program info

LCI's 7th International Conference, Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution 2006, will be held in Norman, Oklahoma at the University of Oklahoma in the Thurman J. White Forum Building. 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. Last updated: May 31, 2006.

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Monday, May 1, 2006
8:30am	Tutorial I: Cancelled	Tutorial II: Advanced Cluster and Grid Management with Moab Cluster Suite Dave Jackson, Cluster Resources, Inc., USA	Tutorial III: Towards Highly Available, Scalable, and Secure Computer Clusters wth HA-OSCAR Ibrahim Haddad, Condordia University; Chokchai Leangsuksun, Louisiana Tech University; Stephen L. Scott, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA	Tutorial IV: Cancelled		Tutorial X: OpenIB Stephen Poole
10:00am	Break
10:30am	Tutorial I: (Cont'd)	Tutorial II: (Cont'd)	Tutorial III: (Cont'd)	Tutorial IV: (Cont'd)		Tutorial X: (Cont'd)
12:00pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Tutorial I: (Cont'd)	Tutorial V: Object-Based Cluster Storage Systems David Nagle and Brent Welch, Panasas, Inc., USA	Tutorial VI: Resource Management Using SLURM Morris Jette, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA	Tutorial VII: Machine Room Design Timothy Thomas, University of New Mexico, USA	Tutorial VIII: Intel Cluster Tools Werner Krotz-Vogel Intel, USA	Tutorial IX: HPC and MPI: OpenMPI Tuning Graham E. Fagg, University of Tennesse, USA
3:00pm	*Break*
3:30pm	Tutorial I: (Cont'd)	Tutorial V: (Cont'd)	Tutorial VI: (Cont'd)	Tutorial VII: (Cont'd)	Tutorial VIII: (Cont'd)	Tutorial IX: (Cont'd)
5:00pm	*End of Tutorials*

Tuesday, May 2, 2006

8:30am	*Welcome to the Conference*
8:45am	Plenary Session I: An Overview of High-Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA
10:00am	Break
10:30am	Applications Papers I: Performance A Comparison of Single-Core and Dual-Core Opteron Processor Performance of HPM Doug Pase and Matthew A. Eckl, IBM, USA Performance Analysis of AERMOD on Commodiyd George Delic, HiPERiSM Consulting, USA Performance Lessons from the Cray XT3 Jeff Larkin, Cray Inc., USA	Systems Papers I: Filesystems and Cluster Management Building of a GNU/Linux-absed Bootable Cluster CD Paul Gray, Jeff Chapin, Univeristy of Northern Iowa; Tobias McNulty, Earlham College, USA Improviing Cluster Managemnt with Scalable Filesystems Adam Boggs, Jason Cope, University of Colorado, Boulder; Sean McCreary, Michael Oberg, Henry M. Tufo, Theron Voran and Matthew Woitaszek, University of Colorado, Boulder and National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA The Hydra Filesystem: A Distrbuted Storage Famework Benjamin Gonzalez and George K. Thiruvathukal, Loyal University, Chicago, USA
12:00pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Vendor Presentations I: TBD
2:00pm	Applications Papers II: Experiences in Optimizing a Numercial Weather Predicition Model: An Exercise in Futility? Dan Weber and Henry Neeman, University of Oklahoma, USA Benchmark Analysis of 64-bit Servers for Linux Clusters for Application in Molecular Modeling and Atomistic Simulations Stephano Cozzini, CNR-INFM DemocritosNatinal Simuation Center; Roger Roussseau, Sissa; Axel Kohlmeyer, University of Pennsylvania, USA	Technical Briefs Simplifying Message-Passing Programming for Novices Tim McGuire, Sam Houston State University, USA Update on the FastOS Program Barney Maccabe, University of New Mexico, USA Update on BG/L Moe Jette, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA The Easiest Way to Deliver Massive Data Throughput Jim Hetherington, Terrascale, USA Raytheon Update Kim McClure, Raytheon, USA
3:00pm	*Break*
3:30pm	Vendor Presentations II: TBD IBM
4:00pm	Vendor Presentations III: HPC Into The Mainstream Stephen Wheat, Intel
4:30pm	Vendor Presentations IV: Real Application Scaling Greg Lindahl, PathScale
5:00pm	Vendor Presentations V: Myri-10G: Overview and a Report on Early Deployments Tom Leinberger, Myricom
5:30pm	*Break*
6:00- 9:30pm	*Conference Reception, Poster Session, Machine Room Tours*

