The international meeting for High Performance Numerical Design and Simulation

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More than 60 speakers will cover the whole scope of high performance numerical design and simulation: complex systems numerical design and optimization – Exascale computing, extreme parallelism and hybrid programming challenges - Interactive simulation - Visualization, optimization and processing performance - HPC centers energy optimization - Big Data : storage, processing, analysis and exploitation - ...

During the plenary sessions, major providers will present the technology evolutions and large users will talk about HPC usage in multiple sectors such as oil and gas, chemicals and cosmetics. They will present their experience and their expectations.

With the participation of Philippe GILLET, Vice-président, ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE - Anthony LICHNEWSKY, Software Architect - HPC Specialist, SCHLUMBERGER - Steve BARBER, Chief Executive Officer, XYRATEX - Ananth KRISHNAN, CTO, TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES - David SILAGY, Directeur de centre de recherche, ARKEMA - Joel MONNIER, Président, KALRAY - Bernard QUERLEUX, PhD, HdR , L’OREAL Recherche & Innovation

Internationally renowned guest speakers bring their analysis on public policies in HPC including Robert MADELIN, Director General, Directorate-General for Information Society and Media of the European Commission, and Nelson MACULAN, former Education Minister of Brazil and Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.. 

Six technical workshops will be devoted to the state of the art methods and tools for high-performance design and simulation.

One exhibition with 60 technology companies will cover the whole HPC industry. Systems manufacturers , processor manufacturers,software developpers and editors, service providers, research centres and universities, public and private sector players will present their latest HPC innovations.

• Welcome, Gérard ROUCAIROL, Président de TERATEC et Vice-président de l'ACADEMIE DES TECHNOLOGIES
• David ROS, Vice-président, CONSEIL GENERAL DE L'ESSONNE
• Philippe GILLET, Vice-président, ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE       
• HPC, a game changer for the oil & gas industry by Anthony LICHNEWSKY, Software Architect - HPC Specialist, SCHLUMBERGER
• From Petabytes (10¹⁵) to Yottabytes (10²⁴), and before 2020 by Steve BARBER, Chief Executive Officer , XYRATEX
• New opportunities for HPC - Cloud, analytics, Big data by Ananth KRISHNAN, CTO, TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
• Numerical Modeling, the major asset for innovative chemistry and polymers by David SILAGY, Directeur de centre de recherche, ARKEMA
• MPPA :  Innovation through parallel computing by Joel MONNIER, Président, KALRAY
• Issues for numerical modeling in cosmetic science by Bernard QUERLEUX, PhD, HdR , L'OREAL Recherche & Innovation

We will also welcome the participation of public officials, including Robert MADELIN, Director General, Directorate-General for Information Society and Media of the European Commission, and Nelson MACULAN, former Education Minister of Brazil and Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. This first day end with the 2012 Bull Joseph Fourier Prize award ceremony in association with Genci. This awards recognizes an individual or a team for their oustanding work in the parallelization of numerical applications on traditional or hybrid architectures, achieved in a public or private laboratory.

Complex Systems Numerical Design : progress, trends and challenges
With the participation of Jacques DUYSENS, HPC Project / SILKAN – Gérard POIRIER, DASSAULT AVIATION - Christian SAGUEZ, TERATEC - Michel RAVACHOL, DASSAULT AVIATION - Michel DECROISETTE, CEA - Jacques DUYSENS, HPC Project/SILKAN - Noël FLEUROT and Marc NOVARO, CEA - Christophe BEESAU et Ruchi GANGWAR, ALTRAN - Victor M CALO, Longfei GAO, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science and Earth Science & Engineering - King Abdullah University of Sciences and Technology (KAUST) - Dr. B P GAUTHAM, TATA Consultancy Services

Exascale Challenges
With the participation of Marie Christine SAWLEY, EXASCALE COMPUTING RESEARCH/INTEL - Olaf SCHENK, UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO - Wim VANROSE, UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERPEN, INTEL EXASCIENCE LAB - Simone MELCHIONNA, CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLA RICERCA - Michel CAFFAREL, CNRS TOULOUSE - Marc TCHIBOUKDJIAN, UNIVERSITY OF VERSAILLES-ST-QUENTIN/EXASCALE COMPUTING RESEARCH - Thomas GUILLET, INTEL/ EXASCALE COMPUTING RESEARCH - Patrick DEMICHEL, HEWLETT-PACKARD

