insideHPC Events Calendar

The HPC Advisory Council, together with Stanford University, will hold the HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference and Exascale Workshop 2014 on February 3-5, 2014, at Stanford, California. The conference will focus on High-Performance Computing (HPC) usage models and benefits, the future of supercomputing, latest technology developments, best practices and advanced HPC topics. The conference is open to the public and will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists and industry affiliates.  

There will also be an exascale workshop. Learn more about this event.

Finally ready to get serious about infinite design exploration? Ready to see how cloud can provide instant access to massive systems, for infinite exploration?

Come on February 26th, 2015 to Altair's ATCx Cloud "Infinite Design Exploration" event in Frankfurt to see how others in the industry do it -- and try it out yourself!

The series will feature customer presentations exploring large design scenarios and their outcomes, pushing the limits of CAE and HPC in making innovative products using Altair’s Cloud Solutions, highlighting the ease of access to HPC in the CAE domain through the cloud medium. Learn more.

The Rice University Oil and Gas High Performance Computing (OG HPC) Workshop (Wednesday, March 4 and Thursday, March 5, 2015), is the premier meeting place for networking and discussion focused on computing and information technology challenges and needs in the oil and gas industry. Learn more.

In the modern era, application performance and scalability is critically dependent on the network. OpenFabrics Software (OFS) is the software engine, using Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) techniques, that unleashes the network, allowing applications to achieve maximum performance. This workshop is devoted to advancing the state of the art in open source networking software in pursuit of achieving new heights in application and middleware performance, scalability, and efficiency. The workshop brings network software developers together with developers of key high-performance applications in an open source environment to collectively guide the future evolution of these linchpin technologies.

Click here to learn more.

The GPU Technology Conference (GTC) is the most important event for GPU developers and computational scientists. It's where the brightest minds come together and explore how GPUs are helping solve some of the world's most complex computational challenges, and see the latest advances made with accelerated computing.

The Accelerated Computing Tracks at GTC 2015 will feature: Hundreds of deep-dive sessions on the latest research findings, innovative techniques and programming methods Hands-on parallel programming labs Technical tutorials Academic research posters Networking events with thousands of your peers from 50+ countries.

Learn more about this event. 

Organized by the A*STAR Computational Resource Center, this symposium aims to gather global prominent supercomputing practitioners and thought leaders who will share and explore outstanding problems and achievements in supercomputing applications, Exascale computing, Big Data science, and related topics. Learn more.

The HPC Advisory Council and the Swiss Supercomputing Centre will host the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2015 in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 23 - March 25, 2015.

The conference will focus on High-Performance Computing essentials, new developments and emerging technologies, best practices and hands-on training.

The conference will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists, students and industry affiliates for cross-training and to discuss recent HPC developments and future advancements. Click here for the agenda.

The Lustre User Group (LUG) conference is the industry’s primary venue for discussion and seminars on the Lustre parallel file system and other open source file system technologies. Learn more.

IDC, in close partnership with users and vendors in the technical high-performance computing (HPC) industry, created the HPC User Forum, a unique service that identifies buyer/user requirements and vendor capabilities within this market. This forum promotes the interests of HPC users worldwide in industry/commerce, government, and academia. The HPC User Forum is an extension of IDC's long-standing commitment to the global HPC community. Learn more.

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois invites you to CUG 2015 in Chicago.  The meeting will provide Cray system users, developers, and administrators with an opportunity to discuss issues and innovations regarding large-scale, high-productivity computing, data analysis, and collaboration. Learn more.

Whether your field is manufacturing, research, business analytics, or financial systems, you will find something new and relevant to your current and future needs. The SGI User Group conference presents not only a great opportunity for users to network and share experience and knowhow with other SGI customers but also get a glimpse of the very latest in high performance computing.

This year, the agenda includes talks from Intel about the current state and future direction of parallel processing using their most advanced processors. You’ll hear from SGI about their roadmap, including employing state-of-the-art GPUs and co-processing. Learn about energy efficiency and sustainability in compute environments. And find out what the latest trends are in the increasingly important area of storage and online storage management. We’ve got a great list of customers discussing a variety of topics and uses for SGI. There are plenty of chances to look at novel approaches to problems and methods to bring SGI technology to bear on a variety of challenges.

SGIUG Membership is free and is available to anyone who owns or uses SGI hardware or software, or who is an SGI business partner.  Learn more.

The 8th annual MEGWARE HPC User Meeting will welcome top European researchers, users and developers invited in the field of high-performance computing. The focus will be interesting lectures and advice from industry, science and research . The High Performance Computing - High Performance Computing (HPC) - provides users and researchers many advantages in scientific computing for modeling and simulation of complex systems. Learn more.

