HPC Technology preview, powered by Intel – Deepthi Cherlopalle, Senior HPC Engineer, Dell Technologies In this session we present the performance results of Intel’s next generation processor, new platform offerings from Dell EMC, also Lab updates on the Zenith What is DAOS? – Ari Martinez, Dell Technologies The Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS) is an open-source software-defined object store designed from the ground up for massively distributed Non-Volatile Memory. DAOS takes advantage of next generation NVM technology like Storage Class Memory (SCM) and NVM express (NVMe). Covid-19, 1 year later – A customer prospective with James Lowey, CIO TGen In this session we hear from James Lowey of TGen (TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE) for his perspective on Covid-19 research as compared to 1 year ago. We heard from James last year and are very interested to see over time how things may have changed with regards to research and how his Intel powered HPC Cluster has enabled positive outcomes in these troubled times.