Sep 8th-Geoscience Computing SIG: High Performance & Supercomputing Roadmap*
Sponsored by Unique Digital, Inc.
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Meeting Location:
UDI Houston Banquet Room
10595 Westoffice Dr.
Houston, TX 77042
Speaker: Earl Dodd, Supercomputing Strategist, Ideas And Machines, Inc.
Those of us inside the industry understand that high performance and supercomputing (HPC) technology is causing a paradigm shift across the entire computing community. Today, HPC technology is enhancing productivity and efficiency in businesses as diverse as Oil&Gas exploration, manufacturing, precision agriculture, and retail sales.
Unfortunately, few people, stop to consider – or quantify – the macroeconomic payoff that can occur with the help of high performance computers and vast amounts of data.
Today we will attempt to outline future directions in Five HPC Topic tracks: Administration, Algorithms, Storage, Network & Communications, & Visualization.
Future Lunch&Learn meetings we will do a deep dive in one of the topic tracks.
Speaker Biography: Earl Dodd, Ideas And Machines, Inc.
Earl J. Dodd (?) as a Supercomputing Strategist, leverages the high performance computing (HPC) landscape and applies his specialized genius to find and fulfill the Client’s unexpected needs to create a safer, cleaner world.
Mr. Dodd is passionate about achieving better results with a future-enabled supercomputing strategy for sophisticated industrial and government clients by optimizing architecture, design, technology selection and implementation practices.
With over 32 years of experience in Supercomputing, HPC, and Big Data, and a strong ability to problem solve and formulate strategy, Mr. Dodd helps companies and governments achieve their desired ROI by leveraging evolving computing technologies (e.g., the Internet of Things) and business models (e.g., Cloud Computing). Mr. Dodd's technical focus is on strategy formulation for secure ultra-scale architectures and 3D visual collaboration environments leveraging the cloud computing business model. These strategies help drive the next generation of computationally-steered workflows, applications and decision support environments for true situational awareness and learning environments.
Mr. Dodd holds degrees in Mining Engineering and an MBA. He is actively engaged with the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, president of the Society of HPC Professionals, Compute Canada, Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation (MRI) and other professional organizations and governments. Mr. Dodd holds the Supercomputing Strategist position at a variety of technology company boards—Ideas And Machines, Inc., LGT Advanced Technology LTD, Scalable Analytics Inc. and i3D Inc. Mr. Dodd resides in Cypress Texas USA (a suburb of Houston) and travels the world for business and pleasure.
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