21st SPEEDUP Workshop
Distributed Computing: HPC Capabilities at the Desk-Top for Everybody
Hotel Cadro Panoramica
Cadro-Lugano
Switzerland
March 13-14, 1997
Program
Thursday, March 13, 1997
Session Chair:
S. Adam, PSI
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Registration
- 13:00 - 13:15
- Opening Address
- K.M. Decker, CSCS/SCSC, Manno
- 13:15 - 14:00
- Problem Solving Environments and NetSolve: A Network Server
for Solving Computational Science Problems
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J. Dongarra, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National
Laboratory
- 14:00 - 14:30
- A Distributed Scheduler for the GENESISe Simulation System
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M. Neeracher, ETH Zurich
- 14:30 - 15:00
- RVSLIB: A Library for Concurrent Network Visualization of
Large-Scale Unsteady Simulation
- S. Doi, NEC Corporation, Tokyo
- 15:00 - 15:45
- Distributed HPC and CORBA - Silver Bullet or Just
Middleware ?
- L. Richter, University of Zurich
- 15:45 - 16:15
- Coffee Break
Session Chair:
K.M. Decker, CSCS/SCSC
- 16:15 - 18:15
- Status and Future Trends in HPCN
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Roundtable discussion by high-performance computing system vendor
representatives on their current position, their analysis of
future trends, and their strategies for the next years from a
marketing perspective.
- 18:30 - 19:30
- SPEEDUP General Assembly
-
M.-C.Sawley, SPEEDUP Society, EPF Lausanne
- 19:45
- Dinner
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Special invited talk to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the
SPEEDUP Initiative by Prof. Urs Hochstrasser:
- Why high
speed computing in Switzerland ?
Friday, March 14, 1997
Session Chair:
M.-C. Sawley, EPF Lausanne
- 08:30 - 09:15
- Enabling a PC Cluster for High Performance Computing
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H. Hellwagner, Technical University of Munich
- 09:15 - 10:00
- High Throughput Computing
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M. Livny, University of Wisconsin
- 10:00 - 10:30
- Coffee Break
Session Chair:
H. Nägeli, Univ. Neuchâtel
- 10:30 - 11:00
- Distributed Object-Oriented Computing for Scientific
Application Supervision
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L. Lin, National Yunlin Institute of Technology, Taiwan
- 11:00 - 11:30
- A Framework for Distributed Application Generation
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A.M. Antonopoulos, University College London
- 11:30 - 12:00
- Transparent Parallel Services - Using Standard
Client-Server Infrastructure
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G. Prétôt, University of Basel
-
12:00 - 12:30
- JAVA-Based Remote Execution and Collaborative Work Over the
Web
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P.F. Flükiger, CSCS/SCSC, Zurich
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12:30 - 13:00
- Tele-Education on the Web: The Web SlideShow
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A. Mangili, CSCS/SCSC, Manno
-
13:00 - 13:15
- Announcement of the 22nd SPEEDUP Workshop
-
M.-C. Sawley, EPF Lausanne
-
13:15
- Close of Workshop
General Information and Registration
In 1997, SPEEDUP will become ten years old. Therefore, in
conjunction with the 21st SPEEDUP workshop, we will also celebrate the
10th anniversary of the SPEEDUP Initiative.
Since the number of participants is limited, we urge you to
register promptly to ensure that a space is reserved in your name. In
any case, please register until March 7, 1997 at the
latest.
Further information on the SPEEFUP Society can be obtained from http://www.speedup.ch/.
Contact Address
Karsten M. Decker
General Workshop Chair
Swiss Center for Scientific Computing (CSCS/SCSC)
Via Cantonale, CH-6928 Manno, Switzerland
Tel: 41 (91) 610 8357
Fax: 41 (91) 610 8383
E-mail:
decker@cscs.ch