The presentations will be available on CD. If you would like one of these CDs, please contact
Bernadette Watts (bmwatts@sandia.gov).
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General Guidelines (These instructions were given as guidelines to participants):
- We will assume that everyone will read the supplied bio. There would be no time wasted in lengthy introductions. Instead, self-introduction is strongly encouraged in which you can share some personal information to establish a better rapport with the audience. Share a secret, a hobby, a joke, an embarrassing moment, or an incident.
- About one-third time is planned for audience participation in each session.
- Session Chairs, Moderators, and Panelists will have 10 minutes each for their prepared talks.
- Keynote and other speakers will have 20 minutes for talk and 10 minutes for Q&A.
- Session chair will decide the order of the presentations.
- Each speaker is encouraged to email the presentation ahead; at the latest we will copy it on our flash card at the workshop.
- Times allotted will be strictly observed.
Monday, March 3, 2003
| Time | Activity | Room |
| 4:00pm | Guest Check-in | Front Lobby |
| 5:30pm – 7:30pm | Welcome Buffet Reception | Animas Room |
| Tuesday, March 4, 2003 | ||
| Time | Activity | Room |
| 7:00am – 7:00pm | Registration Work Station | Lobby/Break out area |
| 7:00am – 7:30am | Continental Breakfast | Innisbrook Foyer |
| 7:30am – 8:00am | Welcome & Intro– Bill Camp (SNL), Welcome, Neil Pundit (SNL), Technical Highlights, and David Womble (SNL) Welcome and CSRI | Innisbrook |
| 8:00am – 8:30am | Keynote Speaker: Jeff Nichols (ORNL) Substituted for Thomas Zacharia. The Challenge and Promise of Scientific Computing | Innisbrook |
| 8:30am – 9:00am | Keynote Speaker: Bill Camp (SNL) Architectural Considerations for Petaflops and Beyond | Innisbrook |
| 9:00am – 9:15am | Break | Innisbrook Foyer |
| 9:15am – 11:30am | General Session Report on Recent Workshops & Conferences Chair: Fred Johnson (DOE Office of Science) Q1: What was the MOTIVATION for the workshop/conf? Burning issues? Q2: What are 3 significant results or conclusions? Q3: Was there consensus in the conclusions reached? Panelists: ASCI HPC Linux Meeting, Sonoma, CA – Nov, 2002 Norman Morse (DOE HQ) Sandia Petaflops Workshop Overview for SOS7 Erik DeBenedictis (SNL) Fast-OS Barney Maccabe (UNM) Report on 2002 Fault Tolerance Workshop Patty Hough (SNL) Cluster Performance Enhancements High-Intensity Retreat, September 3-5, 2002, Cloudcroft, NM Rolf Riesen (SNL) EuroPVM/MPI 2002 Dieter Kranzlmüller (Univ.of Linz) Report on Communication Architecture for Clusters (CAC) Workshop D K Panda (OSU) Clusters, Fault Tolerance and Other Thoughts Dan Katz (JPL/Caltech) Center for Programming Models for Scalable Parallel Computing: Project Meeting Report Bill Gropp (ANL) Scaling to New Heights Mike Levine (PSC) | Innisbrook |
| 11:30am – 4:00pm | Time blocked for side meetings and/or private activities. | |
| 4:00pm – 6:00pm | General Session Machines Already Operational Chair: Ed Oliver (DOE, Director of ASCR) Technical Facilitator: Rolf Riesen (SNL) Summarization of Main Technical Details for Each Machine Prepared by Rolf Riesen Q1: Is your machine living up to the performance expectations? If yes, how? If not, what is the root cause? Q2: What is the MTBI (mean time between interrupts)? What are the topmost reasons for interrupts? What is the average utilization rate? Q3: What is the primary complaint, if any, from the users? Panelists: Operational Machines: ASCI White Mark Seager The ASCI Q System at Los Alamos John Morrison NCSA Terascale Clusters Dan Reed NSF’s Terascale Computing System Mike Levine NOAA Forecast System Laboratory Cluster Leslie Hart HPC at CEA/DAM Jean Gonnord | Innisbrook |
| 5:30pm – 5:45pm Break | Pre-function Rm | |
| 6:00pm – 6:30pm | Keynote Speaker: Ralf Gruber (ETH/EPFL) Is a Grid Cost-effective? | Innisbrook |
| 6:30pm – 7:00pm | Keynote Speaker: Jack Dongarra (ORNL and U of Tenn) Self Adapting Numerical Software (SANS-Effort) for Scientific Computing | Innisbrook |
| 7:00pm – 7:30pm | Keynote Speaker: Dan Reed (NCSA) The Petascale Mountain Pass | Innisbrook |
| 7:30pm – 9:30pm | Dinner & Keynote Speaker | Kiva Room |
| 8:45pm – 9:15pm Keynote Speaker: Thomas Sterling (JPL/Caltech) Exaflops: The Final Frontier | Kiva Room |
Wednesday, March 5, 2003
| Time | Activity | Room |
| 7:00am – 7:00pm | Registration Work Station | Lobby/Break out area |
| 7:00am – 7:30am | Continental Breakfast | Innisbrook Foyer |
