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. -- Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Computing / Scyld Software www.penguincomputing.com www.scyld.com Annapolis MD and San Francisco CA _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
