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DENVER, CO, – Registration is now open for SC2001, the annual conference of high performance networking and computing. This year’s conference, Beyond Boundaries, will be held in Denver, Colorado for seven days of technical programs, technological demonstrations and exhibits, and educational outreach. The conference convenes Nov. 10-16 in the Denver Convention Center.
The event starts with a supercomputer center that rivals the best anywhere. It will be set up, de-bugged, demonstrated to the world, torn down, and packed home, ALL IN ONE WEEK–using somebody else’s facility. Attendees who register in advance benefit from lower fees and may pick up their conference materials at the Denver Convention Center beginning Saturday. On-line registration information resides. For questions regarding registration, please contact register@computer.org. This is the year 2001. Come to Denver in November and find out what HAL is REALLY like! SC2001 is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society and by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture. |
Category: Education
Awards Highlight
Most Successful SC Conference Ever SC2001 will build on SC2000 momentum
DALLAS, Texas – SC2000, the conference of high performance networking and computing, capped one of the most successful programs in the history of the conference by recognizing outstanding achievements and contributions in the field.
The awards were presented Thursday, Nov. 9, honoring a wide range of people and their accomplishments. The conference drew 5,065 registered attendees and 153 exhibitors for a week of demonstrations, technical presentations, informal discussions and an extensive educational program.
“Whether we judge the conference by attendance, passing comments in the aisles or the overflowing audiences for presentations, this has been one heck of a successful week,” said Louis Turcotte, general chair of the SC2000 conference. “SC2000 added to the very successful foundation of the conference as the SC2001 team starts planning for next year’s program in Denver.”
The IEEE Computer Society, a cosponsor of the conference, presented two special awards.
The first, the Sidney Fernbach Award, was presented to Stephen W. Attaway of Sandia National Laboratories. The award is given for an outstanding contribution in the application of high performance computers using innovative approaches. Attaway is an engineer who works in the field of computational mechanics for crash and impacts. He has worked at Sandia National Laboratories since 1987 and is currently a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Computational Solid Mechanics and Structural Dynamics Department. Attaway was named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in March 2000.
The second award, the second annual IEEE Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, presented in recognition of innovative contributions to high performance computing systems that best exemplify Seymour Cray’s creative spirit, was given to Glen J. Culler. In 1961, he and physicist Burton Fried developed the first interactive, mathematically based graphical system – allowing scientists visualize computational solutions in real-time. During his career, Culler developed the array processor, digital speech processing and the personal supercomputer. This award includes a $10,000 honorarium and is funded from an endowment provided by SGI.
Each year at SC, the Gordon Bell Prize is awarded for the best peak computer performance, the best performance-price ratio and in a special category.
Competitors for this year’s prize for best performance tied, each achieving 1.34 teraflops. Tetsu Narumi, Ryutaro Susukita, Takahiro Koishi, Kenji Yasuoka, Hideaki Furusawa, Atsushi Kawai and Thoshikazu Ebisuzaki recorded 1.34 Tflops with their Molecular Dynamic Simulation for NaCl for a Special Purpose Computer: MDM. The team of Junichiro Makino, Toshiyuki Fukushige and Masaki Koga achieved1.349 Tflops with their Simulation of Black Holes in a Galactic Center on GRAPE-6.
The winners of the Price/Performance Category were Douglas Aberdeen, Jonathan Baxter and Robert Edwards for their 92 cents/Mflops Ultra-Large Scale Neural Network Training on a PIII Cluster.
Honorable Mention in the Price/Performance Category went to Thomas Hauser, Timothy I. Mattox, Raymond P. LeBeau, Henry G. Dietz and P. George Huang of the University of Kentucky for their “High-Cost CFD on a Low-Cost Cluster.”
In the Gordon Bell Prize special category, Alan Calder, B.C. Curtis, Jonathan Dursi, Bruce Fryxell, G. Henry, P. MacNeice, Kevin Olson, Paul Ricker, Robert Rosner, Frank Timmes, Henry Tufo, James Truran and Michael Zingale were cited for their High-Peformance Reactive Fluid Flow Simulations Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement on Thousands of Processors.
