Workshop on High-Performance Computing

ETH Zürich, Switzerland, September 3-4 2007

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The program of the workshop is reported below. Click on the speaker name to visualize the abstract of the presentation.

Time Monday, September 3
 08:30-08:45 Welcome
 08:45-10:15 Earth Sciences

Domenico Giardini (ETHZ)
"Global Seismology, Earthquake Physics and Seismic Hazard in the Frame of High Performance Computing"

Christoph Schär (ETHZ)
"High-performance computing with weather and climate models"
 10:15-10:45 Coffee break
 10:45-12:15 New techniques 1

Christoph Ueberhuber (TU Wien)
"Automatic Program Generation and Optimization in HPC"
Winner of Gordon Bell award 06
Key note speech

Jack Dongarra (UTK)
"Future directions of HPC"
 12:15-13:45 Lunch break
 13:45-15:15 Life Sciences

Felix Schürmann (EPFL)
"The Blue Brain project"

Victor Jongeneel (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)
"Emerging HPC requirements for the life sciences"
 15:15-15:45 Coffee break
 15:45-17:15 New techniques 2

Dag Arne Osvik (EPF Lausanne)
"Cryptologic applications on the PlayStation3: cell speed"

Mike Folk (The HDF Group)
"Data Challenges and HDF5 - Past, Present, Future"
 17:15- Apero


Time Tuesday, September 4
 08:30-17:00 Tutorial

Hema Reddy (IBM)
"IBM Cell Programming Tutorial"