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  Tuesday
August 25, 2009
TUTORIALS
Wednesday
August 26, 2009
SYMPOSIUM
Thursday
August 27, 2009
SYMPOSIUM
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7:45 am
8:00 am TUTORIAL 1
InfiniBand and 10-Gigabit Ethernet for Dummies

Dhabaleswar Panda (The Ohio State University), Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Laboratory), Matthew Koop (NASA Goddard)
8:15 am
8:30 am OPENING REMARKS
Keren Bergman, General Chair
Fabrizio Petrini, Program Co-Chair
Ron Brightwell, Program Co-Chair
SESSION 3 SLIDES
ROUTING AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
Session Chair: Torsten Hoefler
MPI Collective Communications on The Blue Gene/P Supercomputer: Algorithms and Optimizations
Ahmad Faraj, Amith Mamidala (IBM, US), Sameer Kumar (IBM Research, US), Brian Smith (IBM Rochester, US), John Gunnels (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, US)

MiAMI: Multi-Core Aware Processor Affinity for TCP/IP over Multiple Network Interfaces
Hyun-Wook Jin, Hye-Churn Jang (Konkuk University, KR)
FPGA Accelerated Low-Latency Market Data Feed Processing
Gareth Morris (Celoxica, UK), David Thomas (Imperial College, UK)
8:45 am
9:00 am
SESSION 1 SLIDES
ON-CHIP INTERCONNECTS
Session Chair: Luca Carloni
Designing Energy-efficient Low-Diameter On-chip Networks with Equalized Interconnects
Ajay Joshi, Byungsub Kim, Vladimir Stojanovic (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US)
Winning with Pinning in NoC
Ahmed Abousamra, Rami Melhem, Alex Jones (University of Pittsburgh, US)
Simple Fairness Protocols for Daisy Chain Interconnects
Wladek Olesinski, Hans Eberle, Nils Gura, Bob Dickson, Sumti Jairath, Aron Silverton, Peter Yakutis (Sun Microsystems Inc., US)
9:15 am
9:30 am
9:45 am
BREAK (9:45-10:00)
10:00 am TUTORIAL 1 (cont'd) AM BREAK (10:00 - 10:30)
10:15 am
10:30 am AM BREAK (10:30 - 11:00)
SESSION 4 SLIDES
HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMMUNICATION IN DATA CENTERS
Session Chair: John Lockwood
Data Center Switch Architecture in the Age of Merchant Silicon
Nathan Farrington, Erik Rubow, Amin Vahdat (UC, San Diego, US)

Optimized Routing for Large-Scale InfiniBand Networks
Torsten Hoefler, Andrew Lumsdaine(Indiana University, US), Timo Schneider (Indiana University, DE),
Designing Next Generation Clusters: Evaluation of InfiniBand DDR/QDR on Intel Computing Platforms
Hari Subramoni, Matthew Koop, Dhabaleswar Panda (The Ohio State University, US)
10:45 am
11:00 am KEYNOTE 1 SLIDES
Anant Agarwal, Professor, MIT

The Other Face of On-Chip Interconnect
11:15 am
11:30 am
11:45 am
12:00 pm LUNCH (12:00 - 1:00)
LUNCH (12:00 - 1:30)
LUNCH ( 12:00 - 1:15)
12:15 pm
12:30 pm
12:45 pm
1:00 pm

TUTORIAL 2
Designing High-End Computing Systems with InfiniBand and 10-Gigabit Ethernet

Dhabaleswar Panda (The Ohio State University), Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Laboratory), Matthew Koop (NASA Goddard)

