Note: All talks during moderated sessions are approximately 15 minutes long per speaker.
Workshops
Workshops
HPCS Registration Desk Opens
Opening Reception
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Welcoming Address
Dr Richard Peltier, The Dansgaard-Oeschger Oscillation of Glacial Climate: A Stringent Test of Global Warming Model Skill
Break Sponsored by Lenovo
High Performance Computing – Moderated by Dr. Dominic Lam
Health Care – Moderated by Dr. Harriet Feilotter
Intel – The Changing Landscape of HPC and the Data Centre
Computer Science – Moderated by Dr. Selim Akl
SOSCIP – A Collaborative R&D Platform for Innovation in Advanced Computing
Lunch
Dr. Carolyn McGregor, Using Big Data for Cognitive computing approaches to Personalized Medicine for Preterm Birth, First Responder Resilience and Astronaut Health
Break Sponsored by Lenovo
Medical – Moderated by Dr. David Maslove
Analytics – Moderated by Dr. Patrick Martin
Engineering – Moderated by Dr. Andrew Pollard
Huawei – A Fresh Look at High Performance Computing – Huawei HPC Solutions
Adaptive Computing – Making HPC easy to use
Cray – Cray at the convergence of HPC and Data Science
1000 Islands Boat Cruise – Sponsored by Huawei
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Dr. Michael Jones – Modeling Human Learning to Inform Machine Learning
Break Sponsored by Lenovo
Cognitive Computing – Moderated by Dr. Douglas Mewhort
Partner Engagement – Moderated by Nizar Ladak
Bioinformatics/Life Sciences – Moderated by Jeff Stafford
Chemistry – Moderated by Dr. Hartmut Schmider
IBM – The Future of Accelerated Computing: GPUs, FPGAs, and AI processors converge on HPC
Lenovo – Lenovo HPC for traditional science and emerging Big Data Applications
Lunch
Dr. Erin Johnson, Dispersion-Corrected Density-Functional Theory, Molecular Crystals, and Polymorphism
Break Sponsored by Lenovo
Chemistry – Moderated by Dr. Natalie Cann
Archiving – Moderated by Martha Whitehead
Physics – Moderated by Dr. Chris Jillings
Future Tech – Moderated by Dr. Mark Daley
Dell EMC – Dell EMC HPC Update
Seagate – Lustre: Back to the Future
SchedMD – Slurm: What Happened & What’s Going to Happen
Scalar – Archive Network Agility Through Analytics and Automation
Transportation for Old Fort Henry dinner. Pickup at 116 Barrie Street BioScience building
Fort Henry Banquet – Buses return at 9:00
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Leadership Council for Digital Research Infrastructure Update – Presented by Robbin Tourangeau
Break
Dr. Arthur McDonald, “SNO, SNOLAB and High Performance Computing”
Lunch