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December 1-4, 2003 Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong Sponsored by: IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing IEEE Computer Society The University of Hong Kong Conference Highlights ** There will be 48 contributed papers to be presented on Dec. 2-4, covering a wide range of subjects in cluster computing research. See our full program in : http://www.csis.hku.hk/cluster2003/advance-program.html ** Keynote addresses given by world-class researchers: - Linux Clusters for Extremely Large Scientific Simulation (Mark K. Seager, LLNL) - Distributed Security Enforcement for Trusted Cluster and Grid Computing (Kai Hwang, USC) - Cluster Computing for Financial Engineering (Thomas F. Coleman, Cornell) - Towards Grid and Cluster Federations (Satoshi Sekiguchi, AIST) - ... More deatils: http://www.csis.hku.hk/cluster2003/keynote.htm ** Panel discussion on Dec. 3: "Top Problems in Cluster Computing and Systems and Possible Solutions", led by - Rusty Lust, Angonne National Lab., USA - Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University, USA - Phil Papadopoulos, San Diego Supercomputing Center, USA - Thomas Stricker, ETH, Switzerland - Chip Watson, DOE Jefferson Lab, USA - Zhiwei Xu, Institute of Computing Technology, China - Xiaodong Zhang (Moderator), NSF and College of William and Mary, USA ** Four tutorials, introducing state-of-the-art clustering technologies on Dec. 1 : 1. Designing Next Generation Clusters with Infiniband: Opportunities and Challenges 2. Using MPI-2: Advanced Features of the Message Passing Interface 3. The Gridbus Toolkit for Grid and Utility Computing 4. Building and Managing Clusters with NPACI Rocks More … http://www.csis.hku.hk/cluster2003/tutorials.htm ** Vender technical talks and exhibitions by : HP, Microsoft, IBM, Extreme Networks, Sun Microsystems, Dawning, Intel, DELL, Cluster File System, Linux Networx, Mellanox, RackSaver, … More … http://www.csis.hku.hk/cluster2003/vender.htm ** A live Grid demo session on Dec. 4, featuring 8 innovative Grid applications/systems. More .. http://www.csis.hku.hk/cluster2003/griddemo.html ** A boat trip at the beautiful and romantic Victoria Harbour in the evening of Dec. 4 More .. http://www.csis.hku.hk/~chyu/cluster2003/boat.html ** One-day tour on Dec. 5 : - Enjoy the fascinating view of the Victoria Harbor from the Victoria Peak - The breathtaking views over sandy beaches at Repulse Bay - Visit the "Ling Chi" ("herb of the gods") plantation garden. - "Big Bowl Feast" ("Pun Choi" in Chinese) -- food served in wooden basins More … http://www.csis.hku.hk/~chyu/cluster2003/tour.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Conference/Tutorial Registration : http://www.csis.hku.hk/cluster2003/registration.htm Hotel Reservation: http://www.csis.hku.hk/cluster2003/hotel.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------