Apple to Host High Performance Computing Seminar December 16

according to a note we received from Stephen Bates, Apple's General Manager for Enterprise and Government Sales. Mr. Bates wrote:

On 16 Dec, Apple will be hosting an HPC Seminar: Getting Started With High Performance Computing

Having personally known the presenters for some time, I can assure you that this will be extraordinarily informative.

While portions of this seminar will be intuitively obvious to those of you familiar with Apple & OS X, our target audience is those who AREN'T familiar with our scientific offerings. I'd appreciate it if you could speak to your fellow scientists and colleagues whom you think might benefit from this exposure.

Date: December 16, 2004
Time: 10:00 - 11:15 am PST
Prior software installation and setup required.
Registration: Required

Presenters:
• Elizabeth Kerr, Ph.D., Director of Worldwide Science and Technology Markets, Apple
• Pear Urushima, Manager of Scientific Markets, Apple
• Douglas Brooks, Product Manager for Xserve, Apple
• Matt MacInnis, Manager of Research Computing, Apple

Topics:
• Types of applications used on HPC systems
• High level concepts of deploying your own HPC systems and software
• Types of clusters, and how to choose a model that works for you
• Why Apple's products and solutions may be a good fit for your science
• The Apple Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics
• Customer case studies and examples
• Live question and answer with webcast attendees

Products to be discussed:
• Xserve G5 and the Xserve G5 Cluster Node
• Xserve RAID
• The Apple Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics
• MATLAB and gridMathematica

Who should view this webcast:
• Scientists and engineers who need more computational power
• IT managers who support HPC deployments and scientific computing environments
• Lab or department research managers
• Directors of research groups who want to expand their computational capabilities

I thank you for your time and consideration of Apple.

This looks to be an outstanding seminar on high performance computing using Apple's solutions. If interested, be sure to register at the link in Mr. Bates note and follow the software installation and setup requirements in his other link. [Bill Fox]