On May 5, in the university complex of Monte Sant’Angelo, an appointment was held to compare the experiences of the two universities (Fed II and Cambridge) in the field of high-performance computing.
The agenda that also saw the involvement of entities such as Dell, Intel, Mellanox and Nvidia was technically intense and full of excellent ideas.
- 09:15-10.00 Welcome coffee & partecipants registration
- 10:00-10.15 Welcome addresses – Prof. Roberto Pettorino, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- 10:15-10:30 Keynote – Prof. Leonardo Merola, President of the Scope Technical Committee
- 10:30-11:00 Dell approach to HPC, Francesco Magri Dell Country manager
- 11.05-11.35 What we do and what we will do with HPC in Naples – Prof. Guido Russo, Federico II
- 11.35-12.05 The Dell|Cambridge HPC Solution Centre – Paul Calleja, Head of HPC Services, University of Cambridge
- 12.05-12.35 Dell Storage for HPC environments – Paolo Bianco, Storage Specialist, Dell
- 12.35-13.30 LUNCH
- 13.30-14.00 HPC industry trends and Intel’s approach – Intel
- 14.00-14.20 GPU technology in heterogeneous HPC clusters – Edmondo Orlotti, HPC Business Development Manager, NVidia
- 14:20-14:40 Network Converged Fabrics for Cloud and HPC – Nir Gal, EMEA Field Application Engineer Manager, Mellanox
- 14:40-15:00 Closing Francesco Magri Dell Country manager
At the end of the meeting, a guided tour of the SCoPE DataCenter was planned, the supercomputing infrastructure that also grids with CERN in Geneva