Representatives of our hpc-ch community could be interested in participating to two of the associated workshop of the eScience2012 conference (Chicago, 8-12 October 2012):
Workshop – Extending High-Performance Computing Beyond its Traditional User Communities – The desired outcome of the workshop is an improved understanding of actions that should be taken by the various stakeholders in order to enable a wide spectrum of practitioners to use HPC resources as part of their work and data flows, and to establish an informal network of people and communities interested in this outcome.
Tutorial – Big Data Processing: Lessons from Industry and Applications in Science – This tutorial aims to clarify some of the critical concepts in the design space of big data and scalable data analytics and share lessons from industry that readily apply to science applications. We will provide a detailed tour of the primary technology and systems powering the analytic and scalable data management landscape in industry, identify appropriate systems for a specific set of application requirements in science and technical computing, and illustrate how they can be used to develop big data applications using practical, real-world examples such as weblog processing, distributed machine learning over large data sets, and sensor data processing.
