Austin (TX) - Michael Dell will present a welcoming session and keynote presentation today in Ballroom D at the Supercomputing Conference 2008 in Austin. Dell kicks off the busiest day of the conference, complete with more than 70 separate presentations and running until 7pm CST this evening.


Included in the event is an exhibit hall with over 300 presenters, educational classes on every subject relating to parallel and supercomputing. Also, several technical paper discussions are scheduled, some challenges, commercial presentations, discussions about supercomputing jobs and how industries are shaped by supercomputing, open source software support, hardware design, current and future software concepts, communications fabrics, interconnects and much more.

The event will run all week with additional presentations by industry experts from major companies and universities including Purdue and UC-Berkeley. A final wrap-up session on Friday begins discussions beyond Petascale computing, into Exascale and Yottascale.

Yesterday, Convey Computer issued a stunning press release demonstrating a new form of hybrid computer. They worked with Intel to develop a custom engineered co-processor which runs alongside an Intel Xeon, executing the same instruction stream in the same physical and virtual memory space - just like the way the old 8087/80287/80387 FPUs used to operate along side the 8086, 80286 and 80386 CPUs.