Welcome

A forum for HPC professionals and practitioners to explore trends and challenges, to drive industry requirements, and to develop a sustainable high performance computing and computational science & engineering workforce pipeline directed at industry needs.

engage – educate – network

Workshop Organizers

• Logistics: – Victoria Langlais– Debbie Heath– Michelle Atkinson– Carlyn Chatfield– Ann Lugg, Doni Soward &

Patrick Kurp– …– student workers

• Look for the gray staff t-shirt

• Program Committee– Henri Calandra, Total– Simanti Das , ExxonMobil– Erik Engquist, Rice University– Keith Gray, BP– Scott Morton, Hess Corp– Jan E. Odegard, Rice University– Ernesto Prudencio, Schlumberger– Paul Singer, Statoil– Amik St-Cyr, Shell– Chap Wong, Chevron

2015 Concerns … or not?• Will we have good attendance?• Who will be here?• Strong recruiting?

• No concerns!

Workshop History

• History of the workshop series– First workshop: 2007 during SEG in San Antonio

• Returned to SEG in 2008 in Las Vegas– First Rice workshop in 2008– 2018 marks the 8th workshop at Rice with

– Expanded to day-and-half + ½-day tutorials– a record number of submitted abstracts– a record number of talks and sessions– a record number of registrations (and attendees)

• OG-HPC Workshop scalability

2015Rice Oil & Gas HPC Workshop

Another banner year!

GOLD SPONSORS

SILVER LEVEL SPONSORSAmazon Web ServicesArista NetworksCray Inc.DataDirect NetworksDot Hill Systems

FortinetMellanox TechnologiesMicron TechnologyPanasasPenguin ComputingSegate

BRONZE LEVEL SPONSORSAltairBright ComputingCyrusOneData Foundry Inc.Dell Inc.NetApp

OmnibondOne Stop SystemsPCPC Direct, Ltd.Rouge Wave SoftwareUniva Corporation

Media Display SponsorChristie

FELLOWSHIP SPONSORS

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1st floor event space

SAVE THE DATE:

March 2-3, 2016

Rice Oil & Gas HPC Conference

2015 Quick Agenda Overview

Facilities, Infrastructure & Data I(Main Auditorium)

Networking Reception (BRC Event Hall)

Disruptive Technology

Coarse-grained Seismic Algorithms:(BRC 280 & 282)

Welcome & Opening

Katie Antypas, NERCBradley McCredie, IBM

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