Industry, Research and User Symposium

The HiPC Industry, Research, and User Symposium (IRUS) aims at bringing together the users / practitioners of HPC including both commercial and non-commercial users, and giving them a platform to share their challenges and successes, as well as to discuss relevant technology issues.

1. Large Scale Computational Fluid Dynamics – the challenges ,limitations and opportunity areas for HPC.

Session Chair:
Debasis Chakraborty, Scientist 'G' and Technology Director, Directorate of Computational Dynamics, Defense Reserach and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad

Abstract

The current challenges in the industrial aero space/Automotive CFD fields are to offer both better quality/featured products at cheaper price and produce faster pace to users. This forces designers to minimize risk, cost reduction and time to market. The cost influence of any product is large in the initial phases of the design, hence the confidence on the success of the product in the market should increase in early stage of the design cycle. This requires to conduct high fidelity flow simulations to enter the flow dynamic design process much earlier than today. Also this needs to use more advanced flow modelling levels throughout complete design process. However, the turnaround time for a simulation is a restricting factor when deciding the physical modelling level in each design phase. Parallel processing is commonly used to reduce the turnaround time and with the introduction of Linux clusters in the mid -90’s, cost efficient supercomputing resources has become available in large scale for wider community. Several 10’s of thousands of nodes Linux clusters with specific configurations to suite to each application needs have become popular. Several HPC clustering techniques and custom configurations of sub components have provided improved turnaround times which in turn providing possibility to increase the modelling capability. This session is aimed to discuss these choices and configurations and the challenges.

Speakers:

Confirmed speakers include:

  • Vasanth Jain, Chief Scientist, GE Global Research Centre, JFWTC, Bangalore, India
  • Thomas Babu/Ashok Kumar, Group Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, ISRO, Dept. Of Space, India
  • Anutosh Moitra, Group head, Aero space Practise, TATA Consultancy Services, Bangalore
  • Bala Krishnan, Professor, Aero space department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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2. Intersection of HPC and Big Data - Challenges and opportunities

Session Chair:
Pradeep K. Sinha, IEEE Fellow and ACM Distinguished Scientist, Sr.Director (HPC & R&D), Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune

Abstract

This Session centres on the intersection of HPC (Simulation) and Big Data (enterprise data processing), which of late has come the talk of the both scientific and enterprise worlds. This intersection may utilize the well proven numerical simulation techniques along with the upcoming newer large-scale graph analytics, semantic and machine learning technologies etc. The aim of this symposium is to bring both sections together to maximize insights and innovation by applying both established and newer methods to all sections in scientific, research, industrial segments.

Intersection of these two domains is highly driven by the use of machine learning methodologies to discover patterns from big data, and we see an increasing number of platforms that are combining these capabilities to provide hybrid environments that can take advantage of data locality to keep the data exchanges over the at an acceptable level .This session speakers will discuss the limitations and opportunities available further R&D in this interestingly developing area.

Speakers:

Confirmed speakers include:

  • Arvind Partha Sarathi, President of YarcData, Cray Inc.
  • C. R. Subramanyam, Distinguished Scientist, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
  • Marc Hamilton, Vice President, Solution Architecture and engineering. NVidia
  • Victor Lee, Principal Scientist, Intel Labs.
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