The Advanced Cluster Computing Consortium, a collaboration of businesses, academia and government involved in developing high-performance computing (HPC) systems from standard industry equipment, will hold its first annual meeting June 2 at the Statler Hotel on campus.
The daylong conference, titled "Roadmaps to the Future of Cluster Computing," will feature presentations from experts at the Cornell Theory Center (CTC), where the consortium is based, Dell Computer, Intel, Microsoft and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Speakers will present their visions for the future of cluster computing (from linking desktops to building high-performance systems) for large-scale applications. The sessions, to be held in the Statler Auditorium, are open without charge to the Cornell community with advance registration. There will, however, be a charge for the public.
"This session promises to provide a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art for the next generation of advanced high-performance clusters," said CTC Director Thomas F. Coleman, who will kick off the day's sessions.
The consortium was established by CTC in conjunction with Dell, Intel and Microsoft as a research and information technology service consortium for business, higher education and government agencies. Consortium members receive technology briefings, training and consulting services from CTC's staff.
At the morning sessions on June 2, Reza Rooholamini, director of Dell's cluster development laboratory, will discuss plans for cluster computing servers, interconnect technologies and storage systems, and Jenwei Hsieh, also of Dell's cluster group, will present recent performance benchmarks.
Intel senior research scientist Timothy Mattson and Microsoft research manager Todd Needham will cover such topics as features of the Itanium IA-64 processor, plans for the McKinley processor, future technologies such as InfiniB and I/O architecture and Windows 2000 HPC initiatives.
During the afternoon Kenneth Birman, Cornell professor of computer science, will speak on "Cluster Computing Made Easy: New Tools for Scalable Servers and Services," and Johannes Gehrke, assistant professor of computer science, will provide insights into data mining for large databases.
Finally, recent application experiences on CTC's production systems will be analyzed in a panel session moderated by Dave Lifka, CTC associate director for systems, and CTC research associate Gerd Heber.
Registration for "Roadmaps to the Future of Cluster Computing" is available online at http://www.tc.cornell.edu/AC3/News/Events/2000/ac3.2000.p1.html.