With HPC and all it performance aspects becoming de facto mainstream, often the business side of things is left out. The major focus has always been on the technical issues, but this tutorial will address and bring the attendee up to date on the IT side of HPC Planning, Installation, Operations and Management. IT is traditionally viewed and practiced with a clear focus on emphasizing the usefulness and critical role it plays in any organization.With HPC becoming a fundamental piece of the business and commercial world, HPC practitioners need to become savvy with IT world. This tutorial will address and educate tech-savvy HPC artisans in the world from a business planning and management perspective. Terms such as ROI, ITIL practices, IT standards, portfolio management, business infrastructure, SLA, governance, are well known terms but NEED an HPC flavor, and that will be covered in detail. Call it HPC meets IT and the need to integrate well together.

With the advent of globalisation, automotive companies have turned to increased usage of HPC in all aspects of the vehicle design process, to enable speed-up to market and thus gain an edge. No longer a forensic tool, it is today a "must-have" tool and no area of the engineering process is immune from being subject to HPC simulations. Indeed with greater brute force methods now being adopted, several new challenges are now bubbling up in the HPC arena, such as the flood of simulation data, far-flung enterprises being "connected", dusting off previously shelved computationally expensive algorithms, etc. This BoF will discuss a whole spectrum of issues not being dealt with anywhere in any forum. The BoF will also build upon the success of previous such BoFs by actively encouraging impromptou ideas, unconventional proposals and out-of-the-box solutions being done today by various OEMs.