SC08 Technology Thrust: Energy

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that between 2000 and 2006, the energy consumed in America’s data centers doubled and is poised to double again by 2011. On the global scale, world energy demand is projected to double by 2050. Couple this growth in energy demand with concerns about climate change and it becomes clear that meeting future energy needs in an affordable, reliable, and environmentally sensitive manner is a true grand challenge.

It is within this context that this year at SC08 we are highlighting Energy as a Technology Thrust area. We are focused both on the use of high performance computing in addressing the energy grand challenge and in efforts to reduce energy demand by high performance computing, IT systems, and highly energy efficient “green” data centers.

High-performance computing capabilities and state-of-the-art numerical simulation models will play a key role in accelerating the scientific and engineering progress necessary to address the energy grand challenge. On the energy efficiency side, we will highlight best practices and technology trends aimed at energy efficient systems and data centers.

The SC08 Energy Thrust kicks off on Sunday, November 16, with a Workshop on “Power Efficiency and the Path to Exascale Computing.” This is then followed by Panels, Birds-of-a Feather sessions, Invited Speakers and Masterworks sessions highlighted below. In addition, industry and research exhibitors have identified Energy Thrust related topics on the Exhibits floor that can be searched with SC Your Way. (http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/search)

Workshops

Sunday, Nov 16, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.: Power Efficiency and the Path to Exascale Computing (http://www.lbl.gov/CS/html/SC08ExascalePowerWorkshop/index.html)

Monday, Nov 17, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.: Advanced Modeling and Simulation for Fission Nuclear Energy (http://http://computing.ornl.gov/workshops/neams/)

Panels

Wednesday, Nov 19, Will Electric Utilities Give Away Supercomputers with the Purchase of a Power Contract? (http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/pan111)

Birds-of-a-Feather

Tuesday, Nov 18, 12:15-1:15 p.m.: High Energy Performance for High Performance Computing (http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/bof146)

Wednesday, Nov 19, 5:30-7 p.m.: The Green500 List (http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/bof195)

Technical Paper

Thursday Nov, 20, 10:30-11 a.m. PAM: A Novel Performance/Power Aware Meta-scheduler for Multi-core Systems (http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/pap368)

Invited Speakers

Thursday, Nov 20, 8:30-9:15 a.m.: Jeffrey Wadsworth, Battelle Memorial Institute

High-Performance Computing and the Energy Challenge: Issues and Opportunities (http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/inspkr105

Thursday, Nov 20, 9:15-10 a.m.: Mary Wheeler, University of Texas at Austin

Computational Frameworks for Subsurface Energy and Environmental Modeling and Simulation (http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/inspkr108)

Masterworks

Thursday, Nov 20, 10:30 a.m.-noon: HPC in Alternative Energy Technologies

William M. Tang, Princeton University

Simulation at the Petascale and Beyond for Fusion Energy Science (http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/mswk101)

Michael E. Himmel, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Understanding Complex Biological Systems Using Computation: Enzymes that Deconstruct Biomass (http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/mswk102)

Thursday, Nov 20, 1:30-3 p.m.: Green HPC I

Bruno Michel, T. Brunschwiler, B. Smith and E. Ruetsche, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory

Zero-Emission Datacenters: Concept and First Steps (http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/mswk105)

John Pflueger, Dell Inc.

Moving from Data Center Efficiency to Data Center Productivity and the Role of HPC in the Data Center of the Future (http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/mswk112)

Thursday, Nov 20, 3:30-5 p.m.: Green HPC II

Dale A. Sartor, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Save Energy Now in Computer Centers (http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/mswk103)

Ken Brill, Uptime Institute

The Economic Breakdown of Moore’s Law (http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/mswk115)

SC08 Technology Thrust: Energy

NREL

2008-10-17

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