Keynote 1 (Room C)

Chair: Daniel S. Katz (Jet Propulsion Lab., USA)

Linux Clusters for Extremely Large Scientific Simulation

Mark Seager (Lawrence Livermore National Lab., USA)

Session 1A (Room A)
Scheduling I

Chair : Ira Pramanick

(Sun Microsystems, USA)

Session 1B (Room B)
Applications

Chair : Philip Papadopoulos

(San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA)

Session 1C (Room C)
Performance Analysis

 Chair : D. K. Panda

(Ohio State Univ., USA)

Dynamic Scheduling of Parallel Real-time Jobs by Modelling Spare Capabilities in Heterogeneous Clusters
Ligang He, Stephen A. Jarvis, Graham R. Nudd, and Daniel P. Spooner (Univ. of Warwick, UK)

Parallel Job Scheduling on Multi-Cluster Computing Systems

Jemal Abawajy and S. P. Dandamudi (Carleton Univ., Canada)

Interstitial Computing: Utilizing Spare Cycles on Supercomputers

Stephen Kleban and Scott Clearwater (Sandia National Lab., USA)

A Cluster-Based Solution for High Performance Hmmpfam Using EARTH Execution Model

Weirong Zhu, Yanwei Niu, Jizhu Lu, Chuan Shen, and Guang R. Gao

(Univ. of Delaware, USA)

Computing Large-scale Alignments on a Multi-cluster

Chunxi Chen and Bertil Schmidt

(Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore)

Auto-CFD: Efficiently Parallelizing CFD Applications on Clusters

Li Xiao (Michigan State Univ., USA), Xiaodong Zhang (College of William and Mary, NSF, USA), Zhengqian Kuang, Baiming Feng, and Jichang Kang (Northwestern Polytechnic Univ., China)

Performance Analysis of A Large-Scale Cosmology Application on Three Cluster Systems

Zhiling Lan and Prathibha Deshikachar (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)

A Performance Monitor based on Virtual Global Time for Clusters of PCs

Michela Taufer (UC San Diego, USA) and Thomas M. Stricker (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

A Distributed Performance Analysis Architecture for Clusters

Holger Brunst, Wolfgang E. Nagel (Dresden Univ. of Technology, Germany), Allen D. Malony (Univ. of Oregon, USA)

Keynote 2 (Room C)
Chair: Xiaodong Zhang (College of William and Mary, NSF, USA)

Distributed Security Enforcement for Trusted Cluster and Grid Computing

Kai Hwang (Univ. of Southern California, USA)

Session 2A (Room A)
Scheduling II

Chair: Thomas Stricker

(ETH, Zurich)

Session 2B (Room B)
Java

Chair: Mark Baker

(Univ. of Portsmouth, UK)

Session 2C (Room C)
Communication I

Chair : Tomohiro Kudoh

(AIST, Japan)

Coordinated Co-scheduling in Time-sharing Clusters through a Generic Framework

Saurabh Agarwal (IBM India Research Labs, India), Gyu Sang Choi, and Chita R. Das (Pennsylvania State Univ.), Andy B. Yoo (Lawrence Livermore National Lab.), and Shailabh Nagar (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)

A Robust Scheduling Strategy for Moldable Jobs

Sudha Srinivasan, Savitha Krishnamoorthy, and P. Sadayappan (Ohio State Univ., USA)

Towards Load Balancing Support for I/O-Intensive Parallel Jobs in a Cluster of Workstations

Xiao Qin, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, and David R. Swanson (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

JavaSplit: A Runtime for Execution of Monolithic Java Programs on Heterogeneous Collections of Commodity Workstations

Michael Factor (IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel), Assaf Schuster, and Konstantin Shagin (Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

Performance Analysis of Java Message-Passing Libraries on Fast Ethernet, Myrinet and SCI Clusters

Guillermo L. Taboada, Juan Tourino, and Ramon Doallo (Univ. of La Coruna, Spain)

Compiler Optimized Remote Method Invocation

Ronald Veldema and Michael Philippsen (Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

Optimizing Mechanisms for Latency Tolerance in Remote Memory Access Communication on Clusters

Jarek Nieplocha , V. Tipparaju, M. Krishnan (Pacific Northwest National Lab., USA), G. Santhanaraman, D.K. Panda (Ohio State Univ., USA)

