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Rice Oil & Gas HPC Workshop

8:15am CST

Opening and Welcome: George McLendon, Provost, Rice University McMurtry Auditorium

8:30am CST

Keynote: "Compute Challenges to meet Future Energy Demand," Dirk Smit, Chief Scientist Geophysics, Shell McMurtry Auditorium

9:30am CST

Plenary: "Role of Computational Science in Energy and Environmental Subsurface Modeling," Mary Wheeler, Director, Center for Subsurface Modeling, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University... McMurtry Auditorium

10:50am CST

Plenary: "What have I learned about HPC and will it help me in the next decade of change?," William Kramer, Deputy Project Director, Blue Waters Project Office, NCSA McMurtry Auditorium

12:30pm CST

Facility and Infrastructure: "What do supercomputers, bank vaults and garage lighting have in common?," Donny Cooper, Total McMurtry Auditorium

12:55pm CST

Facility and Infrastructure: "Impact of fresh air cooling in your data center – modern server tolerances," Mehrdad Foroozesh, Dell McMurtry Auditorium

1:20pm CST

Facility and Infrastructure: "Open Compute Platform project, what it is, how it might help Oil & Gas HPC," Matt Corddry, Open Compute Platform McMurtry Auditorium

1:45pm CST

Facility and Infrastructure: "Dreamworks HPC and how it compares with Oil and Gas Requirements," Derek Chan, Dreamworks McMurtry Auditorium

2:10pm CST

Facility and Infrastructure: "Tape NAS – The Data Storage Game Changer!," Matt Star, Spectra Logic McMurtry Auditorium

2:30pm CST

Facility and Infrastructure: "Managing congestion within multi-tiered, standards based networks," Fred Homewood, Gnodal McMurtry Auditorium

2:45pm CST

Facility and Infrastructure: "Accelerating Diverse Data Center Communications by Optics," Yiting Xia, Rice University McMurtry Auditorium

3:30pm CST

Keynote: "High Performance Computing: Solving Oil and Gas Problems Today – Poised for the Future," John Kuzan, Manager, Computational Sciences Function, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company McMurtry Auditorium

4:15pm CST

Plenary Panel: "HPC Infrastructure: Planning for the Future" McMurtry Auditorium