Final Agenda for the Second FAST-OS Workshop

Last modified July 11, 2002

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Tuesday, July 9

1:00 Introductions

    DOE Office of Science Interest in HPC Research
        Fred Johnson, DOE
    Workshop Goals
        Barney Maccabe, UNM
    Individual Self-Introductions
        Neil Pundit, SNL

2:30 System Administration and Fault Tolerance    

    Moderator:  DK Panda, Ohio State
    A Hundred Thousand Ways to Fail
        Al Geist, ORNL
    Audience Participation

3:15 Break

4:15 Programming Models

    Moderator:  Sanjay Kale, UIUC
    Advanced Programming Models
        Rusty Lusk and Bill Gropp, ANL
    Audience Participation

5:00 Architecture    

    Moderator:  Mootaz Elnozahy, IBM
    The Cascade Project
        Thomas Sterling, Cal Tech
    Audience Participation

5:45 Reception (No Host Bar)

6:30 Dinner

Wednesday, July 10th

7:30 Breakfast

8:30 Indefensible Positions - Part 1:  Full Featured OS as a Solution

    Moderator:  Rod Oldehoeft, LANL
    Linux as the Compute Node OS for Cplant(tm)
        Rolf Riesen, SNL
    Blue Gene/L OS Structure
        Jose Moreira, IBM
    Shrinking AIX as a compute node OS
        Terry Jones, LLNL
    Chiba City: Scalable OS Testbed
        Remy Evard, ANL

10:30 Break

11:00 Indefensible Positions - Part 2:  Other Approaches and Ideas

    Moderator:  Jim Harrell, USI
    Why Linux is a bad idea as a compute node OS
        Ron Brightwell, SNL
    Splintered Operating Systems
        Barney Maccabe, UNM
    How to think about applications
        Ron Minnich, LANL
    Ideal goals and practical constraints in the design of parallel runtime/OS
        Marc Snir, UIUC

1:00 Lunch

2:00 Thinking Out of the Box

Some Thoughts on Technology and Strategies for PetaFlops
    Rick Stevens, ANL

2:30 Sorting out the Issues

    Moderator:  Thomas Sterling, Cal Tech

3:30 Break

4:00 Workshop Summary and Writing Assignments

    Summary
    Moderator:  Marc Snir, UIUC

5:00 Adjourn