Clusters and Computational Grids for Scientific Computing 2006

Highland Lake Inn

September 10 – 13, 2006

 

CCGSC 2006 was held at a resort outside of Asheville, North Carolina called the Highland Lake Inn http://www.hlinn.com/index.html. 

 

The address of the Inn is:

Highland Lake Inn 

Flat Rock, North Carolina

(800) 635-5101 or

(828) 693-6812

 

Go to http://maps.google.com and type in: Highland Lake Rd; Flat Rock, NC or see:

Course map: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~dongarra/ccgsc2006/map1.pdf

Medium map :http://www.cs.utk.edu/~dongarra/ccgsc2006/map2.pdf

Fine map: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~dongarra/ccgsc2006/map3.pdf

Detailed map: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~dongarra/ccgsc2006/map1.pdf

 

Group picture can be found here.

Some additional pictures can be found here.

 

CCGSC is sponsored by generous grants from the NSF, Intel, Microsoft, Myricom, Sun, and the University of Tennessee’s Innovative Computing Laboratory. Thanks!

 

The complete set of slides can be found here.

The complete program can be found here.

 

 

 


CCGSC 2006 Flat Rock NC

September 10-13, 2006

 

Sunday

Introduction and Welcome      Jack Dongarra, U of Tennessee

Bernard Tourancheau, U Lyon

 

5:30  – 7:30

Session Chair: Jack Dongarra, U Tennessee

Grand Ole Hall (5 talks - 20 minute each)

5:30

Giri Chukkapalli, Sun

SUN's Petascale Strategy

5:50

Dan Fay, Microsoft

 

6:20

Patrick Geoffray, Myricom

Trends in High-Performance Networking: The Good, The Bad And The Very Ugly

6:40

Rob  Schreiber, HP

Parallel Programming Research at HP Labs

7:00

David  Scott, Intel

HPC @ Intel:  Platforms and the Technologies That Go Into Them

8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Dinner

Season’s Restaurant

9:30 pm -

Fire Pit and/or Refreshments in Woodward House

 

 

Monday

 

 

7:30 - 8:30

Breakfast

Season’s Restaurant

8:30 - 10:30

Session Chair: Bernard Tourancheau

Grand Ole Hall (4 talks – 30 minutes each)

8:30

Fran Berman, UCSD/SDSC

Beyond Branscomb

9:00

Tony Hey, Microsoft

e-Science and Cyberinfratructure

9:30

Pete Beckman, ANL/UC

Urgent Computing, Sharing Grid Resources, and Elastic Computing

10:00

Joel Saltz, OSU

Architecture of a Strongly Typed Grid and Lessons Learned from the Cancer Research Community

10:30 -11:00

Coffee/Cookies

Grand Ole Hall

11:00  - 1:00

Session Chair: Graham Fagg, U Tennessee

Grand Ole Hall (4 talks – 30 minutes each)

11:00

Franck Cappello, U of Paris

An Update of Grid'5000 and a Focus on a Fault Tolerant MPI Experiment

11:30

Rich Graham, LANL

Open MPI - A High Performance Fault Tolerant MPI Library

12:00

Rusty Lusk, ANL

DARPA's High Productivity Language Systems Project: One Language To Rule Them All, or ADA Strikes Back?

12:30

Thomas Sterling, LSU/ORNL/Caltech

ParalleX: Towards a New Parallel Execution Model for Scalable Programming and Architectures

1:00  - 2:00

Lunch

Season’s Restaurant

2:00 – 4:30

Free time

 

4:30 – 5:00

Coffee/Cookies

Grand Ole Hall

5:00 – 5:30

Frederica Darema, NSF

Clusters, Computational Grids, and Beyond

5:30 - 7:30

Panel Chair: Bill Gropp, ANL

Grand Ole Hall (Panel Session)

 

Geoffrey Fox, IU

"Three Questions You Should Ask" - Quantitative measures for improving the users' experience in using clusters and grids

 

