SGIUG Technical Conference and Tutorials
June 13 -16,
Munich Marriot Hotel
Final Program
Last Updated: 6/9/2005
11:46:52 AM
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1:00 - 5:00 |
Registration |
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Monday, June 13, 2005 |
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7:30 - 5:00 |
Registration |
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7:30 - 9:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 - 5:00 |
Tutorial Sessions |
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9:00 - 10:30 |
Tutorial A-1 CXFS Data Management Felix Blyakher SGI
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Tutorial B-1 “Automated Installation and
System Configuration Scott Bahling Novell Inc. |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Break |
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11:00 - 12:3 |
Tutorial A-2 Tuning Applications for CXFS David Chatterton SGI
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Tutorial B-2 Propack 4 on Altix:
Features, John Hesterberg SGI |
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12:30 - 1:30 |
Lunch |
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1:30 - 3:00 |
Tutorial A-3 SGI Networking and NAS Update Mike Gigante SGI |
Tutorial B-3 Running IRIX binaries on Linux Alan Robinson Transitive |
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3:00 - 3:30 |
Break |
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3:30 - 5:00 |
Tutorial A-4 DMF and Tape Roadmap/Update Neil Bannister SGI |
Tutorial B-4 Performance Analysis Tools Dr. Gerardo Cisneros SGI |
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5:00 - 6:00 |
BOF A-5 |
BOF B-5 |
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6:00 - 8:00 |
SGIUG Welcome Reception |
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7:30 - 9:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 - 9:15 |
Welcome and Introductions – Gary Jensen, SGIUG Secretary |
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9:15 – 10:00 |
Keynote
“Engineering and Science Impact of NASA /SGI/Intel Columbia and the Road Forward” Walt Brooks, NASA Ames President, SGIUG
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10:00 - 10:30 |
SGI Corporate Report Bob Bishop, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SGI |
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10:30 - 10:45 |
Break |
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10:45 - 12:30 |
SGI and Intel Technical Report
James Reinders, Director, Intel Software & Solutions Group Dave Parry, SVP and General Manager, SGI Server Platforms Group John Howarth, Director, SGI Storage Group Kevin McLaughlin, Vice President
Engineering, SGI Visualization Systems Group
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12:30 – 1:30 |
Lunch |
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1:30 - 2:15 |
Technology Trends Dr. Eng Lim Goh, Chief Technology Officer, SGI |
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2:15 - 2:30 |
Break |
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Session A-6,7 HPC “RASC – a new Paradigm in HPC” Bill Mannel/Dave Alexander SGI |
Session B-6/7 GRID PBS Professional on SGI Platforms Bill Nitzberg Altair Engineering |
Session C-6 VIZ Immersive Drilling Planner Geoff Dorn BP Center for Visualization |
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Session C-7 VIZ “Visualization of Real-time Production Data from Subsea Installations” Egil Tjaland Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
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Session A-8 HPC Linux
Future Technology Trends Jes Sorensen Wild Open Source |
Session B-8 GRID “Grid Services in the
Scientific, Optical Network PIONIER” Norbert Meyer, Maciej Stroinski |
Session C-8 VIZ “Visualization Demos” Gwen Pech BP Center for Visualization |
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4:00 - 4:30 |
Break |
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4:30 - 6:00 |
Session A-9 HPC “SGI Altix Server Roadmap – the Future of Multi-Paradigm Computing” Bill Mannel SGI |
Session B-9 STORAGE “Current CXFS Status & Roadmap” Neil
Bannister/Eric Eppe SGI |
Session C-9 VIZ “Application Scalability for Visualization” SGI |
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Session A-10 HPC “SGI's Strategy and Update for Linux” SGI |
Session B-10 STORAGE “Storage
Management at SGI” Mike Gigante SGI |
Session C-10 VIZ “RAVE – The Resource-Aware Dr. Ieuan Nicholas |
