Cluster2000
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Wednesday 11/29/2000
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome Address
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote: Andrew A. Chien
Entropia: Megacomputing on the Internet
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 - 12:15 Session 1:
Selected Issues of Interconnect and Shared Memory
Session Chair: Thomas Sterling, JPL and Caltech
10.15 - 10.45 MEMONet: Network interface plugged into a memory slot
Noboru Tanabe, Junji Yamamoto, Hiroaki Nishi, Tomohiro Kudoh, Yoshihiro Hamada
Tsukuba Research Center, Real World Computing Partnership, Ibaraki, Japan
10.45 - 11.15 The impact of Caching in a Loosely-coupled Clustered Software DSM System
Luciana Arantes, Pierre Sens, Bertil Folliot
University of Paris VI, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris France
11.15 - 11.45 Design and Performance of Maestro Cluster Network
Shinichi Yamagiwa, Munehiro Fukuda, Koichi Wada
Uiversity of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
11.45 - 12.15 Impact of Level 2 Cache and Memory Subsystem on the Scalability of Clusters of Small-Scale SMP Server
Jenwei Hsieh, Tau Leng, Victor Mashayekhi, Reza Rooholamini
Dell Computer Corporation, Round Rock, Texas
12:15 - 13:00 Vendor Exhibition Poster Session 1
12:15 - 13:00 API NetWorks
Dolphin
Agilent
Synaps
Quant-X
Critical Software
Fujitsu Siemens
MEGware
For poster session titles see below.
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 Keynote: Kai Hwang
Internet Security and Cluster Architecture for Federated E-Commerce
14:45 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 16:30 Session 2:
Interconnect Technology and
System Software Support

Session Chair: Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth
Session 3:
Performance /
Application Frameworks for Clusters /
Clusters in Space

Session Chair: Ira Pramanick, Sun Microsystems
15.00 - 15.22 Contention-free Complete Exchange Algorithm on Clusters
Anthony Tam, Cho-Li Wang
University of Hong Kong, China
Characterization of Communications between Processes in Message-Passing Applications
Juan Manuel Orduña, Vicente Arnau, José Duato
University of Valencia, Spain
15.22 - 15.45 Study of the medium message performance of BIP/Myrinet
Roland Westrelin, Bernard Tourancheau
University of Lyon I, Univ. Claude Bernard, France
From Metacomputing To Meta Business Processing
Li-jie Jin-, Andrew Grimshaw
HP Laboratories, Palo Alto, California
15.45 - 16.07 IP over SCI
Ralf Große Börger, Roger Butenuth, Hans-Ulrich Heiß
University of Paderborn, Westfalia, Germany
An Overview of the Galaxy Management Framework for Scalable Enterprise Cluster Computing
Werner Vogels, Dan Dumitriu
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
16.07 - 16.30 A Portable and Efficient Communication Library for High-Performance Cluster Computing
Olivier Aumage, Namyst Denis, Mercier Mehaut
Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France
Development of a Spaceborne Embedded Cluster
Daniel S. Katz, Paul L. Springer
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Calif. Inst. of Techology, Pasadena, California
16:30 - 17:00 Break
17:00 - 18:00 Track A Vendor Presentations
Session Chair: Felix Rauch, ETH Zürich
Track B Vendor Presentations
Session Chair: Christian Kurmann, ETH Zürich
17.00 - 17.20 The Dolphin D330 Cluster Adapter Card
Petter Gustad, Svein Johansen, Kåre Løchsen
Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, Inc
Remote System Management Principles
Michael Herz
Agilent Technologies Boeblingen
17.20 - 17.40 Cluster Optimized High Density Alpha Compute Nodes
Tom Morris
Alpha Processor, Inc (API)
Advanced Cluster Systems: Computing Power to simulate complex systems in a complex world
Reiner Wohlgemuth
TBZ-PARIV GmbH
17.40 - 18.00 Cluster Computing at Intel
Timothy G. Mattson
Intel Corp.
Utilization of Cluster Resources Using the SynapsPointer® Optimization Framework
Olaf Frommann
Synaps Ingenieur-Gesellschaft mbH
18:00 - 19:00 Break
19:00 - ... Reception
in
Schlossbergmuseum
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Thursday 11/30/2000
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote: Henri Bal
Programming Support for Distributed Supercomputing
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 - 12:15 Session 4:
Selected papers in programming tools and applications
Session Chair: Werner Vogels, Cornell University
10.15 - 10.45 JavaSymphony: A System for Development of Locality-Oriented Distributed and Parallel Java Applications
Thomas Fahringer,
University of Vienna, Austria
10.45 - 11.15 Architectural Software Support for Processing Clusters
Johannes Gutleber, Eric Cano, Sergio Cittolin, Frans Meijers, Luciano Orsini
CERN, European Center for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland
11.15 - 11.45 Distributed Solution of Optimal Hybrid Control Problems on Networks of Workstations
Frank Thilo, Barth, Freisleben, Grauer
University of Siegen, Westfalia, Germany
11.45 - 12.15 Scalable Web Clusters with Dynamic and Secure Contents
Michele Colajanni, Emiliano Casalicchio
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
12:15 - 13:00 Vendor Exhibition Poster Session 2
12:15 - 13:00 API NetWorks
Dolphin
Agilent
Synaps
Quant-X
Critical Software
Fujitsu Siemens
MEGware
For poster session titles see below.
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Panel Presentation: Gregory Pfister
The Future of Cluster Interconnects: InfiniBand or Ethernet?
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - ... The API
Tour
of
Erzgebirge
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Friday 12/1/2000
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote: Atsushi Hori
SCore: An Integrated Cluster System Software Package for High Performance Cluster Computing
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 - 12:15 Session 5:
Cluster Applications and Performance
Session Chair: Kai Hwang, University of Southern California
Session 6:
Operating System Issues of Clusters
Session Chair: Henry Bal, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
10.15 - 10.39 Parallel Simulation of 3D Nonlinear Acoustic Fields on a Linux-cluster
Åsmund Ødegård, Xing, Cai
University of Oslo, Norway
Proposing a Mechanism for Reliably Locking VIA Communication Memory in Linux
Friedrich Seifert, Wolfgang Rehm
Technical University of Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
10.39 - 11.03 Cluster Based Power System Analysis Applications
Carmen Lucia Tancredo Borges, Djalma Mosqueira Falcão, Glauco Nery Taranto
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Partition Repositories for Partition Cloning - OS Independent Software Maintenance in Clusters of PC
Felix Rauch, Christian Kurmann, Thomas M. Stricker
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Zuerich, Switzerland
11.03 - 11.27 Browsing Virtual Reality on a PC Cluster
Mario Rosario Guarracino, Giuliano Laccetti, Diego Romano
University of Naples, Univ. Frederico II, Naples, Italy
SilkRoad: A Multithreaded Runtime System with Software Distributed Shared Memory for SMP Clusters
Liang Peng, WengFai Wong, MingDong Feng, Chung Kwong Yuen
National University Singapore, Singapore
11.27 - 11.51 An MPI-Based Tool for Distributed Genetic Programming
Vanneschi Leonardo, Marco Tomassini, Francisco Fernandez, Laurent Bucher
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Towards Single Image System: Preemptive migration of system threads with the SCI network
Yves Denneulin, Pierre Lombard
Universities of Grenoble, Research Centre for Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Monbonnot, France
11.51 - 12.15 Multi-Grid Acceleration of a SIMPLE-Based CFD-Code and Aspects of Parallelization
Klaus Bernert, Th. Frank, H. Schneider, K. Pachler
Technical University of Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
A flexible Monitoring Platform to Build Management Services
Celine Boutros Saab, Bonnaire Xavier, Folliot Bertil
University of Paris VI, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris France
12:15 - 13:00 Student Forum
Session Chair: Ralph Schlosser
Vendor Presentation/
IEEE TFCC

