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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1999

Coral Foyer
7:00 - 8:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
Pacific Room
8:30-10:00 a.m. Opening
Introduction:
Salim Hariri,Conference Chair
Keynote Address:
Scientific Power Grids: An Industrial Perspective
Dr. Kenneth Neves, Senior Technical Fellow, Director, Computer Science Research, Boeing

Coral Foyer
10:00-10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon Concurrent Sessions (1, 2)

SESSION 1: CORBA <Pacific Room>

Chair: Dennis Gannon, Indian Univ.

SESSION 2: PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT and PREDICTION I <Bay/Catalina Room>

Chair: Rich Wolski, University of Tennessee

1. Accurately Measuring MPI Broadcasts in a Computational Grid
B. deSupinski and Nicholas T. Karonis(P072)
2. Direct Network Queries for Discovering Network Resource Properties in a Distributed Environment
B. Lowekamp, D. O'Hallaron and T. Gross (P034)
3. Predictive Application-Performance Modeling in a Computational Grid Environment
N. Kapadia, J. Fortes, C. Brodley (P038)
Seascape Ballroom
12:00-2:00 p.m. The Jini Architecture and Network Centric Computing
Charles Lamb, Sun Micro Systems

2:00-3:30 p.m. Single Track Session

SESSION 3: APPLICATIONS <Pacific Room>

Chair: Carl Kesselman, USC-ISI

1. The Cactus Computational Toolkit, and Using Distributed Computing to Collide Neutron Stars
Gabrielle Allen, Albert Einstein Institute
2. A Methodology for Supporting Collaborative Exploratory Analysis of Massive Data Sets in Tele-Immersive Environments
Jason Lee, Andrew Johnson, Thomas DeFanti, U of Illinois at Chicago; Stuart Bailey, Robert Gromman, National Center for Data Mining
3. Applying Distributed Computing Methodology to the Grid Within A Single Machine Room
Paul Woodward, University of Minnesota

Coral Foyer
3:30 - 4:00 p.m. Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:30 Concurrent Sessions (4,5)

SESSION 4: PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT <Pacific Room>

Chair: Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory
1. An Evaluation of Linear Models for Host Load Prediction
P. Dinda and D. O'Hallaron (P042)

2. Overview of a Performance Evaluation System for Global Computing Scheduling Algorithms
A. Takefusa, S. Matsuoka, H. Nakada, K. Aida, U. Nagashima (P041)
3. Predicting the CPU Availability of Time-shared Unix Systems on the Computational Grid
R. Wolski, N. Spring and J. Hayes (P064)

SESSION 5: OO and COMPONENT ARCHITECTURES <Bay/Catalina Room>

Chair: Andrew Grimshaw, Univ. of Virginia
1. Toward a Common Component Architecture for High Performance Scientific Computing
R. Armstrong, D. Gannon, A. Geist, K. Keahey, S. Kohn, L. McInnes and S. Parker (P076)
2. CAT: A High Performance Distributed Component Architecture
J. Villaca, M. Covindaraju, D. Stern, A. Whitaker, F. Breg, P. Deuskar, B. Temko, D. Gannon and R. Bramley (P039)
3. PARED: A Framework for the Adaptive Solution of PDEs
J. Castanos and J. Savage (P001)

5:30 - 6:00 p.m. Break

1. Steering Data Streams in Distributed Computational Laboratories
Carsten Isert
2. An Approach for MPI cased Metacomputing
Michael Resch
3. High Performance Phylogenetic Inference
Quinn Snell
4. Passive, Application-Independent, End-to-End Interprocess Communication Performance Monitoring to Support Adaptive Applications
David St. John
5. Integrating the KeLP Data Parallel Library with Meta-Chaos
Scungho Cho
6. Dynamic Task Migration in Home-based Software DSM Systems
Rasit Eskicioglu
7. MAT marks: A shared Memory Environment for MATLAB Programming
George Almasi
8. Distributed Processing for Cinematic HPIV
Daniel Andresen
9. QoS as Middleware: Bandwidth Brokering System Design*
Gary Hoo
10. Proteus: A Runtime Reconfigurable Distributed Shared Memory System
Jyh C. Ueng
11. An Artificial Immune System Model for Task Allocation
Samuel H. Russ
12. Remote Application Scheduling on Metacomputing Systems
H.A. James, K.A. Hawick
13. Fault Tolerant Computing on the Grid: What are My Options?
Jon B. Weissman
14. Adaptive Write Detection in Home-Based Software DSMs*
Weisong Shi