Celebrating 20 years of Escala
May 24 2012 - Marriott Paris Champs Elysées

1992-2012: 20 years of technological innovations for the datacenter and critical applications
You are cordially invited to celebrate with us the success of the first 20 years of Escala, Thursday, May 24 at the Marriott Paris Champs Elysées.
During this special event, we will have the pleasure to welcome top leaders of AIX development.

A unique opportunity to discover why Escala and AIX will remain at the heart of tomorrow's datacenters and will be the cornerstone of secure private clouds.
It is also an opportunity for you to understand the synergy between our teams and those of our strategic partner, IBM. Thanks to this close relationship, we will continue to bring you the power, the flexibility, the reliability and the scalability required for mission critical applications.

AGENDA
9:30	Welcome coffee
10:00	(english session with simultaneous translation into french) - The first 20 years of Escala - Meeting with the AIX development teams - Customer testimonials
12:30	Lunch
14:30	The latest Escala announcements (french session)

74th EAGE Conference & Exhibition
Copenhagen, June 4-7 2012

EAGE's 74th Conference & Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2012 will be held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the largest and most comprehensive geoscience event in the world. The five-day program consists of a large conference and a technical exhibition. Over 6,000 visitors from around 100 countries will attend the event for the latest developments in geophysics, geology and reservoir/petroleum engineering. Approximately 330 exhibitors are expected.
The theme of the 2012 conference is “Responsibly Securing Natural Resources”. A key challenge for energy companies is to develop strategies to enhance business performance, while being environmentally and socially committed to achieve the highest standards of responsible performance.

Bull will exhibit at Copenhagen ‘12 and will demonstrate its technology advantage, sector knowledge and solutions expertise together with its partners.

ISC'12
Hamburg , June 17-21 2012

The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), the Europe’s leading conference and exhibition on high performance computing, networking and storage, looks forward to host attendees from over 50 countries and all major supercomputing, storage and networking vendors.

The ISC’12 conference is the privileged place for exchanging knowledge on HPC and learning about hot trends – such as Cloud and parallel computing – but also about the future developments of the next decade.
Over 200 world-class speakers are eager to share ideas about achieving a balance between efficiency and effectiveness in supercomputing, storage and networking. Award ceremonies, including the Top 500 awards, numerous networking opportunities and social events will complete the 2012 conference.

Bull is Platinum sponsor of ISC’12. Meet our experts at the Bull booth and discover the outstanding performance of our latest bullx supercomputers and Extreme Computing solutions.

2012 Ter@tec Forum
Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau Paris area), June 27-28 2012

2012 Ter@tec Forum theme: Design by simulation

Ter@tec brings together top international experts in high performance numerical design and simulation, making it the major event in France and in Europe in this field. It reaffirms the strategic importance of these technologies for developing industrial competitiveness and innovation capacity.
In 2011 the Ter@tec Forum welcomed more than 800 attendees, highlighting the economic and scientific HPC momentum for key industries and services in Europe. The involvement and testimonies of senior industrial and ICT leaders, the diversity and the high level of the technical workshops, the representativeness and innovation offers displayed on the booths, are assets for all responsible concerned by high-performance design and simulation.


On Wednesday June 27, plenary sessions will cover numerical design and the variety of uses of HPC, with the participation of representatives from the political, economic and academic worlds, and of leading international industry users and technology suppliers.

On Thursday June 28, workshops will look at major issues, notably HPC systems, green IT, GPUs, complex systems engineering, scientific visualization and bio-health.

During these two days, an exhibition of about sixty booths will include major HPC players. Software manufacturers and producers, integrators and distributors, service providers, academic and laboratory researchers, public and private sector developers will present their latest HPC innovations.

Bull is Platinum sponsor of the Teratec Forum.

Come and visit our booth : our experts will present the outstanding performance of our bullx™ supercomputers and our latest Extreme Computing solutions.

ISC Cloud 12
Mannheim - Germany, September 24-25 2012

After the remarkable success of the previous editions, ISC Cloud’12 will be held again in Mannheim, from September 24 to 25, with an even more profound focus on the use of Clouds for High Performance Computing (HPC).

The ISC Cloud’12 conference will help attendees understand all the details of the massive move to cloud computing: the conference will focus on compute and data intensive applications, their resource needs in the cloud, and strategies on implementing and deploying cloud infrastructures. It will address members of the HPC community, especially decision makers in small, medium, and large enterprises and in research (chief executives, IT leaders, project managers, senior scientists, and so on). Speakers will be world-renowned experts and users in the field of HPC and cloud computing. They will present solutions, guidelines, case studies, success stories, lessons learned and recommendations to all attendees.

Bull is Silver sponsor of ISC Cloud’12. Meet our experts at the Bull booth and discover extreme factory, our cloud computing solution for HPC users.