Clusters and Computational Grids for Scientific Computing

 

CCGSC 2008

 

September 14 - 17, 2008

Highland Lake Inn

Flat Rock, North Carolina

 

Sponsored by:

                                                               

 

Clusters and Computational Grids for Scientific Computing 2008

Highland Lake Inn

September 14 – 17, 2008

 

CCGSC 2008 will be 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/ccgsc2008/map1.pdf

Medium map :http://www.cs.utk.edu/~dongarra/ccgsc2008/map2.pdf

Fine map: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~dongarra/ccgsc2008/map3.pdf

Detailed map: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~dongarra/ccgsc2008/map1.pdf

 

Message from the Program Chairs

 

This proceeding gathers information about the participants of the Workshop on Clusters and Computational Grids for Scientific Computing that was held at Highland Lake Inn at Flat Rock, North Carolina on September 14 - 17, 2008.  This workshop is a continuation of a series of workshops started in 1992 entitled Workshop on Environments and Tools for Parallel Scientific Computing. These workshops have been held every two years and alternate between the U.S. and France. The purpose of this the workshop, which is by invitation only, is to evaluate the state-of-the-art and future trends for cluster computing and the use of computational grids for scientific computing.

This workshop addresses a number of themes for developing and using both cluster and computational grids. In particular, the talks covered:

·        Message Passing and High Speed networks

·        Grid Infrastructure and Programming Environment

·        Cluster Based Computing and Tools

·        Languages, Libraries, and Fault Tolerance.

 

Speakers will present their research in the above four areas and interacted and worked with all the participants on the future software technologies that will provide for easier use of parallel computers. 

 

This workshop was made possible thanks to sponsorship from NSF, AMD, IBM, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Inc., Myricom Inc., and HP, and Cray, with the scientific support of INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science), the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville (UTK) and University Claude Bernard (UCB-Lyon 1). Thanks!

 

Jack Dongarra, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.

Bernard Tourancheau, Lyon, France

 

 


CCGSC 2008 Flat Rock NC - Draft agenda

September 14-17, 2008

 

Sunday

September 14th

Introduction and Welcome               Jack Dongarra, U of Tennessee

Bernard Tourancheau, U Lyon

 

6:30  – 7:45

Session Chair: Jack Dongarra, U Tennessee

Grand Ole Hall (2 talks - 25 minute each)

6:30

Patrick Geoffray, Myricom

MPI Has Failed. What Now?

6:55

John Levesque, Cray

Are Accelerators the Light at the End of the Tunnel or a Train

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Dinner

BBQ at the Pavilion or Grand Ole Hall depending on the weather

9:00 pm -

Fire Pit and/or Refreshments in Woodward House

 

 

Monday,               September 15th

 

 

7:30 - 8:30

Breakfast

Season’s Restaurant

8:30 - 10:35

Session Chair: Bernard Tourancheau, University of Lyon

Grand Ole Hall (5 talks – 25 minutes each)

8:30

Fran Berman, UCSD/SDSC

What's on Fran's Mind

8:55

Tony Hey, Microsoft

eResearch, Semantic Computing and the Cloud

9:20

Pete Beckman, ANL/UC

Linux on a Hundred Million Processors: Why Not?

9:45

Joel Saltz, Emory U

Integrative Biomedical Research Design Patterns,  HPC, Semantic Interoperability and Grid

10:10

Carl Kesselman, ISI

Virtual Organizations By the Rule

10:35 -11:00

Coffee

Grand Ole Hall

11:00  - 1:05

Session Chair: Satoshi Sekiguchi, AIST

Grand Ole Hall (5 talks – 25 minutes each)

11:00

Franck Cappello, U of Paris

Fault Tolerance for PetaScale Systems: Current Knowledge, Challenges and Opportunities

11:25

Vaidy Sunderam, Emory

Alternative Aspects of Cloud and Utility Computing

11:50

Rusty Lusk, ANL

MPI on a Hundred Million Processors:  Why?  How?

