Overview

The Sun HPC Consortium Tampa 2006 (November 11-13, 2006) is being held in conjunction with SC2006 (November 11-17) at the Westin Innisbrook Golf Resort in Palm Harbor, Florida.

The Sun High Performance Computing Consortium (SHPCC) is an independent, volunteer-organized, international group of member organizations that own or use Sun computer systems with emphasis on high-performance, technical computing, and visualization.

SHPCC's mission is to provide the high performance computing community with leadership and provide a forum for information exchange to enable the development and effective use of Sun computational tools in achieving the business and research objectives of member organizations.

Participants represent a broad range of computing applications and environments. The meeting format is designed to give participants the opportunity to present HPC developments, discuss applications and needs with their peers, and to hear and provide feedback on Sun's engineering plans.

Previous agendas and presentations are on line.

Who should attend:
All Sun scientific, engineering, or research computing customers or anyone interested in high-performance computing on Sun technologies. Each meeting is designed to address a wide range of intrests from application developers to CIOs and VPs of Research.

Confidential Information:
The SHPCC agenda will include Sun-confidential information and all attendees must sign a Confidential information Disclosure Agreement or have an existing Agreement on file with your local Sun sales office.

Contact us:
Please email inquiries to hpcconsortium-info@sun.com.

Join Us:
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2005 and 2006 Google Summer of Code™ Awards

A researcher at one of Sun's Center of Excellence, the University of Houston: Babu Sundaram successfully participated in the Google Summer of Code™ program in both 2005 and 2006, working on HPC related projects.

You can meet Babu at Sun's booth at SC06 in Tampa, Florida November 10-16 as he shows off UH Computer Science's medical visualization research projects. Below is a description of Babu's award work being done at the University of Houston:

1. Sun Grid Engine (SGE) Package Creation for OSCAR
2. Job Monitoring and Archiving Tool in OSCAR based on Ganglia