ISC2005 keynote speakers announced

released May 03, 2005

Keynote speakers have been announced for the International Supercomputer Conference, to be held June 21-24 in Heidelberg, Germany, under the theme "Applications, Architectures, Trends."

The opening keynote will be delivered by Horst Simon, the Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. Simon will share his perspective on "Progress in Supercomputing: the Top Three Breakthroughs of the Last 20 and the Top Three Challenges for the Next 20 Years."

On Thursday, Mark Seager of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and Alan Gara of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York will give a keynote address on "Peta-scale Computing during Disruptive Times."

The final keynote speech of ISC2005 will be given by Wolfgang Gentzsch, director for Grid Computing and Networking Services at MCNC in North Carolina, on Friday and will focus on "Grid Computing in Research and Business around the World."

ISC2005 offers three days of technical sessions and of networking opportunities to provide attendees with a comprehensive and compact overview on HPC topics presented by world-renowned scientists and experts.

The sessions will cover such areas as key applications, requirements for HPC systems software, innovative supercomputer architectures, integrated data and information management, and the popular "hot seat" sessions, during which specially selected experts acting as "inquisitors" pose pithy questions to representatives from leading HPC vendors. The ISC2005 program will also include a look at future trends, as well as an HPC retrospective. There will also be a one-day, hands-on tutorial covering "Interconnect Architectures in Practice" on Tuesday, June 21.

For information, including registration details, go to http://www.isc2005.org/.

 

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