program info

2002 Program Info
The Third LCI Conference took place at the Hilton St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg, Florida, and 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 for the conference were Dr. Mike Turff, Global Manager DP Systems, PGS Data Processing; Dr. Daniel Reed, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA); and Dr. William Pulleyblank, Director of Exploratory Server Systems in IBM's Research Division and the Director of the IBM Deep Computing Institute.

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Wednesday, October 23, 2002
8:45am	*Welcome to the Conference*
9:00am	Plenary Session I: Seismic & Linux: From Curiosity to Commodity Dr. Mike Turff, Global Manager DP Systems, PGS Data Processing
10:15am	Break
10:30am	Cluster Busters Scalability and Performance of Salinas on the Computational Plant Ron Brightwell, Univ of New Mexico, USA Real Time Response to Streaming Data on Linux Clusters George Turner, Indiana Univ, USA
12:00pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Applications I: Applications Performance Analysis Scaling Behavior of Linear Solvers on Large Linux Clusters John Fettig, NCSA/Univ of Illinois, USA Benchmarking of a Commercial Linux Cluster Daniele Tessera, Università di Pavia, Italy	Systems I: System Performance Issues Checkpointing and Migration of Parallel Processes Based on Message Passing Interface Zhang Youhui, Tsinghua University, China An Analytical Model to Evaluate the Performance of Cluster Architectures César A. F. De Rose, PUCRS - Faculdade de Informatica, Brazil
3:00pm	Break
3:30pm	Vendor Presentations I: Delivering Linux Cluster Solutions to the High-Performance Marketplace Joseph Banas, Go to Market Leader, IBM eServer Linux Cluster David Addison, Quadrics
5:00pm	*End of Presentations*
6:00- 9:00pm	*Conference Reception*

Thursday, October 24, 2002
9:00am	Plenary Session II: Scaling Up and Scaling Down Dr. Daniel A. Reed, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
10:15am	Break
10:30am	Programming Models Remote Memory Operations on Linux Clusters Using the Global Arrays Toolkit, GPSHMEM and ARMCI Chona S. Guiang, TACC/Univ of Texas, USA Supercomputing in Plain English: Teaching High Performance Computing to Inexperienced Programmers Henry Neeman, Oklahoma Univ, USA
12:00pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Applications II: Applications Performance on Clusters A Comparative Study of the Performance of a CFD program across different Linux Cluster Architectures Thomas Hauser, Univ of Kentucky, USA Scalability of a Tera-scale Linux-based Clusters from Parallel Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Jungwoo Hong, KISTI, Korea openMosix vs Beowulf: a Case Study Stefano Cozzini, INFM, Italy	Systems II: Cluster Management and Monitoring High-Performance Linux Cluster Monitoring Using Java David Henry, Linux NetworX CRONO: A Configurable Management System for Linux Clusters César A. F. De Rose, PUCRS - Faculdade de Informatica, Brazil Parallel, Distributed Scripting with Python Patrick Miller, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
3:45pm	Break
4:00pm	Sponsor Presentations II: Designing Supercomputers that Fit Your Needs Tim Mattson
4:45pm	*End of Presentations*

Friday, October 25, 2002
9:00am	Plenary Session III: Challenges of Terascale Computing Dr. William Pulleyblank, Director of Exploratory Server Systems in IBM's Research Division and Director of the IBM Deep Computing Institute
10:15am	Break
10:30am	Applications III: Experiences with Portability and I/O Adventures with Portability Elizabeth Post, Lincoln Univ, New Zealand Experiences with the Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) in Linux Clusters Kent Milfeld, TACC/Univ of Texas, USA	Systems III: Processor and Network Performance A Study of Hyper-Threading in High Performance Computing Clusters Tau Leng, Dell A Performance Comparison of Myrinet Protocol Stacks Ron Brightwell, Univ of New Mexico, USA
12:00pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Panel Discussion: Users, Applications, and Systems: Linux - HPC in 2005 Moderator: Bob Balance, HPCERC, University of New Mexico Panelists: Frank Gilfeather, HPCERC, University of New Mexico; Tim Mattson, Intel; William Pulleyblank, IBM; and Neil Pundit, Sandia
3:00pm	Adjourn Conference