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2000 Program Info

The conference took place at the Wyndam Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It featured speakers from academia, government research labs, and industry involved in Linux high-performance computing. These speakers addressed efforts to integrate and develop Linux clusters for high-performance computing, and efforts to develop science and engineering applications for Linux clusters. The keynote speakers were Dave Turek, vice president of Deep Computing, Web Servers, IBM and Dan Reed, director of Alliance and NCSA.

 
 Monday, September 11 - Tutorials

8:30am

IA32 Architecture
and IA64 Architecture

Sunil Saxena, Intel

 

12:00pm

Lunch

1:30pm

The Linux Kernel and Internals for Scientific Cluster Users
Pete Beckman and Trammi Hudson, TurboLinux, Inc.

 

5:00pm

Adjourn Tutorial Sessions

 
 
 Tuesday, September 12 - Tutorials

8:30am

Effective Compiler Utilization
Eric Stoltz, The Portland Group

 

9:45am

Break

10:00am

DEEP Tutorial: Parallel Performance Profiling at the Source Code Level
David McNamara, Pacific-Sierra Research

 

12:00pm

Lunch

1:30pm

TotalView Debugger
Luiz DeRose, IBM ACTC

3:15pm

Break

3:45pm

Vampir MPI Performance Profiling
Werner Krotz-Vogel, Pallas

5:30pm

Adjourn Tutorial Sessions

7:00-
9:00pm

Welcome Reception

 
 
 Wednesday, September13

9:00am

Welcome
Nasir Ahmed, Associate Provost Research, University of New Mexico

9:15am

Keynote Speaker I
Jon "Maddog" Hall, Linux International

10:00am

Break

   

10:30am

Keynote Speaker II
Linux and Commodity PC Clusters: The HPCC Phase Change
Dan Reed, NCSA

11:15am

Keynote Speaker III
Linux and Linux Clusters at IBM Clusters: The HPCC Phase Change
Dave Turek, IBM

12:00pm

Lunch

   

1:30pm

Clusters I

Scalable Cluster Interconnect: Overview and Technology
Charles L. Seitz, President and CEO, Myricom, Inc.

2:15pm

The Linux/IA64 Project
Khalid Aziz, Hewlett-Packard

3:00pm

Break

   

3:30pm

Applications I

Comparing Clusters and Supercomputers for Lattice QCD
Steven Gottlieb, Professor of Physics, Indiana University

Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulence with a PC/Linux Cluster: Fact or Fiction?
George Em Karniadakis, Professor, Brown University

Project Vista Azul: The Development of a Hybrid UNIX "Hypercluster" for Scientific and Visual Computing
Thomas More Jackman, IBM Research

5:00pm

End of Presentations

 

5:30-7:00pm

Grand Opening of Los Lobos - 512 Processors with Myrinet

 

 
 Thursday, September 14

8:30am

Applications II

Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software (ATLAS)
Clint Whaley, Univeristy of Tennessee, Knoxville

DynaProf and PAPI: An Object Code Instrumentation System for Dynamic Profiling
Phil Mucci, IBM ACTC/University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The Interfacial Behavior of Liquid Water
Paul Alsing, Univeristy of New Mexico

10:00am

Break

 

10:30am

Building a Computational Grid

Clustering Ohio: From the TeraFlop to the Desktop
Al Stutz, Ohio Supercomputer Center

Grid Security: The Alliance PKI
Scott Koranda, NCSA, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

Overview of the Alliance Virtual Machine Room (VMR)
John Towns, NCSA, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

12:00am

Lunch

 

1:30pm

Applications III

High-Resolution Weather Forecasting on Linux Superclusters
Daniel Weber, University of Oklahoma

Binary Black Hole Simulations on Clusters
David Neilsen, University of Texas

EIGER on Cplant
Joseph D. Kotulski, Roy E. Jorgenson, William A. Johnson, and Larry Warne, Sandia National Laboratories

3:00pm

Break

 

3:30pm

Networking

Portals 3.0: A High-Performance, Message-Passing Layer Supporting Application-Bypass
Arthur B. (Barney) Maccabe, University of New Mexico

MPICH on Clusters: Future Directions
Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory

M-VIA and MVICH: Status and Future Plans
Michael L. Welcome, NERSC Future Technologies Group

5:00pm

End of Presentations

Evening

Birds of Feather Meetings

 

 
 Friday, September 15

8:30am

Clusters II

Cplant Architecture
Rolf Riesen, Sandia National Laboratories

Clusters for a Multi-User, Production Computing Environment
Rob Eades, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

From Beowulf and to the HIVE
John Dorband, NASA Goddard

10:00am

Break

 

10:30am

Clusters III

The Flatland Visualization Environment
Thomas P. Caudell, University of New Mexico

PowerPC Linux
Gregory P. Rodgers, IBM

Power4 Architecture
Jamshed Mirza, IBM

12:00pm

End of Conference

 

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