From: dduke@ibm1.scri.fsu.edu (Dennis Duke)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: Announcement - Workshop on Cluster Computing
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:13:41 GMT
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                    WORKSHOP ON CLUSTER COMPUTING

             Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
                        Florida State University
                       Tallahassee, Florida 32306

            Wednesday, December 2 - Friday, December 4, 1992

       Organizers: Peter Dragovitsch (drago@scri.fsu.edu), SCRI, FSU
                   Dennis Duke (dduke@scri.fsu.edu), SCRI, FSU
                   Uli Hansmann (hansmann@scri.fsu.edu), SCRI, FSU
                   Neil Lincoln (nrl@nips.ssesco.com), SSESCO
                   Vaidy Sunderam (vss@mathcs.emory.edu), Emory University

The goal of the workshop is to bring together people who are interested in
the issues of using heterogeneous clusters of computers as computational 
resources. This group of people would include:

 - computational scientists or other end-users who desire to exploit 
   the power and capabilities of heterogeneous clusters as an
   alternative to conventional supercomputers or MPP's

 - software developers of queueing systems, parallel processing packages, and
   other software tools 

 - system administrators interested in both the strategic and technical issues
   of running clusters, including in general any kind of heterogeneous
   collection of networked computers

 - vendors who are developing products to serve this market:
   (a) new generations of high performance workstations
   (b) new forms of packaging of workstations
   (c) new high speed networking products
   (d) new products for addressing mass storage and other I/O needs
   (e) any other applicable technology

 - persons who would like to share their experiences, and especially give
   critical advice on desired user requirements, shortcomings of present
   hardware and software configurations, successes and failures to date,
   overviews of planned projects, etc.

Although most practical implementations of clusters to date consist of 
collections of RISC workstations, we are interested also in more general
configurations which might include any number of distinct architectures, 
and a variety of new high-speed network interconnections.

The format of the workshop will be to fill the day with contributed and
invited talks, and to have informal evening gatherings designed to further
enhance the opportunity for information exchange. We especially encourage
contributions of a 'practical experience' nature, since this is likely to
be of the most use to the many people who are involved in cluster computing,
and will also be complimentary to the many conferences that stress more the
academic side of computing and computer/computational science research.

Please register for the workshop using the form attached below. We encourage
as many attendees as possible to plan to make a presentation at the workshop.
We do ask that speakers plan to address topics within the scope outlined
above. Please send us a short abstract describing your talk, so we can plan an
appropriate place in the schedule. An announcement of the schedule of
speakers will be distributed as soon as possible. Within the limits of
available time, we would like to accomodate as many speakers as practicable.

The 'proceedings' of the workshop will be published via anonymous ftp. We will
request each speaker to send us an approriate electronic version of his
talk (ascii, postscript, tex, latex, troff, etc.). These will then be placed
on the machine ftp.scri.fsu.edu for further distribution.

Any questions or requests can be sent via email to 
cluster-workshop@scri.fsu.edu or to one of the organizers. SCRI can be
reached by phone at (904)-644-1010.

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REGISTRATION AND HOTEL INFORMATION

WORKSHOP ON RISC CLUSTER COMPUTING
December 2-4, 1992

PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT                                                 
Name _____________________________________
Social Security Number ___________________
Company __________________________________                           
Address/Mailstop __________________________________________________  
City/State/Zip/Country ____________________________________________  
Email address _______________________________________  

Workshop Program Number:  1903293

The registration fee for the workshop is $85, and includes three
continental breakfasts, Wednesday and Thursday lunches, morning and afternoon 
break refreshments, and the food and drink for the evening sessions. There
will be no workshop dinners.

If you want to pay by check, please print out and fill in the above 
registration form, including especially the Workshop Program Number, and
return the registration form and fee to:

The Registrar
Florida State University Conference Center
555 West Pensacola Street
Tallahassee, Florida 32306

If you want to register by credit card, you may register by email by sending
back an edited form of the above registration information, as well as the
following credit card information:

Credit Card Name _____________________________
Credit Card Number ___________________________
Name (as it appears on card) __________________________________
Expirations Date of Card _____________________

There is an additional 2% charge by the University for credit card
registrations (bringing the total to $86.70).

Email registrations, and all other inquiries about the workshop, may be
sent to:
email: cluster-workshop@scri.fsu.edu, or
fax:   (904)-644-0098, attention of Pat Meredith


Hotel Information:

The workshop hotel is the Holiday Inn, located within walking distance of
the FSU Conference Center and SCRI on the FSU campus. The hotel does provide
shuttle service to/from the Tallahassee airport. Rooms are $39 per night,
single or double, and reservations should be made by November 10. Be sure to
mention the Workshop on RISC Cluster Computing to get the special rate.

Holiday Inn/Downtown University Center
316 West Tennessee Street
Tallahassee, FL 32301
Phone: (904)-222-8000
Fax: (904)-222-8113