June 2013 Regular MUG Meeting
We meet at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of each month at the Farmington Community Library.
Main Topic: “The global race towards a competitive edge: History & Trends in High Performance Computing and the synergy of Open Source Technologies with HPC”
In the last 50 years, computing has seen tremendous changes with a clear impact on our lives today. What is little known however is the fact that a lot of this has been driven by High Performance Computing. Often we see technologies which were first pioneered in HPC – then appear in the general domain (and occasionally vice versa!). We will dive into history of HPC and point out the various technologies, trends and also share some vision or insight into what we can expect are going to be the challenges of the future . Included are various innovative and enabling novel applications of HPC, such as Big Data, Bioinformatics, Drug Discovery, Automotive/Aircraft design and Energy exploration. It is easy to see why HPC is so important today nationally and globally. The role of open source technologies and the synergy experienced by both HPC and OSS is often overlooked.
Speaker: Sharan Kalwani
Sharan Kalwani is a High Performance Computing expert with 20+ years of experience. Sharan has degrees in Mechanical Engineering as well as Computer Science and experience in IT architecture, systems deployment, software development, systems device driver writing, networking, several engineering, technical & scientific applications, and compilers and libraries.
Sharan has worked with several other computing vendors such as Cray Research, Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) and managed several global teams focused on science & engineering, large HPC sites with many organizations such as General Motors (GM) and KAUST. Sharan is a member of IEEE/Computer Society, ACM, USENIX/SAGE, and is a founding member of mug.org
Fishbowl:
Our popular Fishbowl series returns to the MUG.org June meeting. What will we talk about? Everything and anything relating to UNIX, Linux, and Free / Open Source Software, with topic chosen by YOU. Bring a topic or three to discuss, and we’ll use this unique format to discuss, debate, and enlighten. You won’t want to miss it!
And we’ll also have our normal MUG meeting features: Jobs Looking For People, People Looking for Jobs, news and events, and much much more.