Here is a list of other awards presented at the conference:
- Best Paper: “Is Data Distribution Necessary in OpenMPI?,” Constantine Polychronopoulos, Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Eduard Ayguade, Jesus Labarta and Theodore Papatheodorou.
- Best Student Paper: “A Comparison of Three Programming Models for Adaptive Applications on the Origin 2000,” Hongzhang Shan, Princeton University.
- Best Research Gem: “Automatic TCP Window Tuning Implemented in an FTP Application,” Jim Ferguson and Jian Liu.
- HPC Games Most Leading Edge Technology Prize: Jeff Moe, Jim Waggett, Kai Staats and Roy Jenevein for Black Lab Linux.
- HPC Games Most Innovative Hardware Prize: Bill Dieter, Hank Dietz, Jim Lumpp, Thomas Hauser, Tim Mattox and Todd Willey for The Aggregrate.
- HPC Games Grand Prize: James Hanna, Peter Hsieh, Robert Hillman, Walter Koziarz, Wilmar Sifre and Zen Pryk for The Red Team.
- HPC Games Most Innovative Software Prize: James Hanna, Peter Hsieh, Robert Hillman, Walter Koziarz, Wilmar Sifre and Zen Pryk for The Red Team.
A new competition sponsored by Qwest Communications International and called the SC2000 Network Challenge for Bandwidth-Intensive Applications pushed the limits of the conference’s SCinet network as two teams posted peak performance figures of more than a gigabit of data per second.
Research Exhibits
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SC2001 offers an exceptional opportunity to learn about the latest research results in high-performance computing and communications. This year’s research exhibits include a larger and more varied collection of universities, labs, and centers than at any previous event. The major research centers will present demonstrations and provide opportunities for in-depth discussions with research staff. In keeping with the Beyond Boundaries theme, the research exhibits include both a European Research Village and an Asian Research Village, providing a focus on international research activities.
Jim Pool, Research Exhibits Coordinator
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Exhibit Institution
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Booth
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Adventure Project (Graduate School of Frontier Sci)
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R565
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Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center
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R0127
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Ames Laboratory, Scalable Computing Lab (DOE)
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R337
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Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
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R101
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Argonne National Laboratory
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R352
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ASCI DOE Tri-Lab Exhibit
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R375
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Asia Pacific Grid (ApGrid) / Electrotechnical Labo
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R665
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Boston University
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R201
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Brigham Young University
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R1152
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Brookhaven National Laboratory
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R749
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Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research
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R340
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CCSE of Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute
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R471
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Center for Computational Physics, U of Tsukuba
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R0684
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Center for Supercomputing Research and Development
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R508
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CLRC Daresbury Laboratory
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R861
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Cornell Theory Center (CTC)
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R1059
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Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, JAPAN
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R567
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Department of Defense HPC Modernization
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R309
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Digital Worlds Institute – University of Florida
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R1070
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Embedded High Performance Computing Project
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R680
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EPCC: Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
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R865
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ETH-CSCS
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R773
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EUROGRID Project
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R871
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European Center For Parallelism Of Barcelona
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R765
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George Washington University
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R547
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High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS)
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R761
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Indiana University – Purdue University – Universit
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R1161
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INRIA: Institut National de Recherche en Information
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R868
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Institute of Statistical Mathematics
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R463
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Internet2
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R849
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John von Neumann Institute for Computing
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R769
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Krell Institute
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R855
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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R1171
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Leibniz Computing Center (Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, L)
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R869
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
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R451
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Maui Supercomputing Center
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R1052
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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R317
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Nat’l Center for Data Mining/Nat’l Scalable Cluster Proj.
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R443
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Nat’l Center for High Performance Computing, Taiwan
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R561
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National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance)
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R216
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National Coordination Office for Information Tech.
