The exhibitor forum provides industry exhibitors the opportunity to describe recent company breakthroughs or new technical plans. The presentations, which are noncommercial in nature, will be organized by topic, such as clusters and supercomputers, communications and networking, data storage and management, and software.

Sally Howe, Exhibitor Forum Coordinator
National Coordination Office for Information Technology Research and Development

David Halstead, Exhibitor Forum Coordinator
Ames Laboratory

Complete details for the Exhibitor Forum

• Details for Tuesday, November 13
• Details for Wednesday, November 14
• Details for Thursday, November 15

TUESDAY November 13 [Details]

Time

Title

Exhibitor

10AM-10:30AM

Architecture Trends in Level 3's Network

Robert Hagens, Sr. Vice President, Global Network Engineering, Level (3) Communications

10:30AM-11AM

Superclusters - Superior Performance Using SCI

Keith Murphy, VP Sales & Marketing, Dolphin Interconnect

11AM-11:30AM

The Quadrics Interconnect

Duncan Roweth, Head of Software R&D, Quadrics

11:30AM-12NN

Expanding the High Performance Computing Systems Roadmap

Richard S. Kaufmann, Technical Director, Compaq

12NN-12:30PM

Massive Scalability and the Grid

Steve Campbell, Director, Computer Systems, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

12:30PM-1PM

Fujitsu's High Performance and Highly Scalable Servers and Supercomputers

Kenichi Miura, Chief Architect, Fujitsu America, Inc.

1PM-1:30PM

NEC's Supercomputer Product Roadmap

Joerg Stadler, Marketing Manager, NEC

1:30PM-2PM

The Case for Architectural Diversity

Burton Smith, Chief Scientist, Cray Inc.

2PM-2:30PM

CRAY SV1ex-4 Supercluster Performance

Beata E. Sarnowska, Senior Capacity Analyst, Northrop Grumman Information Technology

2:30PM-3PM