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Monday June 9th, 2008 Pre-Conference Tutorials. Customers,
Partners and SGI |
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| 8am -
5:00pm |
Registration |
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| 8:00 -
9:00am |
Continental Breakfast |
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| 9:00am |
Tutorial 1-A
ScaliManage Cluster Management for SGI ICE and
XE
Speaker: Jim Martin, SGI |
Tutorial 1-B
Tutorial 1-B
Speaker: 1-B |
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| 10:00am |
Break |
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| 10:30am |
Tutorial 2-A
ScaliManage Cluster
Management for SGI ICE and XE, continued.
Speaker: Jim Martin, SGI |
Tutorial 2-B
ClusterResources Tutorial
Speaker: Michael Jackson, ClusterResources Inc |
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| 12:30pm |
Lunch |
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| 1:30pm |
Tutorial 3-A
Technical Overview of the New Scheduling and
Management Features in PBS Professional
Speaker: Bill Nitzberg, Altair |
Tutorial 3-B
Tutorial 3-B
Speaker: 3-B |
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| 3:00pm |
Break |
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| 3:30pm |
Tutorial 4-A
Reserved
Speaker: 4-A |
Tutorial 4-B
Platform LSF 7 with Session Scheduler, low
latency support
Speaker: Joe Cieslak, Platform |
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| 5:00 -
6:00pm |
BOF 1-A |
BOF 1-B |
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| 6:00 - 8:00pm |
SGIUG Welcome Reception |
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Tuesday June
10th, 2008 |
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| 7:00 - 8:00am |
Continental Breakfast |
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| 8:00am |
Welcome and Introductions
Horst-Dieter Steinhoefer, SGIUG President |
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| 8:15am |
SGI Corporate Report
Bo Ewald, CEO, SGI |
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| 9:00am |
SGI product Strategy/Roadmap
Dave Parry, Senior Vice President and Product General Manager, SGI |
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| 9:45am |
SGI product Strategy/Roadmap
Irene Qualters, Senior Vice President Engineering, SGI |
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| 10:30am |
Break |
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| 10.45am |
SGI Service Organization Update
Bob Pette, VP Visualization & Service, SGI |
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| 11:30am |
SGI Keynote
Technology Trends
Dr. Eng Lim Goh, Chief Technology Officer, SGI |
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| 12:30 - 1:30pm |
Lunch |
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| 1:30pm |
SGI Visualization
Bob Pette, VP Visualization & Service, SGI |
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| 2:15pm |
Customer Keynote
"NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) :
A view to the future"
Speaker:Bill Thigpen, Nasa Ames / NAS Division |
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| 3:15pm |
Break |
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| 3:30pm |
Session A-1
Reducing Human Intervention in the
Maintenance of Mass Storage Systems
Speaker: Dave Fellinger, Chief Technology Officer, DataDirect Networks |
Session B-1
LRZ – I/O Infra-structure & Operations
Speaker: Dr. Horst-D. Steinhöfer, LRZ |
Session C-1
NAS Archive Environment: Altix Conversion and
Spectra Logic Library Testing
Speaker: Matt Cary, System Administrator
NASA/CSC |
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| 4:00pm |
Session A-2
LSI Storage
Speaker: tbd, LSI |
Session B-2
Performance of Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD) on
SGI's Altix
Speaker: Mohammed Allalen, LRZ |
Session C-2
Improving data transfer rates by optimizing
OpenSSH and OpenSSL
Speaker: Iain Morgan and Herbert Yeung, NASA Ames Research Center |
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| 4:30pm |
Session A-3
Altair PBS GridWorks
Speaker: Bill Nitzberg, Altair |
Session B-3
PRACE - Partnership for Advanced Computing in
Europe, Poznan Super Computer Center
Speaker: tbc, PSNC |
Session C-3
Performance Comparison of SGI Altix 4700 and SGI ICE
8200 Systems
Speaker: Subhash Saini, Dennis C. Jespersen,
Dale Talcott, Jahed Djomehri and Henry Jin
NASA Ames Research Center |
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| 5:00 - 6:00pm |
