SC08

November 15-21, 2008 | Austin Convention Center
Austin, Texas

Visit Platform Computing in booth #1627 to pick up your free t-shirt plus a chance to win some fabulous prizes!

Platform’s HPC Management Software Improves Performance of Research Clusters

Platform will be demonstrating customer successes at SC08. Visit the Platform booth to hear how our customers, including Harvard Medical School, CERN, the University of Oklahoma and Red Bull Racing are using Platform HPC management software to improve time-to-results and reduce computing costs.

Platform will also showcase the entire suite of HPC management software including:

Platform will unveil HPC Academic, a cost-effective product bundle for the education and research sector, which includes a range of value-added service offerings that are designed to optimize the management and performance of your new cluster.

Don’t miss Platform’s 4th Annual Party!

Join Platform and our partners for great food and live entertainment! Plus, everyone in attendance will have a chance to win a US $2500.00 travel voucher. Many more great prizes are available with excellent odds to win.

Visit Platform’s booth #1627 to pick up your free pass. (Only 500 available)

HPC Breakfast Seminar
Platform invites you to attend a free breakfast seminar on Wednesday, November 19th at 8:00 – 9:30 AM at The Driskill Hotel, Austin, Texas.

Managing Dynamic Demands on HPC Systems
 
Scientists and researchers rely on HPC systems to model, analyze, and simulate the real world. With multiple user groups and different research applications on the same system, a highly automated HPC management solution is required. In this seminar, you will learn how HPC management software solutions from Platform helps customers accelerate application performance, schedule complex workload, and maintain 24x7 HPC environments. Henry Neeman, Director, OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER), University of Oklahoma will present his experience of successfully managing HPC systems for serving a research community.
 
For more information and to register, visit: http://www.platform.com/go/2008/SC08EDUSeminar/index.htm

Meet with Platform Computing at SC08
Platform CEO Songnian Zhou, and our executive and technical teams will be at SC08. If you would like to arrange a meeting, please contact Tina Langridge at 905-948-4554 or tlangrid@platform.com to book a time.

End-to-End HPC Management Software Solution
Exhibitor Forum Session
System and Workload Management Solutions 
Thurs, Nov 20, 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM 
Room 12A/12B 

Presenter: William Lu, Market Director, Government & Education, Platform Computing 

High performance computing infrastructure has the potential to accelerate scientific research, product design and financial analysis, but it is generally too complex for average users and system administrators. HPC management software helps to ease the process by sitting between applications and the operating system, enabling users and administrators to use HPC clusters as they would a single computer. The software delivers HPC resources to end users, while allowing administrators to manage HPC resources cost effectively. This presentation will introduce HPC management software solutions that Platform Computing has developed based on 16 years of experience.

The HPC Profile: Standardized Web Services Access to Compute Clusters
Birds of a Feather (BOF)
Wed, Nov 19, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Room 18A/18B/18C/18D

Featuring Chris Smith, Principal Product Architect, Platform Computing

Interoperability between clusters within and across enterprises can be a challenge. Users are tired of being tied to a particular system because they already know how to use it and can't face learning a new interface or language. They want to learn one way to submit their job that works across multiple platforms and vendors. In this BOF, we give an overview of the HPC Profile, which is a secure open standard based on Web services for submitting and controlling jobs on compute clusters. We describe both the "Basic" profile as well as a number of emerging "Extensions." We have short presentations by Platform Computing, Microsoft®, the University of Virginia, and others, to describe their support for the HPC Profile (and open-source implementations). In this BOF, we strongly encourage attendees to provide community feedback on the HPC Profile, make feature requests, and get involved.

Partner Activities
Platform will present in the following booths at SC08.

	Workload Driven Power Management Fri, Nov 14, 10:30-11:00 AM
	Dynamic Power Management Virtualization Multi-core Optimization Mon, Nov 17, 8:00-9:00 PM (during the reception) Tues, Nov 18, 12:30-3:00 PM Wed, Nov 19, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM Thurs, Nov 20, 2:00-4:00 PM
	High Performance Computing Clusters Made Simple Wed, Nov 19, 11:30 AM -12:00 PM
	Windows HPC and Platform LSF in Mixed Environments Wed, Nov 19, 10:15–10:35 AM
	Making the Most of Intel Multi-core Thurs, Nov 20, 10:00 AM
	Platform MPI, partnering for performance Tues, Nov 18, 2:00 PM