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TERATEC 2016 Forum
Plenary sessions
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

The European Cloud Initiative and High Performance Computing (HPC)

Gail KENT
Acting Deputy Director General, DG CONNECT, EUROPEAN COMMISSION

The European Cloud Initiative is a key component of the Digital Single Market (DSM) Strategy of the European Commission. The European Cloud Initiative aims to give Europe a lead in the data-driven economy, based on the capacity to process, manage and store the huge volumes of information generated by the data revolution.

The European Cloud Initiative has three main elements: (1) the European Open Science Cloud, offering a trusted, open environment for the scientific community to store, share and re-use scientific data and results across borders and disciplines; (2) the European Data Infrastructures featuring a world-class supercomputing capacity, fast connectivity and high-capacity cloud solutions and (3) actions to widen the user base of those infrastructures to the public sector and to industry. The European Cloud Initiative will support the development of a full High Performance Computing (HPC) ecosystem to place the EU among the world's top supercomputing powers, acquiring leadership-class computers, securing its own independent HPC system supply, and widening the use of HPC services in science, industry and SMEs and the public sector.

Bio : Gail KENT, Acting Deputy Director-General, DG CONNECT (Communications Networks, Content and Technology) - European Commission Gail Kent has been Acting DDG for the Research Directorates in DG CONNECT since January 2016 and has been Director of Resources in DG CONNECT since January 2014. An economist from UCL, and a Cranfield MBA, her career has been a mix of private sector management in the retail sector followed by 20 years in the European Commission in mainly financial and human resource management roles across several DGs. She has also 2 years of high level experience of policy advice at the heart of the college of Commissioners. Working in the DG at the heart of Digital policy and related ICT research funding, Gail is committed to 'walking the talk' in the area of public sector modernisation and creativity, and ensuring research funding reflects and links into digital policy priorities.

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To view the presentations of the plenary sessions of the TERATEC Forum 2015

• Opening of the 10th TERATEC Forum by Gérard ROUCAIROL, President, and Herve MOUREN, Director, TERATEC
• Speech by Emmanuel MACRON, Ministre de l'Économie, de l'Industrie et du Numérique
• The fast progress of the French Supercomputing plan, part of "The New face of Industry in France" by Gérard ROUCAIROL and Hervé MOUREN, TERATEC
• Data storage: the heart of any information system by Ken CLAFFEY, VP & GM Storage Systems Group, SEAGATE
• HPC & Big Data – the time is right for a scalable framework by Barry R. DAVIS, General Manager, High Performance Fabrics Operation, INTEL
• The Square Kilometre Array: Transformational Science Instrument and Big Data Challenge by Paul ALEXANDER, UK Science Director SKA Organisation
• Presentation of the TERATEC Forum 2015 sponsors
  Platinum Sponsors : BULL – HP – INTEL
  Gold Sponsors : CEA – PANASAS - SEAGATE - SGI
• HPC to meet the quality requirements of animated movies by Farchad BIDGOLIRAD, R&D Supervisor , Ubisoft Motion Picture
• The challenges of simulation for a large aeronautics and space company by Jacques BROCHET, Directeur scientifique et technologique, SAFRAN
• Presentation of the TERATEC Forum 2015 sponsors
  Silver Sponsors : DATADIRECT NETWORKS - DELL - FUJITSU - GENCI - INRIA - NVIDIA
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• Intensive computing at the heart of tomorrow's services by Thierry BRETON, CEO, ATOS
• Speech by Thierry MANDON, Secrétaire d'Etat à l'Enseignement supérieur et la Recherche
• The 2015 Digital Simulation Awards
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• TERATEC's tenth anniversary evening
  Appointment at the Lake of the Ecole Polytechnique for a festive and convivial evening organized in partnership with INTEL

To view the presentations of the plenary sessions of the TERATEC Forum 2014

• Gérard ROUCAIROL, Président de TERATEC et Hervé MOUREN, Directeur de TERATEC
• Pascal FAURE, Directeur Général de la Compétitivité, de l’Industrie et des Services, Ministère de l’Économie, du Redressement productif et du Numérique
• Rupak BISWAS, Deputy Director, Exploration Technology Directorate Manager, High End Computing Capability Project, NASA Advanced Computing Environment for Science and Engineering
• Cyril ZELLER, Director of Engineering, Developer Technology, NVIDIA’s Vision for Exascale
• Laurent ANNE, Sales Director and co-founder, DISTENE
• Jean-François LAVIGNON, président de l'ETP4HPC
• Wolfgang GENTZSCH, co-founder and President of The UberCloud
• Thierry CHEVALIER, R&T Capabilities and V&V architect, M&T Architecture and Integration, AIRBUS

To view the presentations of the plenary sessions of the TERATEC Forum 2013

• Hervé MOUREN, Directeur de TERATEC
• David ROS Vice-président du Conseil Général de l’Essonne
• Charbel FARHAT, Stanford University
• Sudip DOSANJH, Division Director, NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center)
• Stefano ODORIZZI, CEO, ENGINSOFT
• Dr David LECOMBER, COO of ALLINEA SOFTWARE
• Jean-François MINSTER, Directeur Scientifique de TOTAL
• Régis REAU, Directeur Scientifique d’AIR LIQUIDE
• Alvis BRAZMA, Senior Team Leader, Functional Genomics, EMBL/EBI (Eur. Bioinformatics Inst.)
• Marie-Pierre DE BAILLIENCOURT, DGA de BULL
• Gérard ROUCAIROL, Président de TERATEC
• Louis GALLOIS, Commissaire général à l’investissement