12:15

Rosa Badia, UPC

Programming the Landscape of Parallel Resources

1:05  - 2:00

Lunch

Season’s Restaurant

2:00 – 4:30

Free time

 

4:30 – 5:00

Coffee

Grand Ole Hall

5:00 – 5:25

Guy Steele, Sun

Fortress Programming Language Project Status

5:25 - 7:30

Panel Chair: Al Geist

Grand Ole Hall (Panel Session)

 

Geoffrey Fox, IU

Panel on “Cloudy Future”

 

Phil Papadopoulos, SDSC

 

Jeff Hollingsworth, UM

 

8:00 – 9:00

Dinner

Season’s Restaurant

9:00 pm -

Fire Pit and/or Refreshments in Woodward House

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday,           September 16th

 

 

7:30 - 8:30

Breakfast

Season’s Restaurant

8:30 - 10:35

Session Chair: Andrew Lumsdaine

Grand Ole Hall (5 talks – 25 minutes each)

8:30

George Bosilca, UTK

The Next MPI challenge(s)

8:55

Laurent Lefevre, ENS Lyon

Slash Energy Bills of Your High Performance Data Centers! Towards Energy Aware Resource Infrastructure for Large Scale Distributed Systems

9:20

Ewa Deelman, ISI

Cloudy Skies: Astronomy and Utility Computing

9:45

Fredrick Desprez, ENS

Semi-Static Data Replication and Request Scheduling: From Algorithms to Middleware

10:10

Yves Robert, ENS, Lyon

On Tolerating Unrecoverable Interruptions via Task Replication

10:35 -11:00

Coffee

Grand Ole Hall

11:00  - 1:05

Session Chair: Jean-Yves Berthou, EDF

Grand Ole Hall (5 talks – 25 minutes each)

11:00

Satoshi Matsuoka, TiTec

Hundred Million Cores in Commodity---Why Not? (or, Will `Custom'*Finally* Prevail?)

11:25

Miron Livny, U Wisc

Living the Grid Dream – A Report from the Trenches

11:50

Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon

Multi-Criteria Scheduling of Workflow Applications

12:15

Christine Morin, INRIA

Clouds: A New Playground for XtreemOS Grid operating system

12:40

Jim Plank, UTK

Erasure Coding: Views From 10,000 feet and Through A Magnifying Glass

1:05  - 2:00

Lunch

Season’s Restaurant

2:00 – 4:00

Free time

 

4:00 – 5:00

Coffee

Grand Ole Hall

5:00 - 7:30

Session Chair:

Grand Ole Hall (6 talks – 25 minutes each)

5:00

Kirk Cameron, VTech

It Ain't Easy Being Green in HPC

5:25

Rob  Schreiber, HP

Nanophotonic Devices

5:50

Piotr Luszczek, UTK

Matlab in Parallel

6:15

David Walker, Cardiff U

Performance Results for Nested Parallelism on Multicore Architectures

6:40

Dennis Gannon, Microsoft Research

Building Reliable Science Gateways: When can a Grid be a Cloud?

7:05

Jelena Pjesivac-grbovic, Google

High-Performance Computing at Google

 

8:00 – 9:00

Dinner

Season’s Restaurant

9:00 pm -

Fire Pit and/or Refreshments in Woodward House

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday,  September 17th

 

 

7:30 - 8:30

Breakfast

Season’s Restaurant

8:30 - 10:35

Session Chair: Philippe D’anfray, CEA

Grand Ole Hall (5 talks – 25 minutes each)

8:30

Thilo Kielmann, Vrije U

Computing in the Mist: Writing Applications for Unknown Machines

8:55

Ram Rajamony, IBM

Getting to Productive Exaflop Systems

9:20

Rich Wolski, UCSB

EUCALYPTUS: An Open Source Service Infrastructure for Elastic Computing Research

9:45

Thierry Priol, INRIA

Unconventional Grid Programming

Movie version

10:10

Hans Zima, Caltech

High-Performance Cluster Computing in Space -- Challenges and Opportunities

10:35 -11:00

Coffee

Grand Ole Hall

11:00  - 1:05

Session Chair:  Tahar Kechadi, UCD

Grand Ole Hall (4 talks – 30 minutes each)

11:00

Andrew Grimshaw, UV

Simplifying Access to Grid Resources

11:25

Jeff Vetter, ORNL

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11:50

Emmanuel Jeannot, Loria INRIA-Lorraine

Wrekavoc: An Emulator of Heterogeneity

12:15

Bora Ucar, CERFAC

On Exact Algorithms For Mapping Communicating Tasks Onto Heterogeneous Processors

1:05  - 2:00

Lunch

Season’s Restaurant

2:00

Depart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you need a taxi or lemo from the airport in Asheville, here are some numbers:

 

 

Company

Telephone

Rate

Carolina Limousine

828-258-2526

$75.

Carolina Taxi & Industrial Transportation

828-693-3221

$36.

Elite Limousine

828-890-2424

$70.

Metro Cab

828-254-1155

$45.

New Bluebird Taxi

828-258-8331

$72.

Pegasus Transportation

828-281-4600

$75.

Starlite Limousine

828-586-5466

$80.

Yellow Cab Taxi Company

828-253-3311

$92.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Full resolution image can be found here.