Sharan

In the last few years, many advances have been made in the field of High Performance Computing. This talk will highlight many of these sometimes diverse and seemingly different technology changes, trace them back to their origins and show how HPC is pushing the envelope on many fronts, resulting in the evolution (and occasionally revolution) in computing techniques and hardware choices. Some of the topics we hope to touch upon will be:

• Current work going on for ExaScale Architectures
• Silicon Roadmaps
• Challenges in building & managing large HPC systems
• The gap between HPC capability and software that can exploit it
• Innovative use of HPC in present day society

Biography:

Sharan Kalwani is an industry technology specialist with 25+ years of experience. Sharan has degrees in both Engineering and Computer Science. He has worked in many diverse areas. He is a sought after speaker at many a diverse conference and seminars, such as Supercomputing, HPC Advisory Council, SIAM, Infiniband Trade Association, etc. He has delivered several tutorials, workshops and chaired Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions. Sharan is a senior member of IEEE-Computer Society, IEEE-Education Society and Vehicle Tech Society, an Emeritus member of Michigan!UNIX/user group (mug.org) the oldest of the *nix user groups based in Michigan (they were first established in late 1985), member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and also leads the SIG-Linux section of SEMCO. He enjoys teaching, holds an Adjunct Faculty position at local educational sites. He has published one book "Linux and Internet Security" and is now working on his second about a new computer programming language. He is a recipient of the IEEE MGA Achievement award for his contributions to IEEE activities in 2018.

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