News & Press

• • Newsletter
  • Press Services
  • Media Sponsors

---

Exhibition Highlights

This year the range of HPC systems featured in the ISC Exhibition is huge. Exhibitors are offering HPC systems of every size for small, medium-sized and enterprise applications. While the systems may differ, they all aim to provide what matters most to customers: the shortest time to solution. Commodity HPC systems with reasonable performance at lower costs are on the forefront of the HPC exhibitors. Clusters may be predominant, but also new HPC-architectures with heterogeneous technology or so-called hybrid systems will be shown. The performance gain of these systems is the result of combining two different (in terms of chip design) processor sets working closely together.

And vendors are offering flexible architectures that group together various clusters to form scalable units, allow customers to customize the HPC systems. Others are offering architectures where a certain number of processors are directly connected to each other and also to the I/O and memory system for highest performance.

And if you are interested in talking directly with the manufacturer of the worlds’ fastest vector processor, the ISC Exhibition is the place to do so.

And what’s the outlook for HPC operating systems? A lot of companies are presenting state-of-the-art operating systems based on Linux, including the corresponding software environment. In addition, Open Source developments have yielded significant enhancements to operating systems (Linux OS) and tools (Apache and others). The strong supporters of open source solutions have gained a lot of experience in multiple accretions of open software that combine these tools into single offerings.

Another challenge lies in handling the massive data sets produced by supercomputers. In fact, many users are seeing their data volumes doubling every six to 18 months. In addition to data storage systems for holding the raw data, other ompanies have developed advanced visualization products to solve the performance visualization needs of today's HPC and commercial business users.

And to keep things moving, the Exhibition will also featurer networking and data storage companies. They are offering products (Multi-Service Switches) based on InfiniBand or TCP/IP over 10-Gigabit Ethernet to provide high-performance cluster interconnect or server-to-server messaging. Companies are leveraging 10-Gigabit Ethernet technology into the HPC world, and HPC techniques into the Ethernet world.

Visit the exhibition at ISC’08.

The ISC Exhibition is the single best opportunity to learn about the latest technologies, systems and services offered by the world’s leading HPC vendors. Plan now to spend time visiting the exhibits hall in Dresden’s International Congress Center.

---

Visitor Passes - Get access to the World of HPC for only 150 € !

For ISC'08 there are two different visitor passes available:

Visitor Pass 1 – valid for 2 days, June 17 & June 18
Exhibition Party, Exhibition 1st day, Exhibition 2nd day, Research Posters, Exhibitor Forum, BoF Sessions, Full Catering, Microsoft++Get Together Party,
Visitor Pass 2 – valid for 1 day, June 19
Exhibition 3rd day, Research Posters, Exhibitor Forum, Hot Seat Session, Full Catering, Vendor Party

For a fee of 150 €, visitor passes can be purchased either online or onsite at the registration desk in the congress center. To avoid waiting in line at the center,e we recommend that you register online.

---

Exhibitor Forum

The Exhibitor Forum is a unique opportunity for participants to get a compact overview of recent developments and products from the world’s major HPC vendors. At ISC'08, 36 sessions are scheduled - the Exhibitor Forum will be open to all ISC'08 attendees, including exhibitors and visitor pass holders.
» more

---

ISC’08 Program at a Glance

With the growth of the ISC conference program, keeping track of all the opportunities has become more challenging. To help you make the most of your time at the conference, we have compiled the complete program schedule into a downloadable document.

Download the program schedule here.

---

Accompanying Events

A number of attractive accompanying events - organized independently by third-parties - will take place in the context of ISC’08. These events are scheduled predominantly prior to the ISC’08 Conference and include:

• Sun HPC Consortium
• NVIDIA Tutorial Session
• ClearSpeed User Group Meeting
• IDC Breakfast Briefing

» more

---

ISC'08 Sponsors

Cisco, Cluster Resources, Cray Inc., Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Mellanox, Microsoft, Myricom, NEC, Panasas, ParTec, QLogic, Quadrics, SAP, SGI, Sun Microsystems, Supermicro, transtec

---

ISC'08 Media Sponsors

Computer Zeitung, Digital Engineering, HPCwire, Scientific Computing World,
International Science Grid This Week