program info

2005 Program Info
LCI's 6th International Conference, Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution 2005, will be held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The 4-day event, including conference and tutorials, will feature a broad range of presentations and papers from HPC and large-scale cluster computing professionals in industry, academia, and government. Speakers will address 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 will include both peer-reviewed paper presentations and discipline- and industry-specific sessions offering researchers and industry leaders the opportunity to present their experiences with applications. tools, user environments, and administration of large-scale clusters. Presentations from industry are specifically being invited from the petroleum and geophysics, bioinformatics, aerospace and automotive, and finance sectors.

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Monday, April 25, 2005
8:30am	Tutorial I: Towards Highly Available, Scalable, and Secure HPC Clusters with HA-Oscar Box Leangsuksun, Louisiana Tech University, USA; Ibrahim Haddad, Ericsson Research, Canada; Stephen L. Scott, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA	Tutorial II: Architectures and Configuration of Linux Cluster I/O Solutions Lee Ward, Sandia National Laboratories, USA	~~Tutorial III:~~ -Cancelled- Programming Linux Clusters Using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) Purushotham Bangalore and Vijay Velusamy University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA	Tutorial IV: Performance Analysis Using SvPablo and KOJAK Shirley Moore and Ying Zhang, University of Tennessee, USA
10:00am	Break
10:30am	Tutorial I: (Cont'd)	Tutorial II: (Cont'd)	~~Tutorial III:~~ -Cancelled-	Tutorial IV: (Cont'd)
12:00pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Tutorial I: (Cont'd)	Tutorial V: Object-Based Cluster Storage Systems David Nagle, Panasas, Inc., USA	Tutorial VI: Torque/Maui: Getting the Most Out of Your Resource Manager Eric Kretzer, Dan Lapine, Peter Enstrom, NCSA, USA	Tutorial VII: Productive Application Development with the Intel Cluster Toolkit Mario Deilmann, Intel GmbH, Germany
3:00pm	*Break*
3:30pm	Tutorial I: (Cont'd)	Tutorial V: (Cont'd)	Tutorial VI: (Cont'd)	Tutorial VII: (Cont'd)
5:00pm	*End of Tutorials*

Tuesday, April 26, 2005
8:30am	*Welcome to the Conference*
8:45am	Plenary Session I: Opportunities and Challenges in High-End Computing for Science and Engineering Thom H. Dunning, Jr. Director, NCSA/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
10:00am	Break
10:30am	Applications Papers I: Performance Metrics for Ocean and Aire Quality Models on Commodity Linux Platforms George Delic, HiPERiSM Consulting, USA Cluster Computing Through an Application-Oriented Computational Chemistry Grid Kent Milfeld, TACC/University of Texas at Austin, USA A Resource Management System for Adaptive Parallel Applications in Cluster Environments Sheikh Ghafoor, Mississippi State University, USA	Systems Papers I: Reliability Towards More Reliable Commodity Clusters: A Software-Based Approach at Run Time Chung-Hsing Hsu, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Towards Cluster Survicability Box Leangsuksun, Louisiana Tech University, USA Defining and Measuring Supercomputer Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) Jon Stearley, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
12:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm	Vendor Presentations I: TBD, Etnus, USA
1:30pm	Applications Papers II: Large Scale Simulations in Nanostructures with NEMO3-D on Linux Clusters Gerhard Klimeck, Purdue University, USA High Performance Algorithms for Scalable Spin-Qubit Circuits with Quantum Dots John Fettig, NCSA/University of Illinois, USA Parallel Multi-Zone Methods for Large-Scale Multidisciplinary Computational Physics Simulations Ding Li, Purdue University, USA	Systems Papers II: File Systems Active Storage Processing in a Parallel File System Jarek Nieplocha, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Shared Parallel Filesystems in Heterogeneous Linux Multi-Cluster Environments Matthew Woitaszek, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA Lustre: Is It Ready for Prime Time? Steve Woods, MCNC-GCNS, USA
3:00pm	*Break*
3:30pm	Vendor Presentations II: Dual Core CPU Servers And The Impact to HPC Clusters Ben Smith, IBM
4:00pm	Vendor Presentations III: Intel in HPC: A Perspective on the Future of HPC Stephen Wheat, Intel
4:30pm	Vendor Presentations IV: The Pathscale Approach to Accelerating Application Performance on Linux Clusters Duncan Poole, PathScale
5:00pm	Vendor Presentations V: John Josephakis, DataDirect Networks
5:30pm	*End of Presentations*
6:00-9:30pm	Conference Reception at the Bryan Courtyard (Rain Location: Hill Ballroom, Central Section)

Wednesday, April 27, 2005
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, April 28, 2005
8:45am	Plenary Session III: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Larger Clusters Mark Seager Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
10:00am	Break
10:30am	Systems Papers V: Hardware and Systems Performance of Two-Way Opteron and Xeon Processor-Based Servers for Scientific and Technical Applications Douglas Pase, IBM, USA A First Look at BlueGene/L Martin Margo, San Diego Supercomputing Center, USA Deploying an IBM e1350 Cluster Aron Warren, HPC@UNM, USA	Systems Papers VI: System Experiences To InfiniBand or Not InfiniBand, One Site's Perspective Steve Woods, MCNC-GCNS, USA The Road to a Linux-Based Personal Desktop Cluster Wu-Chun Feng, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA What Do Mambo, VNC, UML and Grid Computing Have in Common? Sebastien Goasguen, Purdue University, USA
12:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm	Vendor Presentations XI: Bridging Discovery and Learning at Purdue University through Distributed Computing Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, USA
1:30pm	Panel Discussion: Linux Strategy in the DARPA HPCS Projects Moderator: Robert Ballance, Sandia National Laboratories Panelists: Chris Small, Sun; Kevin Peterson, Cray Inc.; Orran Krieger, IBM; Arthur B. Maccabe, University of New Mexico
3:00pm	*Adjourn Conference*