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The HPC Advisory Council has announced the formation of the HPC Advisory Council’s 2^nd Annual China High-Performance Computing Workshop on October 27^th, 2010 in Beijing, China in conjunction with the HPC China National Annual Conference on High-Performance Computing. Call for presentations as well as workshop sponsorships are now open. The workshop will focus on efficient high-performance computing through best practices, future system capabilities through new hardware, software and computing environments and high-performance computing user experience. The workshop will be opened with a keynote presentation by Prof. Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda who leads the Network-Based Computing Research Group at The Ohio State University and will be followed by distinguished speakers from the academia and the industry. The workshop will bring together system managers, researchers, developers, computational scientists and industry affiliates to discuss recent developments and future advancements in High-Performance Computing.

“Continuing our successful international workshop programs, the HPC Advisory Council 2^nd Annual China Workshop is expected to uphold our tradition of providing rich content that will help HPC users and vendors optimize their HPC products and experience,” said Gilad Shainer, chairman of the HPC Advisory Council. “This is the council’s fifth world-wide HPC workshop and we are pleased to collaborate again with the HPC China conference organization for this upcoming workshop, and will continue to assist and provide resources for industry and community organizations to better leverage HPC system capabilities and improve productivity and efficiency.”

For the preliminary agenda and schedule, please refer to the workshop website. The workshop is free to HPC China attendees and to the HPC Advisory Council members. Registration is required and can be made at the HPC Advisory Council China Workshop website.

The HPC Advisory Council 2^nd Annual China Workshop is being sponsored by the following companies: AMD, Dell, HP, Mellanox Technologies, and Microsoft. Media sponsorship and coverage is being provided by ChinaByte and China Network World. Additional sponsorship opportunities are currently available.

Mark Your Calendars for These Upcoming HPC Advisory Council Workshops:

• Half-day tutorial at the TeraGrid 2010 Workshop (August 2, 2010)
• HPC Advisory Council’s 2^nd Annual China High-Performance Computing Workshop (October 27, 2010)
• HPC Advisory Council UK Workshop (December 2, 2010)
• HPC Advisory Council 2^nd Annual Switzerland Workshop (March 21-23, 2011)