SCIENCE

The Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center (ARL MSRC), Raytheon, and the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) are pleased to conduct a symposium entitled "On the Use of Commodity Clusters for Large-Scale Scientific Applications 2004," July 27-29, 2004, at the Holiday Inn, Tyson’s Corner, VA. Because of the positive response to the 2003 symposium, we are expanding this year's program an additional half day. The symposium will address challenges associated with the rapidly expanding interest and acceptance of the use of commodity computer clusters for scientific applications. The symposium will explore the suitability of these clusters to operate within a heterogeneous production computing environment to solve very large scientific applications requiring extensive computer resources and execution times. Concerns addressed will include: life-cycle costs, system stability, and system management and administration. The symposium will focus on issues in five topic areas related to commodity clusters: technology trends, production issues, scientific visualization, computational applications, and high performance storage. Key dates in connection with the symposium are as follows: Last Date for Submission of Abstracts: February 16, 2004 Notification to the authors of abstracts: March 16, 2004 Last Date for submission of Presentation Materials: July 1, 2004 Last date for early registration: June 30, 2004 In addition to your participation, the sponsors of this symposium are soliciting presentations in any of the five topic areas. Please submit your Abstracts (not more than 500 words) in Microsoft Word Format to Ms. Virginia To, point of contact for this Symposium. Ms. Virginia To's email address is: vto@vtksolutions.com For more information and registration please visit: http://www.arl.hpc.mil/clusters2004/ Charles J. Nietubicz Deputy Director (A) U.S Army Research Laboratory Computational and Information Sciences Directorate Prabu Prabhakaran, Ph.D. Program Director Raytheon/ITS Richard H. Pritchard, Ph.D. Director, Federal Programs Ohio Supercomputer Center