High Performance Computing for Smarter Planet Workshop
Date : May 20, 21 2009
Venue: Cairo Marriott Hotel (The View Ball Room – Zamalek tower – 20th floor)
Agenda:
May 20th:
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11:30 - 12:30 Registration and welcome reception
12:30 - 12:40 Welcome Speeches - Rodolfo Ambrosetti: Cairo Technology
Development Center Director, Sergey Belov, Hisham El-Shishiny
• 12:40 – 12:50 Self introduction (all participants)
• 12:50 - 13:30 “Smarter Science for a Smarter Planet” – Dr Ralph Warmack, IBM
World Wide Principal - System Blue Gene Solutions, IBM Systems & Technology
Group
• 13:30 – 15:00 Lunch
• 15:00 – 16:00 Session 1: HPC for R&D and Education – Chair: Sergey Belov,
CEEMEA University Relations Coordinator
- “High Performance Computing and Blue Gene/P at Moscow State University:
Experience and Plans for Research and Education”. Prof Nina Popova, Moscow State
University, Russia
- “Blue Gene R&D and Education Projects in Bulagaria” – Dr Nadejda Angelova
Kuotchmova, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria.
• 16:00 – 17:15 Session 2: Egyptian Nationall Potential HPC Needs – Chair: Prof
Salwa Nassar, Head of Computer Dept, ERI &NARSS BG Team Supervisor
- “HPC: Some National Level Needs & Requirements” – Prof Atef Sherif, Aerospace
Engineering department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University
- “ Egypt – Cern High Performance Computing” – Prof Ali El-Leithy, Faculty of
Science, Cairo University
- “BG Utilization: Cairo University Engineering Perspective” – Prof Nevine
Darwish, Chair of Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering,
Cairo University
- “HPC in Nile University with Focus on Bioinformatics Applications” – Dr
Mohamed Aboulhouda and Dr Nashwa Abdelbaky, Center for Informatics Sciences,
Nile University
• 17:15 – 17:45 Coffee Break
• 17:45 – 18:30 Session 3: HPC Status at National Authority for Remote sensing
and space Sciences (NARSS) – Chair: Prof Atef Sherif, Aerospace Engineering
Dept. Fac. of Eng., Cairo Univ.
- “NARSS Infrastructure” – Prof Salwa Nassar, Head of Computer Dept, ERI &NARSS
BG Team Supervisor
- “Finite Difference Time Domain Case Study” – Prof Hesham El-Deeb, Computer
Department, ERI
- “Numerical Weather Modeling Activities at NARSS”, Eng Mohamed Abdel Kader,
Lecturer, NARSS
- “Archeological Applications Need to HPC” – Dr Walaa Sheta, Dean of Informatics
Research Institute, Mubarak City for Science & Technology
• 20:00 – 22: 00 Dinner (Nile Maxime – Nile cruising dinner)
May 21st:
9:00 – 10:00 “Computational Sciences at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory” – Dr
Alessandro Curioni, Manager, Computational Sciences, IBM Research Division –
Zurich Research Laboratory.
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10: 00 – 10: 30 "Research Projects at the Centre for High Performance Computing in
South Africa". Kevin Colville, Centre for High Performance Computing, CSIR, South
Africa
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11: 00 – 12:00 “Overview of R&D in High Performance Computing on Blue Gene in
IBM Cairo Technology Development Center, Dr. Hisham El-Shishiny (and his team)
– Manager of Advanced Technology and IBM Center for Advanced Studies in Cairo
12:00 – 12:30 “HPC Related Activities and Perspectives in Romanian Universities” –
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania & Emil Slusanschi, Politehnica
University of Bucharest, Romania
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Round table devoted to collaboration, forming research community
around BG
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00 Working session to draft a skeleton for a joint research project
17.00 – 17:15 Closing remarks