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Tuesday, October 4:
 
5:30 - 7:00 pm   Poster Session & Welcome Reception (Sponsored by Intel and Uptime) featuring Chef's Carving Table, light appetizers and a Chocolate Fountain
    Stephenson Research & Technology Center
     
Wednesday October 5
 
7:30 am Participant Registration Opens
  OCCE Forum Hub
   
7:30 am - 4:00 pm Vendor Displays Available
  Conference Rooms A & B, Forum Hub
 
7:30 am - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast
  Conference Rooms A & B
 
8:00 am Welcome
    Dr. Dennis Aebersold, CIO and University VP for IT, University of Oklahoma
  Main Forum Auditorium (all attendees)
 
8:15 am OSCER State of the Center Address  
  Dr. Henry Neeman, Director, OSCER
  Main Forum Auditorium (all attendees)
   
9:15 am Plenary Presentation
  Dr. Walter F. Brooks, Division Chief, NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division; "World Class Supercomputing System, "Columbia"." (Introduction by Henry Neeman, Director, OSCER)
  Main Forum Auditorium (all attendees)
 
10:00 am Snack Break
  Conference Rooms A & B
 
10:15 am Plenary Presentation
    Dr. Guy T. Almes, Program Officer, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation; NSF's Evolving Cyberinfrastructure Program (Introduction by Dr. T.H. Lee Williams, VP for Research and Dean of Graduate College, OU)
  Main Forum Auditorium (all attendees)
 
11:00 am Plenary Presentation
    Dr. Roscoe Giles, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Boston University; Deputy Director, Center for Computational Science; Executive Director, Institute for African American E-Culture; Team Leader, EPIC (Engaging People In Cyberinfrastructure); "Engaging People in Cyberinfrastucture" (Introduction by Dr. Dennis Aebersold, OU CIO and University VP for IT)
  Main Forum Auditorium (all attendees)
 
12:00 noon Lunch: Networking Buffet Taco Bar
  Conference Rooms A & B
 
1:00 pm Plenary Presentation
    Stephen R. Wheat, Ph.D., Director, High Performance Computing, Intel Corporation; On the State of the HPC Industry (Introduction by Dr. Henry Neeman, Director, OSCER)
  Main Forum Auditorium (all attendees)
 
2:00 pm Breakout Sessions
   

Bob Felderman, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, Precision I/O; Commodity Ethernet Clusters - Maximizing Your Performance
Seminar Room A2/A4

Suresh Marru, Scientific Computing Research Specialist, Extreme! Computing Labs, Indiana University; Grid Computing for Real World Applications
Seminar Room A3/A5

Dr. Amy Apon, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Arkansas; Supercomputing at the University of Arkansas: Acquiring Red Diamond
Seminar Room B2/B4

Dan Weber, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS), at The University of Oklahoma;What are our Options for Optimizing Numerical Weather Prediction Codes on Modern Supercomputers?
Seminar Room C1/C3

 
2:30 pm Breakout Sessions
   

John Fragalla, Business Development Manager for Sun Microsystems, High Performance and Technical Computing (HPTC)/Global Education and Research Sun Microsystems; Sun Microsystems HPTC Strategy
Seminar Room A2/A4

Dr. Kim Winkelman, President, Comanche Nation College; Science and American Indian Culture
Seminar Room A3/A5

Dr. Chokchai Box Leangsuksun, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Director, eXtreme Computing Research group, Louisiana Tech University; HA-OSCAR Reliability-aware Runtime and HA Framework for HPC/HEC.
Seminar Room B2/B4

Charles E. Jones, Regional Sales Director, Foundry Networks, Inc.; HPC and Ethernet Innterconnect
Seminar Room C1/C3

 
3:00 pm Cookie Break
  Conference Rooms A & B
 
3:15 pm Breakout Sessions
   

Joel Martin, Associate Vice President, Information Commerce for The University of Oklahoma; The Role of Data in the Research Campus Commerce Model
Seminar Room A2/A4

Paul Gray, Associate Professor, University of Northern Iowa; The Bootable Cluster CD in the UndergraduateCurriculum for High Performance Computing Education
Seminar Room A3/A5

Ty Schmitt, Senior Manager, Enterprise Mechanical Architecture, Dell Inc; Data Center Cooling Trends and Technologies
Seminar Room B2/B4

John Matrow, Director, High Performance Computer Center, Wichita State University; Recent Experience in Buying and Configuring a Clusteri
Seminar Room C1/C3

 
3:45 pm Breakout Sessions
   

Larry Freeman, , Senior Product Manager, Spectra Logic; Secondary Data Storage Trends in High Performance Computing
Seminar Room A2/A4

Jim Mason, Vice President of Technology Initiatives for The State Chamber and Executive Director of the Oklahoma Nanotechnology Initiative; Oklahoma Technology Initiatives Update
Seminar Room A3/A5

Greg Monaco, Great Plains Network Middleware & Computing Initiative;Group Meeting: members of GPN will meet to assess Phase I of their Middleware activities and address Phase II issues
Seminar Room C1/C3

 
4:15 pm Panel: How To Get Funding For Supercomputers
    Panelists: Guy Almes (NSF), Dan Stanzione (Director, High Performance Computing, Arizona State University), John Matrow (Director, High Performance Computing, Wichita State University), Henry Neeman
  Main Forum Auditorium (all attendees)
 
5:00 pm Adjourn