Define and drive productivity with High Performance Computing

Scalar Decisions and Microsoft cordially invite you to an exclusive presentation and discussion with David Dorfman, Microsoft HPC Specialist, on how the latest High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies help companies perform in today’s difficult economic times.

David Dorfman will also discuss how HPC has evolved over the last 20 years, from its beginnings as an exotic application platform to its modern uses in weather forecasting, product design, financial modeling, and even aircraft crew roster assignments. Microsoft’s HPC contributions will be examined, and the newest version of the Microsoft operating system family, specifically focused on HPC, will be described along with a number of other supporting technologies.

Please join us on Tuesday December 2nd, 2008 for hands on demonstrations, cutting edge insight, afternoon cocktails, and excellent networking opportunities with top industry leaders.

Discover how:
  • Today’s leading HPC technologies help to improve productivity through faster computation and easier integration with existing IT infrastructure
  • Enabling financial modeling, complex analysis of product pricing and development to increase confidence in your information
  • Firms improve competitiveness by bringing targeted products to market faster while better managing risks
Don’t miss a demonstration on how to use the newly-launched Windows® HPC Server 2008 to help gain a competitive advantage through modeling, algorithmic trading, and risk management.

Learn how to harness the power of supercomputing to help reduce time to insight, help increase competitive advantage, and accelerate innovation.

High Performance computing is a key Solution Practice for Scalar Decisions. Scalar draws upon knowledge of designing, deploying, and managing large numbers of compute nodes, petabyte capacity storage, low latency networking, super-fast I/O and virtualization to help customers innovate with HPC grids. Customers span both commercial and research sectors.



Date: December 2nd, 2008
Agenda: 3:00pm–3:30pm Registration and Coffee
3:30pm-3:40pm HPC movie highlights
3:40pm-4:00pm Welcome
4:00pm-4:45pm Keynote speech
4:45pm-5:15pm Microsoft HPC Demo
5:15pm-6:00pm Cocktails and networking in the lounge
Speaker David Dorfman
Solution Specialist, High Performance Computing
Microsoft

David Dorfman is Microsoft's High Performance Computing Solution Specialist for Financial Services applications. He is responsible for supporting Microsoft's Customers, Partners, and Sales Force in the delivery and implementation of HPC solutions that incorporate Microsoft technologies.

David's information technology career spans more than 25 years. During the last 8 years, David has been focused on the use of HPC in Financial Services. His last major project was the design of a large scale shared computing facility available to all users via the public Internet. During this project he became familiar with many of the most difficult challenges that HPC users face. These challenges include rapid provisioning of multiple OS images, secure access to a public facility, large scale data movement, and the protection of Intellectual property embodied within HPC applications and data sets.

Prior to joining Microsoft, David worked for a major systems provider as Solution Architect, Market Lead for Financial Services, and as a development engineer.

Past events have filled to capacity in less than a week, so register early to guarantee your spot!
Location: Fairmont Royal York
19th Floor Salon 1 & 2
100 Front Street West
Toronto, ON    M5I 1E3

Seats are limited for this event so register early

Questions? Please call us at: 1-888-789-7770

About Scalar Decisions
Scalar Decisions, headquartered in Toronto, Canada is an innovative provider of powerful, practical and low cost technology and consulting services focused around 'Optimizing IT for Business' and a belief that technology should be doing work and not creating work.