TFN Awards

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TFN Awards

• Targeted for Windows on the Future Conference,
  March 2007
• Conference would focus on applications
• Goal is to focus on extraordinary collaborations,
  applications, and research
• Candidates will be able to apply to only one
  category

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TFN Award Categories

• Collaborations
• Production-oriented, programmatic institutional
  collaborations
• Community,State, Government
• Experimental and Applications Research
• Research or apps that require bandwidth, latency,
  services
• Any research that traverses the TFN
• Not yet production-oriented

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TFN Award Categories

• Leadership
• Novel work done on campus with TFN CIO-nominated
• Network Engineer of the Year
• Application Developer of the Year
• Campus Network of the Year

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TFN Award Categories

• Lightspeed Award
• Grand Prize
• Combines community, leadership, and application
  categories for
• Special Award for LAN or WAN speed over TFN
• Testing TFN to its maximum capacity

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SC06 Supercomputing Conference

• OSC/Ohio partners highly visible participants in
  technical and exhibit programs at international
  conference held in November
• National Lambda Rail/Internet2 also has presence
• Call for participation from Ohio partners
• Will establish research stations/demo areas in
  booth
• Showcase research to international audience
• Conference website is sc06.supercomputing.org
• Contact Prasad Calyam at pcalyam_at_oar.net or
  614-292-8107 for more information or to discuss
  possible demos in the OSC booth.

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Research Opportunities and Challenges

• New initiatives at the national level present a
  unique opportunity
• Bush administration said it plans to emphasize
  supercomputing in its fiscal 2007 research and
  development request to Congress.

• NSF
• New center RFP very likely
• Relocated Office of CyberInfrastructure
• More middleware initiatives

• DOE
• LCF End Stations
• Alliance programs

• DoD
• DARPA HPCS
• HPCMP PET 3

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Industrial Adoption of HPC Lags

• From 2004 Council on Competitiveness IDC report
• 65 of the reporting companies have important,
  but currently unsolved computational problems
• 35 need faster computers for their problems HPC
  has the potential to impact
• Workforce productivity
• Engineering design
• Manufacturing

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HPC is an Economic Multiplier!

• From 2004 Council on Competitiveness/IDC Survey
  of 33 CIO/CTOs
• Over 70 indicated their companies could not
  function without HPC
• Over 25 of companies could quantify HPCs
• ROI to their businesses
• - saved millions of dollars, or
• - shortened production development cycles, or
• - provided faster product-to-market timing.