First International Workshop
on Operating Systems, ProgrammingEnvironments and Management Tools
for High-Performance Computing on Clusters
(COSET-1)
Saint-Malo
(France), June 26th, 2004
in
conjunction with
ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS '04)
http://ics04.irisa.fr/ICS04/
***NEW: Slides
and proceedings***
COSET-1 Program
9:00-9:05 Opening
9:05-10:05 Session 1: Cluster Operating System Services
Session chair: Christine Morin, INRIA
Parallel File
System for Networks of Windows Workstations
Jose Maria Perez, Jesus Carretero, Felix Garcia, Jose Daniel Garcia, Alejandro
Calderon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
An application-oriented
Communication System for Clusters of Workstations
Thiago Robert C. Santos and Antonio Augusto Frohlich, LISHA, Federal University
of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil
10:05-10:35 Session 2: Application Management
Session chair: Christine Morin, INRIA
A first step toward autonomous clustered J2EE applications management
Slim Ben Atallah, Daniel Hagimont, Sébastien Jean and Noël de
Palma, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France
10:35-11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Session 3: Highly Available Systems for Clusters
Session chair: Stephen Scott, ORNL
Highly Configurable
Operating Systems for Ultrascale Systems
Arthur B. Maccabe and Patrick G. Bridges, The University of New Mexico, USA
Ron Brightwell and Rolf Riesen, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Trammell
Hudson, Operating Systems Research, Inc., USA
Cluster
Operating System Support for Parallel Autonomic Computing
A. Goscinski, J. Silcock, M. Hobbs, Deakin University, Australia
Type-Safe
Object Exchange Between Applications and a DSM kernel
R. Goeckelmann, M. Schoettner, S. Frenz and P. Schulthess, University of Ulm,
Germany
12:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Session 4: Cluster Single System Image Operating Systems
Session chair: Christine Morin, INRIA
SGI's Altix
3700, a 512p SSI system. Architecture and Software environment
Jean-Pierre Panziera, SGI
SSI-OSCAR:
a Single System Image for OSCAR Clusters
Geoffroy Vallée, INRIA
16:00 -16:20 Coffee break
16:20-17:20 Session 4 (continued): Cluster Single System Image Operating
Systems
Session chair: Geoffroy Vallée, INRIA
Millipede Virtual Parallel Machine for NT/PC clusters
Assaf Schuster, Technion
Providing
a Single System Image: The GENESIS Approach
Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University
17:20-18:00 Panel: SSI: Software versus Hardware Approaches
Moderator: Stephen Scott, ORNL
CALL FOR
PAPERS
SCOPE
Clusters are not only the most widely used general high-performance computing
platform for scientific computing but also according to recent results on
the top500.org site, they have become the most dominant platform for high-performance
computing today.
While the cluster architecture is attractive with respect to price/performance
there still exists a great potential for efficiency improvements at the software
level. System software requires improvements to better exploit the cluster
hardware resources. Programming environments need to be developed with both
the cluster and human programmer efficiency in mind. Administrative processes
need refinement both for efficiency and effectiveness when dealing with numerous
cluster nodes.
The goal of this one-day workshop is to bring together a diverse community
of researchers and developers from industry and academia to facilitate the
exchange of ideas and to discuss the difficulties and successes in this area.
Furthermore, to discuss recent innovative results in the development of cluster
based operating systems and programming environments as well as management
tools for the administration of high-performance computing clusters.
The workshop organizers solicit papers presenting new software systems and
concepts for clusters ranging from small clusters – through large-scale
- and federated clusters.
Topics of interest for this workshop include but are not limited to:
* Cluster management and configuration tools
* Cluster distribution technology and experience (ie. OSCAR, Scyld, Rocks,
others...)
* Single system image systems
* Global scheduling
* Process migration
* High performance communication systems
* Distributed Shared Memory
* Distributed and parallel file systems for clusters
* High performance I/O
* Multi-threading environments
* OpenMP support on clusters
* Message-passing programming environments (ie. PVM, MPI, others...)
* Security
* Fault-tolerance
* Checkpointing
* High availability
* Efficient and innovative communication methodologies
* High-performance networking technologies (ie. Myrinet, Infiniband, others...)
* Remote paging
* Cooperative caching
* Cluster operating systems
* Performance Evaluation
* New commercial or experimental software for high performance cluster computing
The workshop format will include one keynote speaker, presentations from
authors of reviewed papers, and one panel session discussion on a relevant
topic.
The program committee will review all papers. The submissions to be presented
at the workshop will be selected, based on their originality, technical merit,
and topical relevance of the contents. Accepted papers will appear in the
workshop proceedings provided to all workshop attendees and posted on the
workshop website. An effort will be made to capture all presentation material
to post on the workshop website following the meeting.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Submitted papers should not exceed 10 single-spaced pages (A4 paper and using
at least 11pt font) including all figures, tables, graphs and
bibliography).
The cover page must contain:
* abstract of approximately 150 words
* 3-5 key words
* name and affiliation of author(s)
* clear indication of the
corresponding author's:
* email
* telephone number
* fax number
* postal address
Submission will only be accepted electronically via email, in either postscript
or pdf formats.
Send submissions by March 20th,
2004 to one of the workshop co-chairs:
Christine Morin, INRIA (France) (christine.morin@inria.fr)
Stephen L. Scott, ORNL (USA) (scottsl@ornl.gov)
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: April 9th, 2004 (no further
extension)
Author notification:
May 13rd, 2004
Camera-ready due:
May 23rd, 2004
Workshop: Saturday June, 26th, 2004
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Stephen
L. Scott
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P. O. Box 2008, Bldg. 5600, MS-6016
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6016
email: scottsl@ornl.gov
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~sscott/
voice: 865-574-3144
fax: 865-576-5491
Christine
A. Morin
IRISA/INRIA
Campus universitaire de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes cedex, France
email: christine.morin@inria.fr
http://www.irisa.fr/paris
voice: +33 2 99 84 72 90
fax: +33 2 99 84 71 71
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ramamurthy Badrinath, HP, India
Amnon Barak, Hebrew University, Israël
Jean-Yves Berthou, EDF R&D, France
Brett Bode, Ames Lab, USA
Ron Brightwell, SNL, USA
Emmanuel Cecchet, INRIA, France
Toni Cortès, UPC, Spain
Narayan Desai, ANL, USA
Christian Engleman, ORNL, USA
Graham Fagg, University of Tennessee, USA
Paul Farrell, Kent State University, USA
Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia
Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University, USA
Chokchai Leangsuksun, Louisiana Tech University, USA
Laurent Lefèvre, INRIA, France
John Mugler, ORNL, USA
Raymond Namyst, Université de Bordeaux 1, France
Thomas Naughton, ORNL, USA
Hong Ong, University of Portsmouth, UK
Rolf Riesen, SNL, USA
Michael Schoettner, University of Ulm, Germany
Assaf Schuster, Technion, Israël