.: SHARCNET || Fall Workshop 2003

This annual workshop is primarily targeted at researchers who are currently using or interested in using the grid of high performance computer clusters at SHARCNET. The workshop will include lectures and tutorials that will cover topics on parallel computing, programming, methods, network and storage and various applications. The workshop will also provide participants with updates on current technologies and trends in parallel and grid computing, from leading industrial HPC enablers such as Hewlett Packard, Intel and Platform Computing.

A joint workshop on scientific computing and applications will be held on Friday and is open to all workshop participants.

More information about SHARCNET and research highlights can be found at SHARCNET's web site.

Themes

High performance computing on a network of clusters
Algorithms, programming methods and software
Code and compiler optimization
Developing and debugging parallel code on clusters
Computational theory and methods for parallel computing
Applications
Distributed and parallel computing
Network and storage
Grid computing

Speakers

Niraj Srivastava, High Performance Computing Expertise Center, HP
Rajeev Thakur, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Brian Toonen, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Steve Salkeld, System Engineering, Platform Computing
Stephen R. Wheat, High Performance Computing Program, Intel

David McCaughan, HPC Consultant, SHARCNET
Deb Stacey, Professor of Computer Science, University of Guelph, Canada
Peter Forsyth, Professor of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada
Hugh Couchman, Professor of Astronomy, McMaster University, Canada
Terry Peters, Scientist, Imaging Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute, Canada

Programme

Wednesday, October 8, 2003

09:30 - 09:45	Welcome and Workshop Opening Nils Petersen, Chair of SHARCNET Board of Directors, VP Research, UWO Mike Bauer, SHARCNET Lead Principle Investigator
09:45 - 10:45	Rajeev Thakur, Argonne, MPI: Enabling portable and high-performance parallel computing.
10:45 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00	David McCaughan, SHARCNET, Limits to parallel computing.

Lunch Break

13:00 - 15:30	Tutorial: MPI programming: Performance and pitfalls, Rajeev Thakur and Brian Toonen, Argonne.
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00	Technical Seminar: MPICH-2 Implementation, Rajeev Thakur and Brian Toonen, Argonne.
17:00 - 18:30	Opening Reception

Thursday, October 9, 2003

09:30 - 10:30	Steve Salkeld, Platform, e-Science meets e-Business: Exploring the convergence between research and commercial grid computing for science.
10:30 - 10:45	Coffee break
10:45 - 11:45	Deb Stacey, Univeristy of Guelph, CheapGRID or is there life after Globus.

Lunch Break

13:00 - 15:30	Tutorial: Adventures in design and performance analysis of large-scale parallel applications, Niraj Srivastava, HP
15:30 - 15:45	Coffee break
15:45 - 17:45	Tutorial: Intel Itanium 2 processor: Architecture overview and compiling for performance, Stephen R. Wheat, Intel.

Friday, October 10, 2003

09:30 - 09:45	Dean of Graduate Studies, UWO, Welcome.
09:45 - 10:45	Hugh Couchman, McMaster, Simulating cosmic structure.
10:45 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00	Terry Peters, Robarts Imaging, The role of HPC in image-guided surgery.

Lunch Break

13:00 - 14:00	Peter Forsyth, University of Waterloo, The glut in long-haul optical fibre capacity: Did we know it was going to happen?
14:00 - 14:30	Henning Rasmussen, UWO, Introduction to the graduate program in scientific computing.
14:30 - 16:00	Poster session

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