Google Cloud: Comprehensive Capabilities for HPC, AI, Data Analytics, and More
December 17, 2024 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
Online
December 17, 2024 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
Online
About the Session
Google Cloud offers a compelling platform for HPC traditionally conducted on-prem with many new capability additions and performance upgrades including Cluster Toolkit, high performance parallel file systems, RDMA, leading-edge processor and accelerator options, and more. Google’s leadership in AI enables offering world-class AI software and infrastructure, and Google offers extensive tools for collaborative code development, data analytics, and more. Google Cloud thus presents a comprehensive, integrated, massively scalable, persistently upgraded, always-available set of advanced computing technologies for research, industry, and higher education that is simple to access, learn, and use effectively and productively.
Join us for an overview of the Google Cloud’s capabilities and newest features for using advanced computing technologies easily, quickly, and at scale. This presentation will set the stage for many Google Cloud Advanced Computing Community sessions in 2025 that will dive more deeply into specific advanced computing technologies and the best practices for using them–including live demos and tutorials–across a wide range of applications.
Speakers
Bill Magro
Director and Chief Technologist, High Performance Computing, Google
William (Bill) Magro is Chief Technologist for High Performance Computing at Google, where he drives HPC strategy and customer success for Google Cloud. Magro joined Google in 2020, after 20 years at Intel, where he was Intel Fellow and Chief Technologist for HPC. There, he served as a key strategist and driver for Intel’s HPC business, with a focus on software, solutions, and emerging technologies and trends, including HPC/Cloud and Exascale Computing.
A recognized leader in the InfiniBand industry, Magro helped found the OpenFabrics Alliance and served as InfiniBand Trade Association Technical Working Group co-chair from 2007-2020. Magro has been a prominent voice in the HPC community for over two decades and regularly participates and presents in HPC conferences, advisory boards, and panels.
He joined Intel in 2000 with the acquisition of Kuck & Associates Inc. (KAI). Prior to KAI, Magro spent 3 years as a post-doctoral fellow and staff member at the Cornell Theory Center at Cornell University. He holds a bachelor's degree in applied and engineering physics from Cornell University and a master's degree and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Annie Ma-Weaver
Group Product Manager, Google
Felix Schürmann, PhD
Senior HPC Technologist, Google