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The 2009 High-Performance Computing Adoption Conference will expose attendees to information critical to strategic business and technical efforts impacted by high-performance computing adoption.

The conference, sponsored by RTI International, will be held May 11 through 13 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel. For registration and other information about the HPC Adoption '09 conference, visit http://2009.hpcadoption.org.

The three-day event will define the challenges of high-performance adoption and provide solutions for scaling the innovation curve. The program will feature policy and market experts as well as thought leaders from both industry and academia who will offer strategic insights into roadmaps for success in adopting high-performance computing.

"High-performance computing is changing the game," said conference director, Stephen Baker of RTI. "From fundamental research to advanced modeling and simulation, high-performance computing is invigorating productivity and innovation throughout industry and science. In an increasingly competitive global economy, the question is no longer can organizations afford to adopt high performance computing, but rather can they afford not to?"

The conference will include topics from implementation challenges and barriers to adoption, to public policy factors and market considerations. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage leading minds shaping the high-performance computing ecosystem and understand how strategic allocation of critical national resources will fuel domestic competitiveness in the high-performance computing revolution.

High-performance computing adoption experts—Cynthia McIntyre, Council on Competitiveness; Austars Schnore, GE Global Research; Tom Lange, Procter and Gamble; and Merle Giles, National Center for Supercomputing Applications—will lead a half-day preconference symposium offering companies and organizations the opportunity to make dramatic improvements in efficiency and competitiveness.

Keynote speakers at High-Performance Computing Adoption '09 will examine the broad implications of high-performance computing:

• The HPC Revolution: Unleashing Innovation—Tom Lange, Director, Modeling & Simulation Global Capability Organization, Procter & Gamble
• HPC in the Next Decade: Density, Adaptivity, Energy, Integrity, and Complexity—Alan George, Director, National Science Foundation Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing; Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida
• HPC in Engineering Transformation—Richard Stulen, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Science and Technology and Research Foundations, Sandia National Laboratories
• Computing at the Crossroads—Dan Reed, Director, Scalable Multi-Core, Microsoft

Additional sessions at the conference will examine a variety of topics including:

• Leading Perspectives and Analysis of Key Market and Industry Considerations
• Perspectives from the National Labs
• Emerging Technologies and the HPC Ecosystem
• Beyond Multi-Core: Advanced Computational Platforms
• Innovation Enablers: Interconnects and Accelerators