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R551
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Nat’l Partnership for Adv. Computational Infrastructure
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R0206
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NCAR Scientific Computing Division
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R119
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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R429
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Ohio Supercomputer Center
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R1046
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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R437
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Paradyn Project – University of Wisconsin and Univ
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R502
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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
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R301
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Real World Computing Partnership
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R670
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Research Org. for Information Science & Technology
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R560
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RIKEN (The Inst. of Physical and Chemical Research)
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R570
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Saitama University
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R661
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Standard Peformance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)
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R1139
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Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Fermi Nat’l
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R1060
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The Aggregate
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R227
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The MITRE Corporation
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R335
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Universidade de Sao Paulo
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R361
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University of Houston
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R512
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University of Manchester, Manchester Computing
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R873
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University of Tennessee
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R343
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University of Utah, CHPC
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R329
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Will Digital Actors Replace Human Ones?
“Colleagues have for years claimed that they will. I analyze the problem with everything I know and come to perhaps surprising conclusions. The key conclusion is that the appearance of actors is under (circumscribed) threat, but the acting of actors is secure, I believe, for now. That being said, I present an analysis of just how hard it is to replace even the appearance of actors. I strive mightily to separate religion from science in this presentation. The computation for all predictions is estimated and it is large.”
Biography:
Dr. Alvy Ray Smith co-founded four centers of computer graphics excellence before joining Microsoft as its first Graphics Fellow: Altamira, Pixar, Lucasfilm, New York Tech. Received two technical Academy Awards for alpha channel concept and for digital paint systems. Invented, directed, originated, or otherwise instrumental in the following developments: first full-color paint program, HSV color model, alpha channel and image sprites, Genesis Demo in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, first Academy-Award winning computer-generated short Tin Toy, first computer-generated film Toy Story, Academy-Award winning Disney animation production system CAPS, and the Visible Human Project. Was a star witness in a trial that successfully invalidated five patents that had been plaguing the digital imaging business; writes and speaks extensively; served on the Microsoft Art Committee; holds a PhD from Stanford University and an honorary doctorate from New Mexico State University, and has recently retired to devote time to the emerging artform of digital photography. See http://alvyray.com for more information.
Plenaries
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Overview of the Technical Program
The Origin
For nearly 2 years, the SC2001 technical program team has contributed time for planning behind the scenes, enlisting our industry’s leaders, brainstorming ideas, and soliciting technical content. It has certainly been a busy time, but it has also been rewarding —even fun sometimes!
The Results
We believe we have crafted a stimulating, engaging program which is in concert with the timely challenges of our industry. By leveraging the strengths of past SC programs, we offer a stable foundation of technical content. But we also offer some experiments to add to the excitement and controversy! We hope you will always find something of particular interest throughout our program.
A Quick Summary
• At the core, 60 strongly refereed Papers chosen from 240 submissions
by an exceptional committee of diverse, well-known professionals
throughout our industry.• For your education, 28 informative Tutorials from which to choose
—each offered by leaders in their topic areas. These are high-quality
tutorials selected from 52 submissions.• Stellar Plenary Sessions featuring well-known leaders who will offer
visions of the state of their fields of expertise. Don’t miss these
opportunities!• For your active engagement, 6 hand-crafted Panels that will offer
information and stimulate discussion and, quite likely, a bit of
controversy.• The return of MasterWorks, with 20 invited speakers who will star in the second annual performance of this speaking series. These sessions showcase novel, innovative practices in solving challenging, real-world problems in areas of interest from the biosciences to Hollywood.
• For your participation, 3 timely Workshops held in conjunction with
SC2001 (2 full-day and 1 half-day). These are quality productions, and
we will be interested in knowing if you want this type of venue to
continue and grow within the SC series.• And much more—award winners, birds-of-a-feather sessions, video proceedings, global participation…
More Details
For the important details within each of the program components listed in this overview, please click on the specific items on the sidebar to see topics, speakers, and times.
Acknowledgements
I would like to offer my sincere thanks to all members of the SC2001 Program Committee for their exceptional dedication to quality and excellence in creating this program. Clearly, my most significant contribution to the program was enlisting these professionals to be on our team.
The Judgment
This would be you! Come to Denver and see for yourself. Please be vocal about what works for you and what does not. We promise to listen and pass along your input to improve the SC conference series.
