Final IEEE Cluster 2001 Schedule

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Monday, October 8
8:00-12:00 Morning Tutorials
Tutorial 1 - Advanced Cluster Programming with MPI
Bill Gropp
Argonne National Laboratory

(slides)
Tutorial 2 - Design and Implementation of Highly Available Linux Clusters
Ibrahim Haddad
Ericsson Research, Canada
Tutorial 3 - The Scyld Beowulf System
Don Becker
Scyld, Inc.
12:00-1:30 Lunch (on your own)
1:30-5:30 Afternoon Tutorials
Tutorial 4 - InfiniBand Architecture
Prof. Dhabaleswar K. Panda
The Ohio State University
Tutorial 5 - The Parallel Virtual File System for Commodity Clusters
Walt Ligon and Rob Ross
Clemson University and Argonne National Laboratory
Tutorial 6 - Emerging Technologies for MultiCluster/Grid Computing
Rajkumar Buyya and Mark Baker
Monash University and University of Portsmouth

 

Tuesday, October 9
9:00-9:05 Opening Remarks
Mark Baker
University of Portsmouth
9:05-9:15 Introduction of Clusters
Thomas Sterling
JPL and Caltech
9:15-10:00

Keynote

Steve Oberlin
Unlimited Scale, Inc.

Architecture Recapitulates Phylogeny: How Scalability Requires Specialization
(slides)
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Networking I
Chair: Ira Pramanick
I/O
Chair: Walt Ligon
Cluster Management I
Chair: Philip Papadopoulos
Ron Minnich
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Bipolar Disorder in Cluster Networking (invited)
(slides)
Walt Ligon
Clemson University

Next Generation Parallel Virtual File System (invited)
(slides)
David Lifka
Cornell University

High Performance Computing with Microsoft Windows 2000 (invited)
(slides)
Charles Norton
Thomas A. Cwik
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Early Experience with the Myricom-2000 Switch on an SMP Beowulf-Class Cluster for Unstructured Adaptive Meshing
(slides)
David Watson
Yan Luo 
Brett D. Fleisch 
University of California Riverside
The Oasis+ Dependable Storage System - I/O
(slides)
John Pershing, Presenter
Michael Kalantar
Sameh Fakhouri 
German Goldszmidt
IBM
GulfStream - a System for Dynamic Topology Management in Multi-Domain Server Farms
(slides)
Fabrizio Petrini
Salvador Coll 
Eitan Frachtenberg
Los Alamos National Laboratory 
Using Multirail Networks in High Performance Clusters
(slides)
Florin Isaila
Walter F. Tichy 
University of Karlsruhe
Clusterfile: A Flexible Physical Layout Parallel File System
(slides)
Ellard T. Roush
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Cluster Rolling Upgrade Using Multiple Version Support
(slides)
11:45-1:15 Lunch 
1:15-2:45 Alternative Hardware
Chair: Mark Baker
Applications I
Chair: David Bader
Scheduling
Chair: Brett Fleisch
Dean Gaudet
Transmeta, Inc. 

Dense Computing with Transmeta's Crusoe (invited)
(slides)
Nael Abu-Ghazaleh
Faris Khundakjie 
Patrick Madden
State University of New York at Binghamton 
Parallel Standard Cell Placement on a Cluster of Workstations
(slides)
James Patton Jones
Veridian Systems

Workload Management: More Than Just Job Scheduling (invited)
(slides)
Eddie Rutledge
Jeremy Kepner
MIT Lincoln Laboratory

PVL An Object Oriented
Software Library for Parallel Signal Processing
(invited)
(slides)
Emmanuel Cecchet
Alexandre Meyer
INRIA
Stingray: Cone tracing using a software DSM for SCI clusters
(slides)
Paper Withdrawn
Dean Dauger
Dauger Research

Viktor K. Decyk
University of California Los Angeles
Numerically-Intensive "Plug-and-Play" Parallel Computing
(slides)
Tarek El-Ghazawi
Sinthop Kaewpijit
George Mason University 
Jacqueline Le Moigne
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 
Parallel and Adaptive Reduction of Hyperspectral Data to Intrinsic Dimensionality
(slides)
Arnold Rosenberg
University of Massachusetts

Sharing Partitionable Workloads in Heterogeneous NOWs: Greedier Is Not Better
(slides)
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:30 Plenary Session (Chair: Bill Gropp)
Jack Dongarra
University of Tennessee

High Performance Computing and Trends 
(slides)
Don Becker
Scyld, Inc.

