I will be in Denver next week for SC19.
As usual, NAG will have a booth (#932) in the exhibition. The booth will have information and handouts on our HPC consulting services (I believe the marketing strapline is "The leading independent and international center-of-excellence in the business and technical aspects of HPC"). The NAG staff on the booth will be happy to discuss our consulting work or software tools.
However, I expect to spend no more than a few minutes near the NAG booth during the whole week. So, where can you find me and what will I be doing?
Each year I have to balance four personalities at SC:
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Tuesday 12 November 2019
Saturday 9 November 2019
Supercomputers and Jet Engines
We all know that supercomputers are used to design jet engines.
Designing and understanding the performance characteristics of a jet engine would likely take millions of core-hours on large HPC systems.
But, a random fact thrown out over lunch at May's industry HPC leaders group meeting sparked an interesting conversation.
If a jet engine takes many megawatt-hours of supercomputing to design - how many MW does a jet engine create, and thus how many petaflops could a jet engine support if it were the power source?
The HPC leaders of GE, Boeing, ExxonMobil and others drew together their shared knowledge of aerospace and HPC - and some use of google search - to built a fun picture.
But, a random fact thrown out over lunch at May's industry HPC leaders group meeting sparked an interesting conversation.
If a jet engine takes many megawatt-hours of supercomputing to design - how many MW does a jet engine create, and thus how many petaflops could a jet engine support if it were the power source?
The HPC leaders of GE, Boeing, ExxonMobil and others drew together their shared knowledge of aerospace and HPC - and some use of google search - to built a fun picture.
Friday 8 November 2019
SC19 Tutorials
At SC19, I will be again be leading a full day of tutorial on the business aspects of HPC: "Delivering HPC: Procurement, Cost Models, Metrics, Value, and More".
My co-presenters for SC19 will be Ingrid Barcena Roig, Branden Moore, Dairsie Latimer, and Sierra Koehler.
The tutorials is on Monday 18th November, in room 210-212 of the Denver convention center, 8:30am - 5.00pm.
My co-presenters for SC19 will be Ingrid Barcena Roig, Branden Moore, Dairsie Latimer, and Sierra Koehler.
The tutorials is on Monday 18th November, in room 210-212 of the Denver convention center, 8:30am - 5.00pm.
Guide to announcements for SC19
(Originally published on my LinkedIn profile: post link)
It's that time of year - yes, the annual fest of press releases and social media deluges in the run up to 'SC' - the primary annual supercomputing conference, held this year in Denver.
Here is a handy guide for vendor PR teams ...
[company] will be at #SC19!
Yes, along with almost everyone else in #HPC world
[company] will be highlighting products at SC19!
As above
[company] will launch new version of our current product in a slightly different shade of grey at SC19!
We had no actual news
However, the HPC centers are just as bad with "news" for the big annual #Supercomputing conference:
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