SC2001 Netcast Complete Schedule
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Tuesday, 13 November
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Keynote Address
8:30AM-10AM |
Craig Venter, President and CEO Celera Genomics
Accelerating Discovery Through Supercomputing (Netcast Archive) |
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Exhibitor Showcase
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Grid Applications
Dr. James Pool Center for Advanced Computing Research, California Institute of Technology Booth R0340 |
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Exhibitor Showcase
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Digital Worlds Institute (Courtesy SUN Microsystems)
Dr. James Oliverio Digital Worlds Institute Booth 645 |
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Wednesday, 14 November
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Plenary Session
8:30AM-9:15AM |
Jim Gray, Microsoft Research
The World Wide Telescope: Mining the Sky (Netcast Archive)
Gray talk begins at 3 minutes |
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Plenary Session
9:15AM-10AM |
Fran Berman, Director of SDSC and NPACI, Professor of CSE, UCSD
Grid Computing in the Terascale Age (Netcast Archive) Berman talk begins at 45 minutes |
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Exhibitor Showcase
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Exhibitor Showcase
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Thursday, 15 November
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Plenary Session
8:30AM-9:15AM |
Chris Johnson, University of Utah
Scientific Visualization: Bridging the Complexity Threshold (Netcast Archive) |
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Plenary Session
9:15AM-10:30AM |
Alvy Ray Smith, Digital Photography Artist
Will Digital Actors Replace Human Ones? (Netcast Archive) |
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Exhibitor Showcase
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SCinet SCinet Booth 655 |
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Exhibitor Showcase
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TBA
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Multicast With help from Cisco Systems and the University of Oregon, the SC2001 netcast will be available in three multicast streams: H.261, MPEG-1, and MPEG-2. For additional program and client infomation, see:
http://videolab.uoregon.edu/client.html
http://videolab.uoregon.edu/client.html
Assistance
We will be providing information and assistance for viewing the netcast throughout SC2001. All viewers are encouraged to provide feedback on the quality, scope and effectiveness of the SC2001 netcast. Contact:
Education Program
SC2001 offers high school and middle school teachers an opportunity to learn computer modeling and simulation and the application of computational science to the science and mathematics curricula. Through a national competition, a core group of 27 teams with four teachers each has been identified and will participate in an 18-month program that starts at SC2001, continues with monthly videoconference sessions on specific computational science topics through the winter, and includes a two-week Summer Institute in July 2002. The following Education Program sponsors fund these teams:
• National Science Foundation
• Association of Computing Machinery
• IEEE Computer Society
• IEEE Foundation
• Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Compaq Computer Corporation
• High Performance Systems
• Microsoft Corporation
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• SBC DataComm
• SC2001 Conference
• Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
• Wolfram Research, Inc.
At the conclusion of this program, the selected teachers will become leaders in their school systems and region, providing inspiration for a wider adoption of modeling and simulation by classroom teachers. Each team will learn state-of-the-art modeling software tools that will enable them to create new classroom modules that adhere to the national science and mathematics standards. These modules will then be placed in a repository and made publicly available.
Additional teams or individual teachers can participate in the SC2001 Conference along with the selected teams by registering for the SC2001 Education Program and attending the Education Program sessions. Full participation in the hands-on sessions will require additional participants to bring wireless laptops. These participants will learn the fundamentals of the computational science curriculum development tools and will learn how to select appropriate topics for computational science modules for classroom instruction through interaction with modeling experts and practicing computational scientists. Interested teachers can receive additional information by sending email to education@sc2001.org or by visiting the SC2001 website at http://www.sc2001.org.
Education Program Speakers
- Richard Allen, Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center
- Lisa Bievenue, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- Edna Gentry, University of Alabama in Huntsville
- Bob Gotwals, Shodor Education Foundation
- Barbara Helland, Krell Institute
- Jeff Huskamp, East Carolina University
- Eric Jakobsson, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- Cynthia Lanius, Rice University
- Scott Lathrop, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- Ernie Marshburn, East Carolina University
- Robert Panoff, Shodor Education Foundation
- Helen Parke, East Carolina University
- Susan Ragan, Maryland Virtual High School
Jeffrey C. Huskamp, Education Chair
East Carolina UniversityLisa Bievenue, Education Co-Chair
National Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsEdna Gentry, Education Co-Chair
University of Alabama at Huntsville