VISUALIZATION

The Linux Clusters Institute's Fourth International Conference on Linux Clusters: the HPC Revolution 2003 is merging with ClusterWorld Conference and Expo. June 24 - 26, 2003, June 23, 2003 Tutorials, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/Linux-HPC-Revolution/ The Linux Clusters: the HPC Revolution 2003 Conference and the ClusterWorld Conference and Expo (CWCE) are merging to become the premier international conference concerning clusters of all types. This will be a 4-day event including conference, expo, and tutorials. The world-class event is focused on the application and management of clustered systems in large-scale computing environments. For 4 days, users, researchers, vendors, executives, and developers, of large-scale clusters will gather in San Jose to see the most recent technology offerings and learn about the latest developments and current research while also helping others by sharing knowledge and experiences. The CWCE technical conference, organized in partnership with the Linux Clusters Institute (LCI), will feature quality presentations from speakers involved in high-performance large-scale and cluster computing from industry, academia, and government organizations. The technical papers will cover a broad range of topics. These speakers will address efforts to integrate and develop science and engineering applications for large-scale clusters, in order to achieve maximum performance and scalability. This year, the conference is being expanded to include a full day of tutorials – "Applications Tuning in a Nutshell" and "Systems in a Nutshell" offered by LCI instructors. The technical conference program committee is soliciting novel papers on a broad range of topics related to end user applications, development of tools, systems integration, operation and support, and experiences in use and administration. Proposed papers will be selected on the basis of a 5 to 8 page extended abstract. Industry-specific tracks will provide users and companies an opportunity to present their experiences with applications, tools, use, and administration of large-scale clusters. The anticipated industrial tracks include – petroleum and geophysics, bioinformatics, rendering for content creation, aerospace and automotive, and finance. Parties interested in participating in the industrial tracks, involving a presentation only, should submit a one-page abstract outlining their experiences. The deadline for extended abstract submission is February 17, 2003. For further information about submitting abstracts, see: ttp://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/Linux-HPC-Revolution/callforpapers.html Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: - Cluster computing in Business, Industry, or Academia - Experiences in Development of Highly Parallel Applications - Porting Experiences - Performance Evaluation, Analysis, and Optimization - High Performance Applications and Libraries - Performance Tools, Debuggers, and Environments - Compilers - Clusters in Education - Experiences in Operating Clusters for Production HPC - Clusters in Data Centers - New Experimental and Commercial Clusters - Clusters in Heterogeneous HPC Environments - System Management and Administration - Resource Management - Tools for Building and Administering Clusters - Scheduling and Load Balancing - Parallel I/O, File Systems, and Storage - Networks, Interconnects, and Protocols - Security - Meta- and Grid-Computing - Middleware for Clusters KEY DATES Extended abstract submission deadline: Feb. 17, 2003 Authors notification: March 15, 2003 Final paper submission deadline: May 2, 2003 Early registration deadline: April 28, 2003 For submission information and instructions, refer to: http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/Linux-HPC-Revolution PROGRAM COMMITTEE Donald Becker – Scyld Computing Comporation, USA Peter Beckman - Argonne National Laboratories, USA Gianfranco Bilardi - University of Padova, Italy Jay Boisseau - TACC / UT - Austin, USA Ron Brightwell - Sandia National Laboratories, USA Giri Chukkapalli - San Diego Supercomputing Center, USA Stefano Cozzini - INFM - Sissa, Italy Cesar De Rose - CPAD - PUCRS / HP, Brazil Jack Dongarra - University of Tennessee, USA Thomas Fahringer - University of Vienna, Austria Patrick Geoffray - Myricom, USA David Henry - Linux NetworX, USA Haeng Jin Jang - KISTI, South Korea Patricia Kovatch - San Diego Supercomputing Center, USA Werner Krotz-Vogel - Pallas, Germany Greg Lindahl - Key Technologies, USA Arthur B. Maccabe - University of New Mexico, USA Tim Mattson - Intel, USA Marshall Kirk McKusick - Marshall Kirk McKusick Consultancy, USA Bart Miller - University of Wisconsin, USA Ron Minnich - Los Alamos National Laboratories, USA Bernd Mohr - Research Center Juelich, Germany Shirley Moore - University of Tennessee, USA David Morton - MHPCC, USA J.P. Navarro - Argonne National Laboratories, USA Henry Neeman - OSCER - Oklahoma University, USA Takashi Ohta - IBM Tokyo Research Lab, Japan Rod Oldehoeft - Los Alamos National Laboratories, USA Jairo Panetta - INPE / CPTEC, Brazil Michael Pflugmacher - NCSA / UIUC, USA Christoph Pospiech - IBM, Germany Jean-Pierre Prost - IBM, France Faisal Saied - NCSA / UIUC, USA Stephen Scott, ORNL, USA Nils Smeds - KTH, Sweden Brian Smith - University of New Mexico, USA Martin Streicher – Linux Magazine, USA John Taylor - Quadrics, UK Jeff Vetter - LLNL, USA STEERING COMMITTEE Stacey Ackerman - CWCE Robert Ballance - HPCERC/ UNM Luiz DeRose - IBM Research Frank Gilfeather - HPCERC / UNM Adam Goodman - CWCE David Klepacki - IBM Research Becky McGreal - NCSA / UIUC Pratap Pattnaik - IBM Research Neil Pundit - Sandia National Laboratories Daniel Reed - NCSA / UIUC Bryan Richard - CWCE Candace Shirley - HPCERC / UNM John Towns - NCSA / UIUC CWCE is the premier event focused on the application and management of large-scale clustered systems in commercial, research and academic environments. LCI's mission is to provide advanced technical training and foster the sharing of emerging technologies for the deployment and use of Linux-based computing clusters to the high performance computing community worldwide.