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The 9th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing will be held April 28–May 1, 2008 in Urbana, Illinois. 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.

Final update: April 29, 2008.

Thursday, May 1, 2008
8:30 am	Intro
8:45 am	Keynote [Chair: John Towns, NCSA, USA]: Meeting the Challenge of Petascale Computing Thom H. Dunning, NCSA, USA
10:00 am	Break
10:30 am	I/O Deploying pNFS Across the WAN: First Steps in HPC Grid Computing Dean Hildebrand, Marc Eshel, Roger Haskin, IBM Almaden, USA; Phil Andrews, National Institute for Computational Sciences, USA; Patricia Kovatch, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA; John White, Revision3, USA A First Look at Scalable I/O in Linux Commands Kenneth Matney, Sr., Sarp Oral, Shane Canon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Exploration of Parallel Storage Architectures for a Blue Gene/L on the TeraGrid Michael Oberg, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA; Henry Tufo, U. Colorado & NCAR, USA; Matthew Woitaszek, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA	Technical Briefs [Chair: Mike Pflugmacher, NCSA, USA] Parallel Storage Considerations for Maximizing Performance of Scalable HPC Applications Stan Pose, Panasas Inc., USA An Autonomous Search Method for Storage Virtualization Lei Liu, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA   Performance Evaluation of Myricom Myrinet and Cisco Infiniband Using Intel Pallas Benchmarks Raed AlShaikh, Saudi Aramco
12:00 pm	Lunch
12:30 pm	Awards
1:00 pm	Vendor IV Sun SiCortex	Technical Presentations II [Chair: Mike Pflugmacher, NCSA, USA] Virtual Memory Mapping and Its Effect on Performance: A Case Study Kurt Ferreira, University of New Mexico, USA; Kevin Pedretti, Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA GPU Acceleration of Molecular Modeling Applications James Phillips and John Stone, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Hybrid Parallelism: Where's the Benefit? Henry Gabb, Intel Corporation, USA Accelerating WRF on the GPU John Michalakes, NCAR, USA; Manish Vachharajani, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
2:30 pm	Panel: What Is the Biggest Challenge Facing Petascale Computing? [Chair: Henry Tufo, NCAR, USA] Rob Pennington, NCSA, USA; Bill Gropp, NCSA, USA; Tony Mezzacappa, ORNL/UTK, USA; Bill Kramer, NERSC, USA
3:30 PM	End of Conference

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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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