Trends in High-Performance Computing:
Systems, Services, and User Requirements

Hotel Cadro Panoramica
Cadro-Lugano
Switzerland

Thursday/Friday, March 25 - 26, 1999

Thursday, March 25, 1999

Session Chair: H.-H. Nägeli, University of Neuchatel

12:00 - 13:00

Registration

13:00 - 13:15

Opening Address

M.H. Gutknecht, ETH Zurich

13:15 - 13:50

High Performance Computing -- Are we at an Andy Grove Inflection Point?

W.J. Camp, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, USA

13:50 - 14:25

Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software

R.C. Whaley, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

14:25 - 15:00

A Center and Networks to an Alliance and Grids: A Few Technical and Support Details

J. Towns, National Computational Science Alliance, USA

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee Break

Session Chair: K.M. Decker, CSCS

15:30 - 16:05

High Performance Computing - an Industrial View

J. Lepper, ABB Corporate Research, Baden, Switzerland

16:05 - 16:40

HPC: Requirements for Industry Tools

W. Schmidt, DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart, Germany

16:40 - 17:15

HPC-Services for Science and Engineering: A Technical and Economic Challenge

A. Geiger, RUS, Stuttgart, Germany

17:15 - 17:50

HPC in Academia, Research and Industry - Trends and Perspectives with Respect to German Supercomputer Centers

U. Harms, Harms Supercomputing Consulting, Munich, Germany

18:00 - 19:30

7th General Assembly of the SPEEDUP Society

K.M. Decker, President SPEEDUP Society, CSCS

20:00

Dinner

Sponsored by Supercomputer Systems AG

Friday, March 26, 1999

Session Chair: P. Arbenz, ETH Zurich

09:00 - 09:35

The Swiss-Tx Project: Objectives and Achievements

R. Gruber, EPF Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

09:35 - 10:10

The Communication Network of the Swiss-Tx Series of Computers

A. Gunzinger, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

10:10 - 10:40

Coffee Break

 

Session Chair: M.H. Gutknecht, ETH Zurich

10:40 - 11:15

K-Ring Based Interconnection Networks for Parallel Computers

P. Kuonen, EPF Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

11:15 - 11:50

HPCN Service Case Study: The NEC-CSCS Collaboration in Applications, Porting, and Optimization

D. Maric, CSCS, Manno, Switzerland

11:50 - 12:25

CSCS: From a Service to a Science Center

H.-P. Wessels, CSCS, Manno, Switzerland

12:25 - 12:30

Announcement of the 26th SPEEDUP Workshop

12:30

End of the Workshop