May, 2010 - TER@TEC Newsletter |
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European Pole of Competence in High Performance Numerical Design and Simulation |
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Meet the HPC community on June 15 and 16 at Ecole Polytechnique By gathering the best international experts in high performance numerical design and simulation, the TER@TEC Forum is the major event in France and in Europe in this domain. It confirms the importance of this sector in the development of industrial competitiveness, scientific research and innovation capacity. The TER@TEC 2009 Forum, bringing together more than 600 people, highlighted the economic and scientific dynamism of HPC for key industries and services and the new role now played by France in this field. During plenary sessions, senior industry and ICT officials have delivered their testimonies on HPC benefit. The exhibition and the workshops have confirmed the interest and motivation of the supercomputing community on various and important topics. TER@TEC 2010 will concentrate on the very fast development of HPC usage in many various domains
The plenary sessions will illustrate the increasing impact of HPC in many areas of industry and research, and its role in major scientific and technological challenges, with the participation of industrial users, of international leading suppliers, and of personalities from the political, economical and academic worlds. The day will begin by presentations from government officials (French Minister of Economy, Industry and Employment, Essonne Regional Council, European Commission, US Department of Energy) followed by industry representatives from technology companies and large users, and will include a panorama of existing and new usages presented by IDC. With the participation of Christine LAGARDE, French Minister of Economy, Industry and Employment - Gerard ROUCAIROL, Ter@tec - Thierry MANDON, Essonne Regional Council - Zoran STANčIč , European Commission - Michael STRAYER, DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research - Earl JOSEPH, IDC - Bruno STOUFFLET, Dassault Aviation - Pierre FIORINI, HPC Project - Hervé CHARRUE, CSTB - Guillaume DEVAUCHELLE, Valeo - Jean-Charles HOURCADE, Acadmie des Technologies The sessions will end with the Bull Joseph Fourier Prize, organized in association with Genci With the participation of Catherine RIVIERE, CEO GENCI and Philippe VANNIER, CEO BULL
An exhibition of around fifty booths will present innovations coming from the major players, manufacturers and software editors, integrators and distributors, services providers, etc. List of exhibitors: Allinea, Altair Engineering, ANR, Ansys, Bull, Caps Entreprise, CD Adapco, CEA, Cenaero, Clustervision, Collaviz, Communaute des Communes de l’Arpajonnais, Communication & Systèmes, Conseil General de l'Essonne, Datadirect Networks, Distene, Enginsoft, ESI Group, Fraunhofer ITWM, Fraunhofer SCAI, Genci, Hewlett Packard, HPC Project, Intel, Inria, Microsoft, Nag, Nice Software, Numtech, Open Gpu, Open Hpc, Panasas, Scilab, Serviware, SGI, Sodearif/Bouygues/Brezillon, System@Tic, Ter@Tec, Etc. Breakfasts, coffee breaks, lunch and evening cocktail will take place in the exhibition area.
These workshops will address HPC major research and engineering topics (scientific visualization, image synthesis & virtual reality, systems architecture & parallel programming, design of complex systems, etc) and will be an opportunity to discover some major collaborative projects under development between industry and research..
Systems Engineering The workshops will address systems engineering and will be introduced by a joint presentation by Ter@tec and SYSTEMATIC of research & development strategies concerning this key discipline, from early design phases to maintenance and decommissioning operations. A global overview of the systems engineering discipline will be presented by the French Association for Systems Engineering. Major topics will be addressed during the workshop: Systems Multidisciplinary Optimisation - Systems Optimisation and Automotive Applications - Civil Engineering Systems Applications and Challenges – Model Based Engineering Systems and Models Driven Architecture - Examples of innovative systems developments. The New Paradigms of Scientific Visualization The workshop will present existing technologies and future high performance solutions. Major challenges still need to be taken up. They will be addressed during half a day of exchanges, combining market solutions, experience sharing and collaborative R&D projects presentations.
Images production This workshop will allow participants to qualify the needs of the various Image production markets, to foresee the main technical evolutions and their adaptation to the different fields. Systemes architecture We have just entered the Petascale era, and the period to come will see a tremendous increase of the number of very large HPC systems. On our way towards the next, but still far horizon of Exascale, it is also clear that a sustainable consolidation of the current or near-existing technologies will more and more have to tackle the architecture and system issues as a whole. Computing, communication, storage and data management elements will have to be integrated tightly in a balanced, energy-efficient and robust way to ensure the viability and acceptability of high end supercomputers. This workshop will address those global design and integration issues, through the enlightening visions of major players and leaders in the field of very high performance computing and data management systems.
Parallel applications, the challenges of manycore architectures Manycore processors are here. Energy saving tends to favor heterogeneous architectures that combine general-purpose cores with streaming co-processors such as GPUs. To exploit the tremendous computing power of these systems, software refactoring that extracts massive parallelism is unavoidable. There is no “silver bullet” to transparently solve this issue.
ScilabTec’10 ScilabTec is a unique opportunity to deal with a wide range of subjects, share experiences and feedbacks, and discuss with the members of the Scilab Consortium research and development team, with thematic and technical sessions in the morning and plenary presentations in the afternoon. |
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