Indian Petascale Initiative

Special Session on Indian Petascale Initiative: Roadmap, Challenges, and Opportunities

December 21, 2012 (10am-noon)

Moderators:
R. Govindarajan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

Abstract:

This plenary session will discuss the Indian Petascale initiative, the specific focus on hardware and software systems and the associated research components, the computational problems that are likely to be addressed, the current roadmap, the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead, and lessons learnt/recommendations from Petascale initiatives in other countries. The session will feature eminent speakers from India and abroad who have played leading roles in various supercomputing initiatives.

Speakers: Confirmed speakers include

• Jay Boisseau
  Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), The University of Texas at Austin, USA
  Web: http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/staff/jay-boisseau
  
• B. N. Goswami
  Director, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India
  Web: http://www.tropmet.res.in/~bng/index.html
  
• Rajat Moona
  Director General, CDAC, Pune, India
  Web: http://www.cdac.in/html/message/dg-profile.aspx
  
• P. Seshu
  Scientist-in-Charge, CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (C-MMACS), Bangalore, India
  Web: http://www.cmmacs.ernet.in/cmmacs/Personnel/seshu/index.html