Session A-4
Talk A-4
Speaker: tbd |
Session B-4
ClusterResources Talk
Speakers:Michael A. Jackson, President of
Cluster Resources and Scott Hurst, Director of Alliance Business Development,
Cluster Resources, Inc |
BOF-2C
SGI Global Developer Program
Speaker: Joy-Ellen Lipsky ,SGI |
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| 6:00 -
7:00pm |
BOF -2A
Panasas BOF
Speaker: tbd, Panasas |
BOF-2B
Platform Computing - HPC management
solutions,
Platform LSF and Scali Manage
Speaker: Joe Cieslak - HPC Industry Manager, Michael Rex - Alliance
Manager, Platform |
BOF-2D
Reserved
Speaker: Neil Bannister |
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| Noon - 9:00pm |
Partner Pavilion (Reception 7:00-9:00pm) |
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Wednesday
June 11th, 2008 |
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| 7:00 - 8:00am |
Continental Breakfast |
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| 8:00am |
SGI Keynote
Collaborative Visualization
Speaker: Bob Pette, Mike Long, SGI |
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| 8:45am |
Customer Keynote
NBA - Digital Media Management
Speaker: Keith Horstman, VP of Digital Media
Management for NBAE |
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| 9:30am |
Break |
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| 10:00am |
Session A-7
SGI Customer FeedBack Forum
Moderator: Chuck Niggley, NASA Ames |
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| 11:00am |
Customer Keynote
Future challenges in Computing
Speaker: Sudip S. Dosanjh, Sandia National Labs |
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| 12:00 - 1:00pm |
Lunch |
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Core Products Track - Storage, Compute & Visualization |
Developers Program |
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| 1:00pm |
Session A-8
SGI Professional Services
Solution Portfolio
Speaker: Kim McMahon, SGI |
Session B-8
Content management capabilities
Speaker: Floyd Christofferson, SGI |
Session C-8
Intel’s HPC Software Development Tools for
Higher Productivity
Speaker: Herbert Cornelius (Intel Corp.) |
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| 1:30pm |
Session B-9
Application of M&E capabilities in the
government space
Speaker:
Floyd Christofferson, SGI |
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| 2:00pm |
Session A-10
SGI Professional Services
PS Implementations
Speaker: Dennis Nelson, SGI |
Session B-10
The Importance of Cache Coherent Filesystems
and
Image Processing data Pipelines
Speaker: Kevin
Smith, SGI |
Session C-10
TotalView Technologies Debuggers
Speaker: Eward Hinkel,Sales Engineer,
TotalView Technologies |
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| 2:30pm |
Session B-11
First experiences with SGI RASC
Speaker: Thomas Ilsche, Guido Juckeland,
TU Dresden - ZIH, Germany |
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| 3:00 - 3:30pm |
Break |
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Core Products Track - Storage, Compute & Visualization |
Developers Program |
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| 3:30pm |
Session A-12
The New Digital Distribution Paradigm:
Transcending the Boundaries of Basic Storage Infrastructure
Speaker: Anand Bisen, Sr. Architect, DataDirect
Networks |
Session B-12
Intel® Cluster Ready (ICR)
Speaker: Herbert Cornelius, Intel Corp |
Session C-12
Scali MPI Connect: Performance Implications for
Quad Core HPC Systems
Speaker: Dan Caldwell, VP WW Channel Sales,
Scalii |
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| 4:00pm |
Session A-13
Remote Visualization Talk
Speaker: Mike Long, SGI |
Session C-13
Performance Per Watt on SGI Servers – The What,
How and When
Speaker: Sanhita Sarkar, Manager,
Applications Engineering, SGI |
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| 4:30 - 5:30pm |
BOF 3-A
Visualization BOF A-10
Speaker: Bob Pette, Mike Long, Tom Reed, SGI |
BOF 3-B
LNXI BOF
Speaker: tdb, SGI |
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| 7:00 - 10:00pm |
Dinner and Evening Event - In the Hotel - Rendezvous Room from 7 to
10:00 PM |
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Thursday June
12th, 2008 |
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| 7:00 - 8:00am |
Continental Breakfast |
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Core Products Track - Storage, Compute & Visualization |
Developers Program |
