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HPC Consortium Meeting Agenda

HPC - High Performance Computing
Consortium Meeting
Heidelberg City Center
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Kurfürstenanlage 1
Heidelberg, 69115 Germany


Sunday, June 20, 2004
Time Speaker - Title of Presentation
10:30 a.m. Registration opens
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Welcome, Art Pasquinelli, Sun Microsystems, USA
1:15 p.m. Keynote: High-Performance Throughput Computing, Marc Tremblay, Vice-President & Sun Fellow, Sun Microsystems, USA
2:00 p.m. Sun's Direction in HPTC, Steve Perrenod, Sun Microsystems, USA
2:30 p.m. New Features in Solaris 10, Harald Daeubler, U. of Ulm, Germany
3:00 p.m. Using MPI Efficiently on Large SMP Systems, Nick Maclaren, Cambridge University, UK - Part 1 - Part 2
3:30 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. Keynote: The UK e-Science Program and Web Service Grids,Tony Hey, Director e-Science, EPSRC, UK
4:30 p.m. The birth of a 5+ TFLOPS V60 cluster, Jim Pepin, CTO & Director HPC, University of Southern California, USA
5:00 p.m. Architecture and Performance Issues in Clusters, Mukund Buddhikot, Sun Microsystems, USA
5:30 p.m. Infiniband Deployments, Arun Jain, Vice President Marketing, Voltaire, Inc.
6:00 p.m. Improving Geographical Locality of Data for Shared Memory Implementations of PDE Solvers, Henrik Löf, Uppsala University, Sweden
6:30 p.m. End of Session
Monday, June 21, 2004
8:30 a.m. Checkpoint Restart under Sun Solaris, Radek Januszewski, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
9:00 a.m. Process and Job Display with ProView, Hans Joachim Pflug, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
9:30 a.m. Sun's AMD Opteron based systems, Tony Kay, Lead Architect Edge Computing, Sun Microsystems, USA
10:15 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Computational Biology Challenges and Opportunities, Stefan Unger, Sun Microsystems, USA
11:15 a.m. Standard Algorithms to Custom Development: Sophisticated and Accessible Analysis Solutions in Technical Computing, Martin Preiß and Stefan Sineux, Visual Numerics, USA
11:45 p.m. Turnaround or Throughput, Measuring and Enhancing Application Performance, Sanjay Goil, Sun Microsystems, USA
12:15 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Sun and the DARPA HPCS program, Michael Schulman, Product Line Manager, Sun Microsystems, USA
2:00 p.m. AMD Opteron Feature and Performance, Doug O'Flaherty, AMD, USA
2:45 p.m. Design and Performance of the AMD ACML, Edward Smyth, NAG, UK
3:15 p.m. Break
3:45 p.m. Early Performance Scalability Results On UltraSPARC III Cu, IIIi and IV, Ruud van der Pas, Sun Microsystems, USA
4:30 p.m. Grid Solutions, Brian Hammond, Sun Microsystems, USA
5:00 p.m. The Visual Grid, Paul Ramsey, Visual Grid Architect, Sun Microsystems, USA
5:30 p.m. Sun's Graphics Products, Michael Schulman, Product Line Manager, HPTC Marketing, Sun Microsystems, USA
6:00 p.m. Wrap Up, Brian Hammond, Sun Microsystems
6:30 p.m. Busses to Dinner at Clauer Winery
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
9:00 a.m. CB-SIG Registration
9:15 a.m. Introduction, Stefan Unger, Sun Microsystems, USA
9:30 a.m. Integrating SGE into the Genome Annotation System GenDB, Alexander Goesmann, Bielefeld, Germany
10:00 a.m. The Bioinformatics Hub at the Madrid Science Park, José María Carazo, Parque Cientifico de Madrid, Spain
10:30 a.m. Genomic Sequences and Protein Structures, H.A.Nagarajaram, CDFD, India
11:00 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m. ANNIE - Large Scale Protein Sequence Annotation, Michael Wildpaner TU Graz and IMP Vienna, Austria
12:00 p.m. ODD-Genes, Ratna Abrol, EPCC, Scotland
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Visual and haptic steering of the computational electro-mechanics of the beating heart, Arun Holden, Leeds University, UK
2:00 p.m. Tight Coupling of HPC and HPG for Realistic Surgical Training Simulation, Gabor Szekely, ETH, Switzerland
2:30 p.m. Skin Expert System/Grid for Everyday Things, Fumio Mizoguchi, TUS and Wisdomtec, Japan
3:00 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. The BIND Project, Ken Bantoft, Blueprint, Canada
4:00 p.m. Sun's Life Sciences Industry IT Initiatives, Ulrich Meier, Sun Microsystems, Germany
4:30 p.m. CB-SIG Business Meeting, Stefan Unger, Sun Microsystems, USA
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
9:00 a.m. Using Web Services for Grid, Savas Parastatidis, Newcastle University, UK
9:30 a.m. Sun N1 Grid Engine 6.0, Fritz Ferstl, Sun Microsystems, Germany
10:00 a.m. MonALISA : A Distributed Monitoring Service Architecture, Iosif Legrand, California Institute of Technology, USA
10:30 a.m. Grid(Lab) Resource Management System, Krzysztof Kurowski, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
11:00 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m. Integrating heterogeneous queuing systems, Marek Zawadzki, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
12:00 p.m. Scheduler based prefetching, Barbara Chapman, University of Houston, USA
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Building Grids, Steven Newhouse, Imperial College, UK
2:00 p.m. DisMaMin Project: Distributed Data Mining, Valerie Fiolet, University of Lillel, France
2:30 pm. A Web Services Infrastructure for General Computing, Aaron Turner, University of York/White Rose Grid, UK
3:00 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. The North Carolina Grid Infrastructure Service Provider, Wolfgang Gentzsch, MCNC, USA
4:00 p.m. Going Global with SGE and Globus v3.0, Ratna Abrol, EPCC, Scotland
4:30 p.m. Application portlets within the PROGRESS HPC Portal, Michal Kosiedowski, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland

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