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Final Program

June 5-9, Las Vegas, USA
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Monday, June 5, 2006 Pre-Conference Tutorials
8:00am - 5:00pm	Registration
8:00am - 9:00am	Continental Breakfast
9:00am	Tutorial 1 Programming the RC100 using the Mitrion platform-Part 1- Reconfigurable Application Specific Computing (Bring your own code!) SGI/MITRON
10:00am	Break
10:30am	Tutorial 2 Programming the RC100 using the Mitrion platform - Part 2 SGI/MITRON
12:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Tutorial 3 Programming the RC100 using the Mitrion platform - Part 3 SGI/MITRON
3:00pm	Break
3:30pm	Tutorial 4 Programming the RC100 using the Mitrion platform-Part 4 SGI/MITRON
6:00pm - 8:00pm	SGIUG Welcome Reception

Tuesday, June 6, 2006
7:00am - 8:00am	Continental Breakfast
8:00am	Welcome and Introductions Gary Jensen, SGIUG Secretary
8:30am	The New SGI and the Voice of the Customer Dennis McKenna, Chairman, CEO and President, SGI
9:00am	SGI product strategy/roadmap Dave Parry, Senior Vice President and Product General Manager, SGI
10:00am	SGI Service Organization Update Terry Obderdank, VP Technology Solutions Group, SGI
10:30am	Break
11:00am	General Session Implementing optimal Storage Networking infrastructure for High performance and High Scalability Speaker: John Josephakis, Data Direct Networks
12:00pm	Session A-1 ProPack 4 / SLES 9 Experience on Columbia Speaker: Davin Chan, NASA Ames
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Session A-2 Experience with PBS on a 4 X 512p Altix SuperCluster Speaker: Dale Talcott, NASA Ames
2:00pm	Session A-3 CXFS on the Columbia system Speaker: Herbert Yeung, NASA Ames
2:30pm	Session A-4 Performance Evaluation of the CXFS File System on the HPC/Storage Complex for data-intensive computing at the TU Dresden Speaker: Michael Kluge, TU Dresden
3:00pm	Break
3:30pm	Session A-4 PBS Professional 8.0 - A Detailed Look at Major Enhancements for the SGI Altix Speaker: Bill Nitzberg, Ph. D., CTO, Altair Grid Technologies
4:00pm	Session A-4.1 Unscheduled interruptions on a Supercluster Author and Speaker: George Myers, NASA Ames
4:30pm	Session A-5/6 TotalView's Memory Debugging Capabilities for the Altix Speaker: Josh Carlson, ETNUS
Noon - 9:00pm	Partner Pavilion (Reception 7:00-9:00pm)

Wednesday, June 7, 2006
7:00am - 8:00am	Continental Breakfast
8:00am	General Session
8:30am	Keynote: Technology Trends Dr. Eng Lim Goh, Chief Technology Officer, SGI
9:30am	Break
10:00am	Session A-7 SGI Systems Roadmap Session Speaker: Bill Mannel, Director, Systems Marketing, SGI
10:30am	Session A-8 SGI Storage State of the Union Speaker: Mark Wiertalla, SGI
11:00am	Session A-9 Rapid Algorithm Development for Large-Scale Microwave Imaging using Star-P Speakers: Kevin Magde, Air Force Research Lab, Rome, NY Mark Barnell, CSC / Air Force Research Lab, Rome, NY Steve Reinhardt, SGI, Eagan, MN
11:45am	Session A-10 SGI Customer FeedBack Forum Moderator: Chuck Niggley, NASA Ames
12:30pm-1:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Session A-11 Performance characteristics of Columbia 2048 Authors: Subhash Saini, Haoqiang Jin, Robert Hood, NASA Ames Speaker: Robert Hood, NASA Ames	Session B-11 Real-time visualization of a high-resolution global ocean and sea ice simulation Authors: Dimitris Menemenlis, Chris Hill, Chris Henzebr Speaker: Dr. Heidi Lorenz-Wirzba, JPL
2:00pm	Session A-12 NAS scaling & CXFS status Speaker: Neil Bannister, SGI	Session B-12 Best Practices in Cluster Management Speaker: Rick Friedman, Scali, Inc.
2:30pm	Session A-12.1 Performance Characterization of Parallel Input/Output of SGI Clustered XFS by Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Benchmark Using Parallel Hierarchical Data Format Authors: Subhash Saini, Dale Talcott, George Myers and Robert Ciotti Speaker: Dale Talcott, NASA Ames Research Center	Session B-12.1 Immersive Safety Handling and Training Speaker: Dr. Egil Tjaland, Norwegian Univ of Science & Technology
3:00pm	Break
3:30pm	Session A-13 DMF Overview Speaker: Mark Wiertalla, SGI	Session B-13 Columbia application performance tuning case studies Speaker: Johnny Chang, NASA Ames
4:00pm	Session A-14 Data Intensive Computing in the Grid: A perspective from Dresden Speaker: Dr. Matthias S. Mueller, Deputy Director, CTO, ZIH, Dresden University of Technology	Session B-14 1/8th degree Pacific Regional Ocean Modeling System (Roms) on Columbia Speaker: Hongchun Zang, JPL
4:30-5:00pm	Prepare for Dinner and Show
5:15pm	Board Coaches for Departure
6:00pm	Dinner and Evening Event
10:00pm	Coaches return to Hotel

