Open Parallel

SCHEDULE

Version 3.0

Tuesday 17^th

Wednesday 18^th

Thursday 19^th

8:45 – 8:50

Opening

Opening

Opening

8:50 – 9:45

 “Accelerating discovery via cloud services”

Ian Foster (K)

“Revolutionary Multicore Computing for Exascale”

Thomas Sterling (K)

“HPC Supporting the Cloud

Supporting HPC”

Thomas Sterling (K)

9:45 – 10:30

“Emerging Trends

in GPU computing”

Manuel Ujaldón

“New Zealand’s Contributions

to Exascale Computing”

Andrew Ensor

“Optimizing CUDA kernels

for irregular computing”

Manuel Ujaldón

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee

Coffee

Coffee

11:00 – 11:45

“The hidden costs of

the Parallel World”

Pavlo Baron

“SKA Imaging Compute Requirements:

the whats -and the Watts. 

Duncan Hall

“Computer-Aided

Discovery in Astronomy”

Victor Pankratius (K)

video-conference

(11:00 – 11:35)

11:45 – 12:25

“An Analysis of

the Cloud Based

Big Data Mining Applications”

Irina Neaga

Panel:

Is Exascale Computing the

Panacea we’ve all been waiting for?

T. Sterling – A. St John –

D. Hall – A. Ensor

Panel

“Can computers find what we are looking for?”

V. Pankratius – N. Hurley-Walker –

W. van Straten – D. Hall

(11:40 – 12:10)

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

Lunch

“HPC Spinoffs from the SKA”

Andrew Ensor

(12:10 – 12:45)

13:30 – 14:10

“OneRNG -an open solution to a core security performance issue”

Jim Cheetham

“Orcs to Azure

– an Entrepreneur’s

journey to unemployment”

Scott Houston

Lunch

(12:45 – 13:45)

14:10 – 14:45

“The Mobile Data Centre”

Alex St John

“Can the world’s problems

be solved with good abstractions?

How about without?”

Mark Moir

“A GLEAM in our eyes:

data processing for current and future radio astronomy”

Natasha Hurley-Walker

(13:50 – 14:35)

14:45 – 15:15

Coffee

Coffee

“Science Processing Requirements for the SKA: a case study with the MWA”

Luke Hindson

(14:40 – 15:15)

15:15 – 16:00

“A perspective of advanced

ICT developments in

New Zealand”

Murray Milner (K)

“Supercomputing

in the Cloud”

Alex St John (K)

Coffee

15:15 – 15:45

16:00 – 16:30

Panel

“Is Big Data too big for your Enterprise to handle?”

P. Baron – I. Foster –

I. Neaga – D. Christie

“New Zealand’s participation

in the SKA Project”

Kjesten Wiig

“Real-time computational

requirements of autonomous systems for astronomical discovery”.

Willem van Straten (K)

(16:00 – 16:45)

16:30 – 17:00

Panel

“Are we finished

Optimising Applications?”

A. St John – M. Milner –

M. Ujaldon – M. Moir

Panel

“Beyond astronomy:

the broad benefits of the SKA”

HE Z. Lallie – K. Wiig –

D. Hall

Moderator D. Christie

Closure

(16:45 – 17:00)

17:15 – 19:00

Drinks & Nibbles

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