Distributed Virtual Supercomputers
March 9th – 12th, 2009 – Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA
SOS is a series of highly interactive Workshops on Distributed Supercomputing, sponsored jointly by the Sandia National Labs, the Oak Ridge National Lab, and the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH and EPFL). SOS13 in 2009 will be the 13th year. The last one hosted by Sandia was SOS10 in Maui, HI, USA, in March 2006 attended by over 80 people, as many of you will recall. With your help, SOS13 will be the best ever in the series.
Logistics
Hotel:
Hilton Head Marriott Resort & Spa
One Hotel Circle
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina 29928, USA
1-888-511-5086
Hotel reservations deadline is February 9, 2009.
Reservations: We have negotiated a rate of $98.00 per night per room. Reference "SOS13" to receive the discounted rate. The discounted rate cannot be guaranteed after the reservations deadline. The above rate will be made available to event attendees for three days before and after the Official Program Dates on a space-available basis. Each attendee is responsible for his/her hotel reservation.
Phone reservations call: 1-888-511-5086. Reference "SOS 13 Workshop ."
Internet reservations: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/hhhgr-hilton-head-marriott-resort-and-spa/
(Group Code: SOSSOSA)
Special Accommodations: Let the Resort know if you require any special accommodations, services or special diet requests.
Hotel contact for lodging issues:
Carol E. Grindstaff
Group Housing Coordinator
Telephone: (843) 686-8478
Fax: (843) 686-8448
E-mail: Carol.Grindstaff@marriottsales.com
Registration
Please follow these steps to register:
- Fill in the registration form and fax/email it to Dee Cadena, dacaden@sandia.gov,
fax – 505-284-2518.
SOS13 Registration Form
If you do not receive confirmation within 72 hours please contact Dee. Your form may not have been received. - Make payment.
Registration Fee——–US $650
Additional Reception and Dinner guests for Monday, March 9, 2009 and Wednesday, March 11, 2009 will be: Adult – $125.00 and Children 12 years of age and over – $75.00 each. Children under 12 years of age are free.
NOTE: Guests must be paid for via check. Only participant registration can be paid for by credit card.
If you will be paying by credit card, please click here. Select the Event Name "SOS 13 Workshop" from the drop down list and fill in all required information within the form.
If you will be paying by check/money order, please make it payable to: SNL
Send the check along with the attendee’s name and what the payment is for (ex. registration, dinner guest, number of children) to:
Sandia National Laboratories
Attn: Dee Cadena
P.O. Box 5800, MS-1322
Albuquerque, NM 87185-1322
If you have any questions regarding the registration process, please contact Dee Cadena at
505-284-1458, dacaden@sandia.gov.
Participants
| Last Name | First Name | Affiliation |
| Ahern | Sean | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Ahrens | Jim | Los Alamos National Laboatory |
| Alexander | Richard | CSCS |
| Ang | James | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Ahusborde | Etienne | Universite de Bordeaux |
| Beckman | Pete | University of Chicago |
| Bergman | Keren | Columbia |
| Berney | Jean-Claude | EPFL |
| Brightwell | Ron | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Camp | William | Intel Corporation |
| Choiu | Derek | University of Texas at Austin |
| Chukkapalli | Giri | Sun Microsystems |
| Cook | Paul | Silicon Graphics, Inc. |
| Daly | John | Department of Defense |
| Dorigatti | Martin | SCS |
| Dosanjh | Sudip | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Edwards | Harold | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Engelmann | Christian | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Favre | Jean | CSCS |
| Geist | Al | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Grice | Don | IBM |
| Gruber | Ralf | EPFL |
| Hargrove | Paul | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Hemmert | Scott | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Heroux | Michael | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Hoisie | Adolfy | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Jacob | Bruce | University of Maryland |
| Jones | Andrew | NAG/HECToR |
| Kaufmann | Richard | Hewlett-Packard |
| Keller | Vincent | SCAI/University of Bonn |
| Klein | Dean | Micron |
| Koerv | Jenny | AMD |
| Kranzlmueller | Dieter | Ludwig-Maximilians-University |
| Kropf | Peter | University of Neuchatel |
| Kuonen | Pierre | University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland |
| Labry | John | Sun |
| Lee | Sander | DOE/NNSA |
| Levesque | John | Cray, Inc. |
| Luijten | Ronald | IBM Zurich Research |
| Maccabe | Arthur | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Michaels | George | Intel Corporation |
| Morin | Christine | INRIA |
| Morrison | John | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Mueller | David | SCS |
| Murphy | Richard | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Nichols | Jeff | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Numrich | Bob | University of Minnesota |
| Oliker | Lenny | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Olukotun | Kunle | Stanford University |
| Owen | Jay | AMD |
| Pundit | Neil | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Ralston | Ben | AWE plc |
