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	Panel on “Cloudy Future”
	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	??
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

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