THE NEW DIMENSIONS OF HPC

Registration and breakfast

Chairman’s opening remarks:
Phil Albinus, Editor, WATERS

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Jeffrey Birnbaum, Chief Technology Architect and Global Head of Architecture and Engineering, MERRILL LYNCH

Plenary Address by Sybase
Sinan Baskan, Director of Business Development for Financial Services Industry, SYBASE, INC.

Plenary panel discussion:
A silver lining for cloud computing

• Getting management buy-in for cloud computing
• Using cloud, virtualization and HPC to support low-latency trading environments
• Security implications: Ensuring data protection within the cloud
• Evaluating the most effective application of grid and cloud computing

Moderator: Frank Greco, Independent Analyst
Geoff Guerdat, High Performance Computing Engineering, MERRILL LYNCH
Tsvi Gal, General Partner, Exigen Capital Pricate Equity
David Warm, Chief Technology Officer, Financial Services, PLATFORM COMPUTING
Victoria Livschitz, Founder and CEO, GRID DYNAMICS
Jeffrey Birnbaum, Chief Technology Architect and Global Head of Architecture and Engineering, MERRILL LYNCH
Sinan Baskan, Director of Business Development for Financial Services Industry, SYBASE, INC

Morning break and opportunity to visit the exhibition

Chairperson's opening remarks:
Andrew Labovitch, Head of IT, CONECTIV ENERGY

Presentation
Keeping your feet on the ground: Unveiling the truth about cloud computing

• Building the trust: Outsourcing hardware, software, and data
• Evaluating the cost reduction benefits of cloud computing
• Using cloud computing to overcome scalability barriers
• Challenges for the cloud: Ensuring standards and code compatibility to run applications
• Integrating cloud computing to your HPC strategy

Ken Michelini, Associate Partner, CITIHUB

Panel Discussion
Power Management: using less and getting more

• Implementing effective power management strategies
• Taking advantage of low utility rates across time zones
• Power consumption forecasting – accurately modelling future power needs
• The green side-effects of power management
• Working with third party software providers to achieve innovative power management

Moderator: Phil Albinus, Editor, Waters
Venkat Raju, EVP, Strategy & Advanced Technology, ADAPTIVITY INC
Keith Knuckey, Executive Director, Global Head of Data Center Strategy, UBS
Andrew Labovitch, Head of IT, CONECTIV ENERGY

Lunch break and opportunity to visit the exhibition

Presentation
Integrating SOA structures into your metadata repository

• Elements that are necessary to achieve SOA and current infrastructure Integration
• Integrating SOA into current infrastructure
• How to logically tie SOA to business terms
• How to resolve the problem of enterprise vs. sector issues

Robert Schork, Team Leader, CITI

Panel Discussion
Preparing for the next phase in grid computing: What it takes to build the perfect data grid

• Strategies to overcome data bottlenecks given the explosion in market data volume
• Data caching: What resources are required?
• Techniques for integrating data fabric into traditional computational grid systems
• Strategies in HPC: hardware and cell processing technology that boosts acceleration
• Leveraging grid scavenging/multi threaded application development
• Launching a data grid that successfully handles large amounts of distributed data

Moderator: Raman Kannan, CTO, ROSENBLATT SECURITIES
Geoff Guerdat, High Performance Computing Engineering, MERRILL LYNCH
Tsvi Gal, General Partner, Exigen Capital Private Equity
Ravi Manchi, President, WESTWATER CORP

Afternoon break and an opportunity to visit the exhibition

Presentation
Nuts and bolts: Practical issues in grid administration

• Grid case studies
• Getting started: evolution of your grid
• How grids can make BCP irrelevant SLAs: distributing resources to the right jobs
• Chargeback: paying for your grid
• Measuring performance: assessing grid effectiveness

Peter Harrington, Director, NATIXIS

Plenary panel discussion:
Virtual reality: optimizing storage, application and network virtualization

• Analyzing emerging virtualization technologies and trends
• Benefits of virtualization; maximising your IT investment and efficiency
• Virtualization as a solution to enhance space availability
• Securing your virtual data center
• Virtualization management software
• Overcoming performance degradation whilst taking advantage of the benefits of the convergence of grid and virtualization

Moderator: Howard Halberstein, Vice President Sales & Trading UNIX, DEUTSCHE BANK
Joe Kennedy, Vice President of Architecture User-Experience Performance Measurement, STATE STREET CORPORATION
Ryan Bagnulo, Independent Consultant and former Head of Architecture and Innovation, WACHOVIA
Geoff Guerdat, High Performance Computing Engineering, MERRILL LYNCH

Chairman's closing remarks:
Phil Albinus, Editor, WATERS