David Turek recently gave a thought provoking talk at NZ eResearch 2014 on the impact of big data on high performance computing. Dave will share some thoughts with us followed by a discussion of HPC, data and where it might be headed. Dave Turek is currently the Vice President of Advanced Computing at IBM with responsibility for IBM's overall high performance computing strategy. In previous executive positions Dave helped launch IBM's Grid Computing business, and started and ran IBM's Linux Cluster business. As a development executive he had responsibility for IBM's SP supercomputer program as well as the mainframe version of AIX and other Unix software. In that capacity he orchestrated the initial IBM development effort in support of the US Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He has been recognized for his contributions to the Roadrunner program at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the Congressional Record and sits on the Advisory Committee to the National Simulation Center at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Dave has degrees in Philosophy and Mathematics from the University of Rochester, a Masters Degree from Trinity College, and advanced study at the University of Pennsylvania in Operations Research.