SOS10 - 10th Workshop on Distributed Supercomputing
Renaissance Wailea Beach Resort,
Maui, Hawaii, USA, March 6-9, 2006
(by invitation only)
February 24, 2006 To: All SOS10 Attendees |
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Friends,
With your updates and help, the SOS10 website is current, and it has
a lot of relevant information. However, we will be freezing it Monday,
February 27, 2006. After the workshop, we will add all the presentations
there. Here are a few things we would like you to do:
http://www.cs.sandia.gov/Conferences/SOS10/
- Please visit the website and tell us if you find any error.
- Please do a repeated FIND of your last name for all its occurrences. This will tell you and remind you of your commitments.
- Abstracts of all talks are clickable, and so are descriptions of Sessions, and Questions for the Panels. Clicking on a name takes you to the relevant bio.
- At Registration we will have for you a handy abbreviated program that you can carry with you for ease in following the Program. We will expect that you will obtain any detailed information from the website. We will have very limited copies of detailed information only for those who do not have access to internet.
- SOS Workshops are highly interactive with plenty of audience participation. We will have a laptop available for making presentations. We will copy your material on a memory stick.
- We would appreciate your cooperation in minimizing disruptions by cell phones, nonessential use of laptops, PDAs, and the like.
- Lastly, we are very strict with time. Please help us make it a memorable workshop. During the Workshop, we will be treated to a number of keynote talks preparing us for Petascale. The Panels will introduce us to the knottiest problems in supercomputing and data intensive computing, educate us, and challenge us.
- We will have plenty of scheduled time away from the Workshop for soaking in the paradise.
We look forward to a very fruitful and memorable meeting.
Aloha,
Neil Pundit, Technical Chair, SOS10
Organizing Committee, Hosts, and Staff
What
is SOS?
SOS is a series of highly interactive Workshops on Distributed
Supercomputing, sponsored jointly by the Sandia National Labs, the
Oak Ridge National Lab, and the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH
and EPFL).
SOS10 in 2006 will be the 10th year. The last one hosted by Sandia
was SOS7 in Durango, CO, USA, in March 2003 attended by over 120
people, as many of you will recall. With your help, SOS10 will
be the best
ever
in the series.
The following website gives a reference to all previous SOS workshops:
http://www.eif.ch/sos/
SOS10 Theme: Revisiting Data-Intensive Computing
In an earlier SOS Workshop, we had Data-Intensive Computing as the
theme but we could not cover all major aspects. In our renewed
attempt, we
wish to cover the entirety of data-intensive computing. A survey
keynote talk will define and scope the implications on architecture,
processor,
communication, data transfer, storage, and visualization. We
will examine how enabling technologies and the applications deal with
data-intensiveness.
We will keep this focus in most of our sessions.
Program
Highlights
We plan to have a highly interactive program for 3 full
days with an expected attendance of 75. Each day we
will have
7 working hours for the Workshop. We are planning sessions on:
- CAPABILITY MACHINES: Status and Trends
- CAPACITY MACHINES: Status and Trends
- Report on
Recent Workshops and Conferences (Frontiers of Extreme Computing,
FAST-OS, 2005 European PVM/MPI, IEEE Cluster
2005, ) - Keynote Talks (Data-Intensive Computing, US National Academy of Science Report on Supercomputing, Architectures, Killer Applications, Enabling Technologies, Systems Software Challenges, Scalable IO and File Systems)
- Research Underway
- State-of-the-art Papers
- Panel Discussions on Controversial Topics
- Look into the Future
- Planning for SOS11 with the Program Committee
Tentative
Schedule
March 6, 6pm to 9pm: Reception
March 7 and 8: start with breakfast at 7am, technical program starts
at 7:30am and ends at 3:30pm
with an hour lunch break.
March 9: start with breakfast at 7am, technical
program starts at 7:30am,
activities break from 11:30am to
3:30pm (lunch on
your own)
and the
technical program resumes
at 3:30pm and ends at 6:30pm, Social Hour, Dinner,
and Adjourn.
Registration Fee
We are
required to cover the cost
of food from the registration
fee, which
is as follows:
Early Registration, up
to Nov 15, 2005: US$300.
Regular Registration, up
to Jan 2, 2006: US$400.
LATE Registration, up to
Feb 2, 2006: US$500.
NOTE: The deadline for
Registration for non-US
citizen from sensitive
countries
is Jan 2,
2006. Hotel room
is NOT guaranteed
after
Feb 2, 2006; however, we
can admit US citizen only
at the LATE Registration
rate.
You can pick up your badge
and the latest program
starting at
6pm on March
6, 2006. Evening Reception
will follow.
Workshop days are March
7, 8, and
9 – all
full 7-hour days with ample activities
breaks. We will conclude with dinner
on March 9.
Location
Maui international airport
(OGG) [actually in Kahului, Hawaii,
USA ] has direct flights from
US mainland
LAX, SFO,
Chicago, Salt Lake
City, Las
Vegas, San Diego, Dallas, etc.
It is a short hop from Honolulu
(HNL).
Maui is home of the Maui Supercomputing
Center,
a US DoD facility,
operated by the University
of Hawaii.
Overseas Attendees
If you tell
us in advance, the US sponsoring
Labs
(Sandia and Oak Ridge),
and the
Lawrence
Berkeley
Lab (NERSC) in California
can
arrange for your visit and appropriate
discussion with our technical
staff before
or after the SOS10 Workshop.
Accommodation
The hotel selected
is Renaissance Wailea Beach Resort,
a part of the Marriott hotel chain. Marriott
Hotels
A substantially reduced room
rate of US$195.00 per night
for single
or double occupancy has been
negotiated.
Children
under
18 stay free.
[Early
Arrival
and late stay are allowable
up to 3 nights each at this
guaranteed rate. Additional nights are
possible.]
You can make reservations by phone or by internet.
- Phone reservations call: (1-800) 992-4532. Reference "SOS10."
- Internet reservations: http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/HNMRN
Type in group code: SNLSNLT
Extracurricular Activities
We
invite you to a rare opportunity
to soak
into all aspects of Distributed
Supercomputing
as well as into
the tropical
paradise,
nearby attractions and other
amenities possible at
this world-class resort. You
can make it a family vacation.
What we need from you
- Your Acceptance, Registration, Hotel Reservation
- Any other suggestion on the program, speakers, topics
Following your acceptance, I will be contacting you for your technical participation in the program as a speaker, panelist, session chair, etc.
Note
for Non-US Citizens
If you are not a US citizen, we
will
gather from you your date and
country
of birth, and current
citizenship.
Unless you
happen
to be from a sensitive country
in
the
US DOE list, we would not need Foreign
National
Request (FNR) form.
For
people from any
sensitive
country we need at least
60 days to get you the FNR approval.
Contacts
Administrative Matters: Dee Cadena, (Neil’s administrative
assistant), dacaden@sandia.gov, 505-284-1458
Website and
Registration: Deanna Ceballos, drcebal@sandia.gov, 505-845-7753, Bernadette
Watts, bmwatts@sandia.gov, 505-844-3936
Technical Matters: Neil Pundit, pundit@sandia.gov, 505-845-7601
Program Chair: Sudip Dosanjh, sudip@sandia.gov, 505-845-7018
Policy Matters and Host: Bill Camp, bill@sandia.gov, 505-845-7655
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