Midwest Academic & Resilience Cloud Computing Consortium (MARC³)

Event: SGI Workshop: Manufacturing Applications in a Cloud Computing Environment

Event Sponsors: Oakton Community College
Workforce Board of Northern Cook County
http://www.oakton.edu/ http://www.workforceboard.org/

HOST: Oakton Community College
Robert Sompolski - Dean of Mathematics and Technologies

Featuring Patrick Yantz
Sr. Director, ICE Cube Engineering, Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Date/Time: Friday November 19, 2010 at 8:00 am to 11:30 a.m. (detail below)

Location:
Oakton Community College - Skokie Campus
7701 N. Lincoln Ave., Skokie, IL 60077
Room C140
http://www.oakton.edu/about/ourlocations/directions/index.php
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
11:30 – 11:45 am Next Steps & Closing Remarks

Specific Discussion areas:

Manufacturing Applications for High Performance Computing (HPC)
Containerized HPC for Manufacturing Center Of Excellence
Data Center Powered by Green Technology
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)
Containerized, modular data center designed to augment data center needs
Address the needs of customers who want to increase compute capacity in a modular approach at a lower cost
The Ecological Data Center
SGI offerings
SGI customers