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GIGAIO LIGHTHOUSE USER GROUP MEETING

Date: Monday, Nov 13, 2023
Time: 8:30am - 1:00pm
The Curtis Denver

Join us at SC23 in Denver, Colorado!

The GigaIO Lighthouse User Group (GLUG) meeting is an interactive, no-holds-barred event where you’ll hear from the experts who have been developing and deploying our exciting next-gen HPC technology.

Monday, November 13, 2023
8:30am — 1:00pm (MST)
The Curtis Denver
Diagonally across the street from the Convention Center
the Curtis Denver

Program

8:30 - 9:15 —

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Welcome & Intro

> Breakfast to be served as we begin

9:15 - 9:45 —

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Lessons Learned One Year Later: Composability for the Prototype National Research Platform

> Dr. Frank Würthwein, Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center

9:45 - 10:15 —

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Composability: A View From the Trenches

> Brad Hillis, Linux HPC Engineer, KDI R&D Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

10:15 - 10:30 —

—  Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00 —

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Optimizing GPU Computing

> Robert Stevenson, Field CTO, Arc Compute

11:00 - 11:30 —

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The Journey to the First 32 GPU Single-Node Server

> John Ihnotic, Sr. Director of Engineering, GigaIO

11:30 - 12:00 —

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Bridging HPC and AI: An Interactive Road Map Discussion

> Alan Benjamin, CEO, GigaIO

12:00 - 1:00 —

—  End of GLUG & Lunch Served

> Lunch & refreshments to be served for those who wish to stay

You must register to attend. No walk-ins will be permitted.

*According to Wikipedia, Lighthouse customers are customers who, in addition to using the vendor’s product or technology, also provide considerable and candid feedback to help the vendor refine its future product releases, as well as the associated means of distribution, service, and support.

If you can’t make it on Monday morning, click here to book a one-on-one meeting to explore if this new technology can help improve performance and/or reduce costs for your accelerated workloads.

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With previous experience as a GM and VP of Sales at Mellanox Technologies, Marc comes to GigaIO with direct expertise in the high-performance interconnect market. At Mellanox, Marc achieved significant wins in Enterprise and Government HPC clusters. He is an experienced senior sales and business development executive with early stage and public companies, most recently as Senior Sales Director at Netronome Systems, winning high profile customers in the Cloud, Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Virtualization (NFV) markets.

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Marc also held senior marketing and product definition positions in the US for Quality semiconductor (later acquired by IDT) and business development in EMEA for Annapurna Labs (acquired by Amazon).

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Jacqueline left HP to create an international market research and consulting company focused exclusively on the technology industry.  With offices in San Diego and Berlin, Analytique grew to be ranked in the top 100 research companies in the US by revenue, with a client list including 3Com, Canon, Compaq, IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft among others. She joined GigaIO as Director of Marketing in May 2020 and was promoted to Vice President in August 2021 after leading a major brand repositioning and delivering traction with key industry analysts and strategic partner companies.

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Matt spent seven year in IT in the US Air Force and has a deep expertise in Federal IT procurement through his subsequent work as a Senior Consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, and the partnerships he has built helping systems integrators win Federal contracts.

Matt holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from American InterContinental University, and an MBA from Concordia University Austin.

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Eric is a seasoned technical sales executive with 20 years of sales and technical management experience in the public and private sectors, and a track record of building and managing world-class sales organizations, and partner development. He has extensive experience in Enterprise IT transformation utilizing next generation data center technologies and management techniques.  His experience spans leadership roles in multiple startups, system integrators, and the US Federal government.

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His more notable joint contributions include the Computational Flash Storage architecture at Western Digital, the industry’s first fully-symmetric clustered filesystem at PolyServe, the Decoupled-loop Pipelining CPU at the Advanced Computer Research Institute in France, the industry’s first commercial NUMA system and first commercial SMP system at Sequent, the IEEE POSIX standard, and the Unix-based time-sharing supercomputer operating system at LLNL.

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Scott has an extensive background in high speed networking, accelerators and security from working at companies like Cray Research and Sun Microsystems. Leveraging this background, he created the FabreX software architecture supporting Redfish Composability Service, NVMe-oF, GPU Direct RDMA, accelerators, MPI and TCP/IP all with a single PCI-compliant interconnect. He has built the engineering team at GigaIO from the ground up to implement a singular vision of FabreX as an open source, standards-based ecosystem. Scott’s previous experience includes Prisa Networks, a Fiber Channel startup, where he helped drive the shift from an arbitrated loop to switch based topologies. His many years working as an expert consultant helps him drive key intellectual property development at GigaIO. Scott holds a BS in computer science from UC Santa Barbara.

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