The New Google Cloud Community Kickoff and the Year Ahead
December 3, 2024 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
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About the Session
The new Google Cloud Advanced Computing Community will enable HPC, AI, and quantum computing professionals to keep up with the latest capabilities and advantages of using Google Cloud Platform to harness these advanced computing technologies. In this session, Google Director and CTO for HPC Bill Magro and Google Cloud Advanced Computing Strategist Jay Boisseau–long-time supercomputing professionals and community builders–will share how this community will be impactful and unique. Thought leaders and experts from Google, its technology partners, and leading HPC, AI, and quantum computing companies and organizations around the world will share the latest technology capabilities and techniques to help practitioners continuously increase expertise, innovation, and impact. This new community will leverage Google’s comprehensive, cloud-native productivity software to foster and facilitate effective collaboration, enable real-time creation and sharing of information/data/code, and offer interactive demos and hands-on examples.
The second part of this discussion will provide a look ahead at the topics and trends that practitioners need to know in 2025. The SC24 conference in November provides a great foundation of new information and technology announcements that will inform future Community sessions and experiences. Bob Sorensen of Hyperion Research will join Bill and Jay to summarize the most exciting topics and trends emerging from SC24 for the Community to cover in the months ahead, and how they will drive discovery and innovation.
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.
Jay Boisseau
Advanced Computing Strategist, Google
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