published on Monday, December 7, 2009

Successful 25th SARA Superdag

On Thursday, December 3, SARA organized a special edition of the annual Superdag. This year was a jubilee; the Superdag wasl held for the 25th time.

Theme of this event was:
Supercomputing for a sustainable future.

SARA was very pleased that Prof. Dr. Jack Dongarra and Dr. William Kramer have acted as keynote speakers. Jack Dongarra is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the EECS Department at the University of Tennessee. William Kramer is Deputy Director of Blue Waters at NCSA/University of Illinois.

The event was meant for users of the national supercomputer Huygens, and other interested parties.

The 25th SARA Superdag was held in the Turingzaal at Science Park Amsterdam.

Program

09:30	Registration and Coffee
10:00	Dr. Ir. Anwar Osseyran, Director of SARA – Welcome and opening: Supercomputing for a Sustainable Future
10:15	Keynote: Dr. William Kramer, NCSA/University of Illinois, Deputy Director of Blue Waters – How Blue Waters is Addressing the Challenges and Opportunities of Peta-scale Computing
11:15	Prof. Dr. Herman Clercx, Eindhoven University of Technology – Turbulence, Particles and Droplets in a Box
11:45	Prof. Dr. Ir. Henk Dijkstra, Institute of Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University (the Netherlands) and Chair of the Scientific Committee (WGS) of the Netherlands National Computing Facilities foundation (NCF) – Computing Challenges in Sustainable Earth
12:10	Dr. Patrick Aerts, Director of Netherlands National Computing Facilities Foundation (NCF) – PRACE and the Future e-Infrastructure in Europe
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Keynote: Prof. Dr. Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Innovative Computing Laboratory, EECS Department – Performance and Sustainability of Supercomputers and Future Requirements
14:30	Prof. Dr. Ir. Barry Koren, CWI Amsterdam, Leiden University – Sustainable energy from fusion
15:00	Tea break
15:30	Dr. Ir. Axel Berg, Business unit manager High Performance Computing & Visualization – SARA – Sustainable computing at SARA
16:00	Prof. Dr. Ir. Frans van de Vosse, Eindhoven University of Technology – Computational Blood Flow Analysis: from Mathematical Model to Clinical Application
16:30	25 Years of Supercomputing in the Netherlands
16:55	Dr. Ir. Anwar Osseyran – Closing remarks
17:00	Drinks

Performance at the entrance.


Keynote Dr. William Kramer.


The Turingzaal at the 25th SARA Superdag.


Keynote Prof. Dr. Jack Dongarra.


Celebration of 25 years of supercomputing in the Netherlands. Drs. Willem te Beest, chair SURF, and Prof. Dr. Jos Engelen, chair NWO, receiving "De Rekenmeesters", a book NCF and SARA have published for this special occasion.


Cover of the jubilee book "De Rekenmeesters".


Prof. Dr. Jack Dongarra and SARA Managing Director Dr. Ir. Anwar Osseyran at the national supercomputer Huygens.