Our next MARC3 (WWW.MARC3.ORG) event will be a workshop sponsored by SGI on 8/12 (detail below) to be held at IIT with Eng Lim Goh (Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer for SGI). We would greatly appreciate your involvement and support for MARC3 in attending this event.


Eng Lim Goh, PhD.
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Eng Lim Goh joined SGI in 1989, becoming a chief engineer in 1998 and chief technology officer in 2001. He oversees Project Ultraviolet; with the goal to develop the next generation computer architecture for the new many-core era. Correspondingly, he also works on solutions to massively parallel rendering. Between these two efforts, he has been granted four U.S. patents.
In 2005, the IDG publication, InfoWorld, named Dr. Goh one of World's 25 most influential CTOs. That same year, he was also included in the HPCwire list of "15 People to Watch." In 2007, he was named "Champions 2.0" of the industry by BioIT World magazine, and received the HPC Community Recognition Award from HPCwire. Before joining SGI, Dr. Goh worked for Intergraph Systems, Schlumberger Wireline and Shell Research. A Shell Cambridge University Scholar, he completed his Ph.D. research and dissertation on parallel architectures and computer graphics. He also holds a first-class honors degree in mechanical engineering from Birmingham University, U.K.


Event: SGI Workshop Chicago area Cloud Computing Council
Date/Time: Thursday August 12, 2010 at 8:00 am to 11:30 a.m. (detail below)
Location:
The meeting will be in the Auditorium of the Dan and Ada Rice
Campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology, located at 201 East
Loop Road, Wheaton, IL (directions http://www.iit.edu/rice/about/directions.shtml)

RSVP to John.Jones@Thesecurityboard.org (phone 773-286-0699)

Agenda:
8:00 – 8:30 am Networking and Registration
8:30 – 8:45 am Welcome Remarks & Introductions
8:45 – 11:15 am Presentation & Discussion
11:15 – 11:30 am Next Steps & Closing Remarks

Specific Discussion areas:

ICE Production ready Cluster,
Altix UV world’s largest shared memory systems
Rackable Build to Order model for optimum customer configurations
Storage offerings including Copan for persistent data storage
Data Migration Facility, and Live Arc for managing data

Container products for rapid deployment of data centers with industry leading energy efficiency
Cloud offerings
Cloud offerings for Technical computing (internal systems)
SGI offerings
SGI customers