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9:00 am |
Registration and Coffee & Tea |
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9:30 am |
Opening Address |
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Steve Phillips
Vice President, Sales, IDC Asia/Pacific |
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9:45 am |
IDC Keynote - HPC Market Trends and Research Update |
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Earl Joseph
Program Vice President, High Performance Computing, IDC |
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The presentation will start with an overview of the worldwide HPC (high Performance Computing) technical server market. Then it will cover the fast growing cluster portion of the HPC market, a look at the A/P region and then the five year market forecasts will be shown. Some interesting end-user HPC examples will be covered. |
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10:15 am |
High Productivity Computing : Taking HPC Mainstream |
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Bill Hilf
General Manager, Platform Strategy, Microsoft Corp |
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Join Bill Hilf as he discusses the past, present and future of HPC and Microsoft’s vision to make supercomputing mainstream for end users, IT professionals and developers. He will talk about the Microsoft platform that supports the vision and the growing ecosystem of partners. |
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10:45 am |
HPC: The New Corporate Weapon
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Merle Giles
Director, Private Sector Program, National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
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HPC is the new secret weapon in the corporate innovation arsenal. Learn how a third of America’s FORTUNE 500 companies have leveraged NCSA resources and how it has now become necessary to push digital modeling and simulation into the entire supply chain. Also learn about NCSA’s TOP500® run utilizing Microsoft Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2008 on 1200 dual quad-core Dell blades. |
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11:15 am |
Coffee
Break |
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11:45 am |
Chairperson's Remarks |
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11:55 am |
Accelerating High Productivity Computing |
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Dennis Ang
General Manager for HPC, Hewlett Packard |
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In recent years High Performance Computing in Asia Pacific Region has experienced very fast growth and adoption as engineering and product innovation increase competitive advantage across industries. With the advent of industry-standard cluster computing technology led by HP going mainstream the creative use of HPC has helped companies to increase their productivity. We look at some of trends and challenges ahead for HPC and provide examples of its use in key industries. |
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12:25 pm |
HPC for Public R&D – An End User Perspective & Experience. |
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Dr. Terence Hung
Program Manager, Advanced Computing Programme, Institute of High Performance Computing |
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Terence will talk about the evolution of HPC investment, R&D as well as its exploitation at the Institute of High Performance Computing, a public R&D organization in Singapore. |
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12:45 pm |
Intel Technology in the HPC Market |
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David Scott
Petascale Product Line Architect, Intel Technology |
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75% of the world’s 500 fastest computers (375) are built with Intel processors. Intel’s market segment share of the broader HPC market is even larger. The heart of any HPC system is the processor but there are many other technologies that go into creating clusters that are affordable and easy to use. This talk will describe the Intel processor roadmap but will also describe these other technologies such as Intel compilers and libraries, Intel Cluster Ready, Intel Solid State Disks, and Intel LAN adapters. It is the combination of all of these technologies that makes Intel the natural choice for delivering HPC systems to the market. |
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1:15 pm |
Networking
Lunch |
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2:20 pm |
Chairperson's Remarks |
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2:30 pm |
Taking the next steps in High Performance Computing |
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Andrew Pletcher
Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco Systems Inc. |
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There are many enabling technologies that will allow significant improvements to occur in High Performance Computing. Many of these technologies will be forthcoming over the next short period of time, but there are changes that can be made today that will provide significant increases in application performance and optimization in the traditional high performance computing environments; and for high performance computing environments within today’s enterprise environments. This session will elaborate on the technologies that are hear today and coming tomorrow. |
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3.00 pm |
Q&A Session/ Panel Discussion |
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Breakout Session 1 – Digital Content Creation Breakout Session
(Location: Grand Ballroom, Level 4) |
Breakout Session 2 - Manufacturing Breakout Session
(Location: Galleria Room, Level 3) |
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3.30 pm |
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Richard Walsh
Research Director, Technical Computing, IDC |
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Earl Joseph
Program Vice President, High Performance Computing, IDC |
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3:40 pm |
| The Use of High Performance Computing Systems for High-value Media Creation |
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Maurice Patel
Head of Industry Management, Media and Entertainment Division, Autodesk, Inc |
