Abstract The following main challenges at the interface of automation technology, process technology and information technology will be discussed: Models within the life-cycle Vertical integration from ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) to actuator and vice versa Horizontal integration requirements for highly reliable solutions Human Machine Integration For all of these challenges the state-of-the-art and current BASF... Read more »

The aim of this lecture is to provide an industrial perspective on Model Predictive Control with emphasis on: Important practical requirements Practice-proven solutions and approaches Understanding the required efforts in terms of time and money Differentiation between state of the art, state of science and vision (= inspirations for further developments) Lecture outline Motivation Model... Read more »

Speaker: Dr. Tim Harris, Oracle Labs Cambridge Seminar Title: HiPEDS Seminar - Big graphs on big machines Abstract: Oracle's largest SPARC M7 system provides 4096 hardware threads spread over 16 sockets in one cache-coherent address space. I will talk about our experience tuning graph analytics workloads to run well on this system, and how we went from an implementation that stopped scaling... Read more »