program info

2001 Program Info

The conference took place at the Holiday Inn Conference Center near the University of Illinois campus and 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 address by Alliance and NCSA Director Dan Reed presented the NCSA's and the Alliance's vision, and the role Linux clusters will play in that vision.

monday | tuesday | wednesday

Monday, June 25, 2001- Tutorials (Beckman Institute)
8:00am	Using the TotalView Debugger Roy Heimbach, NCSA	Cluster-In-A-Box Jeremy Enos, NCSA
10:00am	Break
10:15am	Using the TotalView Debugger (continued)	Cluster-In-A-Box (continued)
12:00pm	Lunch Beckman Institute Room 1005
1:00pm	Performance Tuning Techniques for IA32- and IA64-Based Clusters Troy Baer, OSC	Low-Cost Linux Clusters for Biomolecular Simulations Using NAMD Jim Phillips, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
3:00pm	Break
3:15pm	Performance Tuning Techniques for IA32- and IA64-Based Clusters (continued)	Low-Cost Linux Clusters for Biomolecular Simulations Using NAMD (continued)
5:00pm	Adjourn Tutorial Sessions

Tuesday, June 26, 2001 (Holiday Inn)
8:30am	*Welcome to the Conference*
8:45am	Plenary Session I: Libertie, Egalitie, Fraternatie: Viva Linux Revolution! Dan Reed, NCSA/Alliance
10:15am	Break
10:30am	Applications I: Performance Issues -- Looking Under the Hood Using PAPI for Hardware Performance Monitoring on Linux Clusters Shirley Moore, University of Tennessee-Knoxville The Web100 Project: The Global Impact of Eliminating The World Wide Wait Matt Mathis, PSC	Systems I: Tools for Building Clusters SCE - A Fully Integrated Software Tool for Beowulf Clusters Putchong Uthayopas, Kasetsart University OSCAR: A packaged Cluster software stack for High Performance Computing Tim Mattson, Open Cluster Group (and Intel)	Vendors I Innovative Interconnect for Clustering Linux Systems John Levesque, Times N Systems
12:00pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Applications II: Libraries for Application Performance Performance of the MP_Lite Message-Passing Library on Clusters Dave Turner, Ames Laboratory Cluster Programming with Shared Memory on Disk Sarah Anderson, LCSE/University of Minnesota	Systems II: Production Clusters Setting Up and Running a Production Linux Cluster at PNNL Gary Skouson, PNNL High Throughput Linux Clustering at Fermilab Steven C. Timm, Fermilab	Vendors II Node Abstraction Techniques for Linux Installation Sean Dague, IBM
3:00pm	Break
3:15pm	Applications III: Experience with Discipline Specific Cluster Construction Building a High Performance LINUX clusters for Large-scale Geophysical Modeling Hans-Peter Bunge, Princeton University Aeroacoustic and Turbulent Flow Simulations Using a Cluster of Workstations Anirudh Modi, Pennsylvania State University	Systems III: Accounting / Monitoring SNUPI - A Grid Accounting & Performance System Ray Bean, SDSC Cluster Monitoring at NCSA Tom Roney, NCSA	And Now a Word from Our Sponsors Intel Myricom IBM
4:45pm	Break
6:00-9:00pm	*Conference Reception*

Wednesday, June 27, 2001 (Holiday Inn)
8:30am	Plenary Session II: Clusters: What's All the Fuss about Anyway? Tim Mattson, Intel
10:00am	Break
10:15am	Applications IV: Application Performance Analyses Benchmarking Production Codes on Beowulf Clusters: The Sissa Case Study Stefano Cozzini, INFM, udr Sissa Performance of Tightly Coupled Linux Cluster Simulations Using PETSc of Reaction and Transport Processes During Corrosion Pit Initiation Eric Webb, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Systems IV: Lessons Learned Linux Cluster Security Neil Gorsuch, NCSA Lessons Learned from Proprietary HPC Cluster Software Trey White, ORNL
11:45am	Lunch
1:15pm	Applications V: Applications on Clusters A Parallel Chemical Reactor Simulation Using Cactus Karen Camarda, University of Kansas Massively Parallel Visualization on Linux Clusters with Rocketeer Voyager Robert Fiedler, CSAR/University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Systems V: Something Different Cheap Cycles from the Desktop to the Dedicated Cluster Derek Wright, University of Wisconsin New Issues and New Opportunities in HPC Scheduling with the Maui Scheduler Dave Jackson
3:00pm	*Conference Wrap-Up*
3:30pm	Adjourn Conference