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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I am a HPC Specialist in Dell EMC China. I am asked by HPC China 2018 to organize a Forum named “the 3<sup>rd</sup> HPC Open Source Software Forum” in HPC China
2018 to be held in Qing Dao City , Shandong Province, <a href="http://hpcchina2018.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/70033">
http://hpcchina2018.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/70033</a> . Last year, I organized the forum by inviting speakers in OpenHPC, xCAT, OpenPBSpro, Lustre, OrangeFS, Mesos. It was a great successful. The year before last year, I organized “OpenHPC Forum” in HPC China
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">This year, I am also considering invite Linux, OpenHPC, SLRUM, Lustre, and a container ( or a DL framework software ) to do presentation in the forum. Last year,
there were more than 60 professionals/engineers attended the forum. This year, we will have a meeting room (94 square meter ) can contain more than 60 – 80 people. The forum will be hold in HPC China 2018, which is a 3 days conferences in China, the top HPC
annual conference, with more than a thousand professionals/engineers attending. It started since 2005, this is the 13<sup>th</sup> conference.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">You know HPC in China is growing very fast, many customers are requires resource management software, Job Schedulers. Slurm is an leading Open Source Software
in the field. I would like to invite you to travel to China to deliver a speech on Slurm for 30 minutes in the Forum.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">HPC China 2018 requires a sponsorship to do speech from commercial company, for speeches for Open Source Software, no sponsorship is required. We can cover your
hotel/meals/taxi expense during your stay in HPC China 2018. And issue invite letters for your VISA to China.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Could you please accept the invitation to travel to China to present SLURM in the forum in HPC China 2018 ? HPC China 2018 website in Chinese: <a href="http://hpcchina2018.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1">http://hpcchina2018.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1</a>
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