INTERCONNECTS

Microway’s CTO, Stephen Fried will present a talk on connectivity issues and their impact on computing performance in clusters at BioIT World Expo. His talk is entitled “Low Latency, High Bandwidth Cluster Interconnects and Their Impact on Fine Grain Parallel Performance”. The presentation will take place on May 18th at 11:15 in Room 305 at the Hynes Convention Center. “Historically, most BioIT problems have been either coarse grain or embarrassingly parallel,” Mr. Fried commented, “As we move out of the Blast-dominated world of gene sequencing into the world of protein folding, and quantum chemistry, fine grain parallel processing will become increasingly more important. This talk describes what happens to cluster performance as the numbers of nodes in a cluster goes up and the time it takes a typical node to complete an iterative assignment goes down.” Mr. Fried is a physicist, who co-founded Microway to provide higher performance computing solutions to researchers in universities, corporations and government sponsored laboratories. He has developed several hardware and software solutions over the past 23 years, and continues to investigate new approaches that will make high performance computing more affordable to the research community. This presentation, part of the Technology Showcase Presentations, is open to all attendees of the BioIT World Conference and Expo. Microway will also be exhibiting its WhisperStation workstation and cluster solutions in Booth 406 in the exposition hall. For more information and a subscription to Microway's online technical newsletter, please visit its Website.