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| 8:00am |
Session A-14
XFS Update
Speaker: Mark Goodwin, SGI |
Session B-14
Rapid Graph-Based Algorithm Development with
Hardware
Acceleration using Star-P
Speakers:
Steve Reinhardt, Viral Shah (ISC),
John Gilbert (UC Santa Barbara) |
Session C-14
New Features in FFIO
Speaker: Cheng Liao, SGI |
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| 8:30am |
Session A-15
NAS Update
Speaker: Mark Goodwin, SGI |
Session B-15
Line-Rate Enforcement of Least Privilege
Network Security Policies
Speaker: Dr Paul Kolano,
NASA Ames Research Center |
Session C-15
“New MPI tools used at SGI for code tuning and
performance projections”
Speaker: Daniel Thomas, SGI |
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| 9:00am |
Session A-16
DMF Update
Speaker: Dale Brantly, SGI |
Session B-16
Development of Biological Warfare Sensors Using
SGI HPC Computers
Speakers: Marco Lanzagorta, ITT Corporation,
Jay Eversole, Naval Research Laboratory, and
Wendell Anderson, Naval Research Laboratory |
Session C-16
" Ask the Experts Panel "
Speakers: SGI Executives, Product Managers
& Application Engineers |
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| 9:30am |
Session A-17
CXFS Update
Speaker: Neil Bannister, SGI |
Session B-17
Using LDAP for User Authentication in an HPC
Environment
Speaker: Iain Morgan,
NASA Ames Research Center |
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| 10:00 -
10:15am |
Break |
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| 10:15am |
Customer Keynote
Large-scale integrative modeling of the human heart:
purpose, solutions, and new challenges
Speaker: Dr. Mark Potse
Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Université de Montréal * * * Canada |
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| 11:15am |
General Administration & Elections |
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| 12:15 - 1:00pm |
Lunch |
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Core Products Track - Storage, Compute & Visualization |
Developers Program |
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| 1:00pm |
Session A-18
Panel - PetaFlop Computing
Speaker(s): tbd |
Session C-18
Vampir 5.2 Profiling
Speaker: Wolfgang E. Nagel, T.U. Dresden |
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| 1:30pm |
Session C-19
Allinea DDT 2.2
Speaker: David Lecomber, CTO, Allinea |
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| 2:00pm |
Session A-20
High Performance Storage Architectures
Speaker:tbd, LSI |
Session B-20
Novell Talk
Speaker: tbd Novell |
Session C-20
Acumem VPE 2.6-
“Removing the Bottlenecks from Multicore Applications”
Speaker: Erik
Hagersten, Acumem |
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| 2:30pm |
Session A-21
Archival Storage Using DMF at the Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center
Speaker: Katie Vargo, Manager, Scientific
Computing Systems, Systems & Operations
Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center |
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| 3:00 - 3:30pm |
Break |
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Core Products Track -
Storage, Compute & Visualization |
Developers
Program |
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| 3:30pm |
Session A-22
Spectra Logic Products/Technology and Data
Center 2.0; the Green Center
Speaker: Brian Grainger, VP Spectra Logic
Federal |
Session B-22
SGI Propack Update
Speaker: Steve Neuner, SGI |
Session C-22
Parallel Programming Tips
Speaker: Steve Reinhardt,Vice President of
Joint Research, Interactive
Supercomputing |
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| 4:00pm |
Session B-23
Introducing Green Computing in the Data Center
using Intelligent Monitoring and Scheduling Policies
Speakers: Bradley Palmer, Andre Kerstens, SGI |
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| 4:30pm |
Session A-24
Benchmarking the CXFS and XFS Filesystems on
Columbia
Speaker: Leona Chan, Ryan Coburn, Robert
Hood
Computer Sciences Corporation
NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division |
Session B-24
Configuration management on ICE using bcfg2
Speaker: Jason Rappleye,
NASA Ames Research Center |
Session C-24
Talk C-24
Speaker: tbd |
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| 5:00pm |
Closing Remarks and Slideshow |
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SGIUG Board Meeting |
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