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May 8, 2015

Final Roster of Speakers Released for EnterpriseHPC’15 Summit

SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 8 — The EnterpriseHPC’15 summit, the market leading live hosted summit dedicated to exploring the emergence of advanced scale computing in commercial settings, today announced the final line-up of end-user speakers for its summit program aimed at arming senior technology business executives in cross-vertical corporate organizations with core knowledge on advanced-scale and high performance computing for competitive advantages.

EnterpriseHPC’15, scheduled for May 11-13, 2015 at the Park Hyatt Aviara Resort in North San Diego, California, will once again host executives in commercial organizations who are exploring the benefits and associated challenges of scaling their enterprise computing to meet new production opportunities available in the Big Data paradigm. The program caters towards fostering community and discussion, including educational keynote tracks with open dialogue segues, boardroom case-study sessions with cross-vertical peer groups, and one-on-one solutions briefings with leading suppliers. Executives leave armed with information and ideas on how to further their strategy and best maximize their returns for their own corporate advanced IT investments.

Key topics driving the EnterpriseHPC’15 summit include systems and architectures, optimizing large-scale applications, big data and analytics, cloud computing and extreme scale, system efficiency, software, cost optimization, and more.

The summit is fully paid for qualified attendees (including flight, hotel, meals and summit badge).

EnterpriseHPC’15 Presentations include the following:

“Surviving the Big Data Explosion: The Intersection of HPC and Enterprise”

Enterprises increasingly struggle with reduced budgets and data requirements that threaten to overwhelm existing infrastructure, creating choke-points and erecting barriers to innovation and/or profitability. To remain competitive they must build data storage solutions that embrace flexibility to sustain today’s data volumes and support the continued deluge of data. With proper design and feature sets that drive improved performance, enterprises will no longer be limited by their data—they will, in fact, be driven by it.

Speaker: Ken Claffey, VP & GM Storage Systems Group, Seagate

“Scaling to New Heights: Barriers and Solutions on the Way to IT Transformation”

Many of the major enterprises in the world are facing the challenges that come with rapid data growth, creating the need for larger scale systems than they had in the past. One enterprise, Drillinginfo, started as a simple online permit and completion-mapping database in 1999, and grew to become one of the fastest growing companies in the United States within 10 years – including a database that grows at the rate of 20-25 TB per month. Mike Couvillion, CTO of Drillinginfo presents on the barriers and solutions that Drillinginfo encountered along the way, and gives a look at how they’re capitalizing on the opportunity to use advanced computing to deliver returns.

Speaker: Mike Couvillion, CTO, Drillinginfo

“Blending HPC and Enterprise Architectures to Deliver Real-Time Operational Analytics” 

Through the use of real time HPDA and hybrid enterprise and HPC architecture, the wellness of the PayPal ecosystem can be maintained through operational analytics and systems intelligence. Predicitve models developed offline enable real time, site-wide anomaly detection by using inline stream analytics to mitigate and remedy enterprise operational issues. A blend of large scale, shared memory HPC systems and small, low powered processors deliver the best of both worlds for scalable, real time analytics.

Speakers: Ryan Quick, Principal Architect, Advanced Technologies at PayPal; Arno Kolster, Sr. Database Architect, Advanced Technologies Group, PayPal

“Turbocharging the Enterprise with Technology Designed to Deliver Results, Faster”

Successful Enterprise organizations know how to see change coming and move faster than the market. Products, technologies and use cases for solutions are evolving at lightning speed. Enterprises need technology partners to collaborate with to solve forward thinking business needs and that have the capability to evolve faster than the market. Join this session to learn “tricks of the trade” in leveraging high performance data solutions to accelerate your time to results while maintaining the stability and security required of the largest organizations in the world.