John Morrison, UCC

 

Phil Papadopoulos, SDSC

 

Jeff Hollingsworth, UM

8:00 – 10:00

Dinner

Season’s Restaurant

9:30 pm -

Fire Pit and/or Refreshments in Woodward House

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday

 

 

7:30 - 8:30

Breakfast

Season’s Restaurant

8:30 - 10:30

Session Chair: Mark Baker, Reading U

Grand Ole Hall (4 talks – 30 minutes each)

8:30

Ken Kennedy, Rice U

The Role of Performance Models in Efficient Grid Scheduling

9:00

Laurent Lefevre, ENS Lyon

Challenges In Designing High Performance Autonomic Gateways In Large Scale Grids And Distributed Environments

9:30

Philippe D'anfray, Renater

Renater Dark Fiber Architecture: User's Feedback

10:00

Yves Robert, ENS, Lyon

Matrix Product/LU with Limited Memory

10:30 -11:00

Coffee/Cookies

Grand Ole Hall

11:00  - 1:00

Session Chair: Jean-Yves Berthou, EDF

Grand Ole Hall (4 talks – 30 minutes each)

11:00

Satoshi Matsuoka, TiTec

The Hatching of TSUBAME and Its Siblings --- One Possible Future Scenario for the Japanese Petascale Grid in the 2010s ---

11:30

Miron Livny, U Wisc

Submitting Locally And Running Globally - The GLOW And OSG Experience

12:00

Frederic Desprez, ENS Lyon

Scheduling for Network Enabled Servers Systems

12:30

Jim Plank, UTK

Erasure Coding Research for Reliable Distributed and Cluster Computing

1:00  - 2:00

Lunch

Season’s Restaurant

2:00 – 4:00

Free time

 

4:00 – 5:00

Coffee/Cookies

Grand Ole Hall

5:00 - 7:30

Session Chair: Thomas Ludwig, Heidelberg

Grand Ole Hall (5 talks – 30 minutes each)

5:00

Wuchun Feng, VT

Global Climate Warming?  Yes ... in the Machine Room

5:30

Al Geist, ORNL

Counting on Failure

6:00

Dieter Kranzlmuller, Kepler U

Interactive Videostreaming Visualization on Clusters and Grids

6:30

David Walker, Cardiff U

Portal Interfaces for Grid-Based Scientific Computing

7:00

Bart  Miller, U Wisc

Scalable Tool Design for Large-Scale Applications

8:00 – 10:00

Dinner

Season’s Restaurant

9:30 pm -

Fire Pit and/or Refreshments in Woodward House

 

 

Wednesday

 

 

7:30 - 8:30

Breakfast

Season’s Restaurant

8:30 - 10:30

Session Chair: Vaidy Sunderam, Emory

Grand Ole Hall (4 talks – 30 minutes each)

8:30

Thilo Kielmann, Vrije U

Grid Programming Models: Requirements and Approaches

9:00

Michel Cosnard, INRIA

Resource Discovery in the Arigatoni Overlay Network


9:30

Rich Wolski, UCSB

Predicting Bounds on the Batch Queuing Delay Experienced by User Jobs in Real Time


10:00

Hans Zima, Caltech

High-Level Programming Models for Clusters: Issues and Challenges

10:30 -11:00

Coffee/Cookies

Grand Ole Hall

11:00  - 1:00

Session Chair:  Micah Beck U Tennessee

Grand Ole Hall (4 talks – 30 minutes each)

11:00

Andrew Lumsdaine, IU

High-Performance Distributed Memory Graph Computations

11:30

Chuck Seitz, Myricom

Ethernet Will Eradicate Ethernot

 

12:00

Jeff Vetter, ORNL

Application accelerators: Deus ex machina?

12:30

Emmanuel Jeannot, Loria INRIA-Lorraine

Improved Scheduling Strategies for Agent-Client-Server Middleware

1:00  - 2:00

Lunch

Season’s Restaurant

2:00

Depart