In the Foyer of the conference building there will be a Vendor Exhibition for the duration of the conference. The following vendors will present themself with a small booth: API NetWorks Dolphin Agilent Synaps Quant-X Critical Software Fujitsu-Siemens MEGware There are also two dedicated slots on Wednesday and Thursday for visiting the vendor exhibition without missing other important scientific presentations.

Vendor Presentation Talks

There are totally 7 Vendor Presentation Talks from various companies that are active in the field of Cluster Computing. These companies are mainly sponsors of the CLUSTER2000 conference. Below you can find all Vendor Presentations including a short abstract.

	Track A Vendor Presentations, Wednesday 11/29/2000
17:00 - 17:20	The Dolphin D330 Cluster Adapter Card Petter Gustad, Svein Johansen, Kåre Løchsen Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, Inc. Abstract: A description of the Dolphin D330 Cluster Adapter Card and its main components and features will be given. The focus will be on the differences between the previous D320 and the new D330.
17:20 - 17:40	Cluster Optimized High Density Alpha Compute Nodes Tom Morris Alpha Processor, Inc. (API) Abstract: Since systems based on the Alpha processor are popular building blocks for creating the world's most powerful computing clusters, the requirements for these clusters are always important criteria when creating the definition for a new product. When the engineers at Alpha Processor, Inc. (API) were designing the UP2000+, a very important design criterion was to decrease the rack space required while retaining the traditional industry leading performance of previous Alpha designs. Another important criterion was to maximize the use of commodity components and design features without impacting performance.
17:40 - 18:00	Cluster Computing at Intel Timothy G. Mattson Intel Corp. Abstract: In this brief talk, we will discuss Intel's activities in cluster computing. There will be the standard hardware pitch, but on a more interesting vein, we will discuss Intel's work to help create robust cluster software stacks. In particular, I will focus on two cluster recent projects at Intel: (1) a cross industry consortium to produce open source cluster software stacks and (2) a collaborative effort with Microsoft to build clusters on top of Windows 2000.
	Track B Vendor Presentations, Wednesday 11/29/2000
17:00 - 17:20	Remote System Management Principles Michael Herz Agilent Technologies Boeblingen Abstract: This paper introduces the principles of Agilent's remote system management solutions, which have been designed to maintain and administrate servers and communication systems. From the standpoint of remote management tasks the required system architecture will be clarified. Different integration strategies for remote system management solutions will be presented.
17:20 - 17:40	Advanced Cluster Systems: Computing Power to simulate complex systems in a complex world Reiner Wohlgemuth TBZ-PARIV GmbH Abstract: The Advanced Cluster System (ACS) is one of the first ready to use cluster server on the market. It integrates all basic hard- and software parts into a well tuned system with new dimension of computing power and main memory available at the desk. The important quality of the ACS is the "single system sight" from the users point of view. Some other qualities are flexibility in terms of hardware equipment, the scalability due to the distributed memory concept and the well known user interface (LINUX).
17:40 - 18:00	Utilization of Cluster Resources Using the SynapsPointer® Optimization Framework Olaf Frommann Synaps Ingenieur-Gesellschaft mbH Abstract: Clusters of Computers generally provide a great amount of computing power. However, to utilize these capacities, special parallelized software is required. This leads to the problem that often either this software is not available or it is rather complicated to adapt it to the parallel paradigm. The scope of this talk is to show how clusters can be used efficiently without special parallelization for the user code using the SynapsPointer® framework. The demands for this system, including the introduction of three levels of parallel granularity, are discussed. Two examples demonstrate the application to automated engineering design in combination with optimization algorithms.
	Vendor Presentation, Friday 12/01/2000
12:15 - 12:35	WMPI: MPI-2 Implementation for Windows Environments Hernani Pedroso Critical Software SA Abstract: WMPI, initially based in MPICH/P4, was the first MPI implementation for Windows environments. Seeking for more functionality and usability, WMPI was completely re-designed. Its new architecture introduces new concepts that allow for dynamic creation and termination of processes as well as the usage of multiple devices simultaneously. The new architecture was designed to be completely thread-safe and to allow a rapid development of support for any communication medium. Due to an effective data flow police communication latency was reduced by as much as 50% when compared with previous WMPI versions. On top of this new architecture we are developing other MPI-2 functionality such as one-sided communications and parallel I/O. Prototype implementations of these MPI-2 chapters have been created with satisfactory results. New concepts are being introduced in the current development of the commercial quality implementations.