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The 8th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing is organized for users, administrators and developers of clustered computers for high performance computing (HPC). The 2007 conference will be held in South Lake Tahoe, California, at the Embassy Suites. This conference is the premier international forum to share information on management, administration, and scientific computing techniques on clusters. The 4-day event, including conference and tutorials, will feature a broad range of presentations and papers from HPC and large-scale cluster-computing professionals in industry, academia, and government. Speakers will address efforts to integrate and develop science and engineering applications for large-scale clusters to achieve maximum performance and scalability. Featured speakers include Don Becker, CTO, Penguin Computing; Horst Simon, director, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center; and Peter J. Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray Inc. The conference program committee invites students to submit papers and posters. Papers will be reviewed by the conference peer reviewing team. Cash prizes will be awarded; Papers: $1000, $250, and $100 and Posters: $400, $200, and $50, for first, second and third places, respectively. Students submitting papers must be the first author on the paper and must be willing to attend the conference and present their winning paper. Students submitting posters must be the author and be willing to present their poster at the conference. Topics of interest can be found online at www.linuxclustersinstitute.org but students are not limited to those topics.Submission deadline is January 15, 2007. This year’s conference features two sessions devoted to high-resolution environmental modeling with talks pertinent to environmental concerns in the Lake Tahoe basin and the Sierras. Topic areas include snow prediction, run-off and pollution control modeling, water clarity models, forest fire and forest management modeling, and the effects of climate change on the lake and in the Sierras. The conference also features a session on education topics. These areas include teaching of clustered computing and undergraduate and graduate programs that feature clustered computing. More information can be found online at: its Web site.