Final Program Schedule

Monday: SGI and CUG Members Attending

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1 General Session, Chair, Barry Sharp (BCS)

8:30

Welcome and Introductions, Terry Hewitt (MCC), LAC Chair

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9:00

SGI Corporate Direction, Greg Estes, VP, Corporate Marketing, SGI

9:45

SGI Hardware Roadmap and Update, David Parry, Sr. VP, High Performance Systems Development, SGI
2 General Session, Chair, Robert Bell (CSIRO)

11:00

SGI Technology Direction and Focus, Eng Lim Goh, Sr. VP and Chief Technology Officer, SGI

11:30

SGI Software Roadmap and Update, Gabriel Broner, VP, Engineering, Software, and Storage Divisions, SGI

12:00

Making Your Most Complex IT Goals a Reality: Technology Services, Terry Oberdank, VP, Global Services, SGI
3 Technical Sessions
 

3A

3B

3C

 

IRIX

Applications

Visualization

 

Chair, Tina Butler (NERSC)

Chair, Larry Eversole (JPL)

Chair, John Clyne (NCAR)

2:00

SGI IRIX Update, Lynne Johnson, SGI Development of Vadose Zone DNAPL Transport Models, Eric Greenwade (INEEL) SGI High Performance Visualization Solutions, Fabrizio Maguglian, SGI

2:30

Experiences in Managing System Resources on a Large Origin 3800 Cluster, Mark van de Sanden and Huub Stoffers (SARA)
Paper in PDF format
Slides in PDF format
The Parallel Performance of a Tightly Coupled 3D Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation, Lee Margetts and Mike Pettipher (MCC)
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Slides in PDF format
OpenGL VizserverTM, George Melissargos, SGI

3:00

How Should the IRIX Cpuset Feature Be Employed on a 256P Origin3800? Barry Sharp and James Glidewell (BCS) and Greg Siekas, SGI
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An Overview of Recent Supercomputing Applications at JPL, Chris Catherasoo (JPL) Wavelets and Their Application to Very Large Data Visualization, John Clyne (NCAR)
4 Technical Sessions

4A

4B

4C

Linux

Performance

Mass Storage

 

Chair, Virginia Bedford (ARSC)

Chair, Eric Greenwade (INEEL)

Chair, Robert Bell (CSIRO)

4:00

SGI Linux Update, Lynne Johnson, SGI 1024p Single System Image Origin 3000, Chuck Niggley (NAS) SGI CXFS Clustered File-System and Its Place in Storage Management, Neil Bannister, SGI

4:30

SN-McKinley Project Update, Steve Reinhardt, SGI High Performance Linear Algebra, Adrian Tate (MCC) and Patrick Briddon, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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Parallel I/O Experiences on an SGI 750 Cluster, Troy Baer (OSC)

5:00

Resource Management on a Mixed Processor Linux Cluster, Haibo Wang (MCSR)
Paper in PDF format
Slides in PDF format
Obtaining Scalable Performance from Molecular Dynamics Codes on HPC Machines, Neil Stringfellow, Peter Coveney, and Fabrizio Giordanetto (MCC) SGI's Complex Data Management Architectures, LaNet Merrill, SGI