Sun Computational Biology SIG Newsletter - October 3, 2003

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Sun HPC Consortium News October 3, 2003

Contents:

1. Registration now open for Phoenix meeting November 15-17
2. Draft agenda for Phoenix
3. Sign up for HPC Consortium email

1. REGISTRATION NOW OPEN FOR PHOENIX MEETING NOVEMBER 15-17

Our Registration web site is now live! Register at http://www.sun-registration.com/hpc

The Consortium meeting is co-located with the IEEE SC2003 conference. We are planning Two full days of talks from Sun customers, engineers, and pundits (Nov. 15-16) and then workshops on the 17th. The event will be held at the Sheraton Crescent Hotel, 2620 West Dunlap Ave., Phoenix, AZ. NOTE: If you register before October 24th you will receive

a $50 discount off the regular conference fee of $199. That's 25% off!

Please email inquiries to mailto: hpcconsortium-info@sun.com.

2. DRAFT AGENDA FOR PHOENIX

The agenda is looking to be one of our best ever! Sun has a lot of news, and so do your colleagues. The overall program will be as follows:

• Friday, November 14 -- evening reception at hotel
• Saturday, November 15 -- Main Sessions
• Sunday, November 16 -- Main Sessions and Gala Dinner event
• Monday, November 17 -- Tutorials in afternoon

Here is a preview of some or our speakers:

• Shahin Khan, VP of Sun HPTC
• Adrian Cockroft, Chief Architect Sun HPTC
• Wolfgang Gentzsch, Director of Sun Grid Computing
• Marty Itzkowitz, Sun performance analyzer architect
• Ruud van der Pas, Sun performance guru
• Steven Newhouse, Technical Director London e-Science Centre and the Sun Lecturer in e-Science
• Phil Papadopoulos, Program Director, Grid and Cluster Computing, San Diego Supercomputer Center
• Bryan Banister, Assistant Director of HPTC and SAN Infrastructure, San Diego Supercomputer Center
• Giri Chukkapalli, San Diego Supercomputer Center
• Andreas Kaemper, Max Planck Institute
• Ratna Abrol, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center
• Jeff Woodyard, Jed Dobson, fMRIDC, Dartmouth College
• Rafi Muhanna, Director, Center for Reliable Engineering Computing, Georgia Tech.
• Vladik Kreinovich, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas El Paso
• Peter Tribble, UK Human Genome Mapping Project Computing Services
• Norbert Meyer, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center

And we will once again be sharing a program with Sun's very own HPC ACES. We will have joint tutorials on Monday on performance, Grids, and more. Make sure you take advantage of this opportunity to meet and talk to some of Sun's best HPTC techies!

3. SIGN UP FOR THE HPC CONSORTIUM EMAIL LIST

If you have not already done so, make sure to sign up for the HPC Consortium E-mail discussion list. The list is hosted by Aachen University, and is a good resource for information about Sun in high performance and technical computing and hear from other customers. The list is "Spam free" in that only members of the list can post to the list. To sign up go to:
http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/sunhpc/

Also visit our HPC Consortium Web sites:
http://www.sun.com/edu/hpc/consortium.html
http://www.hpcconsortium.org

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