program info

2004 Program Info
LCI's 5th International Conference, Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution 2004, was held in Austin, Texas. The 4-day event, which included the conference and tutorials, featured a broad range of presentations and papers from HPC and large-scale cluster computing professionals in industry, academia, and government. Speakers addressed efforts to integrate and develop science and engineering applications for large-scale clusters, to achieve maximum performance and scalability. A full day of tutorials will be offered as part of the overall program.

The technical program included both peer-reviewed paper presentations and discipline- and industry-specific sessions that offered researchers and industry leaders the opportunity to present their experiences with applications. tools, user environments, and administration of large-scale clusters. Presentations from industry were specifically invited from the petroleum and geophysics, bioinformatics, aerospace and automotive, and finance sectors.

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Monday, May 17, 2004
8:30am	Tutorial A-I: Application Performance Analysis Tools for Linux Clusters Felix Wolf, University of Tennessee, USA; Rick Kufrin, NCSA/UIUC, USA; Philip J. Mucci, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden	Tutorial S-I: Clustermatic: An Innovative Approach to Simplified Cluster Computing Gregory R. Watson, Ronald Minnich, Erik A. Hendriks, Matthew J. Sottile, Los Alamos National Lab, USA
10:00am	Break
10:30am	Tutorial A-I: (Continued) Application Performance Analysis Tools for Linux Clusters Felix Wolf, University of Tennessee, USA; Rick Kufrin, NCSA/UIUC, USA; Philip J. Mucci, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden	Tutorial S-I: (Continued) Clustermatic: An Innovative Approach to Simplified Cluster Computing Gregory R. Watson, Ronald Minnich, Erik A. Hendriks, Matthew J. Sottile, Los Alamos National Lab, USA
12:00pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Tutorial A-II: LCI Applications Tutorial: IA32, IA64 and Opteron Architecture and Programming Techniques for the Performance Programmer John Towns, NCSA/University of Illinois, USA, and David Klepacki, IBM, USA	Tutorial S-I: (Continued) Clustermatic: An Innovative Approach to Simplified Cluster Computing Gregory R. Watson, Ronald Minnich, Erik A. Hendriks, Matthew J. Sottile, Los Alamos National Lab, USA
3:00pm	*Break*
3:30pm	Tutorial A-II: (Continued) LCI Applications Tutorial: IA32, IA64 and Opteron Architecture and Programming Techniques for the Performance Programmer John Towns, NCSA/University of Illinois, USA, and David Klepacki, IBM, USA	Tutorial S-I: (Continued) Clustermatic: An Innovative Approach to Simplified Cluster Computing Gregory R. Watson, Ronald Minnich, Erik A. Hendriks, Matthew J. Sottile, Los Alamos National Lab, USA
5:00pm	*End of Tutorials*

Tuesday, May 18, 2004
8:30am	*Welcome to the Conference*
8:45am	Plenary Session I: Brian Ropers-Huilman Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University
10:00am	Break
10:30am	Cluster Health A Failure Predictive and Policy-Based High Availability Strategy for Linux High Performance Computing Cluster Chokchai Leangsuksun, Louisiana Tech University, USA Listening to Your Cluster with LoGS Jim Prewett, HPC@UNM, University of New Mexico, USA
12:00pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Applications Papers I: Dynamic Load-Balancing Algorithm Porting on MIMD Machines Francisco Muniz, CDTN/CNEN, Brazil Optimizing Linux Cluster Performance by Exploring the Correlation between Application Characteristics and Gigabit Ethernet Device Parameters Onur Celebioglu, Dell Inc., USA Performance Analysis of a Hybrid Parallel Linear Algebra Kernel Sue Goudy, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA	Systems Papers I: Unified Heterogeneous HPCC Hardware Management Framework Ying-Chin Fang, Dell Inc., USA Cluster Security as a Unique Problem with Emergent Properties: Issues and Techniques Joseph Greenseid, NCSA/University of Illinois, USA Batch System Deployment on a Production Terascale Cluster Karl W. Schulz, TACC/University of Texas, USA
3:00pm	*Break*
3:30pm	Vendor Presentations I: The File System Challenge in HPC Ben Rosen, Dell Inc., USA Smart Interconnect: Recent Developments in Myricom Hardware and Software Patrick Geoffray, Myricom, Inc.
5:00pm	*End of Presentations*
6:00-8:00pm	*Conference Reception at the Renaissance Hotel*