Impact of Computational Resource Reservation to the Communication Performance in the Hypercluster Environment

Kai Wing Tse and P.K Lun  (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., HK)

Kernel Implementations of Locality-Aware Dispatching Techniques for Web Server Clusters

Michele Di Santo, Nadia Ranaldo, and Eugenio Zimeo (Univ. of Sannio, Italy)

Poster Session

Chair: Putchong Uthayopas (Kasetsart Univ., Thailand)

Reception (Sponsored by  HP)

Chair: Francis Lau (The Univ. of Hong Kong, HK)

Keynote 3  (Room C)

Chair: Mark Baker (Univ. of Portsmouth, UK)

Session 3A (Room A)
Middleware

Chair: Dr. William Cheung,

(Baptist U., HK)

Session 3B (Room B)
Cluster/Job Management I

Chair: Jennifer Schopf

(Argonne National Lab., USA)

Session 3C (Room C)
I/O I

Chair: Rajeev Thakur

(Argonne National Lab., USA)
 

OptimalGrid: Middleware for Automatic Deployment of Distributed FEM Problems on an Internet-Based Computing Grid

Tobin Lehman and James Kaufman (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)

Adaptive Grid Resource Brokering

Abdulla Othman, Peter Dew, Karim Djemame, and Iain Gourlay (Univ. of Leeds, UK)

HPCM: A Pre-compiler Aided Middleware for the Mobility of Legacy Code

Cong Du, Xian-He Sun, and Kasidit Chanchio (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)

The Process Management Component of a Scalable Systems Software Environment

Ralph Butler (Middle Tennessee State Univ.), Narayan Desai, Andrew Lusk, and Ewing Lusk (Argonne National Lab., USA)

Load Distribution for Heterogeneous and Non-Dedicated Clusters Based on Dynamic Monitoring and Differentiated Services

Liria Sato (Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Hermes Senger (Catholic Univ. of Santos, Brazil)

GridRM: An Extensible Resource Monitoring System

Mark Baker and Garry Smith (Univ. of Portsmouth, UK)

A High Performance Redundancy Scheme for Cluster File Systems

Manoj Pillai and Mario Lauria (Ohio State Univ., USA)

VegaFS: A Prototype for File-sharing Crossing Multiple Administrative Domains

Wei Li, Jianmin Liang, Zhiwei Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Design and Performance of the Dawning Cluster File System

Jin Xiong, Sining Wu, Dan Men, Ninghui Sun, and Guojie Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Session 4A (Room A)
Novel Systems

Chair: Rajkumar Buyya (Univ. of Melbourne, Australia)

Session 4B (Room B)
Cluster/Job Management II

Chair: Putchong Uthayopas

(Kasetsart Univ., Thailand)

Vender Talk 1 (Room C)

Chair: Dr. Ng Nam

(The Univ. of Hong Kong , HK)

Coordinated Checkpoint versus Message Log for Fault Tolerant MPI

AurAclien Bouteiller, Lemarinier, Krawezik, Cappello (UniversitAc de Paris Sud, France)

A Performance Comparison of Linux and a Lightweight Kernel

Ron Brightwell, Rolf Riesen, Keith Underwood (Sandia National Lab., USA), Trammell B. Hudson (Operating Systems Research, Inc.), Patrick Bridges, and Arthur B. Maccabe (Univ. of New Mexico)

Implications of a PIM Architectural Model for MPI

Arun Rodrigues, Richard Murphy, Peter Kogge, Jay Brockman (Univ. of Notre Dame, USA), Ron Brightwell, and Keith Underwood (Sandia National Lab., USA)

Reusable Mobile Agents for Cluster Computing

Ichiro Satoh (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

High Service Reliability for Cluster Server Systems

M. Mat Deris, M.Rabiei, A. Noraziah, and H.M. Suzuri (Univ. College of Science and Technology, Malaysia)

Wide Area Cluster Monitoring with Ganglia

Federico D. Sacerdoti, Mason J. Katz (San Diego Supercomputing Center), Matthew L. Massie, David E. Culler (UC Berkeley, USA)

Intel Inside Cluster Computing

David S. Scott (Intel Corp.)

