SGIUG Technical Conference and Tutorials

 

June 13 -16, Munich Germany

Munich Marriot Hotel

 

Final Program

Last Updated: 6/9/2005 11:46:52 AM

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Sunday, June 12, 2005

1:00 - 5:00

Registration

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Monday, June 13, 2005

7:30 - 5:00

Registration

7:30 - 9:00

Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 5:00

Tutorial Sessions

9:00 - 10:30

 

Tutorial A-1

CXFS Data Management

Felix Blyakher

SGI

 

Tutorial B-1

“Automated Installation and System Configuration
 with AutoYast

Scott Bahling

Novell Inc.

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:3

Tutorial A-2

Tuning Applications for CXFS

David Chatterton

SGI

 

Tutorial B-2

Propack 4 on Altix: Features,
Installation and Administration

John Hesterberg

SGI

12:30 - 1:30

Lunch

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

3:00 - 3:30

Break

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

5:00 - 6:00

BOF A-5

BOF B-5

6:00 - 8:00

SGIUG Welcome Reception

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Tuesday, June 14, 2005

7:30 - 9:00

Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15

Welcome and Introductions – Gary Jensen, SGIUG Secretary

9:15 – 10:00

Keynote

 

“Engineering and Science Impact of NASA /SGI/Intel Columbia and the Road Forward”

Walt Brooks, NASA Ames

President, SGIUG

 

10:00 - 10:30

SGI Corporate Report

Bob Bishop, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SGI

10:30 - 10:45

Break

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

 

12:30 – 1:30

Lunch

1:30 - 2:15

Technology Trends

Dr. Eng Lim Goh, Chief Technology Officer, SGI

2:15 - 2:30

Break

2:30 - 4:00

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

Session C-7 VIZ

“Visualization of Real-time Production Data from Subsea Installations”

Egil Tjaland

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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

Poznan Supercomputing & Networking Center

Session C-8 VIZ

“Visualization Demos”

Gwen Pech

BP Center for Visualization

4:00 - 4:30

Break

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”

Bruno Stefanizzi

SGI

Session A-10 HPC

SGI's Strategy and Update for Linux”

Steve Neuner

SGI

Session B-10 STORAGE

“Storage Management at SGI”

Mike Gigante

SGI

Session C-10 VIZ

“RAVE – The Resource-Aware
Visualization Environment”

Dr. Ieuan Nicholas

Cardiff University

Session A-11 HPC

“REACT Real-Time for Linux”

Lori Gilbertson

SGI

 

Session B-11 STORAGE

“Magnetic Tape Recording Technology Futures and Challenges”

Dr. Robert M. Raymond

StorageTek

 

Session C-11 VIZ

“Databases and Virtual Environments: A Good Match for Communicating”

Tiziano Diamanti

Certosa Electronic Museum of Bologna

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

 

6:30 - 8:30

 

Silicon Graphics Reception

and Partner Pavilion

 

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Wednesday, June 15, 2005

7:30 - 9:00

Continental Breakfast

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, Linköping University

 

10:30 – 10:45

Break

10:45 – 12:15

Session A-13 HPC

Building & Administering Large
IA-64 Linux clusters

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

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

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

 

Session C-15 APPS

SGIs“Star-P:  Interactive HPC for
Non-parallel-programming Experts”

 Bill Mannel

SGI

12:15 - 1:15

Lunch

1:15 – 2:15

SGI Service Updates and Q&A

Chuck Niggley, NASA Ames Research Center
Terry Oberdank, VP of Technology Solutions, SGI

 

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

Session A-17 User Services

From Error containment, to Recovery,
now to Prevention

Matthias Fouquet Lapar

SGI

Session B-17 GRID

Development of Virtual Storage Systems in Service oriented Architecture

J. Kitowski

AGH University of Science and Technology

Session C-17 APPS

Experience with Climate and Weather Applications on the SGI Altix

Dr. Gerardo Cisneros

SGI

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

4:00 - 4:15

Break

4:00 – 5:30

Session A-20 User Services

Getting Good Performance on
OpenMP and Hybrid MPI+OpenMP
codes on SGI Altix
Yan-Tyng Chang and
Johnny Chang
NASA Ames Research Center

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
Univ. of
Wisconsin

Session B-20 STORAGE

SGI's NAS and SAN Resource Management Update

Eric Eppe

SGI

 

Session C-20 HPC

“Tour of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 4 on Altix

John Hesterberg

SGI

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

Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research

5:30

Break

6:00

Board Coaches for Departure to Hafbrau Haus

7:00

Dinner and Evening at Local Hafbrau

10:00

Coaches return to Hotel

 

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Thursday, June 16, 2005

 

7:30 - 9:00

Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:45

General Session – Cool HPC Apps

9:45 - 10:00

Break

10:00 - 12:00

Session A-22 HPC

“Kernel level Checkpoint Restart Functionality for SGI Altix Systems”

R. Januszewski

Poznan Supercomputing & Networking Center

Session B-22 APPS

“IBM DB2 Benchmark Performance
on the Altix

Colin Frank

IBM Rangers

Session C-22 VIZ

“The Future of Visualization”

Simon Hayhurst

SGI

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

University of Cambridge

Session C-23 VIZ

“Prism: A platform for scalable graphics”

Alpana Kaulgud

SGI

Session A-24 HPC

“MDGRAPE-3 Project”

Dr. Makoto Taiji

Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN

Session B-24 APPS

“Efficient Bandwidth Utilization of Multi-User Systems”

Kevin Roy

University of Manchester

Session C-24 VIZ

“Working with Shaders

Praveen Bhaniramka

SGI

Session A-25 HPC

 “Global Arrays Programming
using SGI’s NUMALink

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”

Simon Hayhurst

SGI

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch

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

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 Columbia System”

Tom Hinke

NASA Ames Research Center

 

Session B-28 APPS

Helioseismic Probing of the Solar Interior”

Johann Reiter

Technical Univ of Munich, JPL

Session C-28 Security

“SGI CC Security Status / Plans”

Lori Gilbertson

SGI

2:30 - 2:45

Break

2:45 – 4:15

Session A-29 HPC

Columbia in Record Time

Bill Thigpen

NASA Ames Research Center

Session B-29 APPS

GeoFEST – Geophysical Finite Element Simulation Tool”

Heidi Lorenz-Wirzba

JPL

Session C-29 VIZ

“Display Technology Update”

Daniel Banek

Barco

 

Session A-30 HPC

“Early Evaluation and Experiences of the Columbia 2048 system at NASA Ames Research Center”

Bill Thigpen

NASA Ames Research Center

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

 

Session C-30 VIZ

“Interactive Fluid Dynamics: Computational Steering of a Lattice-Boltzmann Simulation”

P. Wenisch

TU Munich

Session A-31

Building Columbia from the SysAdmin View

Davin Chan

NASA Ames Research Center

 

Session B-31 Storage

”Performance Tuning for
 SGI TP Storage Systems and 4-Gigabit Storage Technology”

Mario Vosschmidt

Engenio Information Technologies, Inc.

 

Session C-31 VIZ

“Inside the Prism™: Understanding QuickTransit

Alasdair Rawsthorne

Transitive

4:15 - 5:00

Conference General Session Closing Remarks and Slideshow

5:30

SGIUG Board Meeting

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