Saify, Dell Inc, Bangalore. [abstract]
  5. A High-Resolution Direct Numerical Siumlation of Fluid Turbulence with Polymer Additives, Prasad Perlekar and Rahul Pandit, Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Bangalore and Dhrubaditya Mitra, Observatoire de la Cote D'azur, France.[abstract]

INDUSTRY TRACK TALKS
(HiPC Mini Symposium - Part II)
Wednesday, December 20, 2006, 1:00 - 4:30 pm

Industry track talks will be held as Part II of the HiPC Mini Symposium.
Further Details [PDF] [DOC]

  1. Dell: Reza Rooholamini - "Evolution of the HPCC Technology Ecosystem and Impact of HPCC technologies on Data Center Architecture of the Future"
  2. HP: R. Balasubramanian
  3. IBM: Manish Gupta - "High Performance Computing in the Brave New World"
  4. Infosys: Shubhashis Sengupta - "Challenges and New Dimensions in High Performance Enterprise Computing"
  5. Microsoft: Ram Narayanan - "HPC Goes Mainstream"
  6. Satyam: Mahesh Krishnamoorthy - "Grid Technology for Infrastructure Consolidation in Enterprise Applications and Data Centers"
  7. Sun: Bjorn Andersson - "Production Ready HPC"

Relevant Events: The mini symposium will run in parallel with the conference exhibition, which will provide an opportunity for showcasing HPC technologies and applications.

Registration Information: HiPC offers special registration rates for attendees from research laboratories in India. Student scholarships for students at Indian universities are also available. Please see the conference website for more detail.
 

Call for Participation [DOC] [PDF]

Call for Abstracts: HPC vendors, technology providers, practitioners and application developers are invited to participate in the mini symposium by making technical presentations describing new HPC platforms and enabling technologies, applications and experiences. Interested participants may send a one page abstract of their presentation by email to the mini symposium co-chairs:
   - R. Badrinath ([email protected])
   - R. Tupuri ([email protected])
 

SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS
  R. Badrinath, HP
R. Tupuri, Advanced Micro Devices, India
SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE
  Haresh Bhatt (SAC-ISRO)
R. Govindarajan (IISc)
Arvind Jain (Google)
Vijay Mann (IBM)
Venkat Ramana (Cray-Hinditron)
N. Seetharamakrishna (CDAC)
Jaideep Sen (Microsoft)
S. H. Srinivasan (Yahoo)
Ramesh K. Tirumale (Boeing)
 
IMPORTANT DATES
  Submissions: October 1, 2006
Accept/Reject Decisions: October 31, 2006
Symposium: December 20, 2006