HPCS 2017 – Canada’s premier advanced research computing conference

June 6-9, 2017

2017-06-06 18:00:00
 
HPCS 2017 Agenda

Note: All talks during moderated sessions are approximately 15 minutes long per speaker.

HPCS 2017 Conference  – Monday, June 5, 2017
9:00 – 5:00 

Workshops

Room: Biosciences Complex
HPCS 2017 Conference  – Tuesday, June 6, 2017
9:00 – 5:00 

Workshops

Room: Biosciences Complex
2:00 

HPCS Registration Desk Opens

Room: Biosciences Atrium
5:00 – 7:00

Opening Reception

Room: Biosciences Atrium
HPCS 2017 Conference, Day 1 – Wednesday, June 7, 2017
8:00

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Biosciences Atrium
8:45 – 9:00

Welcoming Address

Biosciences 1101
9:00 – 10:00

Dr Richard Peltier, The Dansgaard-Oeschger Oscillation of Glacial Climate: A Stringent Test of Global Warming Model Skill

Room: Biosciences 1101
10:00 – 10:15

Break Sponsored by Lenovo

Biosciences Atrium
10:15-12:30

High Performance Computing – Moderated by Dr. Dominic Lam

Room: Biosciences 1103
10:15-12:30

Health Care – Moderated by Dr. Harriet Feilotter

Room: Humphrey 102
10:15-11:15

Intel – The Changing Landscape of HPC and the Data Centre

Room: Biosciences 1120
10:15-12:30

Computer Science – Moderated by Dr. Selim Akl

Room: Biosciences 1102
11:30-12:30

SOSCIP – A Collaborative R&D Platform for Innovation in Advanced Computing

Room: Biosciences 1120
12:30 – 1:30

Lunch

Leonard Hall
1:30 – 2:30

Dr. Carolyn McGregor, Using Big Data for Cognitive computing approaches to Personalized Medicine for Preterm Birth, First Responder Resilience and Astronaut Health

Room: Biosciences 1101
2:30 – 2:45

Break Sponsored by Lenovo

Biosciences Atrium
2:45 – 5:00

Medical – Moderated by Dr. David Maslove

Room: Biosciences 1101
2:45 – 5:00

Analytics – Moderated by Dr. Patrick Martin

Room: Biosciences 1103
2:45 – 5:00

Engineering – Moderated by Dr. Andrew Pollard

Room: Biosciences 1102
2:45-3:45

Huawei – A Fresh Look at High Performance Computing – Huawei HPC Solutions

Room: Biosciences 1120
4:00-4:30

Adaptive Computing – Making HPC easy to use

Room: Biosciences 1120
4:30-5:00

Cray – Cray at the convergence of HPC and Data Science

Room: Biosciences 1120
6:00 – 7:15

1000 Islands Boat Cruise – Sponsored by Huawei

248 Ontario Street Dock
HPCS 2017 Conference, Day 2, Thursday, June 8, 2017
8:00 – 9:00

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Biosciences Atrium
9:00 – 10:00

Dr. Michael Jones – Modeling Human Learning to Inform Machine Learning

Room: Biosciences 1101
10:00 – 10:15

Break Sponsored by Lenovo

Biosciences Atrium
10:15-12:30

Cognitive Computing – Moderated by Dr. Douglas Mewhort

Room: Biosciences 1101
10:15-12:30

Partner Engagement – Moderated by Nizar Ladak

Room: Biosciences 1102
10:15-12:30

Bioinformatics/Life Sciences – Moderated by Jeff Stafford

Room: Biosciences 1103
10:15-12:30

Chemistry – Moderated by Dr. Hartmut Schmider

Room: Humphrey 102
10:15-11:15

IBM – The Future of Accelerated Computing: GPUs, FPGAs, and AI processors converge on HPC

Room: Biosciences 1120
11:30-12:30

Lenovo – Lenovo HPC for traditional science and emerging Big Data Applications

Room: Biosciences 1120
12:30 – 1:30

Lunch

Leonard Hall
1:30 – 2:30

Dr. Erin Johnson, Dispersion-Corrected Density-Functional Theory, Molecular Crystals, and Polymorphism

Room: Biosciences 1101
2:30 – 2:45

Break Sponsored by Lenovo

Biosciences Atrium
2:45 – 5:00

Chemistry – Moderated by Dr. Natalie Cann

Room: Biosciences 1101
2:45 – 5:00

Archiving – Moderated by Martha Whitehead

Room: Biosciences 1103
2:45 – 5:00

Physics – Moderated by Dr. Chris Jillings

Room: Humphrey Hall 102
2:45 – 5:00

Future Tech – Moderated by Dr. Mark Daley

Room: Biosciences 1102
2:45-3:15

Dell EMC – Dell EMC HPC Update

Room: Biosciences 1120
3:15-3:45

Seagate – Lustre: Back to the Future

Room: Biosciences 1120
4:00-4:30

SchedMD – Slurm: What Happened & What’s Going to Happen

Room: Biosciences 1120
4:30-5:00

Scalar – Archive Network Agility Through Analytics and Automation

Room: Biosciences 1120
5:30 – 6:00

Transportation for Old Fort Henry dinner. Pickup at 116 Barrie Street BioScience building

116 Barrie Street
6:00 – 9:00pm

Fort Henry Banquet – Buses return at 9:00

Old Fort Henry
HPCS 2017 Conference, Day 3, Friday, June 9, 2017
8:00 – 8:45

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Biosciences Atrium
9:00 – 10:30

Leadership Council for Digital Research Infrastructure Update – Presented by Robbin Tourangeau

Room: Biosciences 1101
10:30 – 11:00

Break

Biosciences Atrium
11:00 – 12:00

Dr. Arthur McDonald, “SNO, SNOLAB and High Performance Computing”

Room: Biosciences 1101
12:00 – 1:00

Lunch

Room: Biosciences Atrium
 
 
 

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