program info
2003 Program InfoThe Fourth Linux Clusters: the HPC Revolution 2003 Conference and ClusterWorld Conference and Expo (CWCE) merged, becoming CWCE, the premier international forum for clusters of all types. CWCE took place on June 23-26 in San Jose, California. The four-day event included conference, expo, and tutorials. The world-class event focused on the application and management of clustered systems in large-scale computing environments.
For more information, see:
- Conference at a Glance, (PDF, 27 KB)
- Conference Brochure, (PDF, 510 KB)
| Legend: | S=Systems A=Applications C=Cluster Solutions B=Bioinformatics; |
D=Digital Content Creation/Visualization/Simulation P=Petroleum/Geophysical Exploration E=Automotive & Aerospace Engineering |
| Tuesday, June 24, 2003 | |||
| 8:30am | Breakfast | ||
| 9:00am | Opening Keynote: John Picklo, DaimlerChrysler; Compute Clusters at the Chrysler Group: Battle Scars and Victory Parades | ||
| 10:00am | Break | ||
| 10:30am | S1: SLURM:
Simple Linux Utility
for Resource Management -Morris Jette and Mark Grondona S2: A Simple Installation and Administration Tool for the Large-Scaled PC Cluster System: DCAST -Tomoyuki Hiroyasu, Mitsumori Miki, Kenzo Kodama, Junichi Uekawa, and Jack Dongarra A1: Large Scale Parallel Reservoir Simulations on a Linux PC Cluster -Walid A. Habiballah and M. Ehtesham Hayder (10:30am-11:15am) |
A2: Scalable
Performance of FLUENT
on NCSA IA-32 Linux
Cluster -Wai Yip Kwok (11:15am-12:00pm) C1: Building the TeraGrid: The World's Largest Grid, Fastest Linux Cluster, and Fastest Optical Network Dedicated to Open Science -Pete Beckman, Director of Engineering, TeraGrid, Argonne National Laboratory B1: Running BLAST on a Linux Cluster -Ray Hookway, Ph.D., High Performance Computing Expertise Center, HP |
D1: The
Current State of Numerical
Weather Prediction on Cluster
Technology - What is Needed
to Break the 25% Efficiency
Barrier? -Dan Weber, Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms P1: Exploring the Earth's Subsurface with Itanium 2 Linux Clusters -Keith Gray, British Petroleum E1: Cluster Computing in Space Applications -Eric George, The Aerospace Corporation |
| 11:30am | Visit Exhibits | Lunch | GridWars | Parallel Programming Championship | ||
| 1:15pm | S3: The
Space Simulator -Michael S. Warren, Chris Fryer, and M. Patrick Goda C2: Building Blocks for 64-bit AMD Opteron Clusters -Richard Brunner, Senior Member, Technical Staff, AMD |
B2: Biobrew
Linux: A Linux Cluster
Distribution For Bioinformatics -Glen Otero, President, Callidentr D2: Building and Using Tiled Display Walls -Paul Rajlich, National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
P2: Scalability
Considerations for Compute
Intensive Applications
on Clusters -Christian Tanasescu, SGI E2: Full Vehicle Dynamic Analysis Using Automated Component Modal Synthesis -Peter Schartz, MSC.Software |
| 2:30pm | ClusterWorld Challenge (hosted by Pete Beckman) | ||
| 3:30pm | Break | ||
| 4:00pm | S4: A
Middleware-Level Parallel
Transfer Technique over
Multiple Network Interfaces -Nader Mohamed, Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Hong Jiang, and David Swanson A3: Moore's Law and Cluster Computing: When Moore Is Not Enough -Greg Lindahl, Distinguished Engineer, Key Research, Inc. C3: Tools for Optimizing HPC Applications on Intel Clusters -Don Gunning, Intel |
B3: Terascale Linux Clusters: Supercomputing
Solutions for the Life Sciences -Dr. Bruce Ling, Director, Bioinformatics, Tularik, Inc. ; Padmanabhan Iyer, Linux NetworX D3: Discovery and Analysis of Communication Patterns in Complex Network-based Systems Using Virtual Environments -Tom Caudell, University of New Mexico |
P3: Parallel
Reservoir Simulation on
Intel Xeon HPC Clusters -Kamy Sepehrnoori, University of Texas Austin ; Reza Rooholamini, Director of OS & Clustering Group, Dell E3:Using Clusters to Deliver Turn Key CFD Solutions -Greg Stuckert, Fluent |
| 5:00pm | Visit Exhibits | ||
| 6:00pm | Cluster Crash Party | ||
| 7:15pm- 9:00pm | Birds-of-a-Feather Meetings | ||
| Wednesday, June 25, 2003 | |||
| 8:30am | Breakfast | ||
| 9:00am | Keynote: Jacobus N. Buur, Shell International Exploration and Producation B.V. | ||
| 10:00am | Conference Attendee Break | ||
| 10:30am | S5: The
Cluster Integration Toolkit -James H. Laros III, Lee Ward, Nathan W. Dauchy, James Vasak, Ruth Klundt, Glen Laguna, Marcus Epperson, and Jon R. Stearley S6: Scalable C3 Power Tools -Brian Luethke and Stephen L. Scott A4: Cooperative Caching in Linux Clusters -Ying Xu and Brett D. Fleisch |
A5: Object
Storage: Scalable Bandwidth for HPC
Clusters -Garth A. Gibson, Brent B. Welch, David F. Nagel, and Bruce C. Moxon C4: The Ultra-Scalable HPTC Lustre Filesystem -Kent Koeninger, HP B4: Blade Servers for Genomic Research -Ron Neyland, Director of Cluster Systems Engineering, RLX Technologies |
