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Alliance Partners in Spotlight at SC2000

released November 7, 2000

Partners in the National Computational Science Alliance will share their experiences and expertise at SC2000, the annual high-performance networking and computing conference in Dallas Nov. 4 - 10.

Rob Pennington, head of cluster development efforts at NCSA, the leading-edge site for the Alliance, will present a tutorial called "Design and Analysis of High-Performance Clusters." Co-presenters will be Patricia Kovatch, Barney Maccabe and David Bader of the University of New Mexico. The goal of this tutorial is to bring together researchers to share the latest information on the state of high-end commodity clusters. Bader will present another tutorial on clusters with Bruce Hendrickson and Steve Plimpton of Sandia National Lab. Their tutorial, called "Parallel Programming for Cluster Computers," will address the performance challenges found in commodity clusters and offer possible solutions involving algorithms.

Grid computing will be a popular topic at this year's conference and Alliance members will take part in a number of grid-related discussions. Among the technical papers that will address grid computing issues is "Computing and Data Grids for Science and Engineering," co-presented by Alliance researcher Dennis Gannon of the University of Indiana. Gannon will co-present another paper on grid middleware issues, called "On the Performance of Remote Method Invocation for Large-Scale Scientific Applications." Alliance researcher Andrew Chien of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), will present the paper "The MicroGrid: A Scientific Tool for Modeling Computational Grids," along with colleagues from UCSD and the University of Tokyo.

Other Alliance researchers involved with tutorials, talks, and papers at SC are:

• Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, who will have a busy conference presenting two tutorials and two technical papers.
• Ian Foster, Argonne and the University of Chicago, who is co-author of a technical Quality of Service paper and will serve on two panels.
• Chien, UCSD, who will serve on a Megacomputers panel. Alliance Strategic Advisor Larry Smarr will moderate that panel.
• Alliance Chief Computational Scientist Rick Stevens, Argonne, who will be a panelist for "Petaflops Around the Corner: When? How? Is it Meaningful?"

Technical paper abstracts and presentation times are available at http://www.sc2000.org/techpapr/index.htm. Information about SC panels is available at http://www.sc2000.org/panels/index.htm#05. Tutorials information is available at http://www.sc2000.org/tutorial/index.htm#glance.

 

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