[Beowulf] BayBUG meeting tomorrow April 17, 2007 in Sunnyvale

[Donald Becker]

Please join moderator and Beowulf cluster co-inventor Donald Becker on 
Tuesday, April 17 for the next Bay Area Beowulf Users Group (BayBUG):

Bay Area Beowulf User Group (BayBUG)
April 17, 2007
2:30 - 5:00 p.m.
AMD headquarters Common Building,
Room C-6/7/8
991 Stewart Drive, Sunnyvale

There will be food and drinks and an opportunity to learn from and network 
with other Linux HPC professionals as you hear the following 
presentations:

Job Management Standards in HPC
By Christopher Smith, Platform Computing

Title: Rapid Development of Parallel Systems and Applications in River (a 
Python-based programming environment)
By Dr. Greg Benson, USF

As usual, this meeting is open to all.

Full info is available on beouwlf.org





Presentation 1
Title: Job Management Standards in HPC
By Christopher Smith

Abstract:
Standards are often touted as instant cure to system interoperability 
issues, but what is the reality compared with the hype? This talk will 
provide an overview of current standards activity at the Open Grid Forum 
pertaining to job management within HPC schedulers. Benefits of standards 
for schedulers will be discussed, API versus protocol level standards will 
be contrasted, and the results of some recent interoperability 
demonstrations at SC06 will be reviewed.

Speaker Bio:
Chris Smith is a Senior Product Architect at Platform Computing. Over his 
last 9 years at Platform, he has focused on the integration of Platform's 
Grid middleware into production Grid solutions within High Performance 
Technical Computing disciplines. He is also an active participant in the 
Open Grid Forum, being a contributor on the JSDL specification, and a 
co-author on both the OGSA BES and HPC Profile specifications.

Presentation 2
Title: Rapid Development of Parallel Systems and Applications in River
By Dr. Greg Benson

Abstract:
River is a parallel and distributed programming environment written in 
Python. The River core interface is based on a few fundamental concepts 
that enables the execution of code on multiple virtual machines and 
provides a flexible mechanism for communication. These concepts are 
supported by the River run-time system, which manages automatic discovery, 
connection management, and naming. River can be used directly by an 
application programmer to implement parallel programs or it can be used as 
a framework for implementing programming models. We have found the 
simplicity and elegance of the River core combined with Python's dynamic 
typing and concise notation make it easy to rapidly develop a variety of 
parallel applications and run-time systems. In this talk I will give an 
overview of the River system and the core River interface. I will also 
summarize some of the programming models we have implemented in River 
including a new, simple interface for task farming called Trickle and an 
implementation of MPI.

Speaker Bio:
Greg Benson is an associate professor and chair in the Department of 
Computer Science at the University of San Francisco. Greg's research areas 
include operating systems, parallel computing, and programming languages. 
He has designed and developed several run-time systems and tools for 
parallel programming languages and libraries. He led the development of 
USFMPI, a multi-threaded implementation of MPI 1.2 for Linux using either 
Myrinet or Ethernet. Greg is a co-creator of FlashMob Computing and he 
implemented much of the software that enabled the harnessing of 700 
volunteer computers in a single day at the USF gym to run HPL (Linpack). 
Greg received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of 
California, Davis. While he was a graduate student, he held visiting 
research positions with Orca research group at Vrije University in the 
Netherlands and with the Flux OS research group at the University of Utah.





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Donald Becker				becker at scyld.com
Penguin Computing / Scyld Software
www.penguincomputing.com		www.scyld.com
Annapolis MD and San Francisco CA