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Agenda announced for Data Center workshop
A detailed agenda is now available for the Data Center of the Future workshop, to be held at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Feb. 12-13. 
The free event will bring together experts from research centers, the IT industry, and engineering, consulting, and architecture firms to explore the challenges involved in planning, designing, engineering, constructing, monitoring, and maintaining the data center of the future. NCSA will tackle these challenges as part of the Blue Waters project, which will build and deploy the first sustained-petascale supercomputer for open scientific research. On Feb. 12, early-bird attendees will have the opportunity to tour NCSA's current machine room as well as the University of Illinois power station and chilled water facility. The program on Feb. 13 will include presentations from Argonne National Laboratory, EYP MCF Inc., Indiana University, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A keynote address will be delivered by Edward Seminaro, chief hardware architect and engineer for IBM Power-based systems and IBM fellow. For full agenda details, go to www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Conferences/DataCenter/agenda.html. Registration for the Data Center workshop is available through the workshop website: www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Conferences/DataCenter. Registration will close on Jan. 22, or earlier if capacity is reached.
The free event will bring together experts from research centers, the IT industry, and engineering, consulting, and architecture firms to explore the challenges involved in planning, designing, engineering, constructing, monitoring, and maintaining the data center of the future. NCSA will tackle these challenges as part of the Blue Waters project, which will build and deploy the first sustained-petascale supercomputer for open scientific research. On Feb. 12, early-bird attendees will have the opportunity to tour NCSA's current machine room as well as the University of Illinois power station and chilled water facility. The program on Feb. 13 will include presentations from Argonne National Laboratory, EYP MCF Inc., Indiana University, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A keynote address will be delivered by Edward Seminaro, chief hardware architect and engineer for IBM Power-based systems and IBM fellow. For full agenda details, go to www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Conferences/DataCenter/agenda.html. Registration for the Data Center workshop is available through the workshop website: www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Conferences/DataCenter. Registration will close on Jan. 22, or earlier if capacity is reached.