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achievements, benefits and improvements they have experienced since working with DDN. On display and demoing live workflows will be


DDN’s Infinite Memory technology (IME). Tis soſtware defined storage application introduces a whole new tier of transparent, extendable, non-volatile memory (NVM), which provides latency reduction, greater bandwidth and IOPS performance for the next generation of scientific, analytic and big data applications. DDN will also officially unveil the world’s


first truly hyper converged storage platform. Tis is the first product released on its recently announced ‘Wolfcreek’ architecture and will demonstrate a real world application running at over 50 GB/s in just a 4u rack. Completing the product showcase will be


DDN’s WOS360, its object storage platform. DDN will be demonstrating the ability to move files from its scale-out storage solution, GS7K, to object storage and ultimately to tape – a complete end-to-end hyperscale storage solution for Big Data. www.ddn.com


At the European Exascale Projects booth (#197), visitors can get a comprehensive overview of Europe’s significant contribution to research in this field. Projects that will be exhibiting include DEEP/-ER, EPiGRAM, EXA2CT & Mont- Blanc. Tey demonstrate the variety of research topics addressed – from innovative hardware architectures to energy efficiency, programming paradigms, novel algorithms, performance analysis tools and the optimising of scientific applications. On Tursday, 19 November 2015, from 3:30


– 5:00pm, the European Exascale Projects will welcome an interested global audience to a BoF Session titled ‘Taking on Exascale Challenges: Key Lessons and International Collaboration Opportunities’. Te session will present an overview of the European Exascale research agenda. It will draw first lessons learned from established projects and show how these results influenced the topics of the newly funded projects starting in autumn 2015. Considerable time will be devoted to a discussion with international participants on opportunities and mechanisms for international collaboration in this field. www.exascale-projects.eu


The German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) presents its first Petaflops-scale supercomputer. DKRZ (booth #2606) is a national service centre for climate researchers who depend on HPC resources. At SC15, DKRZ presents its new high-performance computer, named ‘Mistral’. About 1,500 compute nodes on the basis of Bullx B700 DLC systems with two 12-core Haswell processors each (a total of 36,000


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EPCC (booth #2503) will be showcasing the full range of our work on our newly-designed booth: new European projects such as NextGENIO and INTERTWinE, which are researching Exascale simulation issues; our MSc


in HPC, and MSc in HPC with Data Science; our industrial collaborations, data analytics, and machine hosting and operation. Te EPCC hosts


ARCHER, the UK’s national high-end computing facility, and


other advanced computer systems, so pop by our booth to chat about any of the above, or try our new mini-supercomputer, wee ARCHIE, and the fun dinosaur racing app which we have ported to it! www.epcc.ed.ac.uk


development, characterisation and analysis, comparison, use, and correlation to applications. Faculty also will participate in a workshop about hardware-soſtware design and in a panel discussion about the convergence of high- performance computing and Big Data. Tis year, Professor Rich Vuduc of Georgia Tech leads the Tutorials program (with CJ Newburn at Intel). http://sc.bigdata.gatech.edu


cores) reach a peak performance of 1.4 PetaFlops. Its main memory offers 75 Terabyte and the


new Lustre-based parallel file system 20 Petabyte. Furthermore, 12 visualisation nodes equipped with NVidia Tesla K40 GPUs and 50 nodes for interactive access and pre- and post-processing of simulation data complement the system. DKRZ computers are regularly used for the


extensive simulations whose results contribute to the IPCC reports. On a screen DKRZ presents these climate simulations. www.dkrz.de


The Georgia Institute of Technology (booth #1550) returns to SC15 with 20 award-winning faculty and researchers from the schools of computer science, computational science & engineering, physics, aerospace, and electrical & computer engineering. Georgia Tech will showcase recent scientific advances and technical applications regarding parallel computing algorithms and distributed memory, processing large-scale graphs on accelerator-based systems, and approaches to tensor computation. In addition, Georgia Tech will launch an


NSF-funded effort to create technically-focused and community-driven definitions of what or how high-performance computing systems are benchmarked. Te goal of this birds-of-a- feather session (Nov 19 at 12:15 pm) will be to initiate meaningful definitions of benchmark


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The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) (booth #2822) will exhibit for the first time at SC15. It will showcase its computational innovation and R&D expertise across domains such as advanced computing, Earth observation, data analytics and soſtware architecture development and optimisation. ICHEC manages the national HPC service,


supporting 1,300 researchers over the last decade. It also works closely with industry partners such as Xilinx, Intel, DDN or Tullow Oil through collaborative R&D and commercial services. Engagements also encompass public sectors organisations, such as Met Éireann, the Irish weather forecasting agency. Te centre celebrated its 10th anniversary this


year and its staff are at the core of that success. Te team includes expert programmers at all levels of the soſtware stack along with many domain specialists from mathematicians to bioinformaticians. Come see ICHEC at the booth at SC15, or visit


them at the SC15 Student-Postdoc Job Fair on Wednesday 18 November 2015. www.ichec.ie


NAG (booth #1619) experts in HPC trends, technical computing architectures, application performance optimisation and numerical techniques will be at this year’s SC15 to discuss NAG’s HPC Consultancy, for HPC procurement, ➤


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