IBM's  Edge2015 brings Information Technology (IT) infrastructure innovation to life. Today, all functional organizations are expected to help their company grow. This means that IT management and IT infrastructure are being called upon to deliver value in new ways. IT must become a catalyst for fresh ideas and breakthrough thinking. Learn how to 'spring' ahead of the competition with new solutions that will help drive innovation and new revenue opportunities for your company.

This years conference has 3 tracks: Executive, Technical, and Line of Business. Click here to learn more.

If you are a Linux system administrator new to HPC, this is the workshop for you!

In just five days you will: learn HPC system administration concepts and technologies and how to apply them, get hands-on skills building a small test cluster in lab sessions, hear real-life stories and get to ask experts questions in panel discussions. Plus you’ll create a personal network of other professionals in the HPC field.

The LCI Workshop will be May 18-22, 2015, in Norman, Oklahoma, on the campus of The University of Oklahoma. Cost is only $495 if you register by April 24 ($600 after that date).

For more information see: http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/

At this event, FLOW-3D users from both the commercial and academic arenas will present and discuss their work, including topics such as modeling reservoirs, simulating medical devices, and solving manufacturing issues (automotive and metal casting applications) using FLOW-3D. Speakers from Roche Diagnostics, Reutter GmbH, CIE Automotive, Protesa, and a variety of leading research institutions are part of a diverse lineup of presenters. In addition to the work presented by our customers, Flow Science representatives will present current and upcoming developments for the software. Learn more.

This webinar will combine presentations with brief product demonstrations involving Bright Cluster Manager. Bright's solutions for HPC and Big Data Analytics, as well as OpenStack private clouds, will each receive attention.

REGISTER:  North America - June 4 | Europe - June 8 | Asia-Pacific - June 12

Join Intel as they explore the new Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA). This webinar is meant to familiarize you with the latest design innovations created or enhanced by Intel to better support end-user MPI applications. This webinar we will be focusing on fabric building advantages utilizing Intel OPA with a 48 port Radix Switch ASIC, making comparisons to competing and previous generation 36 port Radix Switch ASICs.

The Q&A session will be moderated by Andrew Russell, a solution architect at Intel Corporation who focuses on high-performance fabric technologies. Register here.

In this webinar, you will learn the technical details on the top new feature of :

• Bright Cluster Manager for HPC
• Bright Cluster Manager for Apache Hadoop
• Bright Computing's solution for OpenStack private clouds

This webinar will combine a presentation with product demonstrations. REGISTER:  Europe - June 10 | North America - June 10 | Asia-Pacific - June 16

The Chapel Implementers and Users Workshop is the second in an annual series of workshops designed to bring developers and users of the Chapel language together to report on work being done with the language across the broad open-source community. Attendance is open to anyone interested in Chapel, from the most seasoned Chapel user or developer to someone simply curious to learn more. Learn more.

HPCS 2015 is Canada’s foremost supercomputing conference. It will be co-hosted by Compute Canada and Calcul Québec at the SGW campus of Concordia University in downtown Montreal from June 17th to June 19th 2015. As usual, the three days of the main conference will be preceded by two days of workshops and meetings on June 15th and 16th. Learn more.

TERATEC brings together top international experts in high performance numerical design and simulation, making it the major event in France and in Europe in this area. It emphasizes again the strategic importance of these technologies for developing industrial competitiveness and innovation capacity.

Click here for the agenda and to learn about registration.

Louisiana State University will host the Beowulf Boot Camp, July 6-10, on the LSU campus. The course offers students and teachers a unique opportunity to work with advanced research technology not usually available in a typical classroom setting. Learn more.

The Fortissimo Consortium will host their Fortissimo Forum on HPC Cloud Computing on July 8 in Amsterdam. The Forum will again bring together Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Service Providers, Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and technical experts around the theme of HPC applications in the cloud. This year’s specific topics are dedicated to the opportunities that Fortissimo will bring to small and medium sized ISVs. Learn more.

The Hewlett-Packard Consortium for Advanced Scientific and Technical (HP-CAST) computing users group works to increase the capabilities of HP solutions for large-scale, scientific and technical computing. HP-CAST provides guidance to HP on the essential development and support issues for such systems. HP-CAST meetings typically include corporate briefings and presentations by HP executives and technical staff (under NDA), and discussions of customer issues related to high-performance technical computing. Learn more.

