High Performance Cloud Computing Day

Date:: 04 Oct 2011
Location:: Congreszalen, Science Park 125, Amsterdam

On Tuesday Oktober 4^th, 10:00 - 17:00, SARA & BiG Grid are organizing a special High Performance Cloud Computing Day. This event will be concluded with the festive launch of the new HPC Cloud infrastructure.

Venue: Conference Halls, Science Park 125, Amsterdam
Language: English. Free admission

Registration is open!
http://www.sara.nl/form/hpc-cloud-day-october-4-2011

The new National HPC Cloud: a user-friendly compute cluster for scientists.
Apply now! http://www.sara.nl/apply-for-new-national-hpc-cloud

Preliminary program
10h00 - 10h30
Opening and welcome by Jaap van den Herik, BiG Grid
‘HPC Cloud: Focus on your research’ by Floris Sluiter, SARA Computing and Networking Services

10h30 - 11h30 Theme: Bioinformatics
Short presentations by several researchers

11h30 - 12h00 Keynote
'Enabling clouds' by Ignacio Llorente, OpenNebula, DSA-Research Group Complutense University of Madrid

12h00 -13h30 Lunch and demo & poster market
(Live) demonstrations by researchers on the Cloud

13h30 -14h30 Theme: Finance & linguistics
Short presentations by several researchers

14h30 - 15h30 Theme: Earth Science
Short presentations by several researchers

15h30- 16h00 Tea break and demo & poster market
(Live) demonstrations by researchers on the Cloud

16h00 Keynote
‘1B core hours in the cloud’ by David Konerding, Google

16h45 Speech by Anwar Osseyran, SARA Computing and Networking Services
Festive launch of the new HPC Cloud infrastructure

17.15 Reception

For more information on the website of SARA www.sara.nl and BiG Grid www.biggrid.nl