Myrinet Users Group: Special Interest of PC Cluster Advanced Technologies and Experiences
HPC Asia 2004 Workshop

Organizers:Charles L. Seitz, Myricom Inc.
Yutaka Ishikawa, University of Tokyo
Date:July 22nd, 2004
Place:Tokyo, Japan

Call For Participation

In recent years, PC clusters have been installed at computer centers, and used for many applications. Many of these PC clusters, from small to medium to large scale, use the Myrinet network, which is used in more than 1/3 of the TOP500 supercomputers. For example, some Japanese research institutes have installed large scale clusters, e.g., more than 1,024 processors connected by Myrinet, after their several year experiences on middle range PC clusters. Those large scale clusters have been operated since this spring.

This is the good opportunity to bring together cluster computing researchers, developers, users, technical staffs, and computer vendor engineers in order to share their experiences using PC clusters with Myrinet networks, present the state of the art in cluster computing technologies, and discuss the further open issues.

In order to attend the workshop, you have to register the HPC Asia 2004 conference via the conference page. Be sure that the early registration deadline is 20th June.

Program

July 22nd (Thursday)
8:50 -- 9:00Welcome by Yutaka Ishikawa
9:00 -- 9:20Myrinet Updates by Charles L. Seitz
9:20 -- 10:05Invited Talk 1: Myrinet eXpress (MX): Is your interconnect smart ? by Patrick Geoffray (Myricom)
10:05 -- 10:50Invited Talk 2: AIST Super Cluster -- A large scale heterogeneous cluster
with 14.6TFLOPS peak performance --
Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST)
10:50 -- 11:00Break
11:00 -- 11:30Pink: A 1024-node Single-System Image Linux Cluster
Sung-Eun Choi, Erik A. Hendriks, Ronald G. Minnich, Matthew J. Sottile, Gregory R. Watson
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
11:30 -- 12:00Fast Mapping on Myrinet Networks
Erik Hendriks (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
12:00 -- 13:00Lunch Break
13:00 -- 13:20High-Performance Neural Network Training on a Computational Cluster
J. Lu+, D. Goldman*, M. Yang+, N. Bourbakis+
(+ Wright State University and * Soft Sight Inc.)
13:20 -- 13:40Comparative Analysis of High-Performance Cluster's Communication Environment Using HPL Test
Sergey Gaissaryan, Arutyun Avetisyan, Oleg Samovarov
(Institute for System Programming Russian Academy of Sciences)
13:40 -- 13:45Break
13:45 -- 15:00Work in Progress


Yutaka Ishikawa
Last modified: Mon May 17 16:15:29 JST 2004