HPC Advisory Council Announces China High-Performance Computing Workshop Program

By DE Editors

The HPC Advisory Council has announced the formation of its second annual China High-Performance Computing Workshop on Oct. 27 in Beijing, China, in conjunction with the HPC China National Annual Conference. Call for presentations as well as workshop sponsorships are now open.

The workshop will focus on efficient high-performance computing through best practices, future system capabilities through new hardware, software and computing environments and high-performance computing user experience. The workshop will be opened with a keynote presentation by professor Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda who leads the Network-Based Computing Research Group at The Ohio State University and will be followed by speakers from academia and industry. The workshop will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists and industry affiliates to discuss recent developments and future advancements in high-performance computing.

“Continuing our successful international workshop programs, the HPC Advisory Council second annual China Workshop is expected to uphold our tradition of providing rich content that will help HPC users and vendors optimize their HPC products and experience,” says Gilad Shainer, chairman of the HPC Advisory Council. “This is the council’s fifth world-wide HPC workshop and we are pleased to collaborate again with the HPC China conference organization for this upcoming workshop, and will continue to assist and provide resources for industry and community organizations to better leverage HPC system capabilities and improve productivity and efficiency.”

The HPC Advisory Council 2nd Annual China Workshop is being sponsored by the following companies: AMD, Dell, HP, Mellanox Technologies, and Microsoft.

For more information and registration, please visit the HPC Advisory Council website.

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