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The 8th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing will be held May 14-17, 2007 in South Lake Tahoe, California. 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 10, 2007.
monday | tuesday | wednesday | thursdayMonday, May 14, 2007 |
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| 8:30 AM | Tutorials [Chair: Mike Pflugmacher, NCSA, USA] | ||||
| Tutorial I SAN Persistent Binding and Multipathing in the 2.6 Kernel, Andy Loftus, NCSA, USA |
Tutorial II Parallel and MPI Debugging and Memory Debugging in Clusters, Chris Gottbrath, TotalView Technologies, LLC, USA |
Tutorial III MPI Performance Maximization, Jeff Squyres, Cisco, Inc. USA; George Bosilca, University of Tennessee, USA |
Tutorial IV Parallel Performance Evaluation Tools for HPC Systems: TAU, PAPI, KOJAK and Vampir, Sameer Shende, University of Oregon, USA and Shirley Moore, ORNL, USA |
Tutorial V Optimizing Data Transport: A Tutrial on Deploying GridFTP, John Bresnahan, ANL, USA |
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| 10:00 Am | Break | ||||
| 10:30 am | Tutorial I (cont'd) |
Tutorial II (cont'd) |
Tutorial III (cont'd) |
Tutorial IV (cont'd) |
Tutorial V (cont'd) |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch | ||||
| 1:30 pm | Tutorial VI Exploration of Parallel File Systems at NCSA, Michelle Butler and Anthony Tong, NCSA, USA |
Tutorial VII Allinea's Tools for Debugging and Profiling, David Lecomber, Allinea, USA |
Tutorial VIII Intel Programming with Cluster OpenMP, Jay P. Hoeflinger, Intel, USA |
Tutorial IX Introduction to Parallel Computing for Scientific Numerical Applications Using MPI for Better Scalability and Parallel Performance, Byong-Do Kim, NCSA, USA |
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| 3:00 pm | Break | ||||
| 3:30 pm | Tutorial VI (cont'd) |
Tutorial VII (cont'd) |
Tutorial VIII (cont'd) |
Tutorial IX (cont'd) |
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| 5:00 pm | End of Tutorials | ||||
| 6:30 pm | Welcome, Dave Norton, LCI 2007 Conference Chair | ||||
| 6:45 pm | Invited Presentation:
[Chair: Dave Norton, PGI, USA] Operations at Scale - Lessons to Be Remembered, Robert Ballance, SNL, USA |
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| 7:15- 9:00 pm |
Opening Reception | ||||
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
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| 8:15 am | Welcome, John Towns, NCSA, USA | ||
| 8:30 am | Keynote [Chair:
John Towns, NCSA, USA]: Parallelism and Power in the Age of Petascale Computing Horst Simon, LBNL, USA |
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| 9:30 am | Break | ||
| 10:00 am | Parallel I/O, File Systems, & Storage [Chair: Terry Jones, LLNL, USA] pNFS and Linux: Working Towards a Heterogeneous Future Dean Hildebrand, Peter Honeyman, and William Adamson, University of Michigan, USA Efficient Methods for Parallel I/O Jeff Larkin, Cray, USA and Mark Fahey, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA SAN Lessons Learned Andy Loftus and Chad Kerner, NCSA, USA Practical Experiences of Setting Up, Managing, and Diagnosing a Large Parallel Filesystem Jim Laros, SNL, USA |
Tools & Programming
Environments [Chair: Shirley Moore, University of Tennessee, USA] Detecting and Solving Memory Problems in Linux Clusters Chris Gottbrath, TotalView Technologies, LLC, USA Automated MPI Correctness Checking: What if There Were a Magic Option? Patrick Ohly and Werner Krotz-Vogel, Intel Corporation, DE A Framework for Scalable Parameter Estimation on Clusters Tom Bulatewicz, Daniel Andresen, Stephen Welch, Wei Jin, Sanjoy Das, and Matthew Miller, Kansas State University, USA PerfTrack: Scalable Application Performance Diagnosis for Linux Clusters Rashawn Knapp, Kathryn Mohror, Aaron Amauba, Karen Karavanic, Portland State University, USA; Thomas Conerly, Caitlin Gaebel High School, USA; Abraham Neben, Wilson High School, USA; John May, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA |
