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Final Program

May 21-24, Minneapolis, USA
Marriot Airport Hotel, Bloomington

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Monday, May 21, 2007 Pre-Conference Tutorials
8:00am - 5:00pmRegistration
8:00am - 9:00amContinental Breakfast
9:00am Tutorial 1-A
Programming the RC100 using the Mitrion platform - 1
SGI/MITRON		 Tutorial 1-B
DataDirect Networks Storage Solutions
Greg Scharrer, DDN Engineer
10:00amBreak
10:30amTutorial 2-A
Programming the RC100 using the Mitrion platform - 2
SGI/MITRON		 Tutorial 2-B
Intel
Application Development in a Cluster Environment
Gergana Slavova, Technical Consulting Engineer
12:30pmLunch
1:30pmTutorial 3-A
Programming the RC100 using the Mitrion platform - 3
SGI/MITRON		 Tutorial 3-B
Exploiting Cpusets with PBS Professional: Node Virtualization and Placement Sets
Speaker: Bill Nitzberg, Altair
3:00pmBreak
3:30pmTutorial 4-A
Programming the RC100 using the Mitrion platform - 4
SGI/MITRON		 Tutorial 4-B
Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server: Job Scheduler and Internals
Frank Chism, Technical Solutions Professional - HPC, Microsoft
5:00-6:00pmBOF 1-A BOF 1-B
6:00pm - 8:00pmSGIUG Welcome Reception
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
7:00am - 8:00amContinental Breakfast
8:00amWelcome and Introductions
Horst-Dieter Steinhoefer, SGIUG President
8:15amSGI Corporate Report
Bo Ewald, CEO and President, SGI
9:00amSGI product Strategy/Roadmap
Dave Parry, Senior Vice President and Product General Manager, SGI
10:00amBreak
10:15am
Keynote
Technology Trends
Speaker: Dr. Eng Lim Goh, Chief Technology Officer, SGI
11:15am
Keynote
Optimizing for Multi-Core - Threading and More!
Speaker: Bruce Leasure, Intel Performance Analysis and Threading Lab
12:00 - 1:00pmLunch
1:00pm
Session A-1
High Performance Computing at the Naval Research Laboratory
Speaker: Wendell Anderson, Robert Rosenberg, Mario Lanzagorta
1:30pm
Session A-2
Environmental Sustainability and High Performance Computing in the Southwest
Speaker: Joellen Russell, University of Arizona
2:30pm
Session A-3
PBS Professional on the SGI Altix
Speaker: Bill Nitzberg, Ph. D., CTO, Altair Grid Technologies, Altair Engineering, Inc.
3:00pmBreak
3:30pm
Tutorial 5-A
Virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Speaker: David Egts, Red Hat
Session A-4
Open SpeedShop
Speaker: Jim G., Open Speedshop, Inc.
4:00pm
Tutorial 6-A
Virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - continued
Speaker: David Egts, Red Hat
Session A-5
SUSE Linux Enterprise - From desktop to data center
Author and Speaker: Jose Betancourt, Novell
4:30pm
Tutorial 7-A
Virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - continued
Speaker: David Egts, Red Hat
Session A-6
Operating large scale Altix 4700 systems at Leibniz
Author and Speaker: Horst-Dieter Steinhoefer, LRZ
5:00-6:00pm
BOF-2A
SGI Global Developer Program
BOF-2B
Data Center Issues & Planning
Speaker: Tim McCann, Chief Engineer, SGI
Noon - 9:00pmPartner Pavilion (Reception 7:00-9:00pm)
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
7:00am - 8:00amContinental Breakfast
8:00am
Keynote
High Resolution Ocean and Sea-Ice Data Synthesis using the Columbia Computer
Speaker: Dimitris Menemenlis, Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology
9:00am
Session A-7
DDN S2A Storage
Speaker: Dave Fellinger
9:30amBreak
10:00am
Session A-8
YOTTA YOTTA
Speaker: Robert Handlovsky
10:30am
Session A-9
LSI Storage
Speaker: Debbie Chen
11:00am
Session A-10
