Programme

Next Generation HPC Systems and the Grid

10-11 September 2001


Monday 10th September: Programming Next Generation High-End Systems
Time Speaker Talk Title
9:30 Registration & Coffee
Session 1. Chair: Malcolm Atkinson
10:00 Martyn Guest UKHEC Collaboration
10:30 Hugh Pilcher-Clayton Progress on the Procurement of HPC(X)
11:00 Coffee
Session 2. Chair: Robert Allan
11:30 Mike Vildibill TeraGrid Computing
12:30 Lunch
Session 3. Chair: Stephen Pickles
13:30 Martyn Guest Terascale Computing Systems - an Overview of ASCI-class Technology
14:15 Bryan Richards, Mark Woodgate Aerodynamic studies on a Beowulf Cluster
15:00 Tea
Session 4. Chair: David Henty
15:30 Mark Bull Programming next-generation HPC systems: the mixed-mode model
16:15 Discussion
16:45 Close
19:00 Drinks in the Raeburn Room of the Playfair Library
19:30 Evening meal in the Playfair Library


Tuesday 11th September: Exploiting the Computational Grid
Time Speaker Talk Title
9:30 Coffee
Session 1. Chair: Arthur Trew
10:00 Tony Hey e-Science, e-Business and the Grid
11:00 Coffee
Session 2. Chair: Ricky Rankin
11:30 Steve Newhouse Software Environments for Federating Computational Resources
12:00 Rob Baxter Grid-Enabled Science: The EPCC ePortal
12:30 Lunch
Session 3. Chair: Jean-Christophe Desplat
13:30 Jarek Nabrzyski Grid: The Users' Point of View
14:30 Tea
Session 4. Chair: Stuart Anderson
15:00 Jon McLaren High Performance Computing on the European Grid
15:30 Robert Allan Web Portals, Expert Systems and Integration of Grid-enabled HPC Applications
16:00 Close