SGI User Group

Program

This is the latest program (22nd April lunchtime). Please keep in mind that even though this program is considered final, minor changes may be made up to the start of the conference.

Sunday 23rd May


13:00 - 17:00	Registration

Monday 24th May


07:30 - 09:00	Continental Breakfast
09:00 - 17:00	Registration
09:00	Tutorial 1: Information, Scientific & Collaborative Visualisation [Part 1] Terry Hewitt, University of Manchester	Tutorial 2A: CXFS Geoffrey Wehrman, SGI
10:30	BREAK
11:00	Tutorial 1: Information, Scientific & Collaborative Visualisation [Part 2] Terry Hewitt, University of Manchester	Tutorial 2B: APPIQ John Welch, APPIQ
12:30	LUNCH
13:30	Tutorial 1: Information, Scientific & Collaborative Visualisation [Part 3] Terry Hewitt, University of Manchester Rob Jenkins, Purple Insight	Tutorial 2C: MPI Karl Feind, SGI
15:00	BREAK
15:30	Tutorial 1: Information, Scientific & Collaborative Visualisation [Part 4] Terry Hewitt, University of Manchester Rob Jenkins, Purple Insight	Tutorial 2D: Benchmarking to Determine the Fastest Supercomputer Andrew Jones, University of Manchester [1 hour]
17:00	BOF TA Open	BOF TB Open
18:00 - 20:00	Informal Reception

Tuesday 25th May


07:30 - 09:00	Continental Breakfast
09:00	Welcome and Introductions Walt Brooks, Chair of the organising committee
09:15	Keynote 1 Remote Imaging and Supercomputing - A Match Made On Earth Lucian Plesea, JPL
10:00	SGI Corporate Report Bob Bishop, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SGI
10:30	BREAK
10:45	SGI Technical Report Dave Parry, SVP and General Manager, Server Platforms Group Gabriel Broner, SVP and General Manager, Software Systems Group Greg Estes, VP, Visual Systems Technology Update Eng Lim Goh, SVP and Chief Technology Officer
12:30	Geographic Storage Clustering Results with CXFS Robert Handlovsky, YottaYotta		LUNCH (same time, same room)
13:30	Session 1A: Server Technology Chair: Chuck Niggley Server Updates Mike Woodacre, SGI Intel roadmap update - what's in store for Itanium Jason Waxman, Intel Industry power and cooling trends Tim McCann, SGI	Session 1B: Applications 1 Chair: Chris Catherasoo The ECCO High-Resolution Global-Ocean State Estimation Initiative Heidi Lorenz-Wirzba, Dimitris Menemenlis, JPL Magnetic Effects Change Our View of the Edge of the Solar System: MHD Instabilities and an Extended Jet Heidi Lorenz-Wirzba, Merav Opher, JPL	Session 1C: Security Chair: Dave Tweeten Attacking the IRIX OS - the past, the present and the future Adam Gowdiak, Security Team of PSNC [1 hour] followed by 30 minutes open discussion on security
15:00	BREAK
15:30	User Group Business Meeting led by Walt Brooks Elections to the Board and SIGs led by John Lynch
16:30	Session 2A: Alitx Experiences Chair: Terry Hewitt One years experience of Altix at CSAR Paul White, CSC Altix 512 SSI at NASA Ames Davin Chan, CSC, NASA Ames	Session 2B: Altix OS Chair: John Lynch SGI & Linux John Hawkes, SGI SGI Cluster Manager - High Availability software for Altix Paddy Sreenivasan, SGI	Session 2C: DMF Chair: Neil Bannister SGI DMF update and futures John Sygulla, SGI DMF on Linux Liz Cox and Matt Cary, NASA Ames
17:30	BOF 3A Customer Hardware Requirements & Architecture of Future Machines Steve Miller & Mike Woodacre, SGI	BOF 3B Production Quality Linux - What's missing? John Hawkes, SGI	BOF 3C SGI RAS capabilities - Present and Future Derek Robb, SGI
18:30 - 20:00	SGI Reception