Technical Briefs: Resource
Management, Networks, & Power [Chair: MIke Pflugmacher, NCSA, USA] Anatomy of Ethernet Resiliency and Scalibility for Cluster Computing Debbie Montano, Force 10, USA Grids for the Real World: Addressing Sovereignty and Ease of Use David Jackson, Cluster Resources, USA How Long Can You Go? Wade Vinson, HP, USA Stateless Booting Egan Ford, IBM, USA Benefits of Centralized Service Processor Management in Clustered Environments Ivan Passos, Avocent, USA Best Practices in Cluster Management Richard Friedman, Scali, USA OCS and LSF HPC: An Integrated Solution for System and Workload Management Mehdi Bozzo-Rey, Platform Computing, USA |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:00 pm | Network & Cluster
Opitmization [Chair: Ron Brightwell, SNL, USA] Data-Intensive Cluster Optimization, Benoit Marchand, eXludus, USA DataDirect Networks Presentation, Rick Scott, DataDirect Networks, USA Myri-10G: The Technically Superior HPC Interconnect, Tom Leinberger, Myricom, USA Open Fabrics Enterpirse Edition (OFED) Update, Jamie Riotto, Cisco, USA Qlogic Presentation |
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| 3:05 pm | Break | ||
| 3:30 pm | Resource Management & Networks [Chair: Kent Milfeld, TACC, USA] An Architecture for Dynamic Allocation of Compute Cluster Bandwidth John Bresnahan and Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA Experiences Deploying a 10-Gigabit Ethernet Computing Environment to Support Regional Computational Science Jason Cope, Theron Voran and Matthew Woitaszek, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA; Adam Boggs, Sean McCreary, Michael Oberg, and Henry M. Tufo, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA The Application Level Placement Scheduler (ALPS) Michael Karo, Richard Lagerstrom and Carl Albing, Cray Inc., USA |
Performance Analysis & Applications [Chair: Phil Roth, ORNL, USA] A Case Study in Using Local I/O and GPFS to Improve Simulation Scalability Vincent Bannister, Microsoft, USA; Gary Howell and Eric Sills, HPC/ITD NCSU, USA; Tim Kelley and Qianyi Zhang, NCSU, USA Visualizing I/O Performance during the BGL Deployment Andrew Uselton and Brian Behlendorf, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Load Balancing in Pre-Processing of Large-Scale Distributed Sparse Computing Olfa Hamdi and Zaher Mahjoub, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, TN; Nahid Emad, Univeristy of Versailles, FR |
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| 5:00 pm | Break | ||
| 7:00 pm | Dinner and Speaker [Chair:
Dave Norton, PGI, USA] Tales of Tahoe, Don Lane, U.S. Forest Service, USA |
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 |
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| 8:15 am | Welcome, Dave Norton, PGI, USA |
| 8:30 am | Keynote [Chair: Dave Norton,
PGI, USA]: Advances in Regional Climate System Modeling for a Better Understanding of Land Use and Climate Change Impacts in California Norman L. Miller, UC Berkeley, USA |
| 9:30 am | Break |
| 9:45 am | DARPA HPCS Systems [Chair:
Henry Tufo, NCAR, USA] IBM PERCS: Rama K. Govindaraju, IBM, USA Cray Cascade: Luiz DeRose, Cray Inc., USA |
| 10:45 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM | Software for Clustered Systems [Chair: Karen Karavanic, Portland State Univeristy, USA] Optimizing Application Performance on x64 Processor-based Systems with PGI Compilers and Tools, Douglas Miles, PGI, USA Debugging and Optimizing Applications for Multicore MPP Architectures, Michael Rudgyard, Allinea, USA Improving System Performance with Scali MPI Connect, Richard Friedman, Scali, USA Adaptive Computing in HPC Today, David Jackson, Cluster Resources, USA The Transition to Multi-core: Is Your Software Ready?, Matthew Papakipos, PeakStream, USA |