Thursday, June 8, 2006
7:00am - 8:00am	Continental Breakfast
8:00am	Keynote Session The Journey Ahead of Us. Intel(r) Processor Architechtures and Developer Software. Speaker: James Reinders, Director of Business Development and Marketing, Intel
9:30 - 10:00am	Break
10:00am	Session A-17/18 Highly scaleable RASC implementations on SGI 4700/RC100 systems Speaker: Matthias Fouquet-Lapar, Principal Engineer, SGI	Session B-17 Compiling for the latest Intel(r) Processors: New compiler options and strategies to take advantage of the latest features in the processors Instructor: Martyn Corden, Intel
11:00am	Session A- Q&A Session with Red Hat Speaker: Justin Nemmers, Red Hat
11:30am	Session A-19 Open\|SpeedShop Author and Speaker: Beverly Bernard, Linux Product Manager, SGI
12:00am	Session A-20 Brocade Author and Speaker: Doug Fields, Brocade
12:30pm-1:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm - 2:00pm	Session A- Introduction to SUSE Linux Enterprise Joe Gerkman, Novel	Session B-21 VTune(tm) Update: What's new in the VTune Analyser Instructor: Gary Carleton, Intel
2:30pm	Session A-21 Simulating a Computer Interconnection Network Speaker: Paul Springer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Break
3:30pm	Session A-22 Modeling and Optimization of Itanium2 processor performance a key issue for Terascale performance on SGI Altix systems Speaker: Dr. Gerhard Wellein, RRZE	Session B-22 Accelerate MPI application developement on Intel Clusters Karl Solchenbach, Intel
4:00pm	Session A-23/24 Tuning for High Performance Storage Author and Speaker: Dave Ellis, Director of HPC Architecture LSI Logic, Engenio Storage Group
5:00-6:00pm	Session A-25/26 Origin / IRIX Roundtable Workshop Moderator: Liz Cox
6:00 - 7:00pm	BOF A-3 (TBD)	BOF 4-B Ask the Experts: Attend this BOF to discuss the Intel Development Tools. This is your chase to ask questions and provide feedback. James Reinders, Karl Solchenback, Intel
7:00 - 8:00pm	INTEL Happy Hour

Friday, June 9, 2006
7:00am - 8:00am	Continental Breakfast
8:00am	General Session General Administration & Elections
9:00am	Session A-27.1 Performance of MPI Collectives and Improving Them Speaker: Kevin Roy, University of Manchester
9:30am	Break
10:00am	Session A-28 A Duality between Forward and Adjoint MPI Communication Routines Author and Speaker: Dr. Benny Cheng, JPL
10:30am	Session A-29 MPI Author and Speaker: Karl Feind, SGI
11:00am	Conference General Session Closing Remarks and Slideshow
1:00pm	SGIUG Board Meeting

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