2012 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference(HPEC ‘12)Sixteenth Annual HPEC Conference11 - 12 September 2012Westin Hotel, Waltham, MA USAWelcome to HPEC 2012Sponsor ListPlatinum SponsorGold SponsorSilver SponsorTechnical Organizer Media SponsorThe HPEC charter is to be the premier conference in the world on the confluence of HPC and Embedded Computing.•Dr. Eric Evans, Director, MIT Lincoln Laboratory - Topic: Cloud Security•Dr. Richard Soley, Chairman/CEO OMG - Topic: HPEC Standards•Ms. Cecelia Deluca, NOAA - Topic: Solutions for Weather Center Interoperability•Prof. Alan Edelman, MIT Math - Topic: High-Performance Dynamic Programming•Prof. Roger Chamberlain, Washington University - Topic: Multicore and FPGA Languages and Monitoring•Prof. Alex Szalay, Johns Hopkins University - Topic: Astronomy Big Data•Prof. Bill Howe, University of Washington - Topic: Ocean Big Data•Prof. Yanlei Diao, University of Massachusetts - Topic: Bio Big Data•Prof. Sam Madden, MIT CSAIL - Topic: The Cartel Mobile Sensor Network System•Prof. David Kaeli, Northeastern University•Prof. Andras Moritz, University of Massachusetts•Prof. Iris Bahar, Brown University•Power Efficient Embedded Computing•Security•HPC (Power Efficient & Green)•Databases•Mobile/Cloud ConvergenceData Intensive Special SessionChairs: Dr. Chris Hill, MIT-EAPS and Dr. Albert Reuther, MIT Lincoln LaboratoryVendor Demo NightInvited Speakers