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Session A-11 HPC “REACT Real-Time for Linux” Lori Gilbertson SGI
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Session B-11 STORAGE “Magnetic Tape Recording Technology Futures and Challenges” Dr. Robert M. Raymond StorageTek
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Session C-11 VIZ “Databases and Virtual Environments: A Good Match for Communicating” Tiziano
Diamanti Certosa
Electronic Museum of Bologna |
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6:00 - 6:30 |
BOF A-12 “Town Hall Meeting and Discussion: Next Wave HPC Systems” Jill Matzke SGI |
BOF B-12 Irix/TRIX Status Lori Gilbertson SGI |
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6:30 - 8:30 |
Silicon Graphics Reception and Partner Pavilion
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7:30 - 9:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 - 10:30 |
Keynotes Crime
Scene Investigation Technology
& Techniques Franscesco Camana Italian State Police, Forensic Science Office
Virtual Autopsies Professor Anders Ynnerman Department of Science &
Technology,
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10:30 – 10:45 |
Break |
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10:45 – 12:15 |
Session A-13 HPC Building & Administering
Large Marek Zawadzki Poznan Supercomputing & Networking Center |
Session B-13 STORAGE Massive Array of Idle Disk (MAID) Devices at NASA NAS Facility Matt Cary, Liz Cox NASA Ames Research Center |
Session C-13 APPS Electron Interactions with the DNA and RNA Molecules Carl Winstead Caltech, JPL |
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Session A-14 HPC HPC Power and Cooling Trends Tim McCann SGI |
Session B-14 STORAGE Tuning 10 Gigabit Ethernet Andy Meyer Computer Sciences Corporation |
Session C-14 APPS Effects of high-frequency wind sampling on simulated mixed-layer depth and Upper-ocean Temperature Heidi
Lorenz-Wirzba JPL |
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Session A-15 HPC VOIP using an open-source solution William Boehlke Signate |
Session B-15 STORAGE Data Grid Architectures confronting the challenge of data locality and global coherence Geoff Hayward YottaYotta
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Session C-15 APPS SGIs“Star-P: Interactive HPC for Bill Mannel SGI |
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12:15 - 1:15 |
Lunch |
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1:15 – 2:15 |
SGI Service Updates
and Q&A Chuck Niggley,
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2:30 - 4:00 |
Session A-16 User Services Bandela tool for Profiling and Predicting MPI communications Daniel Thomas SGI |
Session B-16 GRID "Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA) and LRZ" Helmut Heller Leibniz Computing Centre - LRZ |
Session C-16 APPS “A Method for Determination of Ad-Hoc Parameters Used in General Circulation Models of the Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean System” Heidi
Lorenz-Wirzba JPL |
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Session A-17 User Services From Error containment, to
Recovery, Matthias Fouquet Lapar SGI |
Session B-17 GRID Development of Virtual Storage Systems in Service oriented Architecture J. Kitowski |
Session C-17 APPS Experience with Climate and Weather Applications on the SGI Altix Dr. Gerardo Cisneros SGI |
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Session A-18 User Services SGI Implementation of MPI-2 Terry Nelson NASA Ames Research Center |
Session B-18 GRID Where the Grid is Going Walter Stewart Global Coordinator Grid Strategy at SGI |
Session C-18 APPS A Highly Efficient Linpack Implementation based on Shared Memory Parallelism Jean-Pierre
Panziera SGI |
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4:00 - 4:15 |
Break |
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Session A-20 User Services Getting Good Performance on |
Session B-19 STORAGE Setting up and testing CXFS for Production use on Columbia Herbert DM Yeung NASA Ames Research Center |
Session C-19 APPS Fast Multipole Method n-body code on the 256 processor SGI Altix at ORNL Collin McCurdy |
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Session B-20 STORAGE SGI's NAS and SAN Resource Management Update Eric Eppe SGI
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Session C-20 HPC “Tour of Red Hat John Hesterberg SGI |
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Session A-21 User Services “Job Scheduling—Past, Present and Future at NASA Ames” Chuck Niggley NASA Ames Research Center |
Session B-21 STORAGE “Using GRIOv2 to Manage your Bandwidth” David Chatterton SGI |