Wednesday, May 3, 2006
8:30am	Welcome
8:45am	Plenary Session II: High-End Operating Systems: Status and Future Frederick C. Johnson DOE, Office of Science, USA
10:00am	Break
10:30am	Applications Papers III: Tools Intel Cluster Tools Ullrich Becker-Lemgau, Intel, USA A Test Harness TH for Evaluatiing Code Changes in Scientific Software Brian T. Smith, Numerica 21 Inc., USA An Intetgrated Performance Tools Environment Luiz DeRose, Cray Inc., USA	Systems Papers III: Cluster Efficiencies ClearSpeed Accelerators in Linux Clusters John L. Gustafson, ClearSpeed Technology, USA Maestro-VC: On-Demad Secure Cluster Computing Using Virtualization Nadir Kiyanclar, Gregory A. Koenig, William Yurcik, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)/UIUC, USA Architectural Tradeoffs for Unifying Campus Grid Resources Bart Taylor and Amy Apon, University of Arkansas, USA
12:00pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Vendor Presentations VI: PGI Compilers and Tools for Scientists and Engineers Doug Miiles, Portland Group (PGI)
2:00pm	Applications Papers IV: Evaluation of RDMA over Ethernet Technology for Building Cost-Effective Linux Clusters Michael Oberg, Henry M. Tufo, Theron Voran, Matthew Woitascek, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Performance of Voltaire InfiniBand in IBM 64-Bit Commodity HPC Clusters Douglas Pase, IBM, USA	Technical Briefs Red Storm Update Robert Ballance, Sandia National Laboratory, USA TI-05 and DICE Mahmoud Hanaf, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, USA Oak Ridge Update Sarp Oral, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Thunderbird Update Jerry Smith, Sandia National Laboratory, USA
3:00pm	*Break*
3:30pm	Vendor Presentations VII: On the Path to Adaptive Supercomputing Luiz DeRose, Cray
4:00pm	Vendor Presentations VIII: TBD AMD
4:30pm	Vendor Presentations IX: TBD
5:00pm	Vendor Presentations X TBD
5:30pm	*Break*
7:30 - 9:00pm	*Speaker's Corner*

Thursday, May 4, 2006
8:30am	*Welcome*
8:45am	Plenary Session III: Cluster Computing in Everyday Biomedical Research: Past, Present, and Future Klaus Schulten Director, UIUC Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, USA
10:00am	Break
10:30am	Systems Papers V: LEA: A Cluster-Intensive Simulation Software for Unit Commitment Riadh Zorgati, Wim Van Ackooij, Jean-Marc Luel, Pierre Thomas, EDF; Michael Uchanski, Kevin Shea, The Mathworks Inc., USA Lessons for the Cluster Community from an Experiment in Model Coupling with Python Michael Tobis, Mike Steder, Ray Pierrehumbert, University of Chicago; Robert Jacob, Argonne National Laboratory, USA An Equation-by-Equation Method for Large Problems in a Distributed Computing Environment Ganesh Thiagarajan and Anoop G. Varghese, Univeristy of Missouri, Kansas City, USA	Systems Papers VI: High Availability On the Survivability of Standard MPI Applications Anand Tikotekar, Chokchai Leangsuksun, Louisiana Tech University; Stephen L. Scott, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Cluster Survivability with ByzwATCh: A Bysantine Hardware Fault Deterctor for Parallel Machines with Charm++ D. Mogilevsky, G. Koenig, W. Yurcik, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)/UIUC, USA Cluster-Aware SELinux Arpan Darivemula, Anan Tikotekar, Chokchai Leangsuksun, Louisiana Tech Uviersity, USA; Makan Pourzandi, Ericsson Research Canada
12:00pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Panel Discussion: The Business of HPC Moderator: Timothy Thomas, University of New Mexico Panelists: John Towns, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Earl Joseph, IDC, Stephen Wheat, Intel, Others TBA
3:00pm	*Adjourn Conference*