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Call for participation from industry, academia and regulators
- in a Workshop looking at:
AINTEC Workshop 15-16 Nov 2010
‘HPC is at a cross-roads .. for the first time we
have witnessed a decrease in clock-speeds,
- with vendors leaving their users to deal with
the complexity of parallelism’
www.planethpc.eu
Information Business Growth and Competitiveness
in the Asia and Pacific region
"We have created a dynamic datacentre, that we
believe fundamentally enables new models of
computing over widely-spaced physical distances
... within a private cloud.”
Pat Gelsinger & Joe Tucci, EMC, 2010
Using ‘fundamentally new models of computing’ to create ‘new business models’ servicing ‘new markets’
requires a broad understanding of factors that determine growth and competitiveness tied to detailed knowledge
of local factors such as availability of investment capital, market demand characteristics and potential for growth.
Local network infrastructure determines access to global networks, and hence access to on-demand
High Performance/Cloud services. In turn, these display regional dependencies, most notably regional
pricing models arising from the cost of data movements over large physical distances, leading to an
industry structured around regional data centers that form important enablers and barriers to competition.
This workshop will
* review successful ‘information services’ business models, and use these to structure discussions that
* explore what determines business growth/competitiveness in a global economy for businesses in East Asia
* develop business scenarios suggested by participants
* test these scenarios by following-up with individual groups after the workshop
The organisers draw on 20 years of working at the interface between HPC/Cloud and industry in distributed
computing, information services, technology transfer and commercialization - including venture capital, business
growth and turnaround from ‘start-up’ to multi-national. This allows the workshop to explore opportunities
for technology transfer and business creation that takes the broadest possible view of what is required to
convert good ideas into competitive information businesses.
The sessions take place over two afternoons and will use video conferencing to enable European sites to
participate. The intent is to form collaborations that develop the business models and assess their potential for
commercialization. Follow-on support for developing collaborations has been provided by the UK ESRC and the
TEIN3 programme, which provides network infrastructure across Asia Pacific for research and education.
The workshop will be held in conjunction with AINTEC 2010 (www.interlab.ait.ac.th/aintec2010/) and is
free to registered participants - please go to: www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1113/ to register.
EPCC at the University of Edinburgh, is home of the UK National
Organisers
HPC service HECToR – the World’s first production Cray XT6
system. For over 20 years, EPCC has managed an unrivalled
collection of world-leading systems, and developed technology
transfer links with industry that account for half its annual turnover.
Michael Cross has built/turned around a number of companies,
including the Thomson Group of pharmaceutical drug delivery and
packaging companies across Europe and Asia. He has authored 7
books and over 130 papers on skills and working practices.
Ashley Lloyd researches widely in the ICT arena, with publications
ranging from Quantum Electronics to Innovation Management.
Collaborations include the INWA ‘Global Grid’ with the Computer
Network & Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Mark Parsons is EPCC's Commercial Director. He is a leading
expert on Grid technologies/HPC solutions for business and science.
He has developed collaborative projects ranging from major IT
vendors - including IBM and Microsoft - to manufacturing SMEs.
Terence Sloan is the Software Development Group Manager at
EPCC. In the last decade he has managed over €5m of projects in
HPC, Grid and eScience, participating in the EU-funded DEISA
consortium and a major US NSF Cyber-infrastructure Review.
David Fergusson is a Deputy Director of the UK National eScience
Centre and led EGEE’s highly successful
training activity. He is currently
developing virtualisation and
cloud support for the UK
National Grid Service,
and recently initiated
a UK JISC study to
understand engage
-ment with distributed
computing resources.
The research and education network
for Asia-Pacific