Session Chair: Christian Kurmann, ETH Zürich
Cluster Series Business Meeting
12.15 - 12.35 Small panel-like discussion primariliy intented for undergraduate students. Others are also welcome!
Titles/Themes will be announced at the session.
WMPI: MPI-2 Implementation for Windows Environments
Hernani Pedroso
Critical Software SA
Meeting of the members of the Steering Committee and the Program Committee of the CLUSTER 2000 conference and of the CLUSTER 2001 conference.
12.35 - 12.50 The IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing
Mark Baker
12.50 - 13.00 i
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 Keynote: Thomas Sterling
PC Clusters - The Convergence of High Performance Systems Architecture
14:45 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 16:30 Session 7:
Scheduling and programming clusters
Session 8:
Disks and I/O Systems for Clusters
15.00 - 15.22 A Fair and Effective Scheduling Strategy for Workstation Clusters
Cosimo Anglano,
University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy
Gracefully Degradable Declustered RAID Architecture with near Optimal Maximal Read
Siu-Cheung Chau, Ada Wai-Chee Fu
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
15.22 - 15.45 A Model of Completion Queue Mechanisms using the Virtual Interface API
Hari Sivaraman, Naresh Patel
Compaq Computer Corp., Cupertino, California
A Case for Heterogeneous Disk Arrays
Toni Cortes, Jesús Labarta
Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
15.45 - 16.07 Request Rate Adaptive Dispatching Architecture for Scalable Internet Server
Dongeun Kim, Cheol Ho Park, Daeyeon Park
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, South Korea
Efficient Cooperative Caching for File Systems in Cluster-Based Web Servers
Woo Hyun Ahn, Sang Ho Park, Daeyeon Park
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, South Korea
16.07 - 16.30 A Concurrent Programming Environment with Support for Distributed Computations and Code Mobility
Luis Lopes, Alvaro Figueira, Fernando Silva, Vasco Vasconcelos
University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Performance analysis of storage and network subsystems in cluster architectures
Giulio Iannello, Rosario Cristaldi
University of Naples, Univ. Frederico II, Naples, Italy
16:30 - 17:00 Break
17:00 - 17:30 Closing
17:30 - 18:00 Closing Snack
Back to the Overview Poster Session 1 Titles Poster Session 2 Titles
 