High Performance Computing (HPC) has been key to real-time media applications since the early 90s when super-computers first began to replace dedicated hardware systems for 2D and 3D media applications. The critical requirement of both moving large data sets in real-time through internal system buses combined with the need to process that data efficiently have led to a series of hardware and software innovations that continue to evolve rapidly even today. Autodesk has been developing performance tuned software solutions for HPC systems since 1992. Today these solutions have evolved as hardware capabilities have changed but the one constant driving factor has been the need to create ever more complex imagery, simulations and visualizations at higher and higher resolutions interactively and with guaranteed performance characteristics in mission critical environments. This talk will focus on the applications of HPC to the creation of film, television, games and design visualization content. |
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Nelson Dias
Executive Vice President Asia Pacific, Altair Engineering |
Simulation along with HPC is a key driver of design and is being leveraged as a key competitive advantage. As leading developers of computer-aided engineering technology, we have focused on modeling and simulating real – world phenomena over the last 20 years. Recent dramatic increases in computer power, as well as the development of more efficient solver algorithms, have enabled us to model systems with increasing levels of accuracy and actually drive a more robust design process, enabling customers to evaluate more design iterations in the shorter time and introduce high-quality products to market. Altair’s vision is to accelerate innovation by unleashing human as well as "machine" creativity. Prototyping and simulation are becoming strategic differentiators in helping companies encourage "profitable improvisation". We also see the growing acceptance of Software as a Service (SaaS) in the PLM market. |
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4:10 pm |
Coffee Break |
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4:30 pm |
Distributed Processing and Scheduling System for Animation Production |
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Dr Wong Kok Cheong
Executive Director, Sparky Animation |
The speaker will share his experience in working in the distributed computing environment of animation production. His insider’s viewpoint will provide much insight.
He will touch on the application of software for the scheduling systems used in past productions. He will present examples of their merits as well as drawbacks. All the main points of his talk will be amply illustrated with specific case studies. Rounding up his talk, he will reveal his wish-list of features that he hopes to see in the ideal distributed software for processing and scheduling in the animation environment.
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| High Performance Computing Consolidation Implementation |
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Edward Chew
Professional (Systems IT), Motorola Electronics Pte Ltd |
| With the onset of cluster computing, the ownership cost for High Performance Computing solution is now accessible to businesses large and small. Motorola uses HPC solutions to compute complex models generated by applications requiring high compute and IO requirements. The top challenges met during Motorola's HPC solution consolidation are suitable technology for fast data transfer, work load management and a scalable storage solution capable of handling simulation and remote visualization IO requirements. This presentation will explain the solution employed to successfully consolidate the company's HPC solutions. |
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4:50 pm |
| HPC Trends in Media and Entertainment. |
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Deepak Setty
Regional Manager, Asia Pacific Operations, Microsoft |
- Focus on the WW market drivers for digital animation
- Expanding role of Asia
- Specific solutions in broadcast, animation and gaming
- Specific customer efforts in Singapore.
- New trends e.g. workstations moving up to server clusters, media encoding on MS platforms
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| Engineering Simulation Solutions and HPC |
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Jeff Wierer
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Windows Server Division, Microsoft |
- Drivers and Trends in Manufacturing
- Growth and Momentum of HPC
- How Can Microsoft help
- Roadmap & Discussion
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5:05 pm |
| HPC Trends in Media and Entertainment. |
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Deepak Setty
Regional Manager, Asia Pacific Operations, Microsoft |
- Focus on the WW market drivers for digital animation
- Expanding role of Asia
- Specific solutions in broadcast, animation and gaming
- Specific customer efforts in Singapore.
- New trends e.g. workstations moving up to server clusters, media encoding on MS platforms
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| Engineering Simulation Solutions and HPC |
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Timothy Kwan
Regional Business Manager, CAD-IT Consultants |
| Due to a variety of technologies arriving in the marketplace, there's now renewed and greater interest in high performance computing for engineering simulations. Reduced analysis time, greater model fidelity, coupled physics and better understanding of the design are some of the benefits that drive adoption of high performance computing in the mechanical, manufacturing and defense engineering sectors. Applications of high performance computing in engineering simulation solutions such as ANSYS, FLUENT, DEFORM and Ensight will be shared. |
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5:20 pm |
Q & A Session/ Panel Discussion |
Q & A Session/ Panel Discussion |
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5.40 pm |
Lucky Draw |
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Two lucky draw prizes up for grabs! Stand to win a Nokia E71 Mobile, worth S$718* or a XBOX 360 game console, worth S$499*!
* This raffle is open to all delegates attending High Productivity Computing Series 2008 in Singapore. The winner must be present during the draw to qualify. |
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5.50 pm |
End of Event |
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may differ across the cities where the event will
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