Workshop Program

Nine out of the 12 submitted papers have been accepted for presentation at the workshop and inclusion in the proceedings published by Springer-Verlag as well as the IPDPS 2000 CD-ROM. Accepted papers have been organized in four sessions. In addition to contributed papers an invited talk will be presented by Thomas Sterling.

Westin Regina Hotel, May 5 2000

(see http://www.ippsxx.org/ipdps2000.htm for logistic details)

9:00- 9:10 Opening

L.V. Mancini, Workshop organizer

9:10- 10:00 Invited Speech

Thomas Sterling, CALTECH
"Computing Cluster in Phase Changes"

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Session 1: Cluster Interconnect Design and Implementation

• M. Trams, W. Rehm, D. Balkanski, and S. Simeonov " Memory Management in a combined VIA/SCI Hardware"
  
  
• M. Fischer, et al. " ATOLL, a new switched, high speed Interconnect in comparison to Myrinet and SCI"
  
  
• R.R. Hoare " ClusterNet: An Object-Oriented Cluster Network"

12:00-13:00 Lunch Break

13:00-14:00 Session 2: Off-the-shelf Clusters Communication

• M. Baker, S. Scott, A. Geist, and L. Browne " GigaBit Performance under NT"
  
  
• H.A. Chen, Y.O. Carrasco, and A.W. Apon, " MPI Collective Operations over IP Multicast"

14:00-15:00 Session 3: Multiple Clusters and Grid Computing

• S. Lalis, and A. Karipidis " An Open Market-Based Architecture for Distributed Computing"
  
  
• M. Barreto, R. Avila, and Ph. Navaux " The MultiCluster Model to the Integrated Use of Multiple Workstation Clusters"

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-16:30 Session 4: Data Intensive Applications

• S.H. Chung, et al. " Parallel Information Retrieval on an SCI-Based PC-NOW"
  
  
• M. Exbrayat, and L. Brunie " A PC-NOW Based Parallel Extension for a Sequential DBMS"

16:30-16:40 Closing Session

L.V. Mancini, Workshop organizer