Opportunities and Challenges in Industrial HPC

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KAUST Library, Seaside area

Abstract

Exaflop Computing is driven by research activities with a focus on the performance but little regard for operational issues as are required by industrial users. In this talk we will address the industrial view of Exascale Computing aiming at getting a better understanding of what it takes to exploit teh new technologies also in the industrial field.

Brief Biography

Michael Resch is the director of the Institute for High Performance Computing Center and the German National High Performance Computign Center Stuttgart (HLRS) at the University of Stuttgart. A native Austria he got his Dipl.-Ing. (MSc) from the Technical University of Graz/Austria and a PhD in Engineering from the University of Stuttgart. In 2002 he was an Assistant Professor at the Univerity of Houston, TX. Since 2003 he is a full professor at the University of Stuttgart. Michael Resch holds honorable doctoral degrees from Donezk Techncial University and the Russian Academy of Sciences as well as an honorary professorship of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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