December 2014 event

 

As a charitable service-based non-profit organization (NPO) educating and connecting the High Performance Computing (HPC) user community to state of art technology for the purpose of Optimizing business processes and workforce advancement. Our technology focus includes AI, Cloud Computing, Data Science, Deep learning, Machine learning and visualization utilized in applications ranging from Manufacturing and Engineering, Financial services, Life Sciences, Energy, Academia and Government.

The Society of HPC Professionals past event

Annual Meeting – December 2014
SHPCP Annual Technical Meeting – HPC: Up Front & Personal

Held 3 December 2014

 

Come network with our members and sponsors at the Society of HPC Professionals annual meeting and hear great speakers from the HPC community.

 

Agenda

8:30AM	Continental Breakfast, Badge pick-up, Registration
9:30AM	Introductions – Facility Overview – Magdy Ishak, Schlumberger Meeting Overview – Gary Crouse, Executive Director
9:45AM	Keynote: HPC Update from SC15 – Michael Feldman, Senior Analyst, Intersect360 Research
10:30AM	BREAK
10:45AM	Plenary – Ron Van Holst, Executive Director, Compute Ontario
11:30AM	LUNCH / Networking
12:30PM	Session 1 – Mike Booth, Benchmarking Expert, D-Wave Systems
1:15PM	BREAK
1:30PM	Session 2 – Swarat Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor, Rice University
2:15PM	BREAK
2:30PM	Panel Session – Michael Feldman from Intersect360 will moderated a lively, fast-paced vendor showdown panel session teams of vendors facing critical questions of the Intersect360 analysts, a team of end users, the media and press, and the audience.
3:00PM	Wrap-up – Earl J. Dodd, President
3:45PM	MEETING ADJOURNS