1:15 pm KEYNOTE 3 SLIDES
Andrew F. Bach, Senior Vice President, NYSE/Euronext

Title: High-speed networking and the race to zero
1:30 pm
SESSION 2 SLIDES
10 GIGABIT ETHERNET INTERCONNECTS
Session Chair: Dave Cohen
Adaptive Routing in Data Center Bridges
Cyriel Minkenberg, CH),Mitchell Gusat (IBM Zurich research laboratory, CH), German Rodriguez (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ES)
Fulcrum's FocalPoint FM4000: A Scalable, Low-latency 10 GigE Switch for High-performance Data Centers
Uri Cummings, Dan Daly (Fulcrum Micro), Rebecca Collins (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, US and Columbia University), Virat Agarwal, Fabrizio Petrini, Michael Perrone (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, US), Davide Pasetto (IBM Computational Science Center, Ireland)
Performance Measurement of an Integrated NIC Architecture with 10GbE
Guangdeng Liao (University of California, Riverside, US), Laxmi Bhuyan (University of California, US)
1:45 pm
2:00 pm
2:15 pm Break (2:15 - 2:30)
2:30 pm
SPECIAL SESSION SLIDES
INDUSTRIAL LEADER FORUM
Session Co-Chairs: Dennis Abts, Madeleine Glick
Cost-effective Optics: Enabling the Exascale Roadmaps
Alan F. Benner, Chair, InfiniBand Trade Association Electromechanical Working Group, Sr. Technical Staff Member, IBM Systems & Technology Group
Optics for Enabling Future HPC Systems
Gilad Shainer, Eyal Gutkind, Bill Lee, Michael Kagan, Yevgeny Kliteynik
The Impact of Optics on HPC System Interconnects
Steve Scott - Chief Technical Officer, Cray Inc.

Interconnect Challenges in a Many Core Compute Environment
Jerry Bautista, Director, Technology Management, Microprocessor Programming and Research Lab, Intel

Optical Networking for Data Center Interconnects Across Wide Area Networks
Joseph Berthold- VP Network Architecture, Ciena

2:45 pm BREAK (2:45 - 3:00)
3:00 pm TUTORIAL 2 (cont'd) BREAK
3:15 pm KEYNOTE 2 SLIDES
Spencer Greene, CTO, TIBCO Software

Title: The Need for Speed in Trading Environments
3:30 pm
3:45 pm
4:00 pm BREAK (4:00 - 4:15)
4:15 pm
Cocktail Break (4:15 - 4:45 pm)
SESSION 5 SLIDES
OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS
Session Chair: Sameer Kumar
160Gb/s Serial Line Rates in a Monolithic Optoelectronic Multistage Interconnection Network
Aaron Albores-Mejia, Kevin Williams, Fausto Gomez-Agis, Shangjian Zhang, Dorren Harm (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL), Xaveer Leijtens (TU/e, NL), Tjibbe de Vries (TU/e, NL), Yok-Siang Oei, Martijn Heck (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, NL), Luc Agustin, Richard Notzel, David Robbins, Meint Smit (TU/e, NL)

Low-Power Reconfigurable Network Architecture for On-Chip Photonic Interconnects
Iñigo Artundo, Christof Debaes, Hugo Thienpont (Free University of Brussels, BE), Mikel Loperena (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE), Wim Heirman (Ghent University, BE), Jan Van Campenhout (Universiteit Gent, BE),
4:30 pm
4:45 pm PANEL INTRODUCTION

"Remote Direct Memory Access over the Converged Enhanced Ethernet Fabric: Evaluating the Options" SLIDES

Paul Grun, System Fabric Works and Tom Talpey, Microsoft
5:00 pm
5:15 pm END TUTORIALS PANEL DISCUSSION
Has the time come to promote Ethernet as a low latency, high throughput fabric interconnect?
Moderator: David Cohen


Panelists:
Michael Kagan, Mellanox
Gopal Hegde, Cisco
Dr. Ásgeir Eiriksson, Chelsio
Patrick Geoffray, Myricom
Dwight Barron, HP

CLOSING REMARKS

Keren Bergman, General Chair
Fabrizio Petrini , IBM TJ Watson
Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories
5:30 pm
5:45 pm END SYMPOSIUM
6:00 pm
6:15 pm
6:30 pm
6:45 pm

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