Robert (Bob) Techentin is Principal Software Engineer in the Special Purpose Processor Development Group at Mayo Foundation (Rochester, Minnesota). Robert is one of the first users of the new Cray XMT supercomputer specially designed to analyze large amounts of data. The Mayo Clinic is a large clinical practice for medicine and is specialized on medical [...]
Ulrich Schättler is working for Germany’s National Meteorological Service, the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD). He started at DWD as software engineer. Years ago he has been asked to parallelize the weather forecast model on distributed memory computers. Since then he is getting involved in weather forecasting and operational forecasting. In his actual function he is responsible [...]
At SC11 David Cremese (IBM Switzerland & Austria) visited the hpc-ch booth. As deep computing sales manager David is also responsible for the Swiss universities and research centers represented at the hpc-ch booth. In the interview David tells us about his function at IBM and what makes Switzerland an interesting market for HPC. He also [...]
In a few hours SC11 will be history. With a record number of people registered for the Technical Program, a record number of industry and research exhibitors, and a record number of international attendees and exhibitors, the conference has been a great success. After the conference is before the conference – It is now already [...]
NOAA is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the USA and is present at SC11 with a large booth. We were very impressed by their NOAA Science On a Sphere exhibit: a big suspended sphere on which changing information regarding the Earth are projected: e.g. the actual weather, the weather forecasts or the location [...]