| 7:30am – 9:30am | General Session Planned Machines Session Chair: Bob Meisner (ASCI Program, DOE HQ) Technical Facilitator: Rolf Riesen (SNL) See the summarization of the main technical details for each machine, prepared by Rolf Riesen, under "Machines Already Operational session." The Panelists will address the following questions for their machines: Q1: What is unique in structure and function of your machine? Q2: What characterizes your applications? Examples are: Intensities of message passing, memory utilization, computing, IO, and data. Q3: What prior experience guided you to this choice? Q4. Other than your own machine, for your needs what are the best and worst machines? And, why? Panelists: Planned Machines: ASCI Purple, ALC and M&IC MCR Mark Seager SNL Red Storm Jim Tomkins Pink – A 1024 Node Science Appliance Ron Minnich HPCS2 (AKA the HP Cluster at PNNL) Scott Studham Cray X1 and Black Widow at ORNL Center for Computational Sciences Buddy Bland The IBM BlueGene/L Machine José Moreira (IBM Watson Center) Planned Machines: Blue Planet Brent Gorda | Innisbrook |
| 9:00am – 9:15am Break | Innisbrook Foyer | |
| 9:30am – 11:00am | General Session (Other) Killer Applications Chair: Ken Washington (SNL) Panelists: Killer Apps: Neutrinos’ Revenge Tony Mezzacappa (ORNL) Supercomputing and the New (Quantitative) Biology Grant Heffelfinger (SNL) Weather Forecasting on Distributed Memory Supercomputers Leslie Hart (FSL/NOAA) | Innisbrook |
| 11:00am – 11:30am | Keynote Speaker: Mike Levine (PSC) The NSF’s Terascale Computing System and Teragrid: Support for Scientific Research | Innisbrook |
| 11:30am – 4:00pm | Time blocked for side meetings and/or private activities | |
| 4:00pm – 4:30pm | Keynote Speaker: Fred Johnson (DOE SC) Computational Challenges and Directions in the Office of Science | Innisbrook |
| 4:30pm – 5:00pm | Keynote Speaker: Bill Gropp (ANL) The Future of MPI | Innisbrook |
| 5:00pm – 7:15pm | General Session Runtime Systems, Operating Systems, Message Passing, and Resource Management Moderator: Ron Brightwell (SNL)Q1: What works? Q2: What is unsatisfactory? Q3: What lies ahead? Panelists: Some things work…Some things could be better…What lies ahead… Stephen Scott (ORNL) Commodity Tools Pete Wyckoff (OSC) I/O on Clusters Rajeev Thakur (ANL) Job Scheduling P. Sadayappan (OSU) Performance Analysis in the Context of Layered Middleware Thomas Stricker (Swiss Institute of Technology, ETH) Advances in the Scyld Beowulf System: The Third Generation Don Becker (Scyld) The Good, The Bad, The Future Jim Harrell (USI) | Innisbrook |
| 5:30pm – 5:45pm Break | Pre-function Rm | |
| 8:00pm – 9:30pm | Dinner @ Steamworks Restaurant | Downtown Durango |
Thursday, March 6, 2003
| Time | Activity | Room |
| 7:00am – 7:00pm | Registration Work Station | Lobby/Break out area |
| 7:00am – 7:30am | Continental Breakfast | Innisbrook Foyer |
| 7:30am – 9:45am | General Session Research and Applications in Europe Chair: Pierre Kuonen (EIA-FR) Panelists: Design and Implementation of a Single System Image Operating System for High Performance Computing on Clusters Christine Morin (INRIA/IRISA) Optical Trends in Interconnects Donald Luijten (IBM’s Zurich Research Lab) The Intercept Project: A Cluster Using the Full PCI-X Performance Anton Gunzinger/David Mueller File System Expertise at SCS Martin Frey (SCS) | Innisbrook |
| 9:00am – 9:15am Break | Innisbrook Foyer | |
| 9:45am – 11:30am | General Session Vendors Contribution Chair: Jean Gonnord (CEA – French Atomic Energy Commission) Q: What will major vendors do for supercomputing in this decade? Panelists: (listed in alphabetical order by company) What will Cray do for supercomputing in this decade? Asaph Zemach (Cray) Dell High Performance Cluster Computing: An Overview Jenwei Hsieh (DELL) Some Thoughts on HP & HPTC & IA-64 Richard Kaufmann (HP) Intel’s Contribution to HPC This Decade Stephen Wheat (Intel) SGI Contributions to Supercomputing by 2010 Steve Reinhardt (SGI) Sun’s HPC Approach John Gustafson (SUN) | Innisbrook |
| 11:30am – 4:00pm | Time blocked for side meetings and/or private activities | |
| 4:00pm – 4:30pm | Keynote Speaker: David Nicol (Dartmouth) Network Security Research Using High Performance Simulation | Innisbrook |
| 4:30pm – 5:00pm | Keynote Speaker: Rob Leland (SNL) Technology Confluence and National Security | Innisbrook |
| 5:00pm – 5:45pm | Break | Pre-function Rm |
| 5:45pm – 7:15pm | General Session Crystal Ball Moderator: Thomas Sterling (JPL/Caltech)Q1: What does the future hold for supercomputing? Q2: What do we want to see? Panelists: Crystal Ball Panel Al Geist (ORNL) Can academic ideas and new concepts still make a difference in high performance computing? Thomas Stricker (ETH) SOS7 – Crystal Ball or a Random Walk Through Mike’s Brain Mike Merrill (NSA) Bill Camp (SNL) – no formal presentation Crystal Ball Panel: The Futures of Supercomputing Bill Gropp (ANL) | Innisbrook |
| 7:15pm – 7:30pm | Thank You – Bill Camp, Host (SNL) | Innisbrook |
| 7:30pm – 9:30pm | Buffet Dinner | Kiva Room |