Industrial Cloud Best Practices|
3:00 pm – 4:30 pmIn the last few years, many service providers and industry users have adopted cloud computing, offering and using a wide spectrum of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services for data- and compute-intensive workloads. We have selected a few interesting industrial use cases which demonstrate lessons learned and which provide recommended practices for compute- and data-intensive applications in industry and commerce.

Panel: HPC Cloud Challenges|
5:00 pm – 6:30 pmFor many organizations, there are still several important critical aspects in the cloud which need to be identified, evaluated, and addressed. In this session we will look at potential obstacles to cloud adoption, such as security and trust, compliance, outsourcing, performance, virtualization, pricing, payment model, software licenses, choice of service provider or private cloud builder, network bandwidth, and integration of all of this into the existing business or research processes.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Coffee Break |
8:30 am – 9:00 am

Research Cloud - User Experiences|
9:00 am – 10:30 pmAcademic users apply cloud computing to very different workloads, from administrative tasks to processing huge amount of ‘big’ research data, from computing scientific grand challenges to simulating complex application workflows. The challenge often is to find out whether and how cloud computing is suitable for scientific computations and big data processing. This session will provide answers.

Engineering Clouds – Commercial Software in the Cloud |
11:00 am – 12:30 amUntil recently we have considered the current licensing models of the ISV independent software vendors being a roadblock for the adoption of cloud computing especially by small and mid-size enterprises. This is now changing. More and more ISVs have started to experiment with cloud computing and to adjust their licensing models accordingly. In this session we learn from the experience and the results of these ISVs.

Panel: Meet the HPC Cloud Vendors|
2:00 pm – 3:30 pmISC Cloud’12 conference organizers and participants are grateful for the conference sponsors’ financial support and commitment. Therefore, this vendor panel is of mutual interest, both as a joint platform for the vendors to present short summaries of their actual HPC cloud offerings and customer case studies – and for interactively answering important questions from the audience.

Moderator: Addison Snell, Intersect360 Research

Coffee Break |
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Parallel BoFs on Hot Topics of HPC and Big Data Cloud Computing|
4:00 pm – 5:30 pmHere we are encouraging our conference participants to form 3 discussion groups of their choice around hot topics and critical aspects of HPC and Big Data in the Cloud. During the first day of the conference we will invite participants to suggest topics with the need for further discussion, and the audience votes for the most popular ones. These topics will then build the parallel BoFs where the hot HPC Cloud topics will be discussed in more detail.