This year ISC High Performance is presenting a conference of compelling sessions, workshops and exhibits in Frankfurt, Germany, from July 12th to 16th, 2015 for the HPC community. Don’t miss the chance to learn about the latest trends, network with peers, and establish new partnerships. Join us also for our 30^th anniversary.

Check out insideHPC's coverage of ISC'14. To learn more about ISC'15 click here.

The Next-Generation Fabric Webinar offers new details on the Intel® Omni-Path Architecture. Be among the first to learn the new details of the Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA), Intel's next-generation fabric product line, with a short presentation and live Q&A from the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany.

Joe Yaworski, Director of Marketing in the Enterprise and HPC Platforms Group at Intel Corporation will host a Q&A session immediately following the presentation.  Please plan to join us. Register now.

The DDN User Group meeting will take place July 14 at ISC 2014 in Frankfurt. "Join your HPC community colleagues and DDN executive and technical leadership to share insights and hear how leading global HPC organizations are enabling new levels of research and commercial collaboration." Learn more.

XSEDE15 will showcase the discoveries, innovations, challenges and achievements of those who utilize and support XSEDE resources and services, as well as other digital resources and services throughout the world. This year’s theme is Scientific Advancements Enabled by Enhanced Cyberinfrastructure. Learn more.

The 2015 New York Scientific Data Summit (NYSDS) will take place Aug. 2-5 in New York. This annual meeting aims to accelerate data-driven discovery and innovation by bringing together researchers, developers and end-users from academia, industry, utilities and state and federal governments. Jointly organized by Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, and New York University, the theme of this year's conference is "Frontiers in Scientific Data." Learn more.

Learn how Intel’s next-generation HPC fabric addresses modern storage requirements

Join us for the fifth webinar in our ongoing series focusing on the new Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA).

In this session, we will highlight important fabric characteristics required to meet the needs of modern HPC cluster storage environments. This includes performance tuning and the ability to interoperate with alternative data center networks as well as a variety of parallel file systems.

Customer engineering and solutions architect Phil Murphy will cover:

• Intel OPA storage ecosystem development
• Performance enhancements for key storage protocols
• Integration into pre-existing data center storage solutions

Register now and prepare your questions for the Intel Omni-Path Architecture storage expert.

The HPC Advisory Council in conjunction with the University of Sao Paulo and Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica logo and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro will hold the HPC Advisory Council Brazil Conference 2014 on August 26, 2015, in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The conference will focus on High-Performance Computing (HPC) usage models and benefits, the future of supercomputing, latest technology developments, best practices and advanced HPC topics. The conference is open to the public and will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists and industry affiliates. Learn more.

Join us for our 20th year of an information-packed three-day Symposium about the latest in High Performance Interconnects. IEEE Hot Interconnects is the premier international forum for researchers and developers of state-of-the-art hardware and software architectures and implementations for interconnection networks of all scales, ranging from multi-core on-chip interconnects to those within systems, clusters, and data centers. Learn more.

Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) will run its second UK workshop in collaboration with the British Computer Society (BCS) in London on Friday 4th September 2015.

Ever thought about embarking on a special career in High Performance Computing? Curious to know what it's all about? Join us for this fascinating event where we unlock the mysteries of “supercomputing”. Hear first hand from our industry speakers how businesses and industry are harnessing these great advances in High Performance Computing to bring you the latest in medium range weather forecasts and other services. Come along,  meet new people and talk to our experts and be inspired to consider a career in this fast growing industry of High Performance Computing. More information.

IDC, in close partnership with users and vendors in the technical high-performance computing (HPC) industry, created the HPC User Forum, a unique service that identifies buyer/user requirements and vendor capabilities within this market. This forum promotes the interests of HPC users worldwide in industry/commerce, government, and academia. The HPC User Forum is an extension of IDC's long-standing commitment to the global HPC community. Learn more.

Cluster 2015 welcomes research papers, workshops, and tutorials on advances in topics related to cluster computing. The special technical focus of this year’s conference is Exascale Computing. Learn more.

The SPEEDUP workshop series has a long history in presenting and discussing the state-of-the-art in high-performance and parallel scientific computing.  This includes algorithms, applications, and software aspects related to high-performance parallel computing. The focus of the 44th SPEEDUP workshop is on Fluid-Structure Interaction.  The scientific program of September 10 consists of six 45-minutes talks and a poster session. Learn more.

The PBS Works User Group is back! Save the date to join us in Mountain View, California where industry leaders, technology users, PBS engineers and Altair executives will discuss today’s HPC challenges, see real world applications and learn from other users. Learn more.

