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The LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, is one of the sponsoring organizations for IEEE’s Cluster Conference, which will take place next week at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans’ historic French Quarter.

Cluster is the premier international conference on cluster computing,  focusing on groundbreaking research into 21^st-century cyberinfrastructure, including hardware, software, data analysis and storage, networking and applications. The IEEE Cluster series started in 1999, and information about previous events can be found online at http://www.clustercomp.org.

Cluster 2009 features tutorials, workshops, a poster session, technical paper sessions and an exhibition area. These sessions will cover a wide range of topics, including parallel and distributed computing, performance optimization, high-performance computing research applications and programming.

Conference keynote speakers include John Gustafson of Intel, David Kirk of NVIDIA and Satoshi Matsuoka of the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society organize this conference annually. Cluster 2009 sponsors include CCT, along with National Science Foundation, Q Logic, Platform, Microsoft, Dell and the Computation Institute at University of Chicago.

Daniel S. Katz, senior computational scientist with the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, is general chair for the conference. Katz previously was a professor in the LSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and served as head of the CCT’s Cyberinfrastructure Development division. Thomas Sterling, CCT and LSU Department of Computer Science, is Cluster 2009 program chair.

For more information or to register and attend the conference, please visit http://www.cluster2009.org.