Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution

[John Towns - NCSA Cog <jtowns@ncsa.uiuc.edu>]

All-- I want to make you aware of an upcoming conference on Linux clusters
we are organizing.  "Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution," sponsored by the
Alliance and Intel, is a conference for high-performance Linux cluster
users and system administrators.  We are inviting presentations at the
conference, which is to be held in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, June 25-27,
2001.  This is a great opportunity to present your work, and we encourage
you to go to the web page below and submit a short abstract via the "call
for papers" link.  In addition, the press release about the conference is
attached below.

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/LinuxRevolution/

My apologies to those that might receive multiple copies of this email.

Thanks very much!

John Towns
Conference Chair

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John Towns                                         jtowns@ncsa.edu
Division Director                                  217-244-3228 Office
Scientific Computing                               217-244-2909 FAX
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
and
National Computational Science Alliance


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Karen Green
NCSA Public Information Officer
217-265-0748
kareng@ncsa.uiuc.edu


**Alliance to Hold Conference on 'Linux Revolution'**
--Papers sought for June 25-27 conference--


CHAMPAIGN, IL, February 15, 2001--A Linux users' and system administrators'
conference sponsored by the National Computational Science Alliance
(Alliance) will be held June 25-27 in Urbana, IL, the home of the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.

"Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution" will feature a day of tutorials
followed by two days of plenary sessions and presentations about Linux
applications and systems by research scientists, engineers, programmers,
and Linux vendors. Dan Reed, director of the Alliance and NCSA, will
present the keynote address. Reed will outline the Alliance's vision and
the role Linux clusters will play in that vision.

The conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Conference Center near the
University of Illinois campus and will feature speakers from academia,
government research labs, and industry involved in Linux high-performance
computing. These speakers will address efforts to integrate and develop
Linux clusters for high-performance computing, and efforts to develop
science and engineering applications for Linux clusters.

The conference planning committee is soliciting novel papers on a broad
range of topics related to systems integration, operation and support, end
user applications, tools, and experiences. Topics being sought include (but
are not limited to) the following:

   - parallel filesystems and parallel I/O
   - batch schedulers
   - high-performance interconnects
   - systems management and monitoring
   - compilers and libraries
   - applications performance analysis
   - performance analysis tools
   - parallel debuggers
   - experiences in development of highly parallel applications

Detailed instructions for electronic submission of papers and important
dates to remember are posted on the conference website
(http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/LinuxRevolution). For additional information on
submitting papers, please contact the program committee at
linux-conf@ncsa.uiuc.edu. Paper abstracts are due March 16, 2001.

Important dates to remember are:
*March 23: paper abstracts due
*March 30: author notification of acceptance
*May 1: final electronic copies of papers due


The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is the leading-edge
site for the National Computational Science Alliance. NCSA is a leader in
the development and deployment of cutting-edge high-performance computing,
networking, and information technologies. The National Science Foundation,
the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, industrial partners, and
other federal agencies fund NCSA.


The National Computational Science Alliance is a partnership to prototype
an advanced computational infrastructure for the 21st century and includes
more than 50 academic, government and industry research partners from
across the United States. The Alliance is one of two partnerships funded by
the National Science Foundation's Partnerships for Advanced Computational
Infrastructure (PACI) program, and receives cost-sharing at partner
institutions. NSF also supports the National Partnership for Advanced
Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), led by the San Diego Supercomputer
Center.