Please join us for this one day workshop featuring presentations from Dell, Appistry, UNC Chapel Hill, Arizona State University, and TGen who all will share their cutting-edge results and best practices for helping labs process, manage, and analyze large genomic data sets. You will also hear from Intel and Nvidia on their latest HPC/Big Data technology innovations. Learn more.

Join the Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA) webinar series to get the latest insights on Intel's next generation HPC fabric.

Here's what you will understand after attending this webinar:
• What are the fundamental layers of Intel OPA
• How Intel OPA enables advanced network layer features
• What are the key elements of the Intel OPA first generation product family

This highly technical overview will touch on Layer 1.5 (Link Transfer Layer), Layer 2 (Link Layer), and Layer 4 (Transport Layer) interconnect protocols and how they enable some of the advanced Intel OPA features such as Traffic Flow Optimization, Packet Integrity Protection, and Dynamic Lane Scaling.

Tuesday, September 15, 2015
9 a.m. – 10 a.m. PDT

Click here to register.

The Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (Slurm) is an open source, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable cluster management and job scheduling system for large and small Linux clusters. Slurm requires no kernel modifications for its operation and is relatively self-contained. The Slurm User Group meeting will include an assortment of tutorials, technical presentations, and site reports. Learn more.

HPEC is the largest computing conference in New England and is the premier conference in the world on the convergence of High Performance and Embedded Computing. We are passionate about performance. Our community is interested in computing hardware, software, systems and applications where performance matters. We welcome experts and people who are new to the field. Learn more.

Data Center World brings together the best of the best—the best speakers, the best vendors, the best networking and social activities—all in a beautiful venue. Our goal? To provide you an educational experience facilitated by only the most respected minds in data center and facilities management so you can return to your organization with a solid action plan and valuable business contacts.

Whether you’re looking to optimize efficiency, a data center or supercomputing management professional focused on continuous improvement, a vendor providing innovative technologies and services into the industry, or a rising star in HPC, you’ll find the tools, technologies, and strategies that you need to enhance your success in at Data Center World. Click to learn more. 

EOFS and OpenSFS are organizing the fifth european LAD'15 Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop. The event will take place in Paris, at Marriott Champs Elysees Hotel. This will be a great opportunity for Lustre worldwide administrators and developers to gather and exchange their experiences, developments, tools, good practices and more. Learn more.

The HPC Advisory Council and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) will host the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference 2015 at the Campus Diagonal Nord in Barcelona, Spain on September 22, 2015. The conference will focus on High-Performance Computing essentials, new developments and emerging technologies, best practices and hands-on training. Learn more.

The ISC Cloud & Big Data conference program will give all attendees a chance to discuss key challenges and opportunities with leading experts in cloud computing and big data analytics.

The program will highlight performance demanding cloud and big data applications and technologies. It will consist of three tracks: Business, Technology and Research, plus one full day of workshops. Learn more.

OpenMPCon takes place 28-30 September in Aachen Germany and will focus on the practical application of OpenMP and other directive based languages to deliver high-performance computing through parallel processing. Learn more.

The COMSOL Conference brings together more than 2,000 engineers, researchers, and scientists worldwide, providing them with the chance to showcase their work, share innovative technologies and best practices, as well as the opportunity to interact with the makers of COMSOL Multiphysics. Learn more.

CACDS and UH are once again hosting the Seismic Programming Shift Workshop. The focus of this Second Annual workshop is on the use of portable, productive, high-level directive-based programming strategies to develop seismic application code for multicore platforms and accelerators. What will you learn: • Usage of directives’ that preserves a single code base, accelerates for GPUs, and offers cross-platform portability • Status and future steps of the widely used OpenACC and OpenMP directives • Availability of several compilers and software packages across a broad set of CPU/Accelerator combinations • Methods to port seismic imaging applications on CPU/Accelerators, auto-tune and perform data analysis • Availability of profile and debug tools enabling accelerated scientific computing without significant programming effort. Learn more.

IDC, in close partnership with users and vendors in the technical high-performance computing (HPC) industry, created the HPC User Forum, a unique service that identifies buyer/user requirements and vendor capabilities within this market. This forum promotes the interests of HPC users worldwide in industry/commerce, government, and academia. The HPC User Forum is an extension of IDC's long-standing commitment to the global HPC community. Learn more.

IDC, in close partnership with users and vendors in the technical high-performance computing (HPC) industry, created the HPC User Forum, a unique service that identifies buyer/user requirements and vendor capabilities within this market. This forum promotes the interests of HPC users worldwide in industry/commerce, government, and academia. The HPC User Forum is an extension of IDC's long-standing commitment to the global HPC community. Learn more.

