UPPMAX celebrates its 10^th anniversary with a symposium and inauguration of UPPNEX new compute cluster Milou and storage system Pica.

Date: November 21, 2013
Time: 13-16
Place: Häggsalen, Ångström Laboratory.
Web: www.uppmax.uu.se/uppmax-10-years
UPPMAX (Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science) is Uppsala University’s resource of high-performance computers, large-scale storage and know-how of high-performance computing (HPC).

UPPMAX  is one of the six centra in the national metacenter Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC)
www.uppmax.uu.se

Formal Program
13.00 Welcome, Hans Karlsson, Director UPPMAX
13.02 Presentation by the vendors: HP/GoVirtual (Milou) and Hitachi/SouthPole (Pica)
13.15 UPPMAX 10 years in 9 minutes, Hans Karlsson, Director UPPMAX
13.24 UPPMAX from the perspective of SNIC, Jacko Koster, Director SNIC
13.33 UPPMAX from the perspective of SciLifeLab, Karin Forsberg Nilsson, Scientific director SciLifeLab
13.42 UPPMAX and Next Generation Sequencing, Ola Spjuth, UPPNEX
13.51 UPPMAX and Uppsala University, Eva Åkesson, Vice Chancellor, Uppsala University

Inauguration of Milou and Pica

Coffee and cake

Scientific Program
14.30 Siv Andersson: A drop in the oceans: Single cell- and meta-genomic analyses of aquatic ecosystems
14.50 Kim Bolton: Piezoelectric and barrier properties of polymer composite systems
15.10 Lynn Kamerlin: Computational Protein Evolution: Progress and Pitfalls
15.30 Jörg Tiedemann: Data-driven Natural Language Processing
15.50 David van der Spoel: Concluding remarks

Welcome!
UPPMAX-10years.pdf