| Riesen | Rolf | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Rodrigues | Arun | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Rogers | David | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Sawley | Marie-Christine | ETH Zurich group at CERN |
| Schaeli | Basile | EPFL |
| Schulthess | Thomas | CSCS |
| Scott | Stephen | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Scott | Steve | Cray, Inc. |
| Snavely | Allan | University of California, San Diego |
| Sterling | Thomas | Louisiana State University |
| Tomkins | James | Consultant |
| Vetter | Jeffrey | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Wheat | Stephen | Intel HPC |
| White, III | James B. | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Winkler | Karl-Heinz | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Worley | Patrick | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Yalamanchili | Sudhakar | Georgia Tech |
| Zacharia | Thomas | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Ziegler | Wolfgang | Fraunhofer Institute SCAI |
Program
Monday, March 9, 2009
| 6:00 – 9:00 | Registration and Reception |
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
| 7:30 – 8:30 am | Breakfast | ||
| 8:30 – 10:30 am | Session 1 Petascale System Challenges | Speakers | Affiliation |
| Chair: Sudip Dosanjh, SNL | Sudip Dosanjh/John Morrison (presentation) Al Geist (presentation) Thomas Schulthess (presentation) Vincent Keller/Wolfgang Ziegler (presentation) | ACES ORNL CSCS SCAI Univ. | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 am | AM Break | ||
| 11:00– 12:00 pm | Session 2 Resiliency | Panel | Affiliation |
| Chair: John Daly, CEC/NSA | Jim Ang Christian Engelmann Paul Hargrove Andrew Jones | SNL ORNL LBL NAG/HECToR | |
| 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:00 – 3:00 pm | Session 3 Industry | Speakers | Affiliation |
| Chair: Ben Ralston, AWE, UK | Steve Scott (presentation) Don Grice (presentation) Giri Chukkapalli (presentation) Jenny Koerv (presentation) | Cray IBM Sun AMD | |
| 3:00 – 3:15 pm | PM Break | ||
| 3:15 – 4:45 pm | Industry (cont.) | Richard Kaufmann (presentation) Bill Camp (presentation) | HP Intel |
| 4:45 pm | Dinner on your own |
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
| 7:30 – 8:30 am | Breakfast | ||
| 8:30 – 10:30 am | Session 4 Memory | Speakers | Affiliation |
| Chair: Thomas Sterling | Richard Murphy (presentation) Bruce Jacob (presentation) Dean Klein (presentation) Kunle Olukotun (presentation) | SNL U of MD Micron Stanford | |
| 10:30– 11:00 am | AM Break | ||
| 11:00– 12:00 pm | Session 5 System Software | Panel | Affiliation |
| Chair: Barney Maccabe, ORNL | Ron Brightwell Pete Beckman Stephen Scott Christine Morin | SNL U Chicago ORNL Europe | |
| 12:00 – 3:45 pm | Afternoon Free Lunch on your own | ||
| 3:45 – 5:45 pm | Session 6 Interconnects | Speakers | Affiliation |
| Chair: Keren Bergman, Columbia | Jeff Vetter (presentation) Ronald Luijten (presentation) Jim Tomkins (presentation) Keren Bergman (presentation) | GA Tech IBM Consultant Columbia | |
| 5:45 – 6:00 pm | PM Break | ||
| 6:00 – 7:00 pm | Session 7 Algorithms | Panel | Affiliation |
| Chair: Mike Heroux, SNL | Trey White Bill Gropp Andrew Jones Carter Edwards | ORNL UIUC NAG/HECToR SNL | |
| 7:00 – 9:00 pm | Conference Banquet Dinner | ||
| Dinner Speaker Coastal Discovery Museum Hilton Head, South Carolina |
Thursday, March 12, 2009
| 7:30 – 8:30 am | Breakfast | ||
| 8:30 – 10:30 am | Session 8 Simulations & Modeling | Speakers | Affiliation |
| Chair: Jim Ang, SNL | Adolfy Hoisie (presentation) Arun Rodrigues (presentation) Derek Chiou(presentation) Sudhakar Yalamanchili (presentation) | LANL SNL UT Austin GA Tech | |
| 10:30– 11:00 am | AM Break | ||
| 11:00– 12:00 pm | Session 9 Benchmarking | Panel | Affiliation |
| Chair: Marie-Christine Sawley, ETH Zurich | Pat Worley Leonid Oliker Andrew Jones John Levesque | ORNL LBL NAG/HECToR Cray | |
| 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:00 – 3:00 pm | Session 10 Analysis and Informatics | Speakers | Affiliation |
| Chair: Jean Favre, CSCS | Sean Ahern (presentation) David Rogers (presentation) Dieter Kranzlmueller (presentation) Jim Ahrens (presentation) | ORNL SNL Ludwig-Maximilians LANL | |
| 3:00 – 3:15 pm | PM Break | ||
| 3:15– 4:15 pm | Session 11 Crystal Ball | Panel | Affiliation |
| Chair: Jeff Nichols | Marie-Christine Sawley Sudip Dosanjh Sander Lee | ETH Zurich SNL NNSA/ASC | |
| 4:15 – 4:45 pm | Session 12 SOS 14 Planning Tentatively Savannah, GA, USA | Al Geist SOS Program Committee | |
| 4:45 pm | Adjourn |
Contacts
Technical Matters:
Sudip Dosanjh, Program Chair
Sandia National Laboratories
P.O. Box 5800, MS-1322
Albuquerque, NM 87185-1322
phone: (505) 845-7018
fax: (505) 284-2518
email: ssdosan@sandia.gov
Neil Pundit
Sandia National Laboratories
P.O. Box 5800, MS-1319
Albuquerque, NM 87185-1319
phone: (505) 845-7601
fax: (505) 845-7442
email: pundit@sandia.gov
David Rogers
Sandia National Laboratories
P.O. Box 5800, MS-1323
Albuquerque, NM 87185-1323
phone: (505) 844-5323
fax: (505) 284-2518
email: dhroger@sandia.gov
Administrative Matters:
Dee Cadena – Conference Organizer
Sandia National Laboratories
P.O. Box 5800, MS-1322
Albuquerque, NM 87185-1322
phone: (505) 284-1458
fax: (505) 284-2518
email: dacaden@sandia.gov
Hilton Head, South Carolina
- Hilton Head Island, Visitor & Convention Bureau
- hiltonhead.com – Your online Resource for Hilton Head Island, SC
- HiltonHeadIslander.com – The official guide to all of what Hilton Head Island has to offer
- Palmetto Dunes
| Photos courtesy of the Hilton Head Island Visitor & Convention Bureau. |
