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ST PETERSBURG, FL -- The premier international forum for Linux cluster users and system administrators will feature speakers involved in high-performance Linux cluster computing and technical papers on a broad range of topics related to Linux cluster computing. The conference, called "The Linux HPC Revolution" is organized by the Linux Clusters Institute (LCI) and aimed at high-performance Linux cluster users and administrators. It will be held Oct. 23-25 in St. Petersburg, FLA. Sponsors of the conference are Myricom, Inc. and the National Computational Science Alliance. The conference program committee is soliciting novel technical papers on a broad range of topics related to systems integration, operation and support, end user applications, tools, and experiences. The deadline for submitting technical paper abstracts is Friday, May 31, 2002. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * performance evaluation, analysis, and optimization * performance tools, debuggers, and environments * high-performance applications and libraries * experiences in development of highly parallel applications * system management and administration * tools for building and administrating clusters * scheduling and load balancing * resource management * network, interconnects, and protocols * middleware for clusters * meta- and grid-computing * parallel i/o, file systems, and storage * autonomic computing * security * compilers * new experimental and commercial linux clusters Speakers at the conference will include experts from academia, research laboratories, and industry. The speakers will address efforts to integrate and develop science and engineering applications for Linux clustes that are scalable and achieve maximum performance. Key dates to remember include: May 31: technical papers extended abstracts submission deadline July 20: author notifications of acceptance August 26: final paper submission deadline, early registration deadline September 30: final registration deadline For more information on the conference, including guidelines for submitting technical papers, see . The LCI, a consortium that provides advanced technical training for the deployment of high-performance Linux computing clusters, was founded by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the High Performance Computing, Education and Research Center (HPCERC), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and the Advanced Computing Technology Center at IBM Research. LCI instructors include some of the world's foremost specialists in building and deploying Linux clusters at NCSA, HPCERC, and IBM. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a leader in developing and deploying cutting-edge high-performance computing, networking, and information technologies. NCSA is a partner in the TeraGrid project, a National Science Foundation initiative to build and deploy the world's largest, fastest, most comprehensive, distributed infrastructure for open scientific research. NCSA also leads the National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance), a partnership to prototype an advanced computational infrastructure for the 21st century that includes more than 50 academic, government, and industry research partners. The NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) program funds the Alliance. In addition to the NSF, NCSA receives support from the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, private sector partners, and other federal agencies. For more information, see http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu.