Big Simulation and Big Data
Workshop
at Indiana University | January 9, 2017
1:00 PM, University Club, IMU
Panel Discussions: Linking Big Data and Big Simulation

Distinguished professor of Engineering, Computing and Physics
Director, Digital Science Center
Chair, Intelligent Systems Engineering
School of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University
Abstract
The panel will discuss the convergence of big data analytics, simulations and HPC considering many aspects such as hardware, software, applications or algorithms and even broader issues like the business model and education. We will discuss the recent BDEC Pathways to Convergence draft report and the Digital Science Center suggestion of HPCCloud 3.0 and High Performance Computing Enhanced Apache Big Data Stack (HPC-ABDS).
Bio
Geoffrey Charles Fox (https://www.engineering.indiana.edu/, http://www.dsc.soic.indiana.edu/, gcf@indiana.edu) Fox received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University where he was Senior Wrangler. He is now distinguished professor of Engineering, Computing and Physics at Indiana University where he is director of the Digital Science Center, and Chair of Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering at the School of Informatics and Computing. He previously held positions at Caltech, Syracuse University, and Florida State University after being a postdoc at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Peterhouse College Cambridge. He has supervised the Ph.D. of 70 students and published around 1200 papers (over 400 with at least 10 citations) in physics and computing with an hindex of 74 and 29000 citations. He is a Fellow of APS (Physics) and ACM (Computing) and works on the interdisciplinary interface between computing and applications.