The National High Performance Computing and Communications Council will
hold its 21st annual Computing and Information Technology conference
April 3-5, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Spa in Newport, RI.
Over the years, this high level conference has become known for its
content, prominent speakers and networking, not commercial glitter and
hype.
The Council was established pursuant to the authority of and in
accordance with the desires of the President of the United States as
expressed in a White House memorandum to the heads of Departments and
Agencies, dated 28 June 1966, and in the instructions of the 89th
Congress as expressed in the summary of H.R. 4845.
Its mission is education and training in computer and information
technology for the public sector.
The audience consists of Government, Industry and University CIOs,
CTOs, CEOs, Technology and Business decision makers, IT and IRM
Directors, System Managers, Department Heads, Computer Scientists,
Computer Security Officers.
Attendance is limited to 200 and all attendees receive the Government
hotel room rate.
Sample conference evaluation : "Hotel Awesome, Speakers Outstanding,
Chocolate Fondue ... Priceless."
Conference information is available at: WWW.HPCC-USA.ORG, or by phone
at 401-624-1732.
John Miguel Ph. D.
President
National HPCC Council
480-895-1326
Tentative Program for HPCC’07 January 1, 2007
HPCC’07 WWW.HPCC-USA.ORG 401-624-1723
April 3-5, 2007
Hyatt Hotel and Resort
Newport, RI
Theme: “Supercomputing: Innovation, Imagination and Application”
Tuesday April 3, 2007
Chairman: Steve Louis, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory
9:00 Dr. Stephen R. Wheat
Executive Director
HPC Platform Organization, Intel Corporation
9:45 Dr. William Harrod (invited)
High Productivity Program Office
Defense Research Projects Agency
“High Productivity Computing Program”
10:30 AM Break
11:00 Dr. Douglas B. Kothe
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
11:45 Dr. Andrew B. White Jr.
Deputy Associate Director, Theory, Simulation and
Computing
Los Alamos National Laboratory
“Project Road Runner: Petaflop Computing”
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Dr. Daniel E. Atkins
Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure,
National Science Foundation
2:45 Dr. Kelvin K. Droegemeier (invited)
Associate Vice President for Research
University of Oklahoma
3:30 PM Break
4:00 Panel Discussion
“Supercomputing: An Over the Horizon View”
Dr. Kelley B. Gaither, Moderator
Associate Director, TACC, University of Texas
Dr. Jose Munoz, NSF
Dr. Douglass E. Post, DOD HPC Modernization
Office
Dr. Karl Schulz, TACC, UTexas
Dr. Walter Brooks, NASA
Dr. Robert Graybill, USC, ISI
5:30 Networking Reception
7:00 Birds of a Feather Break Out Sessions
Wednesday April 4, 2007
Chairman: Stephen Schneller, NUWC/DOD HPC MOD Office
9:00 Debra Goldfarb
CEO, Tabor Communications
9:45 “Tools For Debugging Multicore Applications”
Chris Gottbrath, Product Manage
Etnus, LLC
10:30 AM Break
11:00 Dr. Georges E. Karniadakis
Brown University
“HPC in Medicine: The Computational Man”
11:45 Dr. John E. West
Director, HPC Major Shared Resource Center
U. S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Dr. Charles Romine (invited)
Director, National Coordination Office, Networking, IT R&D
“National Plans, Programs and Initiatives”
2:45 Microsoft
“Scaling Out Excel on Windows CCS Clusters”
3:30 PM Break
4:00 Panel Discussion
“Future Requirements for Storage and Backup”
Dr. Robert Chadduck, National Archives &
Records Administration
Dr. Robert Ross, Argonne National Laboratory
Ellen M. Salmon, NASA
John L. Cole, Army Research Laboratory
Lee West, Sandia National Laboratory
Joshua Lubell, National Institute of Standards
and Technology
6:30 Reception and Dinner
Thursday April 5, 2007
8:30 Complimentary Full Breakfast
9:00 Director Data Center Technology
American Power Conversion
“21st Century Data Center Design”
10:30 High-End Computing Market Trends
Dan Little, CTO
High-End Computing Market Services
11:00 Conference Close_______________________________________________
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