Title : A Tour of Advanced Data Mining Products, Alternatives to Standard Statistical Modeling
Presenter(s): Dan Steinberg (Salford Systems, USA)	Related Info: Webpage	Register: CLOSED
Description: Recent methodological developments using entirely new technology are showing enormous promise. Dr. Steinberg, CEO of Salford Systems, will discuss Advanced Data Mining Techniques recently developed by Stanford University Professor Jerome Friedman (Statistics, and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) and University of California Professor Emeritus, Leo Breiman. CART, MARS, TreeNet, MART and RandomForests tools will be introduced and the application and results of real-world analyses will be shown.

Title : HPC Software: Stretch (Nearly) Everything to the Max
Presenter(s): Kenneth Tan, PhD (CEO of OptimaNumerics) Laurence Liew (CTO of Scalable Systems)	Related Info:	Register: CLOSED
Description: This tutorial is presents a practical wholistic view on achieving high performance in technical and scientific computing applications. The speakers will discuss the components that affect performance, techniques to tune and improve performance, leading to deployment and management of computing resources, with a consideration on the cost factor.

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