Dear <<Salutation>> Reader,

With 25 days left before ISC’12 kicks off, the conference is shaping up to be the most successful in our 27 years. Although you have probably heard us say this before, it’s really true and your response proves this – the current registration is ahead of last year!
 
On top of that, 175 companies and research organizations from around the world, including 54 first time exhibitors are also eager to showcase their products, services and research work at this year’s exhibition – if you browse through the list of exhibitors, you’ll see some very interesting profiles. The agenda will also confirm that each day starting Sunday, June 17, offers a varied program, thus giving even the busiest people the chance to attend ISC’12. And with our flexible registration, you can sign up for only those sessions of interest to you.

Come and be a part of us from June 17 – 21 in Hamburg!

Martin Meuer
Executive Director


ISC’13 Exhibitor-booth booking is now open!
 
The ISC’13 booth slots are now open for booking and similar to last years, we will practice a first-come, first served policy in allocating booths to exhibitors. ISC’13 will be held in the Congress Center Leipzig from June 16–20, 2013.
 
With its state-of-the-art facilities and communication systems, CCL has convinced us that it will be the perfect venue to host the next International Supercomputing Conference. For a virtual tour, click here. The exhibition will again be held over two-and-a-half days, ending Wednesday evening.  
 
To reserve a booth, please fill out the form at goo.gl/tgu82 and submit your preference before ISC’12 kicks off!


Who’s going to sweat profoundly at ISC’12?

The famous ISC Hot Seat Session will carry a new identity and presentation style at ISC’12.  Held Monday, June 18 in two parts, 18 key companies in the HPC industry will be represented by their CTOs and very senior managers. Click here to find out who are the top managers that might be sweating in the ISC hot seat!


ISC Conference Highlights

Here are some highlights that attendees should look out for at ISC’12:
  • Panel: Programming Models in the Years to come
  • Exascale Chats with Horst Simon, Yutong Lu, Mateo Valero, Mark Seager
  • Session about Young & Bright HPC Researchers
  • Hot Seat Sessions: One of ISC's Clinchers reloaded in a new and even more attractive style
  • Publication of the 39th TOP500 List
  • Think Tank on TOP500 – 20 Years Later
  • Research Papers & Posters
  • Analyst Crossfire continues with sharp, hard-hitting questions from Addison Snell
  • Four compelling Keynote Presentations:
  • Keynotes at ISC’12 - Four outstanding Keynotes:

    Monday Keynote Talk
    Guus Dekkers, CIO of EADS and Airbus
    HPC as Enabler for the Virtualization of Aircraft Development

    Tuesday Keynote Talk
    Dr. Byungse So, Senior Vice President, Head of Memory Product Planning & Application Engineering Team, Samsung
    Advanced Memory Technology – #1 Factor for Energy Efficient HPC

    Wednesday Keynote Talk
    Prof. Dr. Thomas Sterling, Professor of Informatics & Computing, Indiana University
    HPC Achievement & Impact 2012

    Thursday Keynote Talk
    Prof. Dr. Arndt Bode, Director, Leibniz Rechenzentrum & Technische Universität München
    Extreme Energy Efficiency with SuperMUC
 

A pick of topics at ISC’12

These are some of the hottest topics that will be dealt with by 300 HPC experts from Sunday, June 17 - Thursday, June 21. 
  • Energy Efficient HPC Centers
  • Future Heterogeneous Architectures
  • Supercomputer Architectures for Data Intensive Applications
  • Alternative Processors, Architectures and Multidisciplinary Applications
  • Best Practices of Large-Scale Applications across Industries
  • Petascale Systems in the World and their Applications
  • Application Performance: Lessons learnt from Petascale Computing
  • Critical Aspects of High Performance Networking
  • The Realities and Challenges of HPC in the Cloud
  • Exascale Computing: Where we are?
  • Networking/Interconnect within HPC-Systems
  • Parallel File Systems
  • Computational Chemistry
  • HPC for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
Use the ISC agenda planner to navigate the five days of invited, contributed and industrial sessions.

Student Cluster Competition at ISC’12

One of the most exciting additions to ISC’12 this year is the Student Cluster Competition, co-organized with HPCAC and sponsored by Airbus. The goal of the competitions is to derive the most possible application performance using less than 3000 watts.
 
If you are a student and HPC enthusiast, you can attend the Cluster Competition awarding ceremony for FREE on Wednesday. For registration details, click here.    

 
Announcing HPC in Asia Posters
 
The HPC in Asia Workshop steering committee has selected 13 posters out of submissions from China, Japan and India. The researchers will present their posters during the workshop on Sunday, June 17.

As for the ISC’12 Research Posters, the Poster Award winner is Christian Kehl, a PhD candidate at Delft University of Technology, for his poster on “Interactive Simulation & Visualization of Flooding Scenarios.”
 
All ISC and HPC in Asia posters will be displayed in the exhibition hall from Monday to Wednesday.

 
Live from ISC
 
At ISC’12, we will deploy a variety of information channels to disseminate the newest, coolest and most informative discoveries and developments during the entire conference.   
 
On Sunday, June 17, all four TOP500 authors will be interviewed by HPCwire Soundbite hosts Michael Feldman and Addison Snell. On Monday, June 18, we will stream a selection of activities live from the Opening Session, the TOP500 announcement and the Hot Seat Sessions over the University of Hamburg website.
 
To spark discussions with the speakers, exhibitors and among attendees, we encourage all attendees to use the Twitter Hashtag #ISC12 or #ISCexhibit to tweet during the conference. We will also project tweets live in a few locations in the congress center and exhibition hall.
 
 
Thanks to our Media Partners
 
ISC’12 is proud to team-up with the following publications that serve the HPC community around the globe:
  to provide live and daily coverage of our conference and exhibition from June 17-21.
 

Thanks to ISCnet and Mobile App Sponsors

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our network and mobile app sponsors for their generous support during ISC’12.

Cisco will be providing us with Internet infrastructure during the entire conference. Technische Universität Dresden, University of Hamburg and Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum will also be lending us their generous technical support.

Thanks to the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), the ISC’12 agenda is available for Android and Apple iOS devices. To download PSNC’s mobile app, Conference4me, please visit: http://conference4me.psnc.pl or type Conference4me in Google Play or iTunes App Store.
   

Follow ISC’12 on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin

We will continue to share program updates and reminders on Twitter every week. If you have a Twitter account, it’s time to follow us. When you retweet, please use #ISC12 or #ISCexhibit as hashtags.
We will also link interesting news, and announce ISC promotions on Facebook from time to time. It’s worthwhile to join the community.
If you join the ISC’12 event on Linkedin, you’ll be able to network with other ISC’12 attendees.













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