Visualization, optimization and performance
With the participation of Alban SCHMUTZ, OXALYA - Gaël MATHIS, ARCELORMITTAL - Laurent ANNE, DISTENE - François BODIN, CAPS ENTREPRISE - Benoit VAUTRIN and Arnaud LAPREVOTE, OXALYA (in partnership with AMD and NVIDIA) - Christophe MOUTON, Expert en visualisation et en simulation interactive - Fabien VIVODTZEV and Didier NASSIET, CEA CESTA

Toward Green Computing Centers
With the participation of Hervé LOZACH and François ROBIN, CEA - Arndt BODE, Director Leibniz-Supercomputer Center of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences LRZ - Jean-Marc DUCOS, CEA/DAM-Ile-de-France - CNRS/LPMMC - Bernard LECANU, BL International Consultant - Laurent CARGEMEL, BULL / Hardware R&D - Jean-Marc MENAUD, Université des Mines de Nantes/INRIA, LINA

Data Deluge(s)
With the participation of Jean-Philippe NOMINE, CEA - Henri VERDIER, CAP DIGITAL - Vincent FROUIN, CEA/DSV - Guy CHESNOT, SGI - Philippe BRICARD & Emmanuel LECERF, IBM - Pascal RUBY, XEDIX

SME Session
With the participation of Pierre BEAL, NUMTECH Groupe SETH et Gérard ROUCAIROL, TERATEC & ACADEMIE DES TECHNOLOGIES - Bruno PINA, BULL - Dr. Max LEMKE, Deputy Head of Unit, EUROPEAN COMMISSION - Catherine RIVIERE, GENCI - Financing operators (SCIENTIPOLE INITIATIVE, OSEO, CAISSE DES DEPOTS ) - Marc SAINT GEORGES, VCODYNE

ScilabTEC 2012
With the participation of Will SCHROEDER, KITWARE - Bruno LABOUDIGUE et Cécile CARRERE, ERAMET - Pierre FIORINI, HPC PROJECT - Jean-Pierre BOVEE, SANOFI - Frédéric PAULIAC, ASTRIUM - Michel RAVACHOL, DASSAULT AVIATION - Vincent COUVERT et Bruno JOFRET, SCILAB - Alain LAMY, CNES - Claude GOMEZ & Jacques DHELLEMMES, SCILAB ENTERPRISES

During these two days, an exhibition of 60 booths covering the whole HPC industry. Systems manufacturers and software vendors, integrators and distributors, service providers, academic and laboratory researchers, public and private sector developers will present their latest HPC innovations. 

Exhibitors list updated une 21, 2012 : ACTIVEON – ALINEOS - ALLIANCE SERVICES PLUS - ALLINEA SOFTWARE - ALTAIR ENGINEERING –  ALTRAN - ALYOTECH – AMD - ANSYS France – BARCO - BULL - CAPS ENTREPRISE - CARRI SYSTEMS - CD ADAPCO – CEA – CENAERO – CCI de L'ESSONNE – CLUSTERVISION - CC de L'ARPAJONNAIS - COMMUNICATION & SYSTEMES - CG de L'ESSONNE - DATADIRECT NETWORKS – DELL - ENGIN SOFT - ESI GROUP – EUROTECH - EXASCALE COMPUTING RESEARCH LAB - FRAUNHOFER ITWM – FUJITSU – GENCI - HEWLETT PACKARD - HPC PROJECT – IBM – IFPEN – INRIA – INTEL – KALRAY – MICROSOFT – NAFEMS - NICE SOFTWARE  - NOESIS – NVIDIA – OPEN GPU PROJECT - OPENSIDES – OXALYA – PANASAS - ROGUE WAVE – SCILAB – SGI – SYSFERA – SYSTEMATIC – TERATEC – TOTALINUX – TRANSTEC – VCODYNE

System Design and Development Tools Village
The partners of the System Design and Development Tools Working Group will be gathered at TERATEC 2012 Forum to present the expertise and skills of this Systematic community.
With the participation of 6 R&D Project (Open GPU, CSDL, OASIS, OPEN HPC, RODIN, OPSIM, CARAB, ADN) and their partners (Distene, NECS, Alneos, Numtech, Eurodecision, Structure Computation et DPS)