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Hello <<Salutation>> Reader,
At the fifth ISC Cloud Conference this September, the Stuttgart HPC Center (HLRS) director Michael Resch will present a keynote on “HPC & Simulation in the Cloud – How Academia & Industry Can Benefit.” This keynote is of special interest to cloud skeptics, given that prior to 2011, Resch himself was a vocal cloud pessimist. He had characterized cloud computing as hype about three years ago and predicted it would eventually go away.
Wolfgang Gentzsch, Chairman of the ISC Cloud Conference and President of the UberCloud caught up with Resch who explained why he has come to think much more favorably of HPC cloud in recent years.
Continue reading to find out more about their discussion.
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 Wolfgang Gentzsch: Michael, thank you very much for making time for this interview, despite your many tasks and responsibilities at the Stuttgart Supercomputer Center. Would you please summarize your major roles at the center?
Michael Resch: Thank you for this opportunity, Wolfgang. Here at the Stuttgart University I have three major jobs: I am the Director of the HPC Center HLRS, the Dean of the Faculty for Energy Process and Biotechnology, and the Director of the Information Center. As the director of HLRS, my major responsibilities are providing computing related services for academia and industry in the field of simulation research and delivering education and training.
Gentzsch: Traditionally HLRS is serving university and research centers in the field of high performance computing. But beyond this, and almost as an exception from the standard, I find it interesting that your center emphasizes serving the industry as well. How did this happen?
Resch: Indeed we have a long tradition of working with local industry. As a technical university, we prepare our engineering students for the industry, which naturally leads to an excellent relationship with industry. In 1986 we started providing HPC services to Porsche, which grew into the foundation of the High Performance Computing Center for Science and Industry (HWW) in 1995. Today, we serve a dozen companies in the region, with 20 years of experience in providing computing and services, with Porsche still being our main customer.
The full interview is now available at HPCwire. Please click here.
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Sponsorship and Exhibiting Opportunities
If you are interested in sponsoring at any of the levels – platinum, gold, silver and bronze – please get in touch with our Customer Relations Manager, Anna Schachoff at anna.schachoff@isc-events.com. Our current sponsors are HP, Intel, Ansys, Mellanox, transtec, Bull, IDC and Intersect360 Research .
We also offer sponsorship for our ISC Big Data Conference that will take place at the same venue from October 1 - 2. Please visit the website to find out more about this exciting conference.
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This year we will host our attendees in the traditional and rustic Heidelberg brewery, Brauhaus Vetter, located in the heart of the old town. A fun-filled networking evening accompanied by delicious traditional German food and cold craft beer from the tap.
Good news! We are partnering with Deutsche Bahn (DB) to get you to Heidelberg via train for just 99 Euro* (round-trip) on a DB long-distance train. An advance booking of at least three days is required to secure the rates. To make your booking, please call +49 (0)1806 – 31 11 53** and mention “ISC Event” as reference.
