<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We are looking forward to seeing you at the EIOW meeting in Leipzig at the Marriott Hotel on <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">June 20</span></span>. Our agenda will include the EIOW community and its needs for licenses, code releases and a community forum, a continued study of requirements for exciting projects like SKA, the experiences with current I/O middleware and the beginning of the implementation of EIOW's core, RAS and HA components.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If you haven't already done so, please let Kati Clendening (<a href="mailto:kati_clendening@xyratex.com">kati_clendening@xyratex.com</a>) know of your participation, so that we may offer you lunch.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Our past meetings have led in an organized fashion to an exciting project with broad participation. We hope to see you in Leipzig.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Peter J Braam</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">EIOW Founder</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Parallel Scientific / Xyratex</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Agenda EIOW meeting </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Marriott Hotel, Leipz</span><b><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">ig - </span><span style="line-height:normal">Colorado III meeting room</span></b></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"><span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">6/20/2013</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"><span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">9:00</span></span> - 9.30 Hugo Falter, Partec / EOFS - opening remarks & legal issues</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">9.30 - 10.00 Peter Braam, Parallel Scientific - EIOW: History, outlook and recent </span><span style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:36pt;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">achievements</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">10.00 - 10.45 Jonathan Jouty, Xyratex / Parallel Scientific - Core API’s</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">10.45 - 11.15 Coffee Break</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">11.15 - 12.00 Mathieu Boespflug, Xyratex / Parallel Scientific - High Availability - a </span><span style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:36pt;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">further look</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Lunch</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"><span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">13:00 - 14:00</span></span> Chris Broekema, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Square Kilometer Array: ExaScale IO </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;text-indent:36pt">personified</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"><span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">14:00 - 15:00</span></span> Eric Barton, </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial">Quincey Koziol, John Bent, </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Intel Fast Forward, DAOS, </span><span style="line-height:1.15;text-indent:36pt;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">HDF5 and PLFS</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"><span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">15:00 - 15:30</span></span> Tea</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"><span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">15:30 - 16:00</span></span> </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial">Sai Narasimhamurthy, Xyratex - Simulation, Modeling & RAS</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"><span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">16:00 - 16:30</span></span> Julian Kunkel, University of Hamburg - SIOX</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"><span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">16:30 - 17:00</span></span> Andre Brinkman, University of Mainz, TBD</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"><span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">17:00 - 17:30</span></span> Discussion</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Bios & Abstracts of new participants</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Chris Broekema</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Square Kilometer Array: ExaScale IO personified</span></p>
<br><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Square Kilometer Array is a new radio telescope to be built in </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15">Southern Africa and Western Austria starting in 2017. This project </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15">pushes ExaScale IO to the absolute limit. It combines a streaming HPC </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15">requirement large enough to seriously threaten the number 1 position </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15">in the top500, with a high performance temporary storage facility with </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15">unprecedented read/write capacity, and a very large archive system </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15">with associated compute hardware for (re-)processing of science data.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In this talk I will introduce the telescope system, in particular the </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15">dataflow from the antenna to the final image on the astronomer's</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">display, and show the major challenges faced along the way.</span></p><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Chris</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Broekema is a researcher High Performance Computing at the </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15">Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON). He designed, built </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15">and operated several generations of HPC infrastructure for the LOFAR </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15">telescope in the Netherlands, and is now heavily involved in the </span><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15">pre-construction phase of the Square Kilometer Array.</span></p>
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