| 8:30 |
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Opening and welcome - Keith Gray |
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| Session 1: Value of HPC |
| 8:45 |
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Bottlenecks in Silicon, Carbon and Waves: A historical perspective |
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Peter Breunig, Chevron, General Manager Technical Computing |
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| 9:15 |
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Let's target the bright spot with HPC |
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Henri Houllevigue, TOTAL SA, Geophysical Operations & Technology Manager |
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| 9:45 |
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IDC HPC Market Update: Trends and Concerns About HPC In Oil and Gas |
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Earl Joseph, IDC, Program Vice President |
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| 10:15 - 10:30 |
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Break |
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| Session 2: Seismic Imaging Algorithm Developments / Implications on HPC Requirements |
| 10:30 |
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Looking for the efficient match between data, algorithm and platform |
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Henri Calandra, TOTAL, Technical advisor, Depth Imaging & HPC |
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| 10:45 |
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Geophysical trends and their computing demands |
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John Etgen, BP, Senior Advisor, Seismic Imaging |
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| Session 3: What People are doing today |
| 11:15 |
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Update on High Performance Computing at BP |
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Keith Gray, BP, Manager of High Performance Computing |
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| 11:45 |
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Datacenter for Seismic Processing: Challenges and Evolutions |
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Laurent Darrien, TOTAL, HPC Datacenter Manager |
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| 12:15 - 1:00 |
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Lunch Break |
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| Session 4: Technology Directions |
| 1:00 |
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Multicore, energy and all the other things us HPC folks have to deal with |
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Richard Kauffman, HP, CTO of HPTC |
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| 1:30 |
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Cores, Nodes and Petabyte Computing |
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Eng Lim Goh, SGI, Senior Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer |
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| 2:00 |
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Trends in cluster fault tolerance and parallel file systems standards |
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Garth Gibson, Panasas, Associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University |
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| 2:30 - 2:45 |
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Break |
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| Session 5: Potential Breakthroughs for HPC in Geophysics |
| 2:45 |
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On the Technology Path to PetaScale Computing |
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Earl Dodd, IBM, Deep Computing Strategy & Business Development |
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| 3:15 |
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Jay Pickett, Intel |
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| 3:45 |
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Andy Keane, nVidia |
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| Session 6 |
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| 3:45 - 5:00 |
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Panel Discussion |
