Home Programs Overview Tutorials Conference Panels BoF Sessions ISC Award Poster Session Vendor Tracks Contributors Committee Exhibition Social Events News & Press Sponsors About ISC	ISC2006 Contributors Michael M. Resch Director, HLRS Stuttgart, Germany Michael M. Resch Prof. Dr. Michael M. Resch is the director of the Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart (HLRS) / High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart and the director of the Department for High Performance Computing at the University of Stuttgart. He is the project leader of the Engineering Grid Computing Project InGrid and a member of the steering board of the German e-science initiative d-grid. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Swiss Center for Scientific Computing, member of the board of the high performance computing centre of competence of the state of Baden-Württemberg, and the chairman of the NEC User Group. Prof. Resch has contributed for years to the success of ISC and has been active in a variety of conferences and community activities in supercomputing over the last years. He holds a degree in Technical Mathematics from the Technical University of Graz/Austria and a PhD in Engineering from the University of Stuttgart/Germany. In 2002 he held an Assistant Professorship at the department of computer science of the University of Houston/TX. Michael M. Resch is chair at the Session Keynote Presentations Thursday -> Conference 'Second Day' Michael M. Resch is chair at the Session Presentation of the two ISC Award Winners -> Conference 'Second Day' Michael M. Resch is chair at the Session Panel 2: Acquisition and Operation of an HPC System -> Conference 'First Day' Michael M. Resch is speaker at the -> Automotive Day 'HPC for Automotive Engineering (AE)' The Impact of Virtual Reality and High Performance Computing in the Automotive Industry – A show case Abstract: HPC has dramatically increased our ability to simulate physical and chemical processes and has hence tremendously changed our means of optimization and design in the automotive industry over the last years. With an increasing level of performance provided by inexpensive clusters simulation has become pervasive. Pre-packaged hardware and software solutions have virtually brought HPC to the developers desktop. In this talk some examples for this will be given. Visualization has to keep pace with this development. Given the amount of data and the integration of HPC in the development cycle it is no longer only about post mortem analysis of data but has to focus on ways to bring the human into the simulation loop. Virtual Reality is one tool that can help to further integrate engineering, simulation and human knowledge. We will show examples of how virtual reality can help to improve the overall simulation process. Moving a step forward augmented reality can combine measured results and simulation results into a single virtual environment for the user. In an example we will show the benefits of this next step in simulation technology. Michael M. Resch is speaker at the Session Opening Session -> Conference 'First Day' Awarding of the two ISC Award Winners