VISUALIZATION

The registration deadline for the June 10-14 Linux Cluster Institute (LCI) is Friday, May 17. Registration is available online at http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/. The June LCI is the fourth in a series of workshops, and for the first time, it will feature a half-day session on visualization as part of the applications module. LCI workshops consist of modules on systems administration and management issues and on application issues. Participants may attend one or both modules. Topics covered in the systems module include networking, remote administration, job scheduling, account management, security, backup, monitoring tools, and various tools and scripts for common tasks. In addition to the visualization session, the applications module includes information on the Intel Itanium architecture, memory subsystem and cache tuning, CPU tuning (including SSE/vectorization), multithreaded code optimization, distributed memory optimization using Message Passing Interface (MPI), graphical debugging with TotalView, hardware performance toolkits, MPI tracing tools, and dynamic instrumentation tools. Additional LCI workshops will be held Aug. 26-30 at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, and Sept. 30-Oct. 4 at the High Performance Computing, Education and Research Center (HPCERC), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. The LCI, a consortium that provides advanced technical training for the deployment of high-performance Linux computing clusters, was founded by NCSA, HPCERC, and the Advanced Computing Technology Center at IBM Research. LCI instructors include some of the world's foremost specialists in building and deploying Linux clusters at NCSA, AHPCC, and IBM.