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Wednesday, February 26
 

7:30am EST

Breakfast
Wednesday February 26, 2025 7:30am - 9:00am EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd

Continental Breakfast
- Assorted Breakfast Pastries, Scones, or Muffins
- Seasonal Fruit Display
- Coffee Service
- Water 
Wednesday February 26, 2025 7:30am - 9:00am EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
  Sustenance

8:00am EST

Registration/Welcome Table
Wednesday February 26, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
Committee
avatar for Esen Gokpinar-Shelton

Esen Gokpinar-Shelton

Program Manager, Pervasive Technology Institute, Indiana University Bloomington
avatar for Laura Pettit

Laura Pettit

Program Manager, Indiana University
Wednesday February 26, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
  Administration

8:00am EST

Coffee Service
Wednesday February 26, 2025 8:00am - 4:00pm EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
Coffee Break Beverages: 
- Hot Coffee
- Hot Tea
- Iced Tea
- Iced Water
Wednesday February 26, 2025 8:00am - 4:00pm EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
  Sustenance

9:00am EST

Cooling, Power, Data Center
Wednesday February 26, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
NDA required for some parts.

Session Description: Discuss high level trends in the IT industry related to data center cooling. Focused discussion on Dell’s strategy for single-phase direct to chip liquid cooling. Deep dive into new Dell solutions that are launching in 2025 related to liquid cooling, including OCP / ORv3 based solutions for the most dense compute workloads.
Speakers
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Andrew Pack

Product Manager; Dell PowerEdge Servers, Cooling Product Strategy, Dell Technologies
Wednesday February 26, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
  Presentation

10:30am EST

Networking Break
Wednesday February 26, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
Coffee & Hot Tea
Wednesday February 26, 2025 10:30am - 11:00am EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
  Sustenance

11:00am EST

Breakout Session - Modular Data Center
Wednesday February 26, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
307: 3rd Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
Requires NDA

Modular Data Center Solutions | Dell USA
  1. Facility, types of servers, HW, site req, power, operational
  2. Where there may be constraints
  3. Options for what modular data center
  4. Site requirements
  5. Hardware (is it mixed vendors)
  6. Power, Cooling
  7. LCM of hardware
Speakers
AP

Andrew Pack

Product Manager; Dell PowerEdge Servers, Cooling Product Strategy, Dell Technologies
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Michael Simon

Intel Acceleration Strategic Lead, Dell Technologies
I have been in x86 server technologies for over 15 years and specializing in new and upcoming technologies.  I currently focus on the Intel AI acceleration technologies and focus on the newly launched Gaudi 3 Generative AI accelerator.
Wednesday February 26, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
307: 3rd Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd 420 University Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN, USA
  Activity

11:00am EST

Breakout Session - Story Telling FILLING
Wednesday February 26, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
308: 3rd Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
Open mic session to discuss your best and worst days in and around the data center. 
Moderators
avatar for Graham Allan

Graham Allan

Director of Development and Operations, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
Wednesday February 26, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EST
308: 3rd Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd 420 University Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN, USA
  Activity

12:00pm EST

Lunch LIMITED
Wednesday February 26, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd

Lunch Menu:
Balanced Southwestern

- Grilled sofrito’s tacos
- Grilled chicken skewers with soft corn tortillas
- Black bean and corn salad
- Mexican red rice
- Guacamole
- Salsa
- Corn tortilla chips
Wednesday February 26, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
  Sustenance

1:00pm EST

Panel - Sustainability & Considerations for Power Dense LIMITED
Wednesday February 26, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
Moderators
avatar for Brock Palen

Brock Palen

Director Advanced Research Computing, University of Michigan
Speakers
avatar for Brian Rener

Brian Rener

Director of Mission Critical, Industry Partner Architecture/Engineering
Director of Data Center Facility design for SmithGroup, an architecture and engineering firm.  Focusing on HPC and AI facilities for universities, government and enterprise clients.
avatar for Eric Lakin

Eric Lakin

Director of Data Centers and Info Systems, University of Michigan
Wednesday February 26, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
  Panel

1:45pm EST

Panel - Facility Operations & Capacity Planning LIMITED
Wednesday February 26, 2025 1:45pm - 2:15pm EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
Panel discussion with views on data center facility operations and planning.  This panel will cover past data center migrations/challenges between old/new facilities, lessons from recent large scale facilities, and considerations for planning new facilities. 
Moderators
avatar for David Hancock

David Hancock

Director - Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, Indiana University
Part of our Research Technologies division in the Office of the Vice President for IT at IU. Jetstream2 Primary Investigator, leading central IU HPC, cloud, and storage resources for research.https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3uYzmF8AAAAJ&hl=en... Read More →
Speakers
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Tim Boerner

NCSA Associate Director (Cyberinfrastructure), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
avatar for Brad Mahaffey

Brad Mahaffey

Associate CIO, Enterprise Infrastructure, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
In my current role, I have responsibility for campus networking, cable plant, data centers, virtualization and data storage, life safety technology, and classroom and conference room engineering. I have been in various IT professional and leadership roles at the University of Illinois... Read More →
JO

John O'Brien

Chief Engineering and Technology Officer, HEAPY Engineering
avatar for Matthew Brazil

Matthew Brazil

Technical Project Manager, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Wednesday February 26, 2025 1:45pm - 2:15pm EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
  Panel

2:15pm EST

Networking Break LIMITED
Wednesday February 26, 2025 2:15pm - 2:30pm EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
Coffee & Hot Tea
Wednesday February 26, 2025 2:15pm - 2:30pm EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
  Sustenance

2:30pm EST

Panel - RFI Project & Vendors (UW-Madison)
Wednesday February 26, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
Moderators
avatar for Todd Shechter

Todd Shechter

CTO, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Speakers
avatar for Tadd Smejkal

Tadd Smejkal

Director Systems Engineering & Operations, University of Wisconsin - Madison
avatar for Nathan Royko Maurer

Nathan Royko Maurer

Associate Director - Systems Engineering and Operations, UW Madison Division of Information Technology
Wednesday February 26, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
  Panel

3:00pm EST

Discussion - U Washington LIMITED
Wednesday February 26, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
Speakers
avatar for Thomas White

Thomas White

Critical Environment Engineer, University of Washington
Data Center Critical Environment, HPC deployments, Retrofitting new deployments into legacy infrastructure.
Wednesday February 26, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
  Panel

4:00pm EST

Closing Remarks & See You Next Time! LIMITED
Wednesday February 26, 2025 4:00pm - 4:10pm EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
Committee
avatar for Todd Shechter

Todd Shechter

CTO, University of Wisconsin, Madison
avatar for Winona Snapp-Childs

Winona Snapp-Childs

PI Midwest RCD Consortium; Director Research Partnerships, Indiana University
Wednesday February 26, 2025 4:00pm - 4:10pm EST
409: 4th Floor - IU Indianapolis Campus Center - 420 University Blvd
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