Newsletter – Issue 5

Dear Reader,
 
The ISC’12 early-bird registration is now open and offers early registrants’ savings of over 25 percent off the regular onsite registration fee.
 
If you combine this discount with the improvements and additions to this year’s program, you have even more incentive for planning now to attend ISC’12. The comprehensive program consists of full-day tutorials, workshops, a 4-day conference and 3-day exhibition featuring dynamic exhibits from about 160 leading HPC companies and research organizations. If you haven’t had a chance to experience ISC yet, 2012 is the perfect time to start.
 
And you can tailor your registration to meet your interests and schedule, thanks to a flexible pricing system that allows you to register for the entire program, or just select the specific days or events you want to attend. For more information about fees and registrations, please click here.
 
Lastly, if you want to find out who has registered so far, click here. The team and I look forward to seeing you in Hamburg, from June 17-21.
 
Best regards,

Martin Meuer
Executive Director

 
Introducing our NEW agenda planner

We’ve improved the functionality of our agenda planner to help you browse through all ISC sessions and related events to design your own conference program within a few clicks!
 
This easy-to-use agenda will give you an even better overview of the program as well as complete details of all events from Sunday, June 17 – Thursday, June 21, by day and speakers. Alternatively you can also use the search function to put together a schedule.
 

Exciting Tutorials await all attendees

This year, ISC’12 will offer 12 tutorials; two full-day and 10 half-day sessions on Sunday, June 17, covering a broad range of areas.
 
Full day

• Next Generation MPI Programming: Advanced MPI-2 and New Features in MPI-3
• Programming Accelerators with OpenACC and CUDA C/Fortran

Half-Day (Morning)

• InfiniBand and High-Speed Ethernet for Dummies
• Dense Linear Algebra Libraries for High Performance Computing
• Performance-oriented programming on multicore-based Clusters with MPI, OpenMP, and hybrid MPI/OpenMP
• Supporting Performance Analysis and Optimization on Extreme-scale Computer Systems - Current State and Future Directions
• Relative, Reverse, and CUDA Debugging for Computationally Intensive Application Development

 
Half-Day (Afternoon)

• Parallel Programming with Cilk Plus
• Advanced Concepts, Environments, and Tools for Dynamic Extreme-Scale Parallel Programming
• Large Scale Data Visualization with VisIt
• High Performance Cloud Computing
• Designing High-End Computing Systems with InfiniBand and High-Speed Ethernet

 
For full details on the tutorials, please use the agenda planner.
 

Looking forward to the HPC in Asia Workshop at ISC’12
The second annual HPC in Asia Workshop will take place in Hamburg on June 17, in association with ISC’12. To learn more, Rich Brueckner of insideHPC caught up with Dr. Taisuke Boku, the chairman of the workshop. Find out more about the workshop today.
 
To read the interview, click here.
 

ISC’12 Conference: Focusing on the Program
The ISC’12 conference program is definitely the most illustrious in the 27-year history of the International Supercomputing Conference.
 
This year, ISC has invited over 300 expert speakers to tackle manifold themes and issues, ranging from the exciting conference keynote by Airbus CIO, Guus Dekkers on HPC as Enabler for the Virtualization of Aircraft Development, to the introduction of SuperMUC, the latest energy efficient system, installed at the Leibniz Research Center in Munich.
 
The ISC’12 focus topics are:

• Energy Efficient HPC Centers
• Future Heterogeneous Architectures
• Supercomputer Architectures for Data Intensive Applications
• Alternative Processors, Architectures and Multidisciplinary Applications
• Best Practices of Large-Scale Applications across Industries
• Petascale Systems in the World and their Applications
• Application Performance: Lessons learnt from Petascale Computing
• Panel: Programming Models in the Years to come
• Critical Aspects of High Performance Networking
• The Realities and Challenges of HPC in the Cloud
• Exascale Computing: Where we are?
• Exascale Chats with Horst Simon, Yutong Lu, Mateo Valero, Mark Seager
• Networking/Interconnect within HPC-Systems
• Parallel File Systems
• Computational Chemistry
• HPC for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
• Hot Seat Sessions
• New Developments for Ranking  Supercomputers
• Publication of the 39th TOP500 list

Don’t miss the chance to exhibit
This year, an estimated 160 leading organizations will showcase their products and research at ISC, between June 18- 20.
 
Organizations from South Africa, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Japan, India, the U.S., Canada and just about all European countries will be participating in this year’s exhibition. There are still some slots left for companies that are interested. For more information, contact Ms Krasimira Todorova at krasimira.todorova@isc-events.com.

Upcoming deadlines
Please save these deadlines if you are interested in participating in our calls for Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions, Research Posters Session or as a student volunteer. More detailed information is available on our website.

Easy hotel booking
To save you from having to search for a comfortable place to stay in Hamburg during June 17- 21, ISC’12’s, exclusive partner for hotel reservations, KIT, offers a list of hotels ranging from luxury accommodations to reasonably priced cozy hotels.
 
Click here to find an accommodation in the price category of your choice.

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