MUG-2002 Myrinet User's Group Conference 12-14 May 2002 Vienna, Austria Sponsored by Myricom, Inc. and co-sponsored by Quant-X, ParTec, Sun IBM, HP, Intel, & AMD

"A Clustering of the Stars of Cluster Computing."

The Myricom technical staff organized the technical program, and wish to thank the sponsors, speakers, and attendees for their contributions to making the MUG-2002 conference a great success.

Technical Program

The following is the technical program of the Myrinet Users Group Conference held in Vienna, Austria, 13-14 May 2002. If the slides used in a talk are available, we include a link to a pdf file.

Monday 13 May -- Myrinet Technology -- Presentations by the creators of Myrinet technology and software, a first-hand, "inside view" of the current state and the future of Myrinet.

09:30-10:10	Dr. Charles L. Seitz (CEO & CTO of Myricom) - Myrinet Technology Roadmap
10:10-10:50	Dr. Jakov Seizovic - LANai 10, the new generation of LANai interfaces
10:50-11:10	Break
11:10-11:50	Glenn Brown - The GM Message-Passing System
11:50-12:30	Dr. Patrick Geoffray - MPICH-GM and VI-GM middleware
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-17:30	Vendors exhibit in entry area of conference concurrently with the following talks
14:00-14:40	Markus Fischer (University of Mannheim, & Myricom consultant) - Sockets-GM
14:40-15:20	David Finucane- Myrinet Mapping and Monitoring

Monday 13 May -- Myrinet Experiences Session I

15:20-15:40	Dr. Thomas Lippert, Wuppertal University, Boosting Cluster Computing for Computational Science by Myrinet/ParaStation -- A User's Report from the Wuppertal Alpha-Linux-Cluster-Engine ALiCE
15:40-16:00	Break

Monday 13 May -- Vendor Session I

16:00-17:30	Dr. Norbert Eicker, ParTec, & Peter Roberts, Platform Computing, Inc. - ParaStation and LSF - High Performance Cluster Communication and Management
	Dimitar Birov (co-authors: Rossen Dimitrov, Wei Chen, Ecap Chakravarthi), MPI Software Technology, Inc & Terascale Euro EEOD (Sofia, Bulgaria), MPI/Pro for GM... Thread-safe, multi-threaded, high-performance MPI for Myrinet
	Simon Cole, AMD, AMD's Next Generation Processor
	Wolfgang Dreyer, Quant-X

Tuesday 14 May -- Distinguished Speakers Session -- Visionary talks

09:30-10:10	Prof.Dr.rer.nat. Hans-Werner Meuer, University of Mannheim - The TOP500 Project: Lessons learned through nine years of experience
10:10-10:50	Prof. Jack Dongarra, Innovative Computing Lab, University of Tennesee Knoxville - Performance Optimization for Cluster Computing
10:50-11:10	Break
11:10-11:50	David Turek, Vice President and BLE, Linux Clusters, IBM - Clusters, Grids, Linux, and the Future of Computing

Tuesday 14 May -- Myrinet Experiences Session II

11:50-12:10	Jaroslaw Zola, Technical University of Czestochowa, Poland - Parallel FEM Computations on PC-Based Cluster using Myrinet
12:10-12:30	Dr. Loic Prylli, ENS-Lyon, France - Linux OS issues with Myrinet: the good, the bad, and the ugly
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:20	Dr. Frans Meijers, CERN, Switzerland - Evaluation of Myrinet for the data acquisition of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
14:20-14:40	Dr. John W. Romein, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Solving the Game of Awari on the DAS-2 Distributed Cluster Computer (As a courtesy to the publisher of the formal paper, downloading of the slides will not be available until after the paper is published)
14:40-15:00	Dr. Wolfgang Hafemann, University of Heidelberg, Germany - First Experiences with HELICS, one of the most powerful PC-Myrinet clusters world-wide

Tuesday 14 May -- Vendor Session II

15:00-15:20	Stephen Perrenod, Sun Microsystems
15:20-15:40	Dr. Michael Rudgyard, Streamline Computing, More Than a Pile of PCs
15:40-16:00	Break

Tuesday 14 May -- Myrinet Feedback Forum

16:00-17:30

Dr. Ruth Sivilotti and Susan Blackford, Myricom, Moderators Doug Johnson, Ohio Supercomputer Center, Guest Moderator & Speaker

Last updated: 5 June 2002