Some possible topics:
HPC in the Cloud
Latest Developments in GPU, CUDA for HPC
Whats going on in the world of FPGA’sa for HPC
Send us your ideas
DATE : Tuesday September 9th
TIME: 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM
LOCATION: WWT 4201 Forbes Blvd, Lanham Maryland 20706
PARKING: FREE
EVENT COST: FREE
Article by Joab Jackson the Technical Editor of Government Computer News on the event :
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/47104-1.html
ABSTRACT:
Today faster more dense HPC systems require a much faster data I/O storage systems. These systems must be easy to maintain and simple to upgrade. To meet the requirement of the HPC community these storage systems must be highly cost effective. The presentation will focus on these problems and the practical solutions for meeting these challenges.
StorageWorks Enterprise NAS division’s Enterprise File Services, provides superior performance, linear scalability and mission critical availability over all other clustered files system solutions making it perfect for the HPC market. With demonstrable performance of over 3 GB’s per second in a 16 node cluster, the NAS solution has differentiated itself as a market leader. Incremental scalability – grow as you need to with capacity and performance independent of each other. Add storage on the fly as well as performance nodes without interruption. Drive high storage utilization while providing superior operational efficiency through unified backups.
Lincoln’s Bio:
Lincoln is a Federal Solutions Architect for Hewlett Packard’s Enterprise NAS Division. Lincoln has over 8 years of systems engineering and implementation experience and currently provides direction and support for a number of government installations. Lincoln and his family moved to the Columbia, MD in June of 2004.
Donald Becker and Mike Fitzmaurice
The old Baltimore Washington Beowulf Users Group is now the New
HPC TECH FORUM. Under the new structure we will continue to provide some of the top speakers in the HPC community. We will expand the scope of the discussions to include pressing issues that were not problems a few years ago.
Infrastructure – Power and cooling issues
Management – HPC as a managed service and remote offsite system administration and support
Financial – With Moore’s Law working on all eight cylinders and replacement cycles contracting, is it best to own or lease HPC Systems?
Cost of Operation – What are the challenges that control the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)?
Green HPC Systems – Is it practical to have Green HPC Systems?
Form Factor – Is the “pizza box” server in a “Death Spiral” soon to be replaced with high density blade servers which use less power and run cooler?
Interconnect – Will Infiniband be put on a “life support system” as it is being replaced with low latency 10 Gb
The Meetings will be held at World Wide Technology 4201 Forbes Blvd Lanham, MD 20706
Sep 9, 2008, Oct 14, 2008, Nov 11, 2008
Speakers and topic TBD
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We are pleased to announce that Kevin Kelly Terascala will be our special guest speaker. January 8, 2008 at Georgetown University from 2:30 to 5:00 PM. Please join us for a very informative talk on low cost very high speed storage for High Performance Computing.
Meeting Location: 3300 Whitehaven Street, Washington DC 20007. (this is NOT at the main Georgetown U campus. This is an off campus building one block from Wisconsin avenue).
If you have suggestions regarding speakers for the next meeting or meetings in the future please send them to beowulfUG@aol.com
HPC TECH FORUM 
