High Performance Computing with Dave Stenski presented by the Detroit Google Developers Group

[Don Ward]

The Detroit Google Developers Group is proud to present:

High Performance Computing with Dave Strenski.

When: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Where: Quicken Loans Chase Building, 635 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI

RSVP at: http://www.meetup.com/Detroit-Google-Developers-Group/events/162836772/

Cost: Free. There will food and beverages provided.

About High Performance Computing

Does High Performance Computing sound exciting and cool to you? Want to learn more about what it is and it's applications? Dave Strenski, from Cray Inc., has offered to tell our group about the exciting things happening in the realm of HPC and what Cray is doing to push the limits of this exciting field.

This presentation will give a brief history of HPC technologies, and dive into the details of HPC technologies that are popular today, including: parallel shared file systems, accelerators like FPGAs, GPGPUs, and many core processors, and also touch on how HPC is migrating into the Big Data market space with custom semantic database and Hadoop machines.

About Dave Strenski

Dave has degrees in Surveying, Civil and Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech http://www.mtu.edu. Currently he works as an Applications Analyst for Cray Inc.http://www.cray.com, which designs and manufactures high performance computers. His publications include works in the areas of parallel computing, numerical consistencyhttp://papers.sae.org/971520, genomic data searching algorithms http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/138/3/1457, Field Programmable Gate Arrays tinyurl.com/fpga-ft-pt-2010, and was issued a patent (6904395) on a meshing algorithm for threaded fasteners. As a hobby, Dave plays with solar power and founded SolarYpsi.org which was feature in a Google Search video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6VtzqZiSEkwhich has been viewed by a ¼ million people.

About Cray

Cray started in the High Performance Computing (HPC) business back in 1972http://www.cray.com/Assets/PDF/about/CrayTimeline.pdfwith the Cray-1 system installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It boasted a world-record speed of 160 million floating-point operations per second (160 megaflops) and an 8 megabyte main memory. Today Cray continues to lead the HPC market and currently has the second fastest machine, Titanhttp://www.olcf.ornl.gov/titan, in the world with 27 petaflops (27,000,000,000,000 floating-point operations per second) installed at OakRidge National Laboratory.

PLEASE NOTE: Doors will open at 6:30pm with the presentation starting around 7pm. Food and beverages will arrive at 6:30pm.

Thanks and have a great weekend.

Regards,

Don Ward