Future Directions for the Scyld Advanced Beowulf Management System
(slides)
Stephen Scott
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
OSCAR and the Beowulf Arms Race for the "Cluster Standard"
(slides)
4:30-6:00 Panel Session
Hardware
Moderator: Rick Stevens (Argonne National Laboratory)
6:00-8:00 Poster Session/Reception
7:30-10:00 Vendor Product Briefings (Details in PDF File)

 

Wednesday, October 10

 

 
9:00-9:05

Opening Remarks
Larry Bergman
JPL

9:05-10:00 Keynote
Hans Zima
Institute for Software Science, University of Vienna, Austria
Towards High-Level Programming Support for Scientific Computing on Clusters
(slides)
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Networking II
Chair: Timothy Pinkston
Middleware I
Chair: Larry Bergman
Cluster Management II
Chair: Al Geist
Éric Renault
Pierre David
Université de Versailles
Performance and Analysis of the PCI-DDC Remote-Write Implementation
(slides)
Bernard Tourancheau
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Roland Westrelin
RESAM ENS/INRIA/UCB

Intelligence in High Performance Network Interface Card: hardware vs. software (invited)
(slides)
Putchong Uthayopas
Kasetsart University
 
Cluster Software Tools: Beauty is in Simplicity (invited)
(slides)
Markus Fischer
University of Mannheim

GMSOCKS - A Direct Socket Implementation for Myrinet

(slides)
Jeonghee Shin
Sang-Hwa Chung
Pusan National University 
Woo-Jong Hahn 
API Networks
An SCI-based Software VIA system for PC Clustering
(slides)
Ron Brightwell, Presenter
Lisa Kennicott
Lee Ann Fisk
Sandia National Laboratories
Dynamic Allocation of Nodes on a Large Space-Shared Cluster
(slides)
Keith Underwood
Ron Sass 
Walt Ligon 
Clemson University
A Reconfigurable Extension to the Network Interface of Beowulf Clusters
(slides)
Sang Seok Lim
Yunheung Paek 
Kyu Ho Park
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 
A Parallel programming environment for a V-bus based PC-cluster
(slides)
Greg Bruno
Philip M. Papadopoulos 
Mason J. Katz 
San Diego Supercomputer Center
NPACI Rocks: Tools and Techniques for Easily Deploying Manageable Linux Clusters
(slides)
11:45-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:45 Algorithms I
Chair: David Bailey
Applications II
Chair: Bernard Tourancheau
Programming Models
Chair: Isaac Scherson
Vipin Kumar
George Karypis
Kirk Schloege
University of Minnesota

Graph Partitioning for Dynamic, Adaptive and Multi-phase Scientific Simulations (invited)
(slides)
Rena Haynes
Patricia Crossno 
Eric Russell
Sandia National Laboratories
A Visualization Tool for Analyzing Cluster Performance Data
(slides)
Jyoti Batheja
Manish Parashar
Rutgers University
Adaptive Cluster Computing using JavaSpace
(slides)
Li-Chuan Chen
MITRE Corp.

Hyeong-Ah Choi
George Washington University
Approximation Algorithms for Data Distribution with Load Balancing of Web Servers
(slides)
Nalini Venkatasubramanian
Sandy Irani
University of California Irvine
Semi-Continuous Transmission in Cluster-Based Video Servers
(slides)
Munehiro Fukuda
Naoya Suzuki 
University of Tsukuba
Luis Miguel Campos
University of California Irvine
Programmability and Performance of M++ Self-Migrating Threads
(slides)
Anthony Chronopoulos
University of Texas at San Antonio

Razvan Andonie 
Transilvania University of Brasov
Manuel Benche
University of Texas at San Antonio
Daniel Grosu
University of Texas at San Antonio
A Class of Loop Self-Scheduling for Heterogeneous Clusters
(slides)
Ge Chen 
Cho-Li Wang
Francis C.M. Lau
University of Hong Kong
Building a Scalable Web Server with Global Object Space Support on Heterogeneous Clusters
(slides)
Frank Sommers
Autospaces, L.L.C.

Shahram Ghandeharizadeh 
Shan Gao
University of Southern California
Cluster-based computing with active, persistent objects on the Web
(slides)
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:30 Plenary Session (Chair: Daniel S. Katz)
Zhiwei Xu
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Cluster and Grid Superservers: The Dawning Experiences in China
(slides)
Dan Reed
National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois

Terascale Clusters and Data Grids: A Look at the Future
(slides)
Rusty Lusk
Argonne National Laboratory

Parallel Programming with MPI on Clusters
(slides)
4:30-6:00 Panel Session
2001: A Software Odyssey
Moderator: Pete Beckman (TurboLinux Lab.)
6:00-7:30 Industry Exhibits/Wine and Cheese Reception
7:30-10:00 Banquet on Queen Mary (transportation provided)

 

 

 

Thursday, October 11
9:00-9:05

Opening Remarks
Daniel S. Katz
JPL

9:05-10:00 Keynote
Charles Seitz
Myricom, Inc.

