Two summer scalability conferences
Still wishing you’d made the Seattle Conference on Scalability last month?
There’s a couple of upcoming East Coast meetings that look worthwhile. These are focused on compute intensive cluster computing, not Internet Data Center workloads, but many of the issues overlap.
The Commodity Cluster Symposium 2007 (CCS2007)
. . . addresses challenges associated with the rapidly expanding interest and acceptance of the use of commodity computer clusters for scientific applications.
This year’s focus is using commodity clusters to solve large-scale scientific problems. One of the co-developers of the Beowulf cluster architecture will keynote.
It is in Annapolis, MD and runs from July 23 through the 25th. Sorry for the late notice. You can read more here.
HECIWG FSIO
I hope I’ve decoded the acronyms correctly: the High End Computing Inter-agency Working Group’s (HECIWG) File Systems & I/O (FSIO) 2007 Workshop. August 5-8 in Arlington, VA.
HECIWG is a group devoted to coordinating the US Government’s work on big computing. There are a bunch of agencies that spend a lot of money on computing R&D. Until the working group, they didn’t much talk to each other about it. A little cross-fertilization among agencies, academics and a few companies can’t hurt.
Some interesting topics:
- Microdata Storage Systems
- Performance Insulation and Predictability For Shared Cluster Storage
- Petascale I/O for High End Computing
- Toward Automated Problem Analysis of Large Scale Storage Systems
Oddly enough, few of these folks seem to publish their stuff on the web so mere mortals can look at it. So I’m thinking about attending.
Centers for high-end computing research
I purloined this list of HEC research sites from the LANL website. It surprised me a little. I didn’t expect to see UCSC on the list, although I’ve looked at some of the research and researchers there. And I’d never heard of anything at Stony Brook. Cool.
on July 26th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
thanks for the (CITI) link! let’s chat (about NFSv4 and pNFS) at HECIWG-FSIO!
btw, UCSC is home to some of the top storage researchers in the world, so no surprise to see them featured. similarly, SB is renowned for its systems research faculty. (where ya been?)
on July 26th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
[...] Two summer scalability conferences [...]
on July 27th, 2007 at 9:09 am
[...] Although Robin Harris cursorily mentioned two other conferences (on scalability) and Stewart Smith mentioned linux.conf.au, the elephant in the room is clearly OSCON in Portland. [...]
on August 6th, 2007 at 11:07 am
shucks, it looks like you aren’t at the HECIWG-FSIO meeting. with luck, the presentations will be on the web, so you can follow from afar.