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ST. PETERSBURG, FL Registration is still open for "Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution 2002," the third international conference on Linux cluster computing organized by the Linux Cluster Institute (LCI). The conference is the premier international forum for Linux cluster users and system administrators and will feature speakers involved in high-performance Linux cluster computing, technical papers on a broad range of topics, vendor and sponsor presentations, and a panel discussion. Registration information is available at http://projects.ncsa.uiuc.edu/LinuxRevolution/register.html. The conference program is at http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/Linux-HPC-Revolution/programinfo.html. Plenary session speakers include: William Pulleyblank, director of exploratory server systems in IBM's Research Division and director of the IBM Deep Computing Institute; Daniel A. Reed, director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and chief architect of the TeraGrid project; and Chris Usher, president of PGS Data Processing. The program is divided into applications and systems tracks and will include information on solving linear systems, porting and development on clusters, computational fluid dynamics, benchmarking, alternatives to MPI, cluster management and monitoring, systems performance, scripting and checkpointing, streaming data and I/O, and processor and I/O performance. The conference will be held at the Hilton St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg, FL. The LCI, a consortium that provides advanced technical training for the deployment of high-performance Linux computing clusters, was founded by NCSA, the High Performance Computing, Education and Research Center (HPCERC), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and the Advanced Computing Technology Center at IBM Research.