D4: HPC
and HA Clustering for Online Gaming -Jesper Jensen, SCI P4: Geoscience Visualization and Seismic Processing Clusters: Collaboration and Integration Issues -Phil Neri, Paradigm E4: LS-DYNA: CAE Simulation Software on Linux Clusters -Guangye Li, IBM |
| 11:30am | Visit Exhibits | Lunch | ||
| 1:15pm | S7: Full
Circle: Simulating Linux Clusters on
Linux Clusters -Luis Ceze, Karin Strauss, George Almas, Patrick J. Bohrer,José R. Brunheroto, Calin Cascaval, José G. Castaños Derek Lieber, Xavier Martorell, José Moreira, Alda Sanomiya, and Eugen Schenfeld |
C5: Building
the World's Most Powerful Cluster: 11.2
Tflops at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory -Kim Clark, VP of Engineering, Linux NetworXr B5: To Cluster or Not Cluster -Tom Scanlon |
D5: Large
Scale Scientific Visualization on PC Clusters -Brian Wylie, Sandia National Laboratories P5: Cluster Computing at CGG -L. Clerc E5: Linux Clusters in the German Automotive Industry -Dr. Karsten Gaier, science + computing AG |
| 2:30pm | Keynote: Tilak Agerwala, IBM Research, Delivering on the Promise of Clustering | ||
| 3:30pm | Conference Attendee Break | ||
| 4:00pm | S8: Memory
Performance of Dual-Processor Nodes:
Comparison of Intel, Xeon, and AMD Opteron
Memory Subsystem Architectures -Chona S. Guiang, Kent F. Milfeld, Avijit Purkayastha, and John R. Boisseau S9: Scheduling for Improved Write Performance in a Cost-Effective, Fault-Tolerant Parallel Virtual File System (CEFT-PVFS) -Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Xiao Qin, Dan Feng, and David R. Swanson |
A6: Analyzing
Cluster Log Files Using Logsurfer -Jim Prewett A7: Performance Evaluation of Load Sharing Policies with PANTS on Beowulf Cluster -James Nichols and Mark Claypool C6: Driving Cluster/Grid Technologies in HPC -David Barkai, HPC Computational Architect, Intel |
B6: High
Performance Mathematical Libraries for
Itanium 2 Clusters -Hsin-Ying Lin, Sr. Engineer, HPTC Software Development Engineering, HP D6: In the Architecture of an Audio Identification Cluster -Daniel Culbert, Shazam Entertainment, Inc. P6: Grid Computing In The Energy Industry -Jamie Bernardin, CTO, DataSynapser E6: Improving Multi-site / Multi- departmental Cluster Systems Through Data Grids in the Automotive and Aerospace Industries -Andrew Grimshaw, CTO & Founder, Avaki |
| 5:30pm | Panel: Extreme Networking: Interconnect Price, Performance, and the Future, Moderated by Stephen Shankford | ||
| 6:45pm- 7:30pm | Excellence in Cluster Technology Awards | ||
| Thursday, June 26, 2003 | |||
| 8:30am | Breakfast | ||
| 9:00am | Keynote: John Reynders, Celera Therapeutics; Supercomputing Beyond the Genome | ||
| 10:00am | Conference Attendee Break | ||
| 10:30am | S10: Achieving
Order Through CHAOS:
The LLNL HPC Cluster
Experience -Ryan L. Braby, Jim E. Garlick, and Robin J. Goldstone S11: Supercomputing Center Management Using AIRS -Robert A. Ballance, Jared Galbraith, and Roy Heimbac A8: On the Numeric Efficiency of C++ Packages in Scientific Computing -Ullises Mello and Ildar Khabibrakhmanov |
A9: Benchmarking
I/O Solutions for Clusters -Stefano Cozzini and Moshe Ba C7: Emerging Trends in Data Center Powering and Cooling -Wahid Nawabi, Director, Worldwide Enterprise Segment, APC B7: Parallel Computational Biology Tools and Applications for Windows Clusters -Jaroslaw Pillardy, Cornell Theory Center | D7: The
Use of Clusters for Engineering
Simulation -Lynn Lewis, HP P7: Drilling in the Digital Oil Field: High Pay-offs from Linux Clusters -Shawn Fuller, HP E7: Scrutinizing CFD Performance on Multiple Linux Cluster Architectures -Thomas Hauser, Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Utah State University |
| 11:30am | Visit Exhibits | Lunch | ||
| 1:15pm | A10: The
Design, Implementation
, and Evaluation of mpiBLAST -Aaron E. Darling, Lucas Carey, and Wu-chun Feng C8: The Virtual Environment and Its Impact on IT Infrastructure -Daniel Kusnetzky, Vice President, System Software Research, IDC |
B8: Building
Software for High Performance
Informatics and Chemistry -Joseph Landman, Ph.D., CEO Scalable Informatics LLC |
D8: NEESgrid:
Virtual Collaboratory for
Earthquake Engineering
and Simulation -Tom Prudhomme, National Center for Supercomputing Applications E8: Managing CAE Simulation Workload in Cluster Environments -Michael M. Humphrey, Vice President, Enterprise Business Computing Unit, Altair |
| 2:30pm- 3:30pm | Beowulf Reunion Tour | ||
LCI was founded by the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications, the Center for High Performance Computing at the University of New Mexico,
and the Advanced Computing Technology Center at the IBM Watson Research Center.
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