HPC DAY & LINKSCEEM USER MEETING
Ben-Gurion University


Tentative Program

10:30 - 10:50
Coffee and Registration

10:50 - 11:00
Opening Remarks and Greetings
Shlomi Dolev, BGU

11:00 - 11:45
Watson wins Jeopardy!
Dafna Sheinwald, IBM

11:45 - 12:30
Modern HPC architectures in Europe
Giannis Koutsou , LinkSCEEM

12:30 - 13:05
Developing an HPC e-Infrastructure for the Eastern Mediterranean
Fotis Georgatos, LinkSCEEM


13:05 - 14:00
Lunch Break


13:45 - 14:00
Introduction to Isragrid services - israel national NGI
Zeev Vaxman Fisher, Isragrid

14:00 - 14:45
Building a National Cyber Infrastructure - The Open Science Grid Experience
Miron Livny


14:45 - 15:30
Paving the road to Exascale Computing
Michael Kagan, CTO of Mellanox

15:30 - 15:45
Coffee Break


15:45 - 16:30
Scaling Up to Large (Really Large) Systems
Barton P.Miller, University of Wisconsin

16:30
End of HPC Day


October 24, 2011