2019 Rice Oil & Gas HPC Conference to Be Held March 4 & 5 

Dec. 6, 2018 -- The 2019 Rice Oil & Gas HPC Conference will be held March 4 & 5, 2019. The theme will be "Challenges for meeting computing-capacity demand in the energy industry for the next decade." Registration will open soon.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Toni Collis, Chair and Co-Founder, Women in HPC & CBDO, Appentra Solutions
• Lori Diachin, Deputy Director, Exascale Computing Project
• Detlef Hohl, Chief Scientist Computation and Data Science, Shell
• Satoshi Matsuoka, Director, Riken Center for Computational Science, Japan

Featured workshops include:

Monday, March 4 – 8:30am-Noon

Option A: Best Practices in Supercomputing Systems Management
Option B: Hiring, Developing and Retaining an Inclusive Workforce

Wednesday, March 6 – 8:30am-Noon

Option C: Singularity Containers: Secure, Repeatable and Mobile Runtimes for Oil and Gas Applications and Workflows
Option D: Speeding Up the Parallelisation Process: An Algorithmic Approach to Multicore and GPU Programming

For more information, visit the conference website at this link: http://rice2019oghpc.rice.edu/

Source: Rice University