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Alliance to Hold Conference on 'Linux Revolution'

released February 13, 2001

 

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Karen Green
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Papers sought for June 25-27 conference

CHAMPAIGN, IL — A Linux users' and system administrators' conference sponsored by the National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance) will be held June 25-27 in Urbana, IL, the home of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

"Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution" will feature a day of tutorials followed by two days of plenary sessions and presentations about Linux applications and systems by research scientists, engineers, programmers, and Linux vendors. Dan Reed, director of the Alliance and NCSA, will present the keynote address. Reed will outline the Alliance's vision and the role Linux clusters will play in that vision.

The conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Conference Center near the University of Illinois campus and will feature speakers from academia, government research labs, and industry involved in Linux high-performance computing. These speakers will address efforts to integrate and develop Linux clusters for high-performance computing, and efforts to develop science and engineering applications for Linux clusters.

The conference planning committee is soliciting novel papers on a broad range of topics related to systems integration, operation and support, end user applications, tools, and experiences. Topics being sought include (but are not limited to) the following:

• parallel filesystems and parallel I/O
• batch schedulers
• high-performance interconnects
• systems management and monitoring
• compilers and libraries
• applications performance analysis
• performance analysis tools
• parallel debuggers
• experiences in development of highly parallel applications

Detailed instructions for electronic submission of papers and important dates to remember are posted on the conference website (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/LinuxRevolution/). For additional information on submitting papers, please contact the program committee at linux-conf@ncsa.uiuc.edu. Paper abstracts are due March 16, 2001.

Important dates to remember are:

• March 16: paper abstracts due
• March 30: author notification of acceptance
• May 1: final electronic copies of papers due

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is the leading-edge site for the National Computational Science Alliance. NCSA is a leader in the development and deployment of cutting-edge high-performance computing, networking, and information technologies. The National Science Foundation, the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, industrial partners, and other federal agencies fund NCSA.

The National Computational Science Alliance is a partnership to prototype an advanced computational infrastructure for the 21st century and includes more than 50 academic, government and industry research partners from across the United States. The Alliance is one of two partnerships funded by the National Science Foundation's Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) program, and receives cost-sharing at partner institutions. NSF also supports the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), led by the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

 

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