SGI Customer FeedBack Forum
Moderator: Chuck Niggley, NASA Ames
12:00pm-1:00pmLunch
1:00pm
Session A-11
Experience with the ROCCC Compiler on RASC
Speakers: Prof. Walid Najjar
Session B-11
Application Based Performance Characterization of a dual-core SGI Altix 4700 Computing System
Speakers: Subhash Saini, NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1:30pm
Session A-12
RASC 1
Speaker: Brian Larson, SGI
Session B-12
TBA
Speaker: TBA
2:00pm
Session A-13
RASC 2
Speaker: Brian Larson, SGI
Session B-13
Performance Evaluation of a Dual-Core SGI Altix 4700 System Using Micro-Benchmarks, Kernels and Compact Applications
Speakers: Subhash Saini, NASA Advanced Supercomputing
2:30pm
Session A-14
RAS with SGI
Speaker: Pat Donlin
Session B-14
NAS - Workload management at NASA Ames
Speaker: TBA
3:00pmBreak
3:30pm
Session A-15
Enabling Grid-like Operations in Strong Security Environments
Speaker: Dr. Paul Kolano
Session B-15
Title: TBA
Speaker: H. Birali Runesha, Ph.D.Director of Scientific Computing and Applications, University Of Minnesota
4:00pm
Session A-16
Application Tuning Performance
Speaker: Reinhold Bader, LRZ
Session B-16
U.S. EPA Installation Experiences on Altix 4700
Speaker: Ed Anderson, U.S. EPA
4:30-5:00pmPrepare for Dinner and Event
5:15pmBoard Coaches for Departure
6:00 - 9:00pmDinner and Evening Event
Mississippi River dinner cruise on the Minneapolis Queen
10:00pmCoaches return to Hotel
Thursday, May 24, 2007
7:00am - 8:00amContinental Breakfast
8:00am
Session A-17
MPI/MPT update
Speaker: Karl Feind, SGI
Session B-17
SpectraLogic
Speaker: Jim McKinley, SpectraLogic
8:30am
Session A-18
Accelerating Application Performance with MPI
Speaker: Brian Forbes, Voltaire
Session B-18
SpectraLogic - continued
Speaker: Jim McKinley, Spectralogic
9:00am
Session A-19
Performance Tools ALTIX IA64 and XE-86
Speaker: John Baron, SGI
Session B-19
Using DMF with CXFS
Speakers: Mike Rouch, Nicko Acks, NASA Goddard
9:30am
Session A-20
Performance Tools continued
Speaker: John Baron, SGI
Session B-20
DMF
Speaker: John Sygulla, SGI
10:00amBreak
10:30amGeneral Administration & Elections
12:00-1:00pmLunch
1:00pm
Session A-21
Performance Evaluation of MPI One-Sided Communication on NASA Columbia Supercomputer
Speaker: Subhash Saini, NASA Advanced Supercomputing
Session B-21
NAS/NFS
Speaker: SGI
1:30pm
Session A-22
Supercomputing Infrastructure in Germany and its Usage Profile
Speaker: Reinhold Bader, LRZ
Session B-22
CXFS
Speaker: Neil Bannister, SGI
2:00pm
Session A-23
SGI Real Time
Security Update for ALTIX and ALTIX XE
Speaker:Lori Gilberston SGI
Session B-23
Tuning for High Performance Storage
Author and Speaker: Dave Ellis, Director of HPC Architecture LSI Logic, Engenio Storage Group
2:30pm
Session A-24
Administering SGI, Linux and Microsoft clusters at Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
Speaker: Marek Zawadzki, PSNC
Session B-24
Experiences and Performance Result of the High Performance Computing and Storage Complex in Dresden
Speakers: Matthias S. Müller, TU Dresden
3:00-3:30pmBreak
3:30pm
Session A-25
Project Carlsbad
Speaker: Steve Dean, SGI
Session B-25
Bulk Data Transfers Over High Performance WANS
Speaker: Avnish Bhatnagar, NASA Ames
4:00pm
Session A-26
Project Carlsbad - continued
Speaker: Steve Dean, SGI
Session B-26
TBA
Speaker: TBA
4:30pm
Session A-27
Origin / IRIX Roundtable Workshop
Moderator: Liz Cox
Session B-27
TBA
Speaker: TBA
5:00pmClosing Remarks and Slideshow
*SGIUG Board Meeting



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