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CUG Origin2000 workshop set for Denver

Focus: O2K systems , applications, operating systems, and scheduling . . .

Gary Jensen
Gary Jensen,
O2K workshop
chair

by Gary Jensen

The second CUG workshop on the Origin2000 will be held October 11-13, 1998 in Denver, Colorado. It will be a single-track, two-and-a-half day technical workshop with tutorials each morning. If you are interested in Origin2000 systems, this is the meeting to attend!

Detailed conference information, including fees, registration form, hotel reservations, and travel arrangements, is available at http://www.cug.org/CUG/Fall98/f98cug.htm.

If you have questions, please contact the workshop chair, Gary Jensen (guido@ncsa.uiuc.edu), or the CUG office manager, Bob Winget (bwinget@pobox.com).

The preliminary program follows.


Tutorials

Tutorials, which will be offered from 8-10 a.m. each morning, include:

  • "System Administration for Large O2K's" -- Betsy Zeller, SGI

  • "Scalable Operating Environments" ( MPI, Open MP, SHMEM) -- Kent Koeninger, SGI

  • "O2K Optimization" -- Jeff Brooks


SGI presentations

Talks offered by SGI include:
  • "Transition from Vector T90 to an O2K" -- Greg Clifford

  • "Hardware Roadmap/Software Roadmap" -- Denice Gibson

  • "UNIX - NT talk" -- David McAlister

  • "SV1 Benchmark Update" -- Jeff Brooks

  • "O2K Service Update" -- Dave Walls


Invited papers

Papers given by invited speakers include:
  • "Shared Memory Multi-Level Parallelism for CFD, OVERFLOW-MLP a Case Study" -- James R. Taft, Sierra Software, Inc., NASA AMES Research Center

  • "Scaling Up SPPM to Run on a Growing Set of Origins" -- Karl-Heinz Winkler and Steve Hodson, LANL

  • "Ocean Nested Grid Models and Moderately Parallel Environment " -- Germana Peggion, University of Southern Mississippi

  • Combined papers by Daniel M. Pressel, U.S. Army Research Laboratory:

    • "Experiences Using Loop-Level Parallelism to Port an Implicit CFD Code to the 128 Processor Origin 2000"

    • "In Support of Using Moderate Sized Parallel Processors"

    • Performance and Optimization Issues for the Origin 2000"

  • "A Parallel Neural Network Training Code for Control of Dynamical Systems" -- Javier Vitela, Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mexico

  • "Supercomputing Solutions with ANSYS on Cray T90 and Origin2000" -- Gene Poole (SGI) and John Vandeventer (Boeing)

  • "Various Experiences on the O2K at NCAR" -- Bill Anderson, Barb Bateman, Mary Ann Ciuffini, Steve Gombosi, NCAR

  • "Results from a 3D Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Simulation on the Mountain Blue Supercomputer: LANL Systems Team Shares Their Experiences" -- R. P. Weaver, P. Fay, M.L. Gittings, M.L. Clover, and A. Martinez, D. Model

  • "Storage System Design for Origin-Class Parallel Calculations in Electromagnetics and Oceanography" -- Matthew T. O'Keefe, University of Minnesota

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