BIG DATA

This year’s lineup will be headlined by keynote address Be Careful What you Wish for by John "Jay" Boisseau, Ph.D., of the Texas Advanced Computing Center/University of Texas at Austin. The presentation will focus on how to deal with the data dilemmas created by Petascale computing in interesting and novel ways.

In addition to Boisseau, a lineup of thought leaders in the HPC industry will present at the conference. They are:

• Earl Joseph II, IDC
• David Padgham, U.S. Council on Competitiveness
• Sharan Kalwani, General Motors
• Frank Witzeman, DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC)
• Dave Jackson, Cluster Resources
• Stuart Hancock, Cisco Systems
• John Towns, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
• Dr. Bill Lu, Platform Computing
• George Turner, Indiana University
• Dave Hobson, former chair of Appropriations Subcommittee for Energy and Water
• Wayne Schroeder, Center for Data Intensive Cyber Environments (DICE Center)
• Randy Krieser, Data Direct Networks
• Gary New, Atmospheric Research Group
• Charlie Hayes, FBA Government Relations
• Stephanie Singer Strack, Reed Elsevier
• Jim Rogers, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Ron Bewtra, National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA), Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
• Matt Leininger, Ph.D., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Dr. Moe Khaleel, Pacific Northwest Labs
• Jay Blair, CSC
• Tracey Wilson, CSC and DICE Program
• Al Stutz, Avetec CIO and DICE Principle Investigator
• Roger Panton, DICE Program Executive Director
• Ed Wahl, DICE Program

To see the complete agenda and speaker lineup or to register, go to www.diceprogram.org.