Wednesday, May 19, 2004
8:45am	Plenary Session II: Transforming the Sensing and Prediction of Intense Local Weather Through Dynamic Adaptation: People and Technologies Interacting with the Atmosphere Kelvin Droegemeier University of Oklahoma, USA
10:00am	Break
10:30am	Applications Papers III: Performance Measurement PerfSuite: An Accessible, Open Source Performance Analysis Environment for Linux Development and Performance Rick Kufrin, NCSA/University of Illinois, USA Development and Performance Analysis of a Simulation-Optimization Framework on TeraGrid Linux Clusters Baha Y. Mirghani, North Carolina State University, USA Optimizing Performance on Linux Clusters Using Advanced Communication Protocols: Achieving Over 10 Teraflops on an 8.6 Teraflops Linpack-Rated Linux Cluster Manojkumar Krishnan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA	Systems Papers III: Cluster Management Systems Concept and Implementation of CLUSTERIX: National Cluster of Linux Systems Roman Wyrzykowski, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland HA-Rocks: A Cost-Effective High-Availability System for Rocks-Based Linux HPC Cluster Tong Liu, Dell, USA A Specialized Approach for HPC System Software Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
12:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm	Vendor Presentations VI: Patrick Geoffray, Myricom
1:30pm	Vendor Presentations VII: Cooling for Ultra-High Density Racks and Blade Servers Richard Sawyer, American Power Conversion (APC)
2:00pm	Applications Papers IV: Applications, Visualization Scalable Visualization Clusters Using Sepia Technology Jim Kapadia, Hewlett Packard Corporation, USA The Case for an MPI ABI Greg Lindahl, Pathscale, USA	Systems Papers IV: Monitoring and Detection Deploying LoGS to Analyze Console Logs on an IBM JS20 James E. Prewett, HPC@UNM, USA Detection of Privilege Escalation for Linux Cluster Security Michael Treaster, NCSA/University of Illinois, USA
3:00pm	*Break*
3:30pm	Vendor Presentations VIII: TBD, Cray
4:00pm	Vendor Presentations IX: AMD's Road to Dual Core Doug O'Flaherty, AMD
4:30pm	Vendor Presentations X: Doug Miles, Portland Group (PGI)
5:00pm	Posters
6:00-9:30pm	*Tour of Local Facilities*

Thursday, May 20, 2004
9:00am	Plenary Session III: Dr. Reza Rooholamini Director, Enterprise Solutions, Dell Product Group, USA
10:15am	Break
10:30am	Applications Papers II: Education and Training In Search of Clusters for High-Performance Computing Education Paul Gray, University of Northern Iowa, USA Classroom Exercises for Grid Services Amy Apon, University of Arkansas, USA Automating the Large-Scale Collection and Analysis of Performance Data on Linux Clusters Rick Kufrin, NCSA/University of Illinois, USA	Systems Papers II: Processor and File System Performance Performance Characteristics of Dual-Processor HPC Systems Based on 64-bit Commodity Processors Chona S. Guiang, TACC/University of Texas, USA An Analysis of State-of-the-Art Parallel File System for Linux Martin W. Margo, SDSC/University of California - San Diego, USA Comparing Linux Clusters for the Community Climate System Model Matthew Woitaszek, University of Colorado - Boulder, USA
12:00am	Lunch
1:30pm	Panel Discussion: The Future of Linux on HPC Clusters Moderator: Robert Ballance, Sandia National Laboratories Panelists: Pete Beckman, Argonne National Laboratories; Dilma Da Silva, IBM Research; Barney Maccabe, University of New Mexico; and Ron Minnich, LANL
3:00pm	*Adjourn Conference*