Past Event
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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 |
Location:
WesternGeco / Schlumberger
10001 Richmond Avenue
Houston, TX 77042