From: dduke@ibm1.scri.fsu.edu (Dennis Duke)
Subject: Cluster Computing Workshop - Tentative Schedule of Speakers
Organization: SCRI, Florida State University
Date: 13 Nov 92 21:30:10 GMT



                   WORKSHOP ON CLUSTER COMPUTING
                       (Tentative Schedule)

             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
                   Timothy Mattson (mattson@sca.com), Yale and SCA
                   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.

The agenda for the workshop will be as follows:

Tuesday, December 1
 6:00 - 8:00 pm Registration and hosted Reception - Holiday Inn

Wednesday, December 2

 7:30 -  8:30	Continental Breakfast and Registration - Conference Center

 8:30 -  9:15	Tilak Agerwala, IBM Kingston

 9:15 - 10:00	Dan Anderson, N.C.A.R.
		The care and feeding of the NCAR cluster

10:00 - 10:30	Break

10:30 - 12:00	Session 1

		Joe Mathis, IBM Austin
		Fibre Channel Standard - Architecture
		
		Terry Anderson, Ancor Communications
		Two-Dimensional Networking

		Jim Feeney, IBM Endicott
                A Prototype Switch for Scalable High Performance 
		Distributed Computing


10:30 - 12:00	Session 2

		Richard P. LaRowe Jr., Worcester Polytechnic Institute
		Heterogeneous Computing Clusters By Design

		Doug Elias, Cornell
		Distributed Applications Management (DAM):
		Adaptive mappings between distributed applications and network
		computing resources.

		Joshua Auerbach, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
		Concert/C: C language extensions for convenient 
		distributed programming

		

12:00 -  1:00	Lunch

 1:00 -  3:00   Rusty Lusk, ANL
		Portable Parallel Computing with p4

		Tim Mattson, Yale and SCA
		Computing with LINDA

		Adam Kolawa, Parasoft
		Computing with EXPRESS

		Vaidy Sunderam,  Emory
		Computing with PVM

 3:00 -  3:30  	Break

 3:30 -  5:30	Session 3

		Josef Fritscher, Technical University of Vienna
		Just Another Parallel Extension  for C++

		Martin Rinard
		Heterogeneous Parallel Programming in Jade

		Juan Leon, Allan Fisher, Peter Steenkiste, CMU
		Fail-safe PVM

		Eugene C. Boman and  Angela B. Mounts
		United Technologies Research Center
		Practical Experience with PVM and CFD

 3:30 -  5:30	Session 4

		Andrew S. Grimshaw, Jon Weissman, Emily A. West, UVa
		Experiences with the Mentat MetaSystems Testbed

		R. Jagannathan, SRI International
		Parallel and Fault-Tolerant Processing on Workstation Clusters

		Yuan Shi, Temple University
		The Synergy Infrastructure - Tools for Computing the Future

		Ronald L. Rockhold, IBM Austin
		Developing and Testing Operating Systems on non-Cache 
		Coherent Multiprocessors


 7:00 - 	Hosted Reception at SCRI

 7:00 -  8:00	Demos at SCRI

 8:00 -  9:30	Moderated Session
		Parallel/Distributed Computing environments - "Is There
		Common Ground?
		Robert Voigt, NSF, moderator
		


Thursday, December 3

 7:30 -  8:30	Continental Breakfast and Registration - Conference Center

 8:30 -  9:15   Jack Dongarra, ORNL and University of Tennessee
		LAPACK for Clusters

 9:15 - 10:00	Martin Schultz, Yale
		Solving the Shallow Water Equations on Clusters

10:00 - 10:30   Break

10:30 - 12:00   Session 5

		Patrick T. Homer, Richard D. Schlichtin, University of Arizona
		Using the Schooner Interconnection System for Constructing
		Scientific Applications from Heterogeneous Resource

		Carolyn Gard, UGa
		UGA Experiences with Clustering RS/6000s and the ES/9000

		Steve Wolbers, Frank Rinaldo, Fermilab
		The Farms Systems at Fermilab


10:30 - 12:00   Session 6

		Carl Albing, Cray Research
		Load Distribution using NQS

		Maria Tortorici, Marco Alfano and G. Lo Re
		Centro Universitario di Calcolo - University of Palermo
		Distributing Numerical Algorithms: Some Experiences with NCS
		and PVM

		Songnian Zhou, University of Toronto and 
		Platform Computing Corporation
		LSF: Load Sharing in Large-Scale Heterogeneous 
		Distributed Systems


12:00 -  1:00   Lunch

 1:00 -  3:00   Session 7

		Miron Livny, University of Wisconsin-Madison
		What Did We Learn From Serving a Quarter of a Million Batch
		Jobs on a Cluster of Privately Owned Workstations

		Beverley Pederson, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights
		Condor Distributed Scheduler

                Steven Bellenot, FSU
		A Network Version of the Time Warp Operating System 

		Alan G. Yoder, Arindam Banerji, John M. Tracey, David L. Cohn
		University of Notre Dame
		Clustered Computing Research at Notre Dame

 1:00 -  3:00	Session 8

		Harold Trease, Jim Tabor, LANL
		Optimal Mapping of Unstructured Meshes to MPP and Clusters
		Using Recursive Spectral Bisection

		Stephen Fleischman, Convex Computer Corporation
		Some Experiences with Molecular Dynamics on an HP Cluster

		Jose M. Sanz, NASA Lewis Research Center
		A Clustered Cumputer Platform for
		the Inverse Design of a Full Engine

		Michael Pernice, Utah Supercomputing Institute
		Network Parallel Solution of Nonsymmetric PDEs:  How Well Can
		RISC Clusters Compete with Distributed Memory Multiprocessors?

