Academic Discussion Group Workshop 2017

This 2nd OpenPOWER Academia Discussion Group Workshop will take just before SC17. It will allow to bring together members of the Academia Discussion Group (ADG) with the following goals:

• Facilitate networking among ADG members
• Improve technical knowledge of ADG members on relevant OpenPOWER technologies
• Allow OpenPOWER members to explore opportunities for collaboration
• Contribute to the creation of an OpenPOWER user community

The workshop focuses on the use of OpenPOWER technologies for high-performance computing and data analysis. The workshop will promote exchange of results among the academic OpenPOWER members, enhance their technical knowledge and facilitate networking.

A large fraction of the OpenPOWER members are academic institutions. The ADG serves as a platform within the OpenPOWER Foundation for these academic members. It comprises a broad range of academic institutions with strong competence, e.g., in providing and operating high-performance computing facilities or in developing scientific applications, scalable numerical methods, new approaches for processing extreme scale data or new methods for data analytics.