The international meeting for High Performance Numerical Design and Simulation

TERATEC brings together top international experts in high performance numerical design and simulation, making it the major event in France and in Europe in this field. It reaffirms the strategic importance of these technologies for developing industrial competitiveness and innovation capacity.

The TERATEC Forum welcomes more than 1 000 attendees, highlighting the economic and scientific dynamism of HPC for key industries and services and the role that France plays in this field. The participation and the testimony of senior industry and ICT leaders, the diversity and the high level of the technical workshops, the innovative offers displayed on the booths, are assets for all that are concerned by high-performance design and simulation.

Request your free access badge. Meet the main providers of HPC technologies, industry players and the most advanced users to investigate ongoing developments, as well as short-term and mid-term perspectives in these key areas for industrial competitiveness and innovation.

More than 60 speakers will cover the whole scope of high performance numerical design and simulation: complex systems numerical design and optimization – Exascale computing, extreme parallelism and hybrid programming challenges - Interactive simulation - Visualization, optimization and processing performance - HPC centers energy optimization - Big Data : storage, processing, analysis and exploitation - ...

During the plenary sessions, major providers will present the technology evolutions and large users will talk about HPC usage in multiple sectors such as oil and gas, chemicals and cosmetics. They will present their experience and their expectations.

With the participation of Philippe GILLET, Vice-président, ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE - Anthony LICHNEWSKY, Software Architect - HPC Specialist, SCHLUMBERGER - Steve BARBER, Chief Executive Officer, XYRATEX - Ananth KRISHNAN, CTO, TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES - David SILAGY, Directeur de centre de recherche, ARKEMA - Joel MONNIER, Président, KALRAY - Bernard QUERLEUX, PhD, HdR , L’OREAL Recherche & Innovation

Internationally renowned guest speakers bring their analysis on public policies in HPC including Robert MADELIN, Director General, Directorate-General for Information Society and Media of the European Commission, and Nelson MACULAN, former Education Minister of Brazil and Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.. 

Six technical workshops will be devoted to the state of the art methods and tools for high-performance design and simulation.

One exhibition with 60 technology companies will cover the whole HPC industry. Systems manufacturers , processor manufacturers,software developpers and editors, service providers, research centres and universities, public and private sector players will present their latest HPC innovations.

On Wednesday, June 27, the plenary sessions will be dedicated to industrial strategies and public policies on HPC and illustrate the ever-increasing diversity of usages. This day will bring together leading technology providers and industrial users as well as highly innovative SMEs.

• Welcome, Gérard ROUCAIROL, Président de TERATEC et Vice-président de l'ACADEMIE DES TECHNOLOGIES

• David ROS, Vice-président, CONSEIL GENERAL DE L'ESSONNE

• Philippe GILLET, Vice-président, ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE       

• HPC, a game changer for the oil & gas industry
  Anthony LICHNEWSKY, Software Architect - HPC Specialist, SCHLUMBERGER

• From Petabytes (10¹⁵) to Yottabytes (10²⁴), and before 2020
  Steve BARBER, Chief Executive Officer , XYRATEX

• New opportunities for HPC - Cloud, analytics, Big data
  Ananth KRISHNAN, CTO, TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES

• Numerical Modeling, the major asset for innovative chemistry and polymers
  David SILAGY, Directeur de centre de recherche, ARKEMA

• MPPA :  Innovation through parallel computing 
  Joel MONNIER, Président, KALRAY

• Issues for numerical modeling in cosmetic science
  Bernard QUERLEUX, PhD, HdR , L'OREAL Recherche & Innovation

We will also welcome the participation of public officials, including Robert MADELIN, Director General, Directorate-General for Information Society and Media of the European Commission, and Nelson MACULAN, former Education Minister of Brazil and Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

This first day end with the 2012 Bull Joseph Fourier Prize award ceremony in association with Genci. This awards recognizes an individual or a team for their oustanding work in the parallelization of numerical applications on traditional or hybrid architectures, achieved in a public or private laboratory.

Complex Systems Numerical Design : progress, trends and challenges
Workshop 1 - Thursday, June 28, 2012, 09:00/12:30
Chairmen : Jacques DUYSENS, HPC Project – Gérard POIRIER, DASSAULT AVIATION - Christian SAGUEZ, TERATEC

This workshop will be dedicated to a "methods & tools state-of-the-art" for complex systems numerical design and optimization. Despite last decade giants strides in hardware and software in terms of performance and simulations accuracy, there are still numerous critical technology challenges for a fully effective and efficient use of virtual design tools & methods by industry and research. 

