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AGENDA    Wednesday October 21st, 2009
9:00am Welcome and Introductions
Speaker: Chuck Niggley, SGIUG President
9:15am SGI Product Strategy
Speaker: Giovanni Coglitore, Senior Vice President & Chief Products Officer, SGI
10:00am SGI Server Platforms
Speaker: Bill Mannel, Vice President of Product Management, SGI
10:45am Break
11:00am SGI Keynote
Technology Trends
Speaker: Dr. Eng Lim Goh, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SGI
12:00 - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Parallel CFD Supporting NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate
Speaker: Ray Gomez, Shuttle Ascent Aerosciences Technical Panel Chairman, NASA-JSC
2:30pm SGI Storage Strategy
Speaker: Jose Reinoso, VP Engineering, SGI
3:15pm Break
  Data Center /Green Computing Track General Track HPC track
3:30pm Session A-1
ASHRE TC9.9 Data Center Activities
Speaker: Tim McCann, Hardware Chief, SGI
Session B-1
Early Experiences with Nehalem-based Altix ICE 8200 Systems at the ARL DSRC
Speaker: Thomas Kendall, Deputy Director for Technology and Operations, ARL DSRC 
Session C-1
Actionable Intelligence for Internet & Defense using SGI Complex Event Processing (CEP) analytical engine
Speaker: Sanhita Sarkar, Manager, Applications Engineering, SGI
4:00pm Session A-2
Energy efficiency trends in Data Centers
Speaker: Larry Seibold, Chief Engineer, SGI
Session B-2
One year with an ICE - ICHEC's experiences
Speaker: Niall Wilson, ICHEC
4:30pm Session A-3
Industry Initiatives for Efficiency
Speaker: Tim McCann, Hardware Chief, SGI
Session B-3
Talk B-3
Speaker: tbd
Session C-3
New features/capabilities integrated into the Global Reference Unit (GRU) on the UV Hub asic.
Speaker: Greg Thorson, Hardware Chief, SGI
5:00pm Session A-4
Containerized Data Centers
Speaker: Larry Seibold, Chief Engineer, SGI
Session-C4
Performance of NASA Applications on SGI Multicore Platforms
Speaker: Bob Hood, NAS, Nasa Ames
Session C-4
SGI Altix as a high performance consolidation platform for Internet Search engines
Speaker: Sanhita Sarkar, Manager, Applications
Engineering, SGI
5:30 - 6:30pm BOF -2A
Deep Dives on Data Centers
Speaker: SGI Hardware Chiefs
BOF-2B
BOF 2-B
Speaker: tbd
BOF-2C
BOF 2-C
Speaker: tbd
7 - 9:00pm Welcome Reception
AGENDA    Thursday October 22nd, 2009
9:00am SGI Directions - Keynote
Speaker: Mark Barrenechea, President & Chief Executive Officer, SGI
10:00am Needle Amongst the HayStacks:  Analytics and Mining Sharded Datasets
Speaker: S. Ryan Quick, Principal Architect.  EBAY/PAYPAL
11:00am Tape Without Pain
Speaker: Jim McKinley
SpectraLogic
12:00am Lunch
1:30pm SGI Services
Speaker: David Yoffie, Senior Vice Preseident of Service, SGI
2:00pm SGI Sponsor Quick Fire Session
Moderator: Gary Jense, SGI UG
2:45pm SGI Customer FeedBack Forum
Moderator: Chuck Niggley, NASA Ames
3:15pm Break
  Partner Track General Track HPC/Applications Track
3:30pm Session A-9
LSI Update and Round Table
Speaker: Tom Barton, Robert Dilmore, LSI
Session B-9
High Performance Computing with Clouds: Past, Present, and Future
Speaker: Bill Nitzberg, Ph. D.
CTO, PBS Works
 Altair Engineering, Inc. 
Session C-9
Performance Analysis of ECCO and OVERFLOW-2 Applications
Using Performance Tools on SGI Altix ICE 8200EX Cluster
Speaker: Dr. Subhash Saini, NASA
4:00pm Session C-10
Application Performance Analysis with MPInside
Speaker: John Baron, SGI
4:30pm Session A-11
Solving Unprecedented Challenges
Speaker: Steve Valimaki, System Engineering Mgr, DDN
Session B-11
File-Systems / DMF update
Speaker: John Sygulla, SGI
Session C-11
Consolidating ICE Logs for PBS Job Analysis
Speaker: David P. Roland, COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION
5:00pm Session C-12
Change Management with Bcfg2, Subversion, and Trac
Speaker: Luke Cyca & Kamil Kisiel, Zymeworks
5:30-6:30pm BOF 3-A
PBS Works:  A Quick Look at What's New followed by Audience Participation
Speaker: Bill Nitzberg, Ph. D.
CTO, PBS Works
 Altair Engineering, Inc.
Session B-13
LiveArc: Metadata Aggregation and Managing Unstructured Data
Speaker: Floyd Christofferson, SGI
BOF 3-C
Deep Dives on Altix/UV
Speaker: SGI Hardware Chiefs
   
7:00 - 10:00pm Partner Pavilion & Reception
   
AGENDA    Friday October 23rd, 2009
  General Track System Management Track Applications track
8:00am Session A-14
Enabling HPC Applications for Scaling on Tomorrows Many Core Platforms
Speaker: Don Gunning, Intel
Session B-14
Data Center Management, ISLE Cluster Manager
Speakers:  Neil Bannister, SGI
Session C-14
High-Performance Ontology Reasoning
Speaker: Wolf Winkler, Ontoprise
8:30am Session A-15
GPU Acceleration – Development and Deployment on SGI platforms
Speakers: Matthias Fouquet-Lapar, Principal Engineer, SGI
Session C-15
Perf Boost & MPT in UV
Speaker: Michael Raymond, SGI
 
9:00am Session A-16
GP-GPU
Speaker: Douglas Miles, PGI
Session B-16
Upgrading Tempo Without Down Time Analysis
Speaker: James Karellas, NAS
Session C-16
Performance of Hybrid OpenMP/MPI and MPP Parallelism for
QCD Simulations on Hybrid Architectures

Speakers: Dr. Momme Allalen, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)
9:30am Session A-17
Efficient Tools for Heterogeneous Programming
Speaker: Jean-Marc Talbot,CAPS Entreprise
Session B-17
ICE Installation Experience
Speaker: Simon Burbidge, Imperial College London
Session C-17
ICESTORM at INL: SGI ICE Experience
Speaker: Rick Poole, INL
10:00 - 10:15am Break
10:15am Intel and SGI: Simplifying HPC with Intel Cluster Ready
Speaker: William Magro, Director of HPC Software Solutions, Intel
11:15am General Administration & Elections
12:15pm Closing Remarks and Slideshow
* SGIUG Board Meeting