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First Workshop on Distributed Virtual Supercomputers
Hotel de Santa Fe -- Santa Fe, New Mexico
June 24 - 27, 1997

Agenda


June 25th: Issues, Questions, Challenges

8:15-9:00 Breakfast and round the room introductions
9:00-9:30 Welcome and meeting purpose.
     William Camp, SNL
9:30-11:30 Hardware issues in Distributed Supercomputing
     James Tomkins, SNL
     Karl-Heinz, LANL
     Anton Gunzinger, ETH
     Al Geist, ORNL
11:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:00 Software issues in Distributed Supercomputing
     Richard Barrett, LANL
     Pierre Kuonen, ETH
     Tim Sheehan, ORNL
     David Greenberg, SNL
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-5:15 Applications issues in Distributed Supercomputing
     Ralf Gruber, EPFL
     Ken Kliewer, ORNL
     TBD, LANL
     Robert Clay, SNL

June 26th: Current Efforts

8:00-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-10:30 The computational plant project at SNL
     Art Hale, Overview
     Robert Clay, A potential hardware system design
     Rolf Riesen, A potential system software architecture
     Pang Chen, Providing balanced, usable I/O
     Lee Ann Fisk, Supplying a runtime environment
     David Evensky, Scalable Object Systems for Management and Control
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:45 Session A, (Kiva A Room)
     Al Geist, ORNL, Frontiers of PVM		 Session B, (Kiva B Room)
     Simulating Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence I
     Michel Deville, EPFL "Parallel Spectral
         Elements for Complex Fluids"
     Mark Christon, SNL
     John Shadid, SNL
11:45-1:00 Lunch, (Hotel Patio)
1:00-2:30 Session A, (Kiva A Room)
     Michael Warren, LANL,
          "Experiences with Loki"
     Ian Philp, LANL
          "Obstacles to providing low-latency,
          high-bandwidth networking in
          pheterogeneous and wide-area environments"		 Session B, (Kiva B Room)
     Simulating Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence I
     Open discussion
1:00 - 2:30 Session C, (Suite 225)
     Electronic Structure Calculations of Materials
     Ellen Stechel, SNL
     Grant Heffelfinger, SNL
     Alan Wright,SNL
     Heinrich Roder, LANL
     Roberto Car, EPFL
     Dwight Jennison, SNL
     Jonathan Boettger, LANL
     Mark Sears, SNL
     Peter Schultz, SNL
     Olof Eriksson, LANL
     Jeff Nelson, SNL
     Roland Stumpf, SNL
     Rick Martin, LANL
2:30 - 3:00 Break (Kiva A Room)
3:00 - 4:30 Session A, continued, (Kiva A Room)
     Anton Gunzinger
         Network for Parallel Commodity Computing
     Ralf Gruber
         The Scientific Macintosh		 Session B, continued, (Kiva B Room)
     Adaptive Mesh Refinement
     Roland Richter, EPFL
         Unstructured Mesh Adaption Within a
         True Parallel Environment
     Mike Wong, SNL
     Karen Devine, SNL
     Joe Jung, SNL
     Walt Witkowski, SNL
     James Peery, SNL
Session C, continued (Suite 255)

June 27: Preparing for the Future, (Kiva A Room)

8:00-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-12:00 Open discussion of what the key design decisions are that will need to be made, plans to address key bottlenecks, and plans to explore alternatives. Jim Tomkins, Art Hale, Karl-Heinz Winkler, Anton Gunzinger, Ken Kleiwer, Rob Armstrong will lead discussion.
12:00-1:00 Lunch and wrap up (Kiva B Room)


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