Talk at University College London by Eng Lim Goh of SGI

[James Bailey]

Hello all,

I feel this is appropriate with all the talk of HPC in other threads,
I would just like to publicize a talk in London tomorrow night by Eng
Lim Goh at University College London.

Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Lecture theatre 1.03 in the Malet Place Engineering Building,
University College London
Map: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ucl-maps/map2_hi_res
City/Town: London

Linux is Supercomputing - how Linux works on your mobile phone and on
the biggest supercomputers on the planet.

Eng Lim Goh of SGI will be discussing how Linux is used on
supercomputers, and will demonstrate some of the capabilities of the new
SGI Ultraviolet architecture, which is the most scalable Linux
architecture in the world.

Dr. Eng Lim Goh has been CTO of SGI since 2001, and has been voted one
of the Top 10 most influential CTOs.
He oversees Project Ultraviolet and works on solutions to massively
parallel rendering.

http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/uv/

http://www.gllug.org.uk/index.php?/archives/49-13th-May-Joint-GLLUG-UKUUG-talk.html

Thanks Jim

[Joe McDonagh]

This sounds really interesting- do you know if the slides or better yet
a video will be available after the talk?

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[James Bailey]

sorry I don't know and don't think so but if there is I will post the
links in this thread.

Jim

[James Bailey]

Sorry no slides but a quick run down for those who might be interested.

Talk starts with lots of cool simulation from the macro, evaporation
of black holes to the micro interaction of water and sodium molecules
with gatekeeper molecules in the kidneys. in between F1 fluid
dynamics and Tokyo in a tsunami.

Discussion of the Ultraviolet architecture, what it does and the
technical and political problems of getting mainstream Linux to
support it.

Finally the really cool stuff live demo of capabilities of a stock
2.6.33 kernel running on a single computer of 2048 cores and 16TB of
ram.

I came at this point. ;)

Jim :)