At LUG, you’ll hear directly from industry thought leaders about the latest Lustre* file system trends by attending the 2015 PRC Lustre* Users Group conference. Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to collaborate with industry leaders to advance the Lustre* file system and contribute to new releases on behalf of the open source community. Register now.

The Center for the Advancement of Data and Research in Economics (CADRE) at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City is organizing a workshop focused on high performance computing usage for economic research. The workshop will be a one-day gathering where technology professionals and economic researchers can discuss a variety of topics to improve understanding of opportunities and issues in the growing area of data and computationally intensive research in economics. Learn more.

Get the latest insights on Intel's Next-Gen HPC Fabric. Hear guest speaker Steve Conway of IDC Research offer his insights on Intel OPA in this educational webinar. Learn the latest about the Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA). Click here to register.

This workshop will focus on HPC productivity, and advanced HPC topics and futures, and will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists and industry affiliates to discuss recent developments and future advancements in High Performance Computing. Learn more.

HP-CAST is an organization of HP customers and partners who provide input to HP to increase the capabilities of HP solutions for large-scale, scientific and technical computing. Learn more.

ODSC West is THE conference to learn about the latest insights, trends and discoveries in data science languages, tools and topics. You will learn about the current languages, tools, and topics that matter most in data science. Each of these categories is constantly in flux and evolving. Come and learn first-hand from core practitioners and contributors at the forefront of open-source data science. Learn more.

This is your best opportunity to connect with Intel architecture experts, meet HPC industry leaders, and build a lasting network of peers. This is your best opportunity to connect with Intel architecture experts, meet HPC industry leaders, and build a lasting network of peers.

The Intel® HPC Developer Conference will offer insights into the future of HPC with Intel experts on visualization, machine learning, software tools and much more.  Learn more.

SC15 will bring together the international supercomputing community—an unparalleled ensemble of scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, system administrators and developers—for an exceptional program of technical papers, informative tutorials, timely research posters and Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions. The SC15 Exhibition Hall will feature exhibits of the latest and greatest technologies from industry, academia and government research organizations; many of these technologies making their debut in Austin. No conference is better poised to demonstrate how HPC can transform both the everyday and the incredible.

To see the agenda and learn more about attending click here.

The good folks from the StartupHPC-15 Conference have posted the Agenda for their meeting at SC15. The day-long conference takes place Monday, Nov 16 in Austin at the Capital Factory in Downtown Austin, Texas. Learn more.

The DDN User Group is a presentation forum on the latest HPC storage technologies. “Kick-off SC15 with an interactive afternoon with your peers and learn how leading global organizations are assessing and leveraging technology to raise the bar on next year’s HPC innovations and best practices.” Learn more.

There’s one party you don’t want to miss at SC15, an that’s the Beowulf Bash. This year, the Bash is returning to SC15 with a bullriding contest. The event takes place at Austin’s Fair Market on Monday, Nov 16 at 9:00pm after the SC15 exhibit floor closes. Learn more.

Seagate will hosts its annual HPC User Group at SC15 on Monday, Nov 16 from 4:00pm – 7:00pm at the JW Marriott in Austin. “You don’t want to miss what our speakers have to say – it could change the way you do things (not to mention the fact that you’ll walk away with the most talked-about consumer hard drive on the market – the Seagate Seven).” Learn more.

Join Seagate for the HPC User Group at SC15 on Monday, November 16th from 4:00pm – 7:00pm.

Live From SC15: The Intel® Omni-Path Architecture Launch Webinar. Get the details of Intel's product announcement at SC15. The webinar is on Tuesday, November 17th, 2015 from 11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. EST
Click here to register.

IDC will host a complimentary Analyst Briefing and Breakfast at SC15. The popular annual event is great way to catch up with the latest trends in the HPC Market and High Performance Data Analytics. Learn more.

This year's program promises a wide range of unique topics and hand-picked speakers. There will also be a selection of research papers, posters, workshops, tutorials and Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions which will be submitted by the HPC community. In addition, the conference will also offer an industry program for users interested in commercial HPC applications. Learn more.

FP Energies nouvelles is pleased to announce SimRace, the first conference in the Rencontres Scientifiques series entirely devoted to numerical methods and High Performance Computing (HPC) for industrial fluid flows.

For many applied fields dealing with complex fluid flows, like petroleum basins or reservoirs, automotive or aerospace engines, refining processes, etc., there is today an increasing need for ever faster and more accurate simulations.

SimRace offers the opportunity to mix HPC and numerical analysis in a synergistic way, bringing together scientists and engineers and providing a melting pot of ideas and views between researchers, developers and end-users. Learn more.