Wednesday 26th May


07:30 - 08:45	Continental Breakfast
08:45	Keynote 2 Enhancing Railway Emergency and Security Responsiveness Fiona Love, Director, Training & Development, RailCorp
09:30	Session 4A: Tools & Performance Chair: Chuck Niggley Improving code performance through compiler optimization on the Altix Johnny Chang, CSC, NASA Ames SGI Altix Performance Tuning John Baron, SGI The Future of Debugging Gordon Saladino, Intel	Session 4B: Visualisation 1 Chair: Terry Hewitt Virtually Working: Successes, Failures, and Problems with the use of Virtual Reality and its Human Factors in Industry Carolina Cruz-Neira Scaling the Universe to fit in a Computer Carter Emmart The Role of Visualization in Resource Exploration and Development Geoffrey Dorn , BP Center for Visualization	Session 4C: SANs Chair: Neil Bannister Building a large-scale heterogenous SAN - lessons learnt John Lynch, Northrop Grumman Large SAN deployment troubleshooting techniques John Lynch, Northrop Grumman Magnetic Storage Media Future Directions Pat Hughes, SGI
11:00	BREAK
11:15	Session 5A: Progamming for HPC 1 Chair: Andrew Jones Exposing the computational kernel: Harnessing the power of HPC for virtual prototyping Lee Margetts, University of Manchester [1 hour] Application Specific Computing Steve Miller, SGI P: A tool for running Matlab programs on many processors and large memories Alan Edelman, MIT*	Session 5B: Visualisation 2 Chair: Gwen Pech Scalable visualisation solutions Guy Russell, SGI Sinking in a sea of pixels - the case for Media Fusion David Hughes, SGI Omnidirectional Stereo for Wide Field of View Displays Randall Smith, General Motors R&D The Fakespace Interaction Engine - extending the input and collaborative capabilities of HPC Adam Thurston, Fakespace	Session 5C: Storage & IO 1 Chair: John Lynch CXFS current status and roadmap Neil Bannister, Eric Eppe, SGI CXFS Multi-OS Update David Chatterton, SGI 2Gbit to 4Gbit FC transition Pat Hughes, SGI Discreet's Open Access using InfiniteStorage solutions Thomas Cheng, Discreet
13:15	LUNCH
14:00	Session 6A: Programming for HPC 2 Chair: Andrew Jones Co-Array Fortran Christian Coarfa, Rice University Unified Parallel C T. El-Ghazawi, George Washington University CxC Virtual Parallel Programming for Desktop Supercomputing Jim Gutowski, Engineered Intelligence Inc	Session 6B: IRIX Chair: Paul White SGI Linux & IRIX networking update Mike Gigante, SGI Recent Developments in IRIX Development Tools George Pirocanac, SGI IRIX status George Hyman, SGI	Session 6C: Storage & IO 2 Chair: John Lynch SGI Guaranteed Rate I/O for SAN & CXFS (GRIOv2) Update David Chatterton, SGI SGI File Serving including NAS Mike Gigante, SGI An Introduction to I/O and Storage Tuning Tips and Techniques Randy Kreiser, LSI Logics Storage Systems
15:30	BOF 7A Parallel progamming for scientists in the future Andrew Jones, University of Manchester	BOF 7B Open discussion on IRIX future packaging and release model George Hyman, SGI	BOF 7C How NOT to measure IO performance Mark Portery, SGI
16:30	Board coaches for Kennedy Space Centre
16:45	Coaches leave for Kennedy Space Centre
18:30 - 23:00	Arrive Kennedy Space Center VIP Tour of the Apollo/Saturn V Center Conference Dinner under the gigantic Saturn V Moon Rocket

Thursday 27th May


07:30 - 09:00	Continental Breakfast
09:00	Session 8A: Applications Chair: Chris Catherasoo Calculating Our Origins on an Origin-2000 Scott Kenyon, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Modeling Black Holes and Neutron Stars on Supercomputers Heidi Lorenz-Wirzba, Mark Miller, JPL Landing on Mars: Mars Exploration Rover Analysis Performed on Origin2000s Mark Schoenenberger, NASA Langley Application performance: Altix vs. the rest Georg Hager, Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen	Session 8B: Visualisation 3 Chair: Gwen Pech Broadcast Workflow Chris Golson, SGI Digital Intermediates Chris Golson, SGI Visualisation systems and toolkits Terry Hewitt, University of Manchester [1 hour]	Session 8C: Grid Chair: Norbert Meyer Exploiting Synergy: Acquiring, Computing, Managing and Visualizing Data on the Grid Walter Stewart, SGI Visual Area Networking Michael Brown, SGI The NASA IPG Tony Lisotta, NASA Closer the production Grid Norbert Meyer, PSNC
11:00	BREAK
11:30	Service - Interactive Q&A session Chaired by Chuck Niggley of NASA Ames, with Paul White of CSAR, and SGI representatives Terry Oberdank and Michelle Webster.
12:30	Closing Comments Invitation to next conference
13:00	Disperse
14:00	Meeting of new board (~ 2 hours)

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