What Does the Aurora Exascale Supercomputer Mean for Humanity? | Partner Spotlight

Event Overview

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Intel recently completed development of the Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory — the largest computational machine ever built in the history of humankind. The supercomputer has massive implications for pushing the boundaries of science. But what does it mean for business? Join Uli Plechschmidt, HPE's Worldwide Product Marketing Manager for Parallel HPC and AI Storage, and Gretchen Stewart, Chief Data Scientist within Intel's Public Sector organization, as they talk about how high performance computing, such as is being used in the Aurora supercomputer, will play a vital role in pushing forward enterprise AI initiatives. Uli and Gretchen also talk about how organizations can start working toward integrating high performance computing into their own teams and the implications its having on cloud and the data center.

Featured Speakers

Earl Dodd

World Wide Technology

HPC, ESG, Sustainability Architect and Alchemist

Earl Dodd is WWT's Global HPC Business Practice Leader for HPC. He provides HPC/HPDA/Supercomputing strategy, technology enablement, business development, sustainability/ESG consulting, and marketing and sales support to WWT's global enterprises and governments. Earl helps achieve a customer's desired ROI by leveraging HPC technology, extreme data in motion, and the Cloud on secure ultra-scale architectures and collaboration environments.

Uli Plechschmidt

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Worldwide Product Marketing Manager for Parallel HPC and AI Storage HPE

Uli leads the product marketing function for parallel high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) storage and cloud services at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). He joined HPE in January 2020 as part of the Cray acquisition. Prior to Cray, Uli held leadership and expert roles in product marketing, marketing, sales enablement, and sales at Seagate, Brocade Communications, and IBM.

Gretchen Stewart

Intel

Chief Data Scientist

Gretchen Stewart is the Chief Data Scientist for Intel's public sector working closely with Intel's Ecosystem of software, hardware, and partner vendors in developing solutions and programs focused on the convergence of high-performance computing and data analytics. In her solution architecture role, she is building data analytics/AI/ML practice within Intel working closely with federal and state government, research institutions, universities, energy, and advanced manufacturing customers.

What to expect

Learn how partnerships with companies like WWT, HPE and Intel help customers with digital transformations to bring the technology to the data, still using large HPC systems for full scale testing with production at the edge or wherever the data resides.

The pillars of new technology with HPC+AI
The challenges humanity (our planet) face
Future jobs and skillsets needed to address these challenges
How WWT, HPE, and Intel jointly address these challenges

Goals and Objectives

Viewers will gain knowledge to address current and future challenges in high-performance architecture and identify practical applications and benefits of innovative data solutions through real-world examples

Who should attend?

Data center leaders and specialists, ESG leads and digital strategists