Session C-21 HPC CPU Sets with 2 instances of PBS on a mixed-speed processor Altix system R. Suzette Henry |
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5:30 |
Break |
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6:00 |
Board Coaches for Departure to Hafbrau Haus |
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7:00 |
Dinner and Evening at Local Hafbrau |
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10:00 |
Coaches return to Hotel |
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7:30 - 9:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 - 9:45 |
General Session – Cool HPC Apps |
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9:45 - 10:00 |
Break |
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10:00 - 12:00 |
Session A-22 HPC “Kernel level Checkpoint Restart Functionality for SGI Altix Systems” R. Januszewski |
Session B-22 APPS “IBM DB2 Benchmark Performance Colin Frank IBM Rangers |
Session C-22 VIZ “The Future of Visualization” SGI |
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Session A-23 HPC “SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: Status and Updates” Dr. Gerald Pfeifer SUSE Linux Products GmbH |
Session B-23 APPS “Using Single Sided Communications to Aid Load Balancing” Glenn Carver |
Session C-23 VIZ “Prism: A platform for scalable graphics” Alpana Kaulgud SGI |
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Session A-24 HPC “MDGRAPE-3 Project” Dr. Makoto Taiji Genomic |
Session B-24 APPS “Efficient Bandwidth Utilization of Multi-User Systems” Kevin Roy |
Session C-24 VIZ “Working with Shaders” Praveen Bhaniramka SGI |
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Session A-25 HPC “Global Arrays Programming
Jarek Nieplocha PNNL |
Session B-25 APPS “Earth System Simulations on SGI Altix Systems using Python” L. Gross Earth Systems Simulation Computational Center (ESSCC) |
Session C-25 VIZ “Working with All your Data All the Time” SGI |
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Lunch |
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1:00 - 2:30 |
Session A-26/27 HPC “Developing Software for Multi-core Intel Platforms” Heinz Bast Intel Business Development |
Session B-26 APPS “Efficient Implementation of a High-resolution Global-ocean and Sea-ice Model on a Cubed-sphere Grid” Heidi
Lorenz-Wirzba JPL |
Session C-26 VIZ "Yggdrasil - Nordic Mythology combined with VR Collaboration" Bino Nord and Tomas Colbengtson Bino and Cool |
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Session B-27 APPS “Sedna-like Orbits from Stellar Encounter” Scott Kenyon Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, JPL |
Session C-27 Security “Next Generation Security for
the 10,240 Processor Tom Hinke |
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Session B-28 APPS “Helioseismic Probing of the Solar Interior” Johann Reiter Technical Univ
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Session C-28 Security “SGI CC Security Status / Plans” Lori Gilbertson SGI |
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2:30 - 2:45 |
Break |
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2:45 – 4:15 |
Session A-29 HPC Bill Thigpen |
Session B-29 APPS “GeoFEST – Geophysical Finite Element Simulation Tool” Heidi
Lorenz-Wirzba JPL |
Session C-29 VIZ “Display
Technology Update” Daniel
Banek Barco |
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Session A-30 HPC “Early Evaluation and Experiences of the Columbia 2048 system at NASA Ames Research Center” Bill Thigpen |
Session B-30 HPC “Exploiting NUMA characteristics of the SGI Altix for improving scalability of Global Arrays shared memory programming toolkit and NWChem" Dr. Gerardo Cisneros SGI
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Session C-30 VIZ “Interactive Fluid Dynamics: Computational Steering of a Lattice-Boltzmann Simulation” P. Wenisch TU Munich |
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Session A-31 Building Columbia from the SysAdmin View Davin Chan NASA Ames Research Center
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Session B-31 Storage ”Performance
Tuning for Mario
Vosschmidt Engenio
Information Technologies, Inc. |
Session C-31 VIZ “Inside the Prism™: Understanding QuickTransit” Alasdair Rawsthorne Transitive |
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Conference General Session Closing Remarks and Slideshow |
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5:30 |
SGIUG Board Meeting |
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