4th s+c Infoforum a Complete Success

Over 100 visitors came to be informed about current IT topics in technical computing

Tuebingen, June 18th, 2007. s+c’s 4th Infoforum was once again a complete success. Over 100 visitors came to science + computing’s Infoforum event in Munich on June 12th to become informed about current IT topics in technical computing.

“Bridging the Platform Gap” was the theme of this year’s Infoforum: The event examined how gaps between IT systems in technical computing can be bridged on the basis of four current topics.

In the topical section „Uniform user authentication”, Joachim Keltsch (science-computing ag) and Andreas Blatzheim (Quest Software GmbH) demonstrated the general possibilities of standardizing user authentication in heterogeneous Unix, Linux and Windows computing environments. Matthias Röder (FEV Motorentechnik GmbH) spoke about how the FEV Group integrated their Unix/Linux user administration into the Windows world. The consequences of the introduction of Active Directory at Audi were discussed by Hans-Ulrik von Bülow (Audi AG) in his talk “Trends at Audi in a CAE environment”.

In the second topical section “High Performance Computing”, Dr. Ralf Allrutz (science-computing ag) discussed the current status of HPC on x86. He also gave an outlook on Windows Compute Cluster 2003, the HPC operating system from Microsoft. Walter Eckardt (Qimonda AG) explained how HPC environments need to be structured in the future in order to continue lowering the costs in HPC.

In the topical section “Platforms”, representatives of the operating system manufacturers Red Hat, Novell and Microsoft presented their solutions for using platform spanning IT systems.

The 4th s+c Infoform closed with the topical section “Data management”. Norbert Diehl (MTU Aero Engines GmbH) explained MTU’s Linux strategy. Dr. Henning Blanke (Evangelische Landeskirche Württemberg) spoke about the benefits and implementation of the virtualization of a complex server environment. In the final talk, Dr. Jörg Noak (BMW AG) spoke about the necessity of moving data in HPC and presented a concept for a storage solution.