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2nd Conference on Enabling Technologies for
Petaflops Computing
February 15-19, 1999

Final Agenda

Presentation Materials are available HERE.

Date Day Time Event Location
Feb 15 Monday
18:00 RECEPTION Sierra Madre North
Feb 16 Tuesday
08:00AM Breakfast Foyer of Santa Ynez
09:00 Opening Welcome Paul Messina Santa Ynez
09:15 Petaflops Initiative Paul H. Smith
09:30 Goals and Agenda Thomas Sterling
09:45 Keynote Address Ken Kennedy
10:30 BREAK
11:00 Petaflops & Society Andy White
11:45 Challenges and Opportunities, including historical video tape of comments by Seymour Cray Thomas Sterling
12:15 Group Photograph Mary Goroff Plaza Del Sol
12:30 Lunch Plaza Del Sol
13:30 Architectures Introduction Steve Wallach Santa Ynez
13:45 AR1: Advanced MPPs Tilak Agerwala
14:15 AR2: Multithreaded Architecture Burton Smith
14:45 AR3 PIM-based Architecture Peter Kogge
15:15 BREAK
15:45 AR4: SAN Scaling to Petaflops Greg Chesson
16:15 AR5: HTMT Thomas Sterling
17:00 Panel "Does Architecture Matter for Petaflops?" Tilak Agerwala, Greg Chesson, Peter Kogge, Burton Smith, Thomas Sterling, Steve Wallach (chair)
18:30 DINNER Sierra Madre North
20:00 Birds-of-a-Feather Session:
Addressing the PITAC Challenge
Paul H. Smith Santa Ynez
Feb 17 Wednesday
08:00 Breakfast Foyer of Santa Ynez
09:00 TK1: Technologies Introduction Arnold Silver Santa Ynez
09:30 TK2: Off the SIA Roadmap Ken Wang
10:00 BREAK
10:30 TK3: Superconductor RSFQ Kostya Likharev
11:00 TK4: Optical SAN Jon Sauer
11:30 TK5: Holographic Storage Hans Coufal
12:00 TK6: SC Logic Manufacture Lynn Abelson
12:30 LUNCH Maxi's Restaurant
13:30 Applications Introduction Rick Stevens Santa Ynez
14:00 AP1: Cosmology Tree-codes John Salmon
14:30 AP2: Material Science Bill Shelton
15:00 BREAK
15:30 AP3: Quantum Dot Simulation Mark Sears
16:00 AP4: Application Scaling Robert Harrison
16:30 AP5: Issues for Building Apps Paul Woodward
17:00 Panel "Impact and Challenges for Petaflops-scale Applications" Bill Johnston, Bob Lucas, Reagan Moore,  George Spix, Rick Stevens, Bob Voigt (chair), Paul Woodward
18:30 RECEPTION Miguel/Rosa
19:00 BANQUET David Brin Miguel/Rosa
Feb 18 Thursday
07:30 Breakfast Foyer of Santa Ynez
08:30 Algorithms Introduction David Bailey Santa Ynez
08:45 AL0: PFLOPS Analysis Adolfy Hoisie
09:10 AL1: Scalable Algorithms Vipin Kumar
09:40 AL2: Latency Tolerant Algorithms David Keyes
10:00 BREAK
10:30 AL3: Adaptive Mesh Refinement Rupak Biswas
11:00 AL4: Interdisciplinary Algorithms Tony Drummond
11:30 AL5: Algorithm Requirements Jake Maizel
12:00 LUNCH Maxi's Restaurant
13:00 Keynote Address Gil Weigand Santa Ynez
13:45 System Software Introduction John van Rosendale
14:15 SS1: O/S Scalability Greg Astfalk
14:45 SS2: Perf Monitoring and I/O Dan Reed
15:15 BREAK
15:45 SS3: PSEs, Libraries, Tools Jack Dongarra
16:15 SS4: Petaflops and the GRID Andy Grimshaw
16:45 SS5: Scaling Message Passing Bill Gropp
17:15 Panel "Can Petaflops Computing Survive the System Software Barrier?" Frederica Darema, Andy Grimshaw, Al Geist, Guang Gao, Rod Oldehoeft (chair), John van Rosendale
18:45 DINNER Sierra Madre North
20:00 POSTERS, DESSERT/COFFEE Poster Session Coordinator: Loring Craymer Sierra Madre South
Feb 19 Friday
07:30 Breakfast Foyer of Santa Ynez
08:30 Exotic Strategies Introduction Alan Craig Santa Ynez
09:00 XS1: Quantum Computing Jeff Kimble
09:30 XS2: Biological Computing Tom Knight
10:00 BREAK
10:30 XS3: Nano Technology Phil Kuekes
11:00 XS4: Quantum Algorithms Jon Dowling
11:30 XS5: Quantum Dots Craig Lent
12:00 Panel: "Summary Findings and Recommendations From Pflops2" David Bailey, Paul Messina (chair), Paul H. Smith, Thomas Sterling, Rick Stevens
13:00 Closing, Final Thoughts: Coming to Closure and the Launch of a New Era" Paul H. Smith
13:15 LUNCH Maxi's Restaurant