Cluster Management Workshop 9/6

This year the NOTUR programme has been increased and starts with a Cluster Workshop on Wednesday June 9th. Invited speaker is Greg Bruno from SDSC/NPACI, one of the principals behind the ROCKS Cluster Management Toolkit. The workshop starts at Realfagsbygget at 11:00 and ends approximatly at 17:00. The workshop will cover important issues with building, administrating and maintaining large clusters. Different approaches to Cluster management and best practice issues will be discussed.

The second half of the workshop will be a hands on session where one can install and experiment with clusters. For this purpose we will set up a test lab with machines based on a wide variety of cpu technologies, Xeon/P4, Itanium2, Opteron and PowerPC. We are very grateful to HP and IBM which has graciously provided us with cluster machines that will be installed in the test lab.

After the workshop, there will be bowling and pizza at Tromsø Bowlingsenter.

Please watch this page for more detailed information. A printable version of The NOTUR 2004 flyer can be found here.

 

Program 10/6

Time	Topic	Speaker	Location
1000	Registration and Coffee		Hall
1030	Welcome	Jarle Aarbakke Rector University of Tromsø	MH-bygget, Store aud
1045	The NOTUR experience	Bjørn Hafskjold NOTUR Project Manager	MH-bygget, Store aud
1115	Advances in HPC and the constant need for increased compute power	Paul Woodward Director LCSE, University of Minnesota	MH-bygget, Store aud
1200	The NOTUR Technology Transfer Projects	Trond Kvamsdal NOTUR TTP Manager	MH-bygget, Store aud
1230	Lunch		Hall
1330	Future Challenge 1: Functional genomics in a nutshell	Torbjørn Rognes Dr, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, UiO	MH-bygget, Store aud
1400	Future Challenge 2: Computational chemistry	Kenneth Ruud Professor, University of Tromsø	MH-bygget, Store aud
1430	Future Challenge 3: Climate and environmental research	Helge Drange Professor, University of Bergen	MH-bygget, Store aud
1500	Coffee break		Hall
1530	Large scale data management	Kerstin Kleese van Dam Group Leader CCLRC e-science Centre	MH-bygget, Store aud
1615	HPC in Norway beyond NOTUR	Gudmund Høst Senior Advisor, The Research Council of Norway	MH-bygget, Store aud
1700	Information round up	Bjørn Hafskjold NOTUR Project Manager	MH-bygget, Store aud
1720	End of day one
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2000	Dinner party		Fløya Mountain cabin

 

Program 11/6

Time	Topic	Speaker	Location
0830	Registration and Coffee		Hall
0900	Experiences with installing and managing large compute clusters	Greg Bruno San Diego Supercomputing Centre	MH-bygget, Store aud
0945	Poster Session		Hall
1130	High Performance Computing for computational neuroanatomy and neuroinformatics	Jan G. Bjaalie NOTUR TTP, Professor University of Oslo	MH-bygget, Store aud
1200	Parallel local wind model	Karl Eidsvik NOTUR TTP, Professor NTNU	MH-bygget, Store aud
1230	Lunch		Hall
1330	Preparing for the future: NOTUR Technology projects	Jacko Koster Principal Scientist, Parallab, Universty of Bergen	MH-bygget, Store aud
1400	E-science in Norway - adjustment or silver bullet?	Morten Dæhlen Director, SIMULA Research	MH-bygget, Store aud
1430	Coffee Break		Hall
1500	GRID computing from a Nordic perspective	Anders Ynnerman Director SNIC	MH-bygget, Store aud
1540	NOTUR Lottery and Poster award	Bjørn Hafskjold NOTUR Project Manager	MH-bygget, Store aud
1610	End of day two

 

Colour scheme:

Breaks	Scientific track	NOTUR track	To be announced