| 1:30 pm | Break |
| 6:00 pm | New Systems [Chair: Brent Gorda,
LLNL, USA] Road Runner: John Turner, LANL, USA Abe: John Towns, NCSA, USA Ranger: Kent Milfeld, TACC, USA Jaguar: Shane Canon, ORNL, USA |
| 7:00 pm | Speaker's Corner [Chair: Dave
Norton, PGI, USA] Supercomputing Cluster Challenge, Brent Gorda, LLNL, USA |
| 8:00 pm | Posters and Reception [Chair: Gregg Rohaly, HP, USA] |
Thursday, May 17, 2007 |
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| 8:15 am | Welcome, Luiz DeRose, Cray Inc., USA | ||
| 8:30 am | Keynote [Chair:
Luiz DeRose, Cray Inc., USA]: From Beowulf to Cray-o-wulf: Extending Linux Clustering Paradigm to Supercomputing Scale, Peter Ungaro, Cray Inc., USA |
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| 9:30 am | Break | ||
| 10:00 am | OS Alternatives [Chair: Greg Lindahl, Qlogic, USA] Linux Kernel Improvement: Toward Dynamic Power Management of Beowulf Clusters Fengping Hu and Jeffrey Evans, Purdue University, USA HPC System Call Usage Trends Terry Jones, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA; Andrew Tauferner and Todd Inglett, IBM, USA Compute Node Linux (CNL): From Capability to Capacity Kevin Peterson, Cray Inc., USA Starting with Linux: A System Design Case Study John Goodhue and Win Treese, SiCortex Inc. USA |
Emerging Technology [Chair: Rick Kufrin, NCSA, USA] Intel Woodcrest: An Evaluation for Scientific Computing Philip Roth and Jeffrey Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA The PeakStream Platform: High-Productivity Software Development for GPUs Matthew Papakipos, PeakStream, Inc. USA Effective Use of Commodity Multi-Core Systems in HPC Kent Milfeld, Kazushige Goto, Avi Purkayastha, Chona Guiang, and Karl Schulz, University of Texas at Austin, USA Future of Storage: Commodity Clusters and Parallel I/O Alex Sayyah, DDN, USA |
Technical Briefs: I/O [Chair: Barney Maccabe, UNM, USA] Considerations for Scalable Environmental Sciences Applications on Conventional HPC Linux Platforms Stan Posey, Panasas, USA Experiences with Parallel Commodity Storage David Chaffin, Texas Tech HPCC, USA Performance, Reliability, and Operational Issues for High Performance NAS Storage Matthew O'Keefe, Alvarri, USA Architecting High Performance, Scalable & Highly Available Cluster Storage with Best-of-Breed Storage Software and DDN S2A Technology Jeff Denworth & Bob Woolery, DataDirect, USA |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:00 pm | Upcoming Hardware Technology [Chair:
Erik Scott, Shell, USA] HPC Technologies from Intel, David Barkai and David Lombard, Intel, USA Evolution of HPC Cluster Nodes: General Purpose or Purpose Built?, Jeff Underhill, AMD, USA Cool, Tight, Fast, Reliable HPC Clustering with Blades and InfiniBand, Kent Koeninger, HP, USA Trends in High Performance Computing Commodity Clusters, Jay Urbanski, IBM, USA High Performance Clustering for Big Science, Kevin Noreen, Dell, USA |
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| 3:05 pm | Break | ||
| 3:15 pm | Awards | ||
| 3:30 pm | Invited Presentation [Chair:
Bob Ballance, SNL, USA] HPC I/O Road Map: The Next Five Years, Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA |
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| 4:00 pm | Panel: High
Performance I/O: The Road Less Traveled? Moderator: Timothy Thomas, HPC@UNM, USA Panelists: Walt Ligon, Clemson University, USA; Ethan Miller and Scott Brandt, UC at Santa Cruz, USA; Brent Welch, Panasas, USA; Kevin Canady, Cluster File Systems, Inc., USA; Gary Grider, LANL, USA |
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| 5:15 pm | Closing Remarks | ||
| 6:00 pm | Informal Gathering of Attendees | ||
| 7:15 PM | End of Conference | ||
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