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LBNL Hosts Aug 19-23 Meeting of IBM Scientific Computing User Group
BERKELEY, CA -- The sixth meeting of the IBM System Scientific Computing User Group (SCICOMP) will be held Aug. 19-23, 2002, in Berkeley. ScicomP 6 is being held in conjunction with the summer meeting of SP-XXL, a similar group interested in IBM SP system management. The combined meetings are being hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC).
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The ScicomP meeting series enables computational scientists and engineers to learn about tools and techniques for developing applications that achieve maximum performance and scalability on IBM systems, both SPs and their successors. Technical presentations will highlight recent results and advanced techniques, and will provide the kind of information, expertise, and experience that scientific and technical applications developers need but cannot easily find elsewhere, according to meeting organizers. The early registration deadline is Monday, July 29, and information can be found at www.spscicomp.org/ScicomP6/register.html. Students may register at reduced rates for both the technical sessions and the tutorials. Proposals for user and vendor presentations are being solicited now and abstracts for proposed user presentations can be submitted via the web form at www.spscicomp.org/ScicomP6/userpres.html. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, July 29. "The co-location of this sixth ScicomP meeting with the XXL series promises to augment the user-oriented aspects of our meetings with discussions of additional system issues that can impact users significantly," said Bronis R. de Supinski, current SCICOMP president. "Further, I expect the pairing of popular IBM speakers with researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory with hands-on real applications experience to result in one of the best tutorials we've ever had." The ScicomP 6 sessions will feature presentations from IBM research and development staff, on topics that will include hardware and software roadmaps for large systems; application development support software tools; performance programming, measurement, analysis, and tuning techniques. The meeting will also feature user presentations focusing on real-world experiences in porting, maintaining and running codes on large-scale systems. Topics will include code migration, scalable algorithms, hybrid programming models, exploiting system architectures, and scheduling and execution frameworks. Additionally, a day of tutorials will be presented by IBM staff and others. SP-XXL will also hold technical sessions at this meeting open to participants from SP-XXL member sites. "These are very exciting times in high performance computing, and it is a great opportunity to be co-located with ScicomP 6," said Nicholas P. Cardo, current SP-XXL chair and member of the Computational Systems Group at NERSC. "All attendees will benefit from the information presented in the combined sessions. SP-XXL members will have the opportunity to attend valuable ScicomP tutorials and participate in topics not typically discussed in SP-XXL meetings." More information on this meeting can be found on the ScicomP 6 web pages at www.spscicomp.org/ScicomP6/. The agenda will be updated as it develops. For questions regarding technical presentations, contact Bronis de Supinski at bronis@llnl.gov. For questions on registration and local accommodations contact Tom DeBoni at: TMDeBoni@lbl.gov. In addition to support from Berkeley Lab and NERSC, sponsorship for this meeting is being provided by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Center for Applied Scientific Computing, and IBM Corp.
The ScicomP meeting series enables computational scientists and engineers to learn about tools and techniques for developing applications that achieve maximum performance and scalability on IBM systems, both SPs and their successors. Technical presentations will highlight recent results and advanced techniques, and will provide the kind of information, expertise, and experience that scientific and technical applications developers need but cannot easily find elsewhere, according to meeting organizers. The early registration deadline is Monday, July 29, and information can be found at www.spscicomp.org/ScicomP6/register.html. Students may register at reduced rates for both the technical sessions and the tutorials. Proposals for user and vendor presentations are being solicited now and abstracts for proposed user presentations can be submitted via the web form at www.spscicomp.org/ScicomP6/userpres.html. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, July 29. "The co-location of this sixth ScicomP meeting with the XXL series promises to augment the user-oriented aspects of our meetings with discussions of additional system issues that can impact users significantly," said Bronis R. de Supinski, current SCICOMP president. "Further, I expect the pairing of popular IBM speakers with researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory with hands-on real applications experience to result in one of the best tutorials we've ever had." The ScicomP 6 sessions will feature presentations from IBM research and development staff, on topics that will include hardware and software roadmaps for large systems; application development support software tools; performance programming, measurement, analysis, and tuning techniques. The meeting will also feature user presentations focusing on real-world experiences in porting, maintaining and running codes on large-scale systems. Topics will include code migration, scalable algorithms, hybrid programming models, exploiting system architectures, and scheduling and execution frameworks. Additionally, a day of tutorials will be presented by IBM staff and others. SP-XXL will also hold technical sessions at this meeting open to participants from SP-XXL member sites. "These are very exciting times in high performance computing, and it is a great opportunity to be co-located with ScicomP 6," said Nicholas P. Cardo, current SP-XXL chair and member of the Computational Systems Group at NERSC. "All attendees will benefit from the information presented in the combined sessions. SP-XXL members will have the opportunity to attend valuable ScicomP tutorials and participate in topics not typically discussed in SP-XXL meetings." More information on this meeting can be found on the ScicomP 6 web pages at www.spscicomp.org/ScicomP6/. The agenda will be updated as it develops. For questions regarding technical presentations, contact Bronis de Supinski at bronis@llnl.gov. For questions on registration and local accommodations contact Tom DeBoni at: TMDeBoni@lbl.gov. In addition to support from Berkeley Lab and NERSC, sponsorship for this meeting is being provided by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Center for Applied Scientific Computing, and IBM Corp.