 3:00 -  3:30   Break

 3:30 -  5:30   Session 9

		Martin Graff, Vienna University Computer Center
		Vienna Queueing System (VQS)

		L. Busby, LLNL
		Cluster Experiences at LLNL

		Mark Swanson, University of Utah
		The Schizophrenic Workstation

		Jim Hudgens, SCRI, FSU
		DQS

 3:30 -  5:30   Session 10

		Dan Nessett and Jim Rathkopf, LLNL
		Computing on Heterogeneous Supercomputer Clusters

		Salvatore Filippone and Maria Loredana Sales, IBM ECSEC, Rome
		Parallel Linear Systems Solvers on RISC/System~6000 Clusters

		R.C. Armstrong, R.E. Cline, Jr., M.L. Kozykowski, 
		Sandia National Laboratories and J.F. Macfarlane,
		Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
		A Toolkit Approach to Distributed Computing

		Ronald G. Minnich, The Supercomputing Research Center
		A SPARCStation ELC-based cluster


 7:00 -         Hosted Reception at SCRI

 7:00 -  8:00   Demos at SCRI

 8:00 -  9:30   Moderated Session
		Public Domain versus Commercial Software
		Neil Lincoln, SSESCO, moderator



Friday, December 4

 7:30 -  8:30	Continental Breakfast - Conference Center

 8:30 - 10:00	Session 11

		K. W. Johnson, J. Bauer, G. A. Riccardi, FSU and
		K. K. Droegemeier, University of Oklahoma
		Distributed processing of a regional prediction model

		Craig J. Tremback, Robert L. Walko, and William R. Cotton
		Colorado State University
		CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE PARALLELIZATION OF AN ATMOSPHERIC 
		NUMERICAL MODEL

		to be determined 

 8:30 - 10:00	Session 12

		Lewis Patterson, University of Alabama Birmingham
		Construction of a Fault-Tolerant Distributed Tuple-Space

		Bob Hyatt, University of Alabama Birmingham
		Future Developments in Tuple-Space

		Roberto Gomperts, Rosario Caltabiano, Silicon Graphics 
		A Simple Approach To Network Parallelism

10:00 - 10:30   Break

10:30 - 12:00   Session 13

		Susan Ying and Madhavan Narayanan, SCRI, FSU
		SOLVING THE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS

		Paul M. Beaumont and Lili Yuan, SCRI, FSU
		Optimization Using Parallel Genetic Algorithms:
		Applications in Economics

		to be determined 

10:30 - 12:00   Session 14

		Stephen Taylor, California Institute of Technology
		Composing Concurrent Programs

		Saul Youssef and Phillip Rulon, SCRI, FSU
		Coarse Grained Parallel Function Evaluation

		Randy Langley, SCRI, FSU
		DSM:  An Explicit Distributed Shared Memory Libary


12:00		Workshop Ends



It is generally possible to leave Tallahassee in the afternoon and reach most
destinations on either the east or west coast by Friday evening.

Among the institutions which will be represented at the Workshop are:

Alcoa Technical Center
Ancor Communications
Applied Parallel Research
Arco Oil Company
Argonne National Laboratory
Boeing Company
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Caltech
Carnegie Melon University
Chevron Oil Company
CICG (France)
CNUCE Institute of CNR Pisa (Italy)
Colorado State University
Convex Computer Corporation
Cornell Theory Center
Cray Research
Danish Computing Center (Denmark)
Emory University
Fermilab
Florida State University
George Washington University
IBM Austin
IBM Endicott
IBM European Center for Scientific and Engineering Computing (Italy)
IBM Kingston
IBM T J Watson Research Center
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Lulea University of Technology (Sweden)
NASA Lewis Research Center
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Naval Research and Development Center
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Parasoft Corporation
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft
SSESCO
Sandia National Laboratories
Schlumberger/Geco-Prakla
Scientific Computing Associates
Silicon Graphics
SRI International
Stanford University
Sterling Software
Syracuse University
Technical University of Vienna (Austria)
Temple University
United Technologies Research Center
University of Alabama Birmingham
University of Arizona
University of Georgia
University of Houston
University of Kentucky
University of Illinois
University of Notre Dame
University of Nova Scotia
University of Palermo (Italy)
University of Tennessee
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Utah
University of Vienna (Austria)
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin
Utah Supercomputing Institute

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

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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:

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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	Phone: (904)-222-8000
Tallahassee, FL 32301		Fax: (904)-222-8113


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