With the participation of Jacques DUYSENS, HPC Project / SILKAN – Gérard POIRIER, DASSAULT AVIATION - Christian SAGUEZ, TERATEC - Michel RAVACHOL, DASSAULT AVIATION - Michel DECROISETTE, CEA - Jacques DUYSENS, HPC Project - Noël FLEUROT et Marc NOVARO, CEA - Christophe BEESAU et Ruchi GANGWAR, ALTRAN - Victor M CALO, Longfei GAO, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science and Earth Science & Engineering - King Abdullah University of Sciences and Technology (KAUST) - Dr. B P GAUTHAM, TATA Consultancy Services

Exascale Challenges
Workshop 2 - Thursday, June 28, 2012, 09:00/13:00
Chairman : Marie Christine SAWLEY, EXASCALE COMPUTING RESEARCH/INTEL

This session, with high level scientific content, will cover different aspects of HPC application and extreme parallelism challenges: four European researchers will share the state of art of innovation in numerical models to minimize communication, to increase arithmetic intensity or to allow for optimal usage of global data.  Hybrid programming models and the latest research on data transfer will also be part of the agenda. 

With the participation of Marie Christine SAWLEY, EXASCALE COMPUTING RESEARCH/INTEL - Olaf SCHENK, UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO - Wim VANROSE, UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERPEN, INTEL EXASCIENCE LAB - Simone MELCHIONNA, CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLA RICERCA - Michel CAFFAREL, CNRS TOULOUSE - Marc TCHIBOUKDJIAN, UNIVERSITY OF VERSAILLES-ST-QUENTIN/EXASCALE COMPUTING RESEARCH - Thomas GUILLET, INTEL/ EXASCALE COMPUTING RESEARCH - Patrick DEMICHEL, HEWLETT-PACKARD

Visualization, optimization and performance
Workshop 2 - Thursday, June 28, 2012, 09:00/13:00
Chairmen : Alban SCHMUTZ et Jean‐Marie DAVESNES, OXALYA

During the 2011 Teratec Visualization Workshop we presented the interests of interactive simulation. Since then "Remote Display" solutions have known a great rise in terms of usages and functionalities. Are these software the only answer for a profitable and sustainable investment? How to secure one's data and retain the intellectual property ownership while collaborating remotely? Do any of these solutions stand out? Many fair and practical questions to which we will bring answers, with the help of experts and through users feedback. 

With the participation of Alban SCHMUTZ, OXALYA - Olivier GESLIN, AREVA – Gaël MATIS, ARCELORMITTAL - Laurent ANNE, DISTENE - François BODIN, CAPS ENTREPRISE - Benoit VAUTRIN et Arnaud LAPREVOTE, OXALYA (en partenariat avec AMD et NVIDIA) - Christophe MOUTON, Expert en visualisation et en simulation interactive - Fabien VIVODTZEV et  Didier NASSIET, CEA CESTA

Toward Green Computing Centers
Workshop 4 - Thursday, June 28, 2012, 14:00/17:30
Chairmen: Hervé LOZACH and François ROBIN, CEA

Whether for environmental or for financial reasons, there have been for the last few years a growing concern about the energy bill of HPC centers. Several reasons may explain this situation: An environmentally responsible attitude, the electricity bill of datacenters predominant in the running cost of IT equipment, initiatives aiming at gathering good practices and at certifying datacenters that put them in practice have already started. It cannot be excluded that these initiatives lead to mandatory standards. In this context, R&D in this field is very active; technological breakthroughs are already available or will be available soon. This workshop aims at investigating the domain from the standard, technology and R&D point of view. 

With the participation of Hervé LOZACH et François ROBIN, CEA - Arndt BODE, Director Leibniz-Supercomputer Center of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences LRZ - Jean-Marc DUCOS, CEA/DAM-Ile-de-France - CNRS/LPMMC - Bernard LECANU, BL International Consultant - Laurent CARGEMEL, BULL / Hardware R&D - Jean-Marc MENAUD, Université des Mines de Nantes/INRIA, LINA

Data Deluge(s)
Workshop 5 - Thursday, June 28, 2012, 14:00-17:30
Chairman: Jean-Philippe NOMINE, CEA

Scientists and engineers have long been producing and using big datasets, be there numerical simulation results, observed or measured data, or digital models. These data have been tremendously growing in volume while their distribution and circulation on networks has been exacerbated. But we are now also surrounded and overwhelmed by massive flow of business, administrative, financial, multimedia, social network data, as well as data related to sensor networks or mobile objects. Be there public or private, creating meaning and value from these data deluges will require radical improvement and new approaches for their storage, processing, analysis and exploitation. In this session leading observers and players of these "big data" phenomena will share their vision and give us food for thought through a diversity of applications and approaches. 

