Midwest Academic & Resilience Cloud Computing Consortium (MARC³ www.Marc3.info )

April 15, 2011 

High Performance Computing (HPC) Innovation Cluster (IC) Workshop

Date/Time: Friday April 15, 2011 at 8:00 a.m. pm to 12:00 p.m.

Location:

Oakton Community College - Skokie Campus
7701 N. Lincoln Ave., Skokie, IL 60077

Room P104

http://www.oakton.edu/about/ourlocations/directions/index.php

MARC³ Event Keynote:

Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen

Event Co-Hosts: Oakton Community College, Workforce Board of Northern Cook County

Workforce Board of Northern Cook County

http://www.oakton.edu/  http://www.workforceboard.org/

HOST: Oakton Community College (Robert Sompolski Dean of Mathematics and Technologies)

 

America COMPETES Reauthorization Act 2010:

“Congress finds that the utilization of high-end computing simulation and modeling by large-scale government contractors and Federal research entities has resulted in substantial improvements in the development of advanced manufacturing technologies; and such simulation and modeling would also benefit small- and medium-sized manufacturers in the United States if such manufacturers were to deploy such simulation and modeling throughout their manufacturing chains.”

 Event:

High Performance Computing (HPC) Innovation Cluster (IC) Workshop announcing:

Dell Computer Infrastructure Support for Center of Excellence Scalability for Manufacturing Applications in the Cloud  

COE for Biomedical Engineering & Applications in the Cloud

COE for Business Resilience & Predictive Analytics in the Cloud

These COEs will employ Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) locally and from around the world from Universities such as:

Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern, Rutgers, Washington University, Imperial College-London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Agenda:

8:00 a.m. – 8:10 a.m. Welcome Remarks

8:10 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen

8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. FORCE 10

Enhance U.S. Global Competitiveness While Creating Jobs

Through

HPC Centers of Excellence (COE)--Oakton Community College HPC COE

9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. DELL Presentation & Discussion

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.  Q&A--Next Steps & Closing Remarks

RSVP to John Jones john.jones@marc3.info

(773) 286-0699