BEAR Cloud Launch: Agenda
Friday, October 21st, 2016
Time |
10:30 |
Registration and Refreshments |
11:00 |
Convene |
Speakers/Presenters Discussion |
11:05 –11:15 |
Prof Tim Softley |
University of Birmingham PVC for Research & Knowledge Transfer http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/university/tim-softley.aspx |
11:15 –11:30
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Dr John Owen |
University of Birmingham (IT Services) Head of Research Support
‘BEAR services to support research’
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Keynotes |
11:30 –12:00
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Prof Ben Brown
Introduced by
Prof Jean-Baptiste Cazier
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University of Birmingham Chair of Environmental Bioinformatics, the Centre for Computational Biology
‘Toward linking genome dynamics to ecosystem functions’
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12:00 – 12:30 |
Matt T Ziegler |
HPC Director and Hyperscale Technologist, Lenovo
‘Harvesting Tomorrow’s Technology for Today's Problems’ |
12:30 – 12:45 |
Dr Susan Morrell |
EPSRC Lead for Infrastructure and Chair National e-Infrastructure Group
‘The UK e-Infrastructure Landscape’
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12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
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13:45 – 14:10 |
Martin Hamilton |
Futurist at JISC and Co-chair of the RCUK Cloud Working Group https://www.jisc.ac.uk/staff/martin-hamilton
‘Supercomputing and the cloud - the next big paradigm shift’
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14:10 – 14:40 |
Dr Nick Loman
with
Simon Thompson
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University of Birmingham and the CLIMB Project http://www.climb.ac.uk/people/#fellows
University of Birmingham (Research Computing Team) CLIMB and BEAR Cloud Architect
‘How CLIMB and cloud computing helps us fight Ebola and Zika’
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14:40 -15:00 |
Dror Goldenberg |
Vice President of Software Architecture, Mellanox
‘Designing towards Exascale Compute and extreme performance in the Cloud.' |
15:00 – 15:20 Tea Break |
15:20 – 15:45 |
Dr Toni Collis |
Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
‘Bringing HPC to everyone’
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15:45 – 16:10 |
Dr Dean Hildebrand
IBM
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Master Inventor IBM
Shifting Spectrum Scale to Cloud Native or
‘Making data intensive science and file systems work in the world of cloud’
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16:10 – 16:40 |
Interactive Panel Session
Moderator
Dr Christine Kitchen
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Panel:
Dr Jeremy Yates (UCL), Simon Thompson (UoB), Prof. Jean-Baptiste Cazier (UoB), Dr Johan de Joode (UoB), Dr Toni Collis (EPCC), Dr Ian Batten (UoB)
'Next generation IT infrastructures for research'
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16:45 |
Close |
Conclude |
16:45 Drinks Reception
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