Dawning4000A: a 10Tflops Linux Cluster

Ninghui Sun (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Scaling out IT Solutions through Standardization of Hardware and Software Newman Wong (Enterprise Technologist, Dell Advanced Systems Group - Asia Pacific)

Panel Discussion

Top Problems in Cluster Computing and Systems and Possible Solutions

Panelists:

Rusty Lust, Angonne National Lab., USA

Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University, USA

Phil Papadopoulos, San Diego Supercomputing Center, USA

Thomas Stricker, ETH, Switzerland
Chip Watson, DOE Jefferson Lab, USA

Zhiwei Xu, Institute of Computing Technology, China

Xiaodong Zhang (Moderator), NSF and College of William and Mary, USA

Banquet Dinner (Sponsored by  Microsoft) at Room C

Keynote 4 (Room C)

Chair: Zhiwei Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Towards Grid and Cluster Federations

Satoshi Sekiguchi (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)

Vender Talk 2 (Room A)

Chair: Jiannong Cao

(Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ. HK)

Session 5B (Room B)
Novel Software

Chair: Hai Jin

(Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China)

Session 5C (Room C)
I/O II

Chair: Rob Ross,

( Argonne National Lab., USA)

InfiniBand - The new standard for clustering

Eyal Waldman (Mellanox Technologies)

The Lustre Storage Architecture

Peter J. Braam ( Cluster File Systems, Inc.)

Density, Power and Heat In Clusters and Grids

Gene Kim (RackSaver, Inc.)

Efficient Parallel Out-of-core Matrix Transposition
Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Gerald Baumgartner, Daniel Cociorva, Chi-Chung Lam, P Sadayappan (Ohio State Univ., USA)

A Case Study of Parallel I/O for Biological Sequence Search on Linux Clusters
Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Xiao Qin, David Swanson (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

CTFS: A New Light-weight, Cooperative Temporary File System for Cluster-based Web Server
Jun Wang (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

Efficient Structured Data Access in Parallel File Systems
Avery Ching, Alok Choudhary, Wei-keng Liao (Northwestern Univ.), Robert Ross, and William Gropp (Argonne National Lab., USA)

View I/O: Improving the Performance of Non-contiguous I/O
Florin Isaila and Walter F. Tichy (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)

Supporting Efficient Noncontiguous Access in PVFS over InfiniBand
Jiesheng Wu,  D.K. Panda (Ohio State Univ.), and Pete Wyckoff (Ohio Supercomputer Center, USA)

Technical Session : Live Grid Demo I

Chairs: Peter Kacsuk (MTA SZTAKI Research Institute, Hungary)

Venue: Room Ming (4th floor)

Lunch (Sponsored by Sun Microsystems) at Room Sung
15-minute Talk: Sun's Initiative in HPTC and Grid computing
Simon Chong-Wee See (Sun Microsystems Inc.)

Technical Session : Live Grid Demo II

Chairs: Rajkumar Buyya (Univ. of Melbourne, Australia)

Venue: Room Ming (4th floor)

Availability Prediction and Modeling of High Availability OSCAR Cluster
Lixin Shen, Chokchai Leangsuksun, Tong Liu, Hertong Song (Louisiana Tech Univ., USA), Stephen L. Scott (Oak Ridge National Lab., USA)

A System Recovery Benchmark for Clusters
Ira Pramanick, James Mauro, and Ji Zhu (Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA)

Performance Evaluation of Routing Algorithms in RHiNET-2 Cluster
Michihiro Koibuchi, Konosuke Watanabe, Kenichi Kono, Akiya Jouraku, and Hideharu Amano (Keio Univ., Japan)

Application-Bypass Reduction for Large-Scale Clusters
Adam Wagner, Darius Buntias, Dhabaleswar K. Panda (Ohio State Univ. USA), Ron Brightwell (Sandia National Lab., USA)

Improving the Performance of MPI Derived Datatypes by Optimizing Memory-Access Cost
Surendra Byna, Xian-He Sun (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA), William Gropp, Rajeev Thakur (Argonne National Lab., USA)

Shared Memory Mirroring for Reducing Communication Overhead on Commodity Networks
Jarek Nieplocha, B. Palmer, and E. Apra (Pacific Northwest National Lab., USA)