At a Glance

This year's conference program is set to be the most illustrious in ISC history. The 4-day conference and trade show at the Congress Center Hamburg will provide you with a unique platform to learn, network and do business, all under one roof. With over 1,500 attendees and more than 120 exhibitors from over 45 countries expected to attend, ISC’09 is sure to be our biggest and best event yet.

ISC'09 Schedule

ISC'09 Keynotes

• ISC’09 Keynote Talk by Andreas von Bechtolsheim, Chief Architect & Co-Founder, Sun Microsystems, Founder & Chief Development Officer, Arista Networks, on The Evolution of Interconnects for High Performance Computing
• Wednesday Keynote by Prof. Dr. Thomas Sterling, Arnaud & Edwards Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University, on HPC Achievement & Impact – 2009
• Thursday Keynote by Prof. Dr. Gunter Dueck, IBM Distinguished Engineer, on Lean Brain Management – More Success and Efficiency by Saving Intelligence
• Friday Keynote by Prof. Dr. Edgar Körner, President of the Honda Research Institute Europe, on The Brain-like Vision

In-depth Sessions

Each session provides more than 4 hours of extensive information

• HPC & Cloud Computing – Synergy or Competition?, featuring speakers from Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Microsoft et al.
• Climate Modeling & HPC: Challenges in a Changing World, featuring speakers from ECMWF, NCAR, MPI, GFDL, COLA et al.
• Supercomputing Challenges for Research in Aeronautics, featuring speakers from EADS, Airbus, Boeing, DLR, Turbomeca et al.
• Scientific Afternoon, 3 parallel sessions on burning scientific topics, selected by 'Call for Papers'

Other Conference Sessions

Each session lasts 90 minutes and features at least 3 invited leading expert speakers

• Multicore: More Moore or Multi Trouble?
• HPC in Seismic Processing & Oil Exploration
• Panel on Graphics Processing Unit (GPU): Making Your Desktop a Supercomputer?
• HPC & Visualization
• HPC & Bioinformatics
• Panel on Hype & Reality: Experiences with the Leading Systems from the TOP500 List
• High Energy Physics Meets Supercomputing Meets Robotics

Conference Specials

• Opening Session including the ISC'09 Keynote Lecture, the presentation of the 33rd TOP500 list and the awarding of the two ISC'09 Awards and the PRACE Award
• Hot Seat Sessions providing a compact overview of the current HPC market from the top vendors in an entertaining way
• 6 Exhibitor Forum Sessions featuring briefings on the latest technologies
• 15 Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) Sessions
• Research Poster Session