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

                    

Dr John Owen

University of Birmingham (IT Services)
Head of Research Support

 

‘BEAR services to support research’

                                                                  Keynotes

11:30 –12:00      

                        

Prof Ben Brown

 

Introduced by

 

Prof Jean-Baptiste Cazier

University of Birmingham
Chair of Environmental Bioinformatics, the Centre for Computational Biology

 

‘Toward linking genome dynamics to ecosystem functions’

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’

12:45 – 13:45                                              Lunch

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’

14:10 – 14:40

Dr Nick Loman

 with

Simon Thompson

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’

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’

15:45 – 16:10

Dr Dean Hildebrand  

IBM    

Master   Inventor IBM

 

Shifting   Spectrum Scale to Cloud Native or


‘Making   data intensive science and file systems work in the world of cloud’

16:10 – 16:40

 Interactive Panel Session

 


Moderator

Dr Christine Kitchen

      

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'

16:45  Close        Conclude

16:45                                                           Drinks Reception

Colleges

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