Home Programs Overview Tutorials Conference Panels BoF Sessions ISC Award Poster Session Vendor Tracks Contributors Committee Exhibition Social Events News & Press Sponsors About ISC	Conference Second Day Overview : First Day : Second Day : Third Day     Thursday, June 29th, 2006, 08:00-18:30 (To view the abstract and the résumé, please click the speaker's name)       VI. Reconfigurable Supercomputing 08:00-09:05 Chair: Prof. Dr. Alexander Reinefeld, ZIB, Germany Experiences with High-Level-Programming of FPGAs Dr. Thomas Steinke, ZIB, Germany     Reconfigurable Supercomputing: Hurdles and Chances Prof. Dr. Reiner W. Hartenstein, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany           09:05-09:35   Coffee and conversation break VII. Biocomputing / Life Sciences 09:35-11:35 Chair: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Computer Simulation of Tumour Growth - Can it Help? Dr. Andreas Deutsch, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany     Simulated Pore Interactive Computing Environment (SPICE): Using Federated Grids for 'Grand Challenge' Biomolecular Prof. Peter Coveney, University College of London, UK     New Approaches to the Forecast of Epidemics in a Globalized World Prof. Dr. Theo Geisel, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany           VIII. Keynote Presentations Thursday 11:45-12:30 Chair: Michael M. Resch, HLRS Stuttgart, Germany Trends and Challenges in High Performance Computing: an HP-Labs Perspective Wayne C. Johnson, Hewlett-Packard, USA     The Cluster in our Laptop Dr. Ben Bennett, Intel, UK           IX. Presentation of the two ISC Award Winners 12:30-12:45 Chair: Michael M. Resch, HLRS Stuttgart, Germany ISC Awards to be presented by: Dr. Ben Bennett, Intel, UK Rudi Schmickl, Hewlett-Packard, Germany       12:45-14:00   Lunch break X. Hot Seat Session Part I 14:00-16:15 Co-Chairs: Prof. Dr. Arndt Bode, Technical University Munich, Germany Prof. Dr. Hans Meuer, Prometeus and University of Mannheim, Germany Inquisitors: Nigel P. Barry, Airbus, UK Dr. Galen Gisler, University of Oslo, Norway Dr. Fang-Pang Lin, National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC), Prof. Dr. Thomas Sterling, Louisiana State University and Caltech, USA Paradigm Shifts in High Performance Computing Dr. Frank Baetke, Hewlett-Packard, Germany     Coping with the decrease in the rate of frequency improvement - Productivity Tools. Dr. Donald Grice, IBM, USA     Fujitsu's vision for High Performance Computing. Dr. Motoi Okuda, Fujitsu Limited, Japan     The Hybrid Vector Concept - Best of Both Worlds Dr. Jörg Stadler, NEC Deutschland, Germany     SGI´s Product Roadmap Bill Mannel, SGI, USA     Bull the European HPC solutions provider Jean-François Lavignon, Bull, France     Quadrics Interconnect Roadmap Duncan Roweth, Quadrics Ltd., UK     InfiniBand - The industry-standard high-performance interconnect Michael Kagan, Mellanox, USA     Myri-10G and the Future of HPC Clusters Dr. Charles L. Seitz, Myricom, USA           16:15-16:45   Coffee and conversation break X. Hot Seat Session Part II 16:45-18:45 Co-Chairs: Prof. Dr. Thomas Ludwig, University of Heidelberg, Germany Dr. Erich Strohmaier, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Inquisitors: Prof. Dr. Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Bill Kramer, NERSC, USA Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lippert, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany Dr. Marie-Christine Sawley, CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland On the relevance of Top500 to Product Planning Dr. Stephen R. Wheat, Intel, USA     Driving Innovation into the x86 processor Jay Owen, AMD, USA     Driving New Innovations in the High Performance Computing Industry Dr. Steve Scott, Cray, USA     Sun's Vision in HPTC Björn Andersson, Oracle, USA     transtec HPC Systems Dr. Roland Fehrenbacher, transtec, Germany     Driving IT Virtualization using Enterprise Grid Christoph Reichert, Platform Computing, Germany     Scalable Ethernet Clos Switches Dr. Norbert Eicker, ParTec Cluster Competence Center and Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany     Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, HPC goes mainstream Kyril Faenov, Microsoft, USA