Recent Advances in Cluster Networks
(slides)
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Networking III
Chair: Charles Norton
Middleware II
Chair: Thomas Stricker
Algorithms II
Chair: Nalini Venkatasubramanian
Greg Pfister
IBM

Aspects of the InfiniBand™ Architecture  (invited)
(slides)
Antonio Diaz
J. Ortega 
A. Cańas
University of Granada
The Lightweight Protocol CLIC: Performance of an MPI Implementation on CLIC
(slides)
Arnaud Legrand
Olivier Beaumont 
Yves Robert
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
The Master-Slave Paradigm with Heterogeneous Processors
(slides)
Fábio A. D. de Oliveira
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

César A. F. De Rose
Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul 
Rafael B. Ávila
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

DECK-SCI: High-Performance Communication and Multithreading for SCI Clusters
(slides)
Jin-Soo Kim
Kangho Kim 
Sung-In Jung
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
SOVIA: A User-level Sockets Layer over Virtual Interface Architecture
(slides)
Luis Pastor
Jose L. Bosque
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
An efficiency and scalability models for heterogeneous clusters
(slides)
Paper Withdrawn Yuval Tamir
Daniel Goldberg
Ming Li
Wenchao Tao
Concurrent Systems Laboratory, UCLA
The Design and Implementation of a Fault-Tolerant Cluster Manager
(slides)
Jyoti Batheja, Presenter
Manish Parashar
Shweta Sinha
Rutgers University
Adaptive Runtime Partitioning of AMR Applications on Heterogeneous Clusters
(slides)
11:45-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:15 Plenary Session (Chair: Mark Baker)
David Walker
Cardiff University

The Grid, Virtual Organizations, and Problem-Solving Environments
(slides)
William J. Camp
Sandia National Laboratories

Scalable Cluster Computing -- Opportunities and Challenges
(slides)
2:15-2:45 Break
2:45-4:15 Panel Session
Applications: Environments vs. Toolkits, HPC & Clusters
Moderator: Tony Hey (University of Southhampton)
5:00-? Steering Committee Meeting/Dinner

 

Posters

Ron Brightwell and Steve Plimpton
Sandia National Laboratories

Scalability and Performance of Two Large Linux Clusters
John E. Dorband
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Commodity Clusters at Goddard Space Flight Center
Steffen Görzig
Daimler-Chrysler, Germany

CPPvm - Parallel Programming in C++
(slides)
Heath James
Ken Hawick
University of Wales
Dynamic Cluster Configuration and Management using JavaSpaces
Weiwu Hu
Gang Shi 
Fuxin Zhang  
Communication with Threads in Software DSMs
(slides)
Kurt Keville
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

IEEE 1394 and RFC 2734: a viable HSI for hypercubes
Dongseung Kim
Korea University

Hierarchical cluster for scalable web servers
(slides)
John Kolen
Tim Hutcheson
University of West Florida 

A Low-Cost, High-Density Mounting System for Computer Clusters
Dimitri Komatitsch
Jeroen Tromp 
California Institute of Technology

Modeling of Seismic Wave Propagation at the Scale of the Earth on a Large Beowulf
Patricia Kovatch
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center

LosLobos: Administration Experience and Application Results
Yoon-Young Lee
Chei-Yol Kim 
Dae-Wha Seo
Kyungpook National University
Table-Comparison Prefetching in VIA-based Parallel File System
(slides)
David Lifka 
Cornell Theory Center

High Performance Computing with Microsoft Windows 2000 
(slides)
Peng Liu
Zhihui Du
Tsinghua University 

Cluster Trend: Data Speaking
Isaac Lopez
Tad Kollar 
NASA Glenn Research Center
The Aeroshark Pentium III Cluster

Jens Marche
Sharad Garg
Lewis and Clark College
A Comparative Study of Parallel File Systems for PC Clusters, IBM SP and ASCI Red

Philip M. Papadopoulos
Mason J. Katz
Greg Bruno
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Using NPACI Rocks to Easily Deploy and Maintain Large IA-32 based Linux Clusters
Rob Pennington
NCSA

Terascale Linux Clusters at the NCSA
Richard Rabbat
Tom McNeal 
Tim Burke
Mission Critical Linux
A High-Availability Clustering Infrastructure with Data Integrity Guarantees
Paul L. Springer
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

PVM Support for Clusters
(slides)
Dr. Shinji Sumimoto
Real World Computing Partnership

Experiences on a 1,024 Processor PC Cluster, RWC SCore Cluster III
Ge Chen
Yudong Sun
Cho-Li Wang
University of Hong Kong
A Distributed Object Model for Solving Irregularly Structured Problems on Cluster