Agenda

Tuesday, March 25
8:00 a.m.

Registration and continental breakfast

Atrium
9:00 a.m.

Introduction

Suzy Tichenor, vice president, Council on Competitiveness
Auditorium
9:15 a.m.

Welcome

Richard Herman, chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Auditorium
9:30 a.m.

HPC Application Software Summit rationale, goals, and finding from planning workshop

Bob Graybill, director, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Auditorium
10:00 a.m.

Use Cases Panel: Focus on end-user multiphysics simulation requirements as seen by commercial users

Moderator: Reza Sadeghi, chief technology officer, MSC Software Inc.

Panelists
  • Douglas Ball, chief engineer, Enabling Technology and Research, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
  • Keith Hunten, aerospace engineer senior staff, Technology Development and Integration, Advanced Development Programs, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
  • Sharan Kalwani, global HPC manager, General Motors Corporation
  • Ramesh Krishnan, staff engineer, ATK Launch Systems
  • David Misemer, senior technical manager, 3M Company
Auditorium
11:30 a.m.

Lunch with organized table discussions

Atrium
1:00 p.m.

Table discussion feedback

Auditorium
1:30 p.m.

HPC Application Software Infrastructure Panel: Focus on infrastructures that will integrate ISV, open source, and user proprietary software to enable multi-effect and/or full system simulations

Moderator: Ed Seidel, director, Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University

Panelists
  • Gabrielle Allen, associate professor in Computer Science and assistant director for Computing Applications, Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University
  • Shawn Shamsian, senior development manager, MSC Software Corporation
  • Siu S. Tong, founder and chairman of the board, Engineous Software
  • Micheal Glass, Sierra Mechanics chief engineer, Sandia National Laboratories
  • David A. Fisher, chief engineer, CREATE Program, HPC Modernization Program, U.S. Department for Defense
Auditorium
3:00 p.m.

Break

Atrium
3:30 p.m.

Roundtable discussion: Path to lower the total cost, for both developers and end users, of development and ownership of critical HPC multiphysics application software, infrastructure and environments

Moderator: Tom Lange, director, Corporate R&D Modeling and Simulation, The Procter & Gamble Company

Panelists
  • Paul Bemis, president, Applied Math Modeling, Inc.
  • Rich DeMillo, John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing and Distinguished Professor, The Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Mark J. Emkjer, president & CEO, Accelrys, Inc.
  • Thomas S. Jensen, president, Flow Science, Inc.
  • Thomas C. Halbouty, vice president and chief information officer, Pioneer Natural Resources
Auditorium
5:30 p.m.

Social session

Atrium
6:15 p.m.

Dinner

Wednesday, March 26
8:30 a.m.

Continental breakfast

Atrium
9:00 a.m.

Welcome

Suzy Tichenor, vice president, Council on Competitiveness
Auditorium
9:15 a.m.

Candidate consortium models

Bob Graybill, director, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
Auditorium
9:45 a.m.

Possible next steps and timeline for the proposed consortium

Auditorium
10:00 a.m.

Break

Atrium
10:30 a.m.

Summit participants roundtable
Decision Point: Are we ready as a community to establish a consortium in 2008?

Moderator: Thom Dunning, director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Auditorium
Noon

Closing comments and actions

Auditorium
12:15 p.m.

Boxed lunches to stay or go

1:15 p.m.

Shuttle to Willard Airport will be available