National Grid Seminar Series

Challenges in High Performance Computing using Clusters & Grid

Dr. David Scott
APAC Technical Director
High Performance Computing, Intel
USA

28 July 2003 (Monday)
1600 hours @ Auditorium
Institute for Infocomm Research
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613

Abstract

Until recently, academic and research institutions turned to expensive and rigid supercomputers or RISC-based systems to enable High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. Today, impressive advances in processor architecture allow these same institutions to deploy powerful, scalable, flexible, and cost-effective clusters computing. This seminar identifies the changing models and challenges in HPC, especially with growth of Cluster Computing and Grid Computing. It provides an insight view of how vendors are addressing the challenges and the research work on Interconnects/Infiniband, tools and software such as Open Cluster Group OSCAR as best-known-methods for building, programming and using clusters.

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Biodata

Dr. David Scott, APAC Technical Director of High Performance Computing Technology at Intel, will be relocating to Singapore and assume responsibility for all technical aspects of Intel HPC go to market and enabling programs in this region, and will bring his strong technical background and experience to the field, in support of our key accounts and strategic partners. Dr. Scott received his PhD in Numerical Analysis from UC Berkeley in 1978. He was a research scientist at the Oak Ridge National Lab for 3 years and taught in the Computer Sciences department of the University of Texas for four years. He joined Intel Scientific Computers (later renamed Intel Supercomputer Systems Division) in 1985. While working for Intel, David received his MBA from the University of Oregon in 1990. David has a long and accomplished association with HPC at Intel including the design of DES, a large out of core linear equation solver used to solve electromagnetic scattering problems, which helped sell 6 or 7 large iPSC/860s and Paragon computers. He led the team that achieved the first teraflop on MPLinpack in 1996 on the ASCI Red machine that was later delivered to Sandia National laboratory. For the last 5 years, David has worked in the Floating Point Center of Expertise, helping to improve floating point design and validation for all iA32 and iA64 processor projects.

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This seminar series is organized by the National Grid Office located at 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613.

Admission is Free. All are Welcome. Please email to Miss Vasugi (email: vasu@ngp.org.sg) to register a place by 1000 hours on 27 July 2003.