DDN User Group

Date:

11 March 2019

Venue:

Room 303, Level 3, Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre

Closed

Overview

Since the 1950s, the increasing use of computers has transformed many domains of research—ranging from molecular dynamics to climate research or astronomy—through increasingly powerful computer simulations. Over the past decades, advances in instruments and sensors for data ingest, together with the spread of GPU computing, and enhanced by new approaches to data analysis and artificial intelligence, have provided scientists with a new set of tools that connect large empirical data and computation in a novel, and exciting way.

 

Scalable storage environments that provide sufficient performance for data ingest and analysis is an important ingredient for this new approach to research computing. Our focus in this DDN User Group is on new applications and approaches, supported by scalable high-performance storage, to harness the power of Big Data and AI in industry and research.

13:30 Opening DDN & Whamcloud User Group by Mr. Atul Vidwansa, DDN

 

Session 1: AI & Big Data

13:40 ABCI and its Storage Architecture by Hirotaka OGAWA, Ph.D., Leader, AI Cloud Research Team, AI Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

14:20 Customer Keynote: “GPGPU Driven Data Warehousing for Enterprise Messaging Services on All-Flash Storage” by Mr. Ajit Singh, Sr. Vice President Engineering, ACL-Mobile

14.50 Partner Update: NVIDIA DGX Ready Data Centre by Dr. Gabriel Noaje, Senior Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

15.15 High-Performance File Storage for Containerized Environments by Mr. Shuichi Ihara, DDN

15:40 Tea Break

 

Session 2: Accelerating Data-Intensive Science

16:00 Partner Update: GPU Enhanced, Accurate, scalable genomic analysis for the planet by Mehrzad Samadi, CEO, Parabricks

16:20 DDN Product & Roadmap Update by Mr. Nobu Hashizume, DDN

16.35 ExaScaler for HPC, Big Data & AI by Mr. Carlos Thomaz, DDN

 

Session 3: Industry Positions: HPC, Big Data, and AI in Advancing Research

Panel Discussion: Impact of AI on the Future of Business & Technology
Moderator: Prof Tan Tin Wee, NUS & NSCC, Singapore

16:55 Industry: ACL Mobile by Vineet Jain, CTO & Co-founder

17:10 Life Sciences: Parabricks by Mehrzad Samadi, CEO

17.25 Technology Provider: DDN Storage by Robert Triendl, EVP Worldwide Sales

17:40 Data Reduction and Noisy Machine Learning in High-throughput Single Particle Imaging by Dr. Duane Loh, NUS Center for Bio-imaging Sciences

17:55 Closing Remarks by Mr. Atul Vidwansa, DDN (5mins)

 

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*Note: This agenda is subject to change.