Summer Institute on Advanced Computation

SIAC 2000

Wright State University

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

August 20-23, 2000

 

Agenda

 

 

Sunday, August 20, 2000 - Registration and Reception

 

12:00 noon - 5:00 pm

 

Attendees Arrive

 

5:30  - 6:30 pm

 

Reception.   Skylight Lobby, Student Union, WSU

 

6:30 - 8:30 pm

 

Dinner and Speaker, Dr Miron Livny, University of Wisconsin

High Throughput Computing - The Condor Project

See: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/

 

Monday Morning, August 21, 2000 - Introduction to Networks of Workstations

 

7:30 - 8:30 am

 

Cafeteria Breakfast

 

8:30 am

 

Welcome, Dr James Brandeberry, Dean, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Wright State University

 

8:30 - 10:15 am

 

Introduction to the Conference Objectives and Sponsors

Oscar N. Garcia, NCR Distinguished Professor and Chair, Dept. of CS&E, WSU

Overview of the Program and Introduction to Networks of Workstations (NOWs)

Lecturer: Prof. Prabhaker Mateti, Dept. of CS&E, WSU

 

10:15 - 10:30 am

 

Coffee Break

 

10:30 - 12:00 noon

 

Hardware and Software Issues in NOWs

Lecturer: Prof. Prabhaker Mateti, Dept. of CS&E, WSU

 

12:00 - 1:00 pm

 

Cafeteria Lunch

 

Monday Afternoon, August 21, 2000 The Grid and the Globus Project at Argonne

 

1:00 - 3:00 pm

 

The Globus Project: Infrastructure for Computational Grids

Lecturer: Mr Lee Liming, Project Manager, Argonne National Laboratory

 

3:00 - 3:15 pm

 

Coffee Break

 

3:15 - 5:30 pm

 

The Globus Project: Infrastructure for Computational Grids

See:http://www.globus.org

 

6:30 - 9:00 pm

 

Dinner and Speaker: Kumaran Kalyanasundaram, SGI

High-end Architectures: Linux Clusters at the SGI Technology Center

 

Tuesday Morning, August 22, 2000 

 

Beowulf Systems and Linux Clusters

 

7:30 - 8:30 am

 

Cafeteria Breakfast

 

8:30 - 10:15 am

 

Introduction to Beowulf Systems

Lecturer: Dr Prabhaker Mateti, Wright State University

 

10:15 - 10:30 am

 

Coffee Break

 

10:30 - 12:00 noon

 

Hands on Demonstration of Beowulf Systems in the OSIS Laboratory

Lecturer: Dr Prabhaker Mateti, Wright State University

 

12:00 - 1:00 pm

 

Cafeteria Lunch

 

Tuesday Afternoon, August 22, 2000

 

1:00 - 3:00 pm

 

The SGI 1200 Linux Cluster

Lecturer: Dr Kumaran Kalyanansundaram, Technology Center, SGI

 

3:00 - 3:15 pm

 

Coffee Break

 

3:15 - 5:30 pm

 

The SGI Cluster at OSC: Possible Demonstration and Applications

Lecturer: Dr Kumaran Kalyanansundaram, Technology Center, SGI

Possibly assisted by Pete Wycoff or Alt Stutz at OSC

 

6:30 - 9:00 pm

 

Dinner and Speaker: Dr Mario Lauria, Ohio State University

Concurrent Systems Architectures

 

Wednesday, August 23, 2000 

 

The Condor System

 

7:30 - 8:30 am

 

Cafeteria Breakfast

 

8:30 - 10:15 am

 

Introduction to the Condor System

Lecturer: Dr Prabhaker Mateti, Wright State University

 

10:15 - 10:30 am

 

Coffee Break

 

10:30 - 12:00 noon

 

Hands on: Applications in the Condor System

Lecturer: Dr Prabhaker Mateti, Wright State University

 

12:00 - 1:00 pm

 

Cafeteria Lunch

 

Wednesday Afternoon, August 23, 2000, HPVM

 

1:00 - 2:45 pm

 

High Performance Virtual Machines Super Cluster

Lecturer:  Dr Mario Lauria, Ohio State University

See:http://www‑csag.ucsd.edu/projects/clusters.html

 

2:45 - 3:00 pm

 

Coffee Break

 

3:00 - 4:00 pm

 

Summary and Overview of Resources for HPVM

Lecturer:  Dr Mario Lauria, Ohio State University

 

4:00 pm

 

Mandatory Questionnaire to be Filled: Needed Feedback! - Oscar Garcia, CS&E, WSU