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HPC Advisory Council and Swiss Supercomputing Centre Announce Switzerland Conference 2013
SUNNYVALE, Calif. & LUGANO, Switzerland --(Business Wire)--
The HPC Advisory Council, a leading organization for high-performance
computing research, outreach and education, and the Swiss Supercomputing
Centre, will host the 4th HPC
Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2013 in the Lugano
Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 13-15, 2013. The
conference will update attendees on the progress of Exascale in the
European Union and will include comprehensive education for topics such
as accelerators, high-speed interconnects, Big Data, HPC Cloud, storage
and server advancements, and middleware and communication libraries. In
addition, attendees will receive advanced hands-on training for topics
on clustering, network, troubleshooting, tuning, and optimizations. Speaking
and sponsorship
opportunities are available on a limited basis.
"The HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2013 will provide rich
educational content, taught from some of the industry's most recognized
luminaries and scientists, that will help users optimize their
high-performance systems to improve their application productivity,"
said Gilad Shainer, chairman of the HPC Advisory Council. "We are
pleased to collaborate again with the Swiss National Supercomputing
Centre for this upcoming hands-on technical training and education
conference, and will continue to assist and provide resources for
industry and community organizations to better leverage HPC system
capabilities and improve productivity and efficiency."
"The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre is delighted to continue our
collaboration with the HPC Advisory Concil," said Hussein Nasser
El-Harake at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre and who serves as
the Director of the HPC Advisory Council Center of Excellence in
Switzerland. "The Council continues to be a cornerstone for HPC outreach
and education and we are looking forward to providing attendees a very
rich and engaging training program that enhances their usage of HPC
technologies and platforms for traditional HPC applications as well as
new applications for Big Data and cloud."
For the complete agenda
and schedule, please refer to the conference website. The 3-day
conference is CHF 80.00. Registration is required and can be made at the
HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference registration
page.
The HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference is sponsored by the
following companies: AMD, IBM, Mellanox (News - Alert) Technologies, NetApp, NVIDIA,
Panasas, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre and Xyratex. Media
sponsorship and coverage is being provided by HPC-CH, HPCwire, insideHPC
and Scientific Computing World. A limited amount of sponsorship
opportunities are still available and provide exceptional
budget-conscious awareness opportunities.
Supporting Resources:
About the HPC Advisory Council
The HPC Advisory Council's mission is to bridge the gap between
high-performance computing (HPC) use and its potential, bring the
beneficial capabilities of HPC to new users for better research,
education, innovation and product manufacturing, bring users the
expertise needed to operate HPC systems, provide application designers
with the tools needed to enable parallel computing, and to strengthen
the qualification and integration of HPC system products. For more
information about the HPC Advisory Council, please visit www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com.
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