Enabling High Performance Data Transfer on Cluster Architecture
Stephen Scott, Hong Ong, Paul Farrell
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Design Choices and first Results of our VIA-capable PCI-SCI Bridge
Mario Trams, Ralph Schlosser, Wolfgang Rehm
Technical University of Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany

Parallel Job Scheduling policy for Workstation Cluster Environments
Jemal Abawajy
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Agent Based Resource Discovery for Dynamic Clusters
Omer Rana, Daniel Bunford-Jones, David W. Walker, Matthew Addis, Mike Surridge, Ken Hawick
University of Wales, Cardiff, United Kindom

Océano - Multi-Domain Cluster for a Computing Utility
Germán Goldszmidt
IBM T.J.Watson Research Laboratory, Hawthorne, New York

Accelerated Socket Communications in System Area Networks
Masanori Itoh, Tooru Ishizaki, Mitsuhiro Kishimoto
Fujitsu Laboratories LTD, Kawasaki, Japan

Low-cost Gigabit Ethernet at Work
Giuseppe Ciaccio, Giovanni Chiola
University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Adaptive Dual-Cache Scheme with Dynamic Prefetching Scheme in Parallel File System
Chei-Yol Kim, Jong-Hyun Cho, Dae-Wha Seo
Kyungpook National University, Taegu, Korea

FireCluster: PC Cluster System Employing IEEE 1394
Kazuki Hyoudou, Yasuichi Nakayama
The University of Electro-Communications, Chohu, Tokyo,Japan

CLIC: FAST COMMUNICATION ON LINUX CLUSTERS
Antonio Díaz, Ferreira. J., Ortega J., Cañas A., Prieto A.
University of Granada, Andalusia, Spain

Consistent Checkpointing for High Performance Clusters
Toshihiro Nishioka, Atsushi Hori, Yutaka Ishikawa
MRI Systems and Tsukuba Research Center, Real World Computing Partnership, Japan

Atomicity, Serialization And Recovery In A Highly Available And Scalable Cluster-Based File System
Minwen Ji
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Efficient Parallel I/O on SCI Connected Clusters
Joachim Worringen
RWTH, Technical University of Aachen, Germany

Using Resizable Working-Set Notion for Software Distributed Shared Memory
Sung-Woo Lee, Kee-Young Yoo
Kyungpook National University, Taegu, Korea

A CC-NUMA Card for SCI-Based PC Clustering
Sang-Hwa Chung, Soo-Cheol Oh, Sejin Park, Hankook Jang, Chi-Jung Ha
Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea

Inversion of Huge Matrices on Clusters
Gil Utard, Eddy Caron, Dominique Lazure
University of the Picardie, Univ. Jules Verne, Amiens, France

Chained Declustering Using Multiple Conventional Filesystems
Koichi Konishi, Kentaro Kikuchi, Hideki Kawai, Kunihiko Kojima, Ken'ichi Ohmachi, Susumu Akamine, Toshikazu Fukushima
NEC Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan

Towards a Generic Information Provision System for the Metacomputing Environment
Timothy Cockle, Kecheng Liu, Mike Woodward
Staffordshire University, Stafford, United Kingdom

An Over-partitioning Scheme for Parallel Sorting on Clusters Running at different Speeds
Cerin Christophe, Jean-Luc Gaudiot
Jules Verne University of the Picardie, Amiens, France

Efficient Parallelization of Eulerian-Lagrangian Approach for Disperse Multiphase Flow Calc.
Thomas Frank, K. Bernert, H. Schneider, K. Pachler
Technical University of Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany

M3C: a web-based management tool for federated clusters
Stephen Scott, Jens Schwidder, Al Geist, Brian Luethke
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

PPBL: a new request distribution algorithm for large scale SCI Clustered Web Caches
Emmanuel Cecchet, Cyril Perrin
INRIA, Alpes, Grenoble, Montbonnot, France

Experiments with PVMaple and Parallel Methods for ODEs
Dana Petcu
Western University of Timisoara, Romania

Parallel Programming Environment for Cluster Computing
Viet Tran, Ladislav Hluchy, Giang Nguyen
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

Distributed Processor Allocation in Multicomputers
Cesar A. F. De Rose, Hans-Ulrich Heiss, Philippe A. O. Navaux
Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Parallelizing a CAD-Model Based Object Localization for Initialization of Tracking in Visual Serv.
Hans-Hellmut Nagel, Thomas Mueller, Alexander Bachem
Technische Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany

Yabat: An Administration and Monitoring Software for Beowulf Clusters
Mario Rosario Guarracino, Giuliano Laccetti, Gennaro Oliva, Umberto Scafuri
Center Research in Parallel and Supercomputing, University of Naples, Univ. Frederico II , Italy

Heterogeneity Considered Harmful to Algorithm Designers
Yves Robert
Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France