| Dresden 28 May 2008
One of the hallmarks of the ISC conference, taking place June 17-20, 2008 in Dresden, Germany is the 'Hot Seat Session' with 18 short, to-the-point presentations by experts from providers of hardware, software, interconnects and solutions. Speakers have just 10 minutes each to present their latest developments, new products and strategies.
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A panel of "inquisitors" then asks probing questions. Since they have only a limited time to make key points to an audience of experts participating speakers take their presentation time seriously - it's not unusual to have a company's CTO or even CEO giving the presentation. This year the following representatives will climb into the ring for their companies:
The 'Hot Seat Session' will be held Thursday, June 19.
The contributions for the June 17 pre-conference Scientific Sessions have been selected by the Scientific Programme Committee via a call-for-papers procedure. The ISC Award Committee has also selected the following papers to receive special awards:
- ISC'08 Award Winning Paper is "Distributed I/O with ParaMEDIC: Experiences with a Worldwide Supercomputer" by
P. Balaji, W. Feng, H. Lin, J. Archuleta, S. Matsuoka, A. Warren, J. Setubal, E. Lusk, R. Thakur, I. Foster, D. S. Katz, S. Jha, K. Shinpaugh, S. Coghlan, D. Reed, USA
- ISC'08 Award Winning Paper is "Performance Measurement and Analysis Tools for Extremely Scalable Systems" by
B. Mohr, B. Wylie, F. Wolf, Germany
- PRACE Award Winning Paper is "UCHPC – UnConventional High Performance Computing for Finite Element Simulations" by S. Turek, D. Göddeke, C. Becker, S. H. M. Buijssen, H. Wobker, Germany
More conference information is available at http://www.isc08.org |
