THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1999

Coral Foyer

7:45 - 8:45 a.m. Continental Breakfast

 

Pacific Room

8:45-10:00 a.m. Conference Announcements

 

Keynote: The Computing Continuum

Sid Karin, Director, National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure

 

Coral Foyer

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

 

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon CONCURRENT SESSIONS (6,7)

 

SESSION 6: APPLICATIONS <Pacific Room>

 

Chair: Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University

 

1. Distributed Applications in a German Gigabit WAN

T. Eickermann, W. Frings, S. Posse, G. Gobbels, and R. Volpel (P002)

 

2. Spatially Decomposed Multigrain MOM Problems on NOWs

W. Ligon III, A. Martin, and D. Stanzione, Jr. (P015)

 

3. Techniques for Automating Distributed Real-Time Applications Design

D.-I. Kang, R. Gerber, L. Golubchik, and J. Hollingsworth (P028)

 

SESSION 7: FAULT TOLERANCE AND CHECKPOINTING <Bay/Catalina Room>

 

Chair: Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse-Zentrum Berlin (ZIB)

 

1. Starfish: Fault-Tolerant Dynamic MPI Programs on Clusters of Workstations

A. Agbaria and R. Friedman (P006)

 

2. Process Hijacking

V. Zandy, B. Miller and M. Livny (P011)

 

3. A Network-Aware Distributed Storage Cache for Data-Intensive Environments

B. Tierney, J. Lee, W. Johnston, B. Crowley and M. Holding (P069)

 

Seascape Ballroom

12:00 -2:00 p.m. Lunch

 

2:00-3:30 Single Track Session

 

SESSION 8: CURRENT TOPICS IN HPDC <Pacific Room>

 

Chair: Francine Berman, UC San Diego

 

1. Grids as Production Computing Environments: The Engineering Aspects of NASA's Information Power Grid

B. Johnston, NASA and LBL

 

2. To Overprovision or To Share via QoS-Aware Resource Management?

K. Nahrstedt, UIUC

 

3. Six Misconceptions About Reliable Distributed Computing

W. Vogels, Cornell University.

 

Coral Foyer

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

 

4:00 - 5:30 p.m. CONCURRENT SESSIONS (9, 10)

 

SESSION 9: SCHEDULING <Pacific Room>

 

Chair: TBD

 

1. Co-Allocation Services for Computational Grids

K. Czajkowski, I. Foster and C. Kesselman

 

2. Baglets: Adding Hierarchical Scheduling to Aglets

A. Gopalan, S. Saleem, M. Martin, D. Andresen

 

3. Sloppiness as a Virtue: Job-Length Estimation and Performance in Backfilling Schedulers

D. Zotkin and P. Keleher

 

 

SESSION 10: VISUALIZATION AND DATA MANAGEMENT <Bay/Catalina Room>

 

Chair: Paul Messina, California Institute of Technology

 

1. An Approach to Immersive Performance Visualization of Parallel and Wide-Area Distributed Applications

L. De Rose, M. Pantano, and D. Reed

 

2. Reducing Data Distribution Bottlenecks by Employing Data Visualization Filters

E. Franke and M. Magee

 

3. Data Management for Large-Scale Scientific Computations in High Performance

Distributed Systems

A. Choudhary, M. Kandemir, H. Nagesh, J. No, X. Shen, V. Taylor, S. More and R. Thakur

 

6:00-9:00 p.m. BANQUET at The George C. Page Museum At The La Brea Tar Pits

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