Speaker: Molly Rector, Chief Marketing Officer, EVP Product Management, DDN Storage

General Session Panel: “HPC to Enterprise Value – Cross Industry Lessons”

We gather together industry leaders across segments who are utilizing advanced scale & high performance computing to find out where the most prevalent needs are in each industry, seeking patterns in these requirements. The second part of the panel will address the similarities (and differences) of these challenges to provide context for the convergence of needs in high-end systems and software.

Moderator: John Russell, Conference Co-Chair; Editorial Director, Tabor Communications; Managing Editor, HPCwire

Panelists: Jamal Uddin, Ph.D., Sr. HPC Administrator, Dana Holding Corporation; Ari Berman, Ph.D., General Manager, Principal Investigator, The BioTeam, Inc.; Steve Yatko, CEO & Founder, Oktay Technology, LLC; Larry Patterson, Senior Manager, High Performance Computing, Gulfstream Aerospace

“Transferring Lessons from HPC to Large-Scale Enterprise — What Matters?”

In this talk, Todd Simons, Ph.D., Consultant, Design Systems Engineering, Rolls-Royce, will discuss the benefits that High Performance Computing has conferred to the design process of gas turbine engines at Rolls-Royce. His talk will explore the advancements that this type of advanced computing has brought to Rolls Royce, examine the current challenges that the organization is facing as they look to capitalize on the competitive advancements that they have able to achieve, and examine the direction that the industry is taking as computing power becomes more ubiquitous across the industry. Through his talk, Simons will infer the parallel opportunities and challenges that other industries face as they assess HPC technologies to solve problems and minimize risks while maximizing innovation.

Speaker: Todd Simons, Ph.D., Consultant, Design Systems Engineering, Rolls-Royce

General Session Panel: “Finding the On-Ramp: Key Lessons from the Commercial Pioneers of HPC”

Where does a commercial organization start on the path to next generation innovation? This panel will explore this question and more as a segment of luminary leaders discusses the benefits, challenges, and road-map of on-ramping toward HPC.

Moderator: Steve Campbell, General Manager, Tabor Insights Group

Panelists: Merle Giles, Director of Economic Impact and Private Sector Programs, NCSA; Suzy Tichenor, Director, HPC Industrial Partnerships Program, OakRidge National Labs; Wolfgang Gentzsch, Co-Founder & President, TheUberCloud; Tim Carroll, Vice President, Sales & Ecosystems, Cycle Computing

“HPC – Explorations in the Cloud”

Designing better quality products, increasing ROI, reducing product failure, and shorten time to market can be achieved by simulations early in the product life cycle. Today we have access to workstations, in-house servers, and HPC clouds. This lecture will examine benefits, limitations, and challenges using these tools. Based on our experience with 170 computing experiments we will sketch a path from HPC on-ramp to high performance computing, leading to democratization of HPC as we foresee it for the next years. There are several enablers which stand out, among others: the growing user community from 3D printing to big data analytics; additional HPC any-size, any-time, for any-body, on demand, in the cloud; and software containers which host applications, tools, data, and which enable ease of access and use of resources across different platforms.

Speaker: Wolfgang Gentzsch, Co-Founder & President, TheUberCloud

Co-chaired by EnterpriseTech Managing Editor, Alison Diana, and HPCwire Managing Editor and Editorial Director for Tabor Communications, John Russell, the EnterpriseHPC’15 summit program will explore the trends and challenges of advanced scale and high performance computing being integrated into the data rich commercial environment.

EnterpriseHPC’15 is sponsored by Platinum Sponsors: DDN Storage, Seagate, Supermicro; Silver Sponsors: Penguin Computing, and SGI; Bronze Sponsors: Altair, ASRock Rack, Cray, Cycle Computing, Lenovo, QCT, and Ryft.

The conference is hosted by EnterpriseTech and HPCwire through a partnership between Tabor Communications and nGage Events, the leader in host-based, invitation-only business events.

While attendee invitations for the 2015 event are closed, invitation requests for the next event can be made at www.enterpriseHPC.com.

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