Supercomputing for the 21st Century; a step change in advanced modelling and virtual prototyping September 18, 2012

Organised by the Research and Development Society
Sponsored by Intel, IBM and the Institute of Physics

Please join David Willetts, Minister of State for Universities and Science and distinguished expert speakers for a stimulating evening examining the new Strategic Vision for UK e-Infrastructure in which Government is investing £165m to ensure the UK maintains its competitive advantage; hear about key UK opportunities for Scientific Modelling and Virtual Prototyping; learn about the challenges facing Next-Generation Super-Computer Design and New Software Development and see how the new International Centre for Computational Science and Engineering (ICE-CSE) will ensure the UK maintains its global lead in this discipline.

Speakers will be the RT Hon David Willetts, MP, Minister of State for Universities & Science and Co-Chair of the UK E-Infrastructure Leadership Council; Professor Dominic Tildesley, co-chair of the E-Infrastructure Leadership Council and formerly Vice President Discover Platforms, Unilever Research and Development; Dave Turek, Vice President of Exascale Computing, IBM; Sean McGuire, Director, Strategic Government HPC Programs for EMEA, Intel; Dr Adrian Wander, Director Computational Science and Engineering Department, STFC; Dr Gillian Murray, Operations Director, Virtual Engineering Centre; Dr Andy Searle, Head of High Performance Computing, Jaguar Land-Rover. Registration is now open at https://www.eventsforce.net/iop/310/register