With the participation of Jean-Philippe NOMINE, CEA - Henri VERDIER, CAP DIGITAL - Vincent FROUIN, CEA/DSV - Guy CHESNOT, SGI - Philippe BRICARD & Emmanuel LECERF, IBM - Pascal RUBY, XEDIX

SME Session
Special SME Session - Thursday, June 28, 2012, 14:00-17:30
Chairmen : Pierre BEAL, NUMTECH Groupe SETH et Gérard ROUCAIROL, TERATEC & ACADEMIE DES TECHNOLOGIES

On the 28th in the afternoon, a special SME session will be dedicated to the needs of SMEs: Access to computing power and high-level expertise, development of platform-services, financing, training, collaborative research programs,relationship with large industrial groups, etc. This session will include a presentation of the Teratec Campus and of the programs managed by the Essonne Chamber of Trade and Industry to welcome them and support their development. 

With the participation of Pierre BEAL, NUMTECH Groupe SETH et Gérard ROUCAIROL, TERATEC & ACADEMIE DES TECHNOLOGIES - Bruno PINA, BULL - Dr. Max LEMKE, Deputy Head of Unit, EUROPEAN COMMISSION - Catherine RIVIERE, GENCI - Financing operators(SCIENTIPOLE INITIATIVE, OSEO, CAISSE DES DEPOTS ) - Marc SAINT GEORGES, VCODYNE

ScilabTEC 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012, from 09:00 to 17:00

One day to provide Scilab users with the opportunity to discover the latest software developments, industrial applications and enhance their knowledge of Scilab and its ecosystem. Besides the possibility to exchange between users and meet the R&D team, participants will have the opportunity to get details on the strategy and positioning of SCILAB Enterprises with the presentation of Claude GOMEZ, CEO and Jacques DHELLEMMES, Vice President.

With the participation of Will SCHROEDER, KITWARE - Bruno LABOUDIGUE et Cécile CARRERE, ERAMET - Pierre FIORINI, HPC PROJECT - Jean-Pierre BOVEE, SANOFI - Frédéric PAULIAC, ASTRIUM - Michel RAVACHOL, DASSAULT AVIATION - Vincent COUVERT et Bruno JOFRET, SCILAB - Alain LAMY, CNES - Claude GOMEZ & Jacques DHELLEMMES, SCILAB ENTERPRISES

During these two days, an exhibition of 60 booths covering the whole HPC industry. Systems manufacturers and software vendors, integrators and distributors, service providers, academic and laboratory researchers, public and private sector developers will present their latest HPC innovations. 

Exhibitors list updated may 10, 2012 : ACTIVEON – ALINEOS - ALLIANCE SERVICES PLUS - ALLINEA SOFTWARE - ALTAIR ENGINEERING –  ALTRAN - ALYOTECH – AMD - ANSYS France – BARCO - BULL - CAPS ENTREPRISE - CARRI SYSTEMS - CD ADAPCO – CEA – CENAERO – CCI de L'ESSONNE – CLUSTERVISION - CC de L'ARPAJONNAIS - COMMUNICATION & SYSTEMES - CG de L'ESSONNE - DATADIRECT NETWORKS – DELL - ENGIN SOFT - ESI GROUP – EUROTECH - EXASCALE COMPUTING RESEARCH LAB - FRAUNHOFER ITWM – FUJITSU – GENCI - HEWLETT PACKARD - HPC PROJECT – IBM – IFPEN – INRIA – INTEL – KALRAY – MICROSOFT – NAFEMS - NICE SOFTWARE  - NOESIS – NVIDIA – OPEN GPU PROJECT - OPENSIDES – OXALYA – PANASAS - ROGUE WAVE – SCILAB – SGI – SYSFERA – SYSTEMATIC – TERATEC – TOTALINUX – TRANSTEC – VCODYNE

In order to control risks, the Systematic’s System Design and Development Tools Working Group roadmap consists in 3 main development orientations, Modelling systems simulation, Software engineering for embedded systems and Data analytics, each exploiting the benefits of High Performance Computing . The aim is to develop digital tools and methods which will help to design, develop, manufacture, manage and maintain physical objects or software, embedded systems, bet­ter, faster and cheaper than today. The industrial and technological priorities for Systems Design and Development Tools Working Group are about, more particularly, Calculation up to PetaFlops and PetaBytes wide (HPC), Complex system early design optimization, Product Simulation, Design of software systems, Simulation of production process and factories optimization, Life cycle Management tools, Data fusion and Knowledge management, Test, verification, validation and certification tools…

With the participation of 6 R&D Project (Open GPU, CSDL, OASIS, OPEN HPC, RODIN, OPSIM, CARAB, ADN) and their partners (Distene, NECS, Alneos, Numtech, Eurodecision, Structure Computation et DPS)