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- From: dduke@ibm1.scri.fsu.edu (Dennis Duke)
- Subject: Announcement - Workshop on Cluster Computing
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.191234.29692@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- Organization: SCRI, Florida State University
- Date: 25 Aug 92 15:29:45 GMT
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- WORKSHOP ON CLUSTER COMPUTING
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- Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
- Florida State University
- Tallahassee, Florida 32306
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- Wednesday, December 2 - Friday, December 4, 1992
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- Organizers: Peter Dragovitsch (drago@scri.fsu.edu), SCRI, FSU
- Dennis Duke (dduke@scri.fsu.edu), SCRI, FSU
- Uli Hansmann (hansmann@scri.fsu.edu), SCRI, FSU
- Neil Lincoln (nrl@nips.ssesco.com), SSESCO
- Vaidy Sunderam (vss@mathcs.emory.edu), Emory University
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- The goal of the workshop is to bring together people who are interested in
- the issues of using heterogeneous clusters of computers as computational
- resources. This group of people would include:
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- - computational scientists or other end-users who desire to exploit
- the power and capabilities of heterogeneous clusters as an
- alternative to conventional supercomputers or MPP's
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- - software developers of queueing systems, parallel processing packages, and
- other software tools
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- - system administrators interested in both the strategic and technical issues
- of running clusters, including in general any kind of heterogeneous
- collection of networked computers
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- - vendors who are developing products to serve this market:
- (a) new generations of high performance workstations
- (b) new forms of packaging of workstations
- (c) new high speed networking products
- (d) new products for addressing mass storage and other I/O needs
- (e) any other applicable technology
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- - persons who would like to share their experiences, and especially give
- critical advice on desired user requirements, shortcomings of present
- hardware and software configurations, successes and failures to date,
- overviews of planned projects, etc.
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- Although most practical implementations of clusters to date consist of
- collections of RISC workstations, we are interested also in more general
- configurations which might include any number of distinct architectures,
- and a variety of new high-speed network interconnections.
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- The format of the workshop will be to fill the day with contributed and
- invited talks, and to have informal evening gatherings designed to further
- enhance the opportunity for information exchange. We especially encourage
- contributions of a 'practical experience' nature, since this is likely to
- be of the most use to the many people who are involved in cluster computing,
- and will also be complimentary to the many conferences that stress more the
- academic side of computing and computer/computational science research.
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- Please register for the workshop using the form attached below. We encourage
- as many attendees as possible to plan to make a presentation at the workshop.
- We do ask that speakers plan to address topics within the scope outlined
- above. Please send us a short abstract describing your talk, so we can plan an
- appropriate place in the schedule. An announcement of the schedule of
- speakers will be distributed as soon as possible. Within the limits of
- available time, we would like to accomodate as many speakers as practicable.
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- The 'proceedings' of the workshop will be published via anonymous ftp. We will
- request each speaker to send us an approriate electronic version of his
- talk (ascii, postscript, tex, latex, troff, etc.). These will then be placed
- on the machine ftp.scri.fsu.edu for further distribution.
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- Any questions or requests can be sent via email to
- cluster-workshop@scri.fsu.edu or to one of the organizers. SCRI can be
- reached by phone at (904)-644-1010.
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- REGISTRATION AND HOTEL INFORMATION
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- WORKSHOP ON RISC CLUSTER COMPUTING
- December 2-4, 1992
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- PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT
- Name _____________________________________
- Social Security Number ___________________
- Company __________________________________
- Address/Mailstop __________________________________________________
- City/State/Zip/Country ____________________________________________
- Email address _______________________________________
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- Workshop Program Number: 1903293
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- The registration fee for the workshop is $85, and includes three
- continental breakfasts, Wednesday and Thursday lunches, morning and afternoon
- break refreshments, and the food and drink for the evening sessions. There
- will be no workshop dinners.
-
- If you want to pay by check, please print out and fill in the above
- registration form, including especially the Workshop Program Number, and
- return the registration form and fee to:
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- The Registrar
- Florida State University Conference Center
- 555 West Pensacola Street
- Tallahassee, Florida 32306
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- If you want to register by credit card, you may register by email by sending
- back an edited form of the above registration information, as well as the
- following credit card information:
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- Credit Card Name _____________________________
- Credit Card Number ___________________________
- Name (as it appears on card) __________________________________
- Expirations Date of Card _____________________
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- There is an additional 2% charge by the University for credit card
- registrations (bringing the total to $86.70).
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- Email registrations, and all other inquiries about the workshop, may be
- sent to:
- email: cluster-workshop@scri.fsu.edu, or
- fax: (904)-644-0098, attention of Pat Meredith
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- Hotel Information:
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- The workshop hotel is the Holiday Inn, located within walking distance of
- the FSU Conference Center and SCRI on the FSU campus. The hotel does provide
- shuttle service to/from the Tallahassee airport. Rooms are $39 per night,
- single or double, and reservations should be made by November 10. Be sure to
- mention the Workshop on RISC Cluster Computing to get the special rate.
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- Holiday Inn/Downtown University Center
- 316 West Tennessee Street
- Tallahassee, FL 32301
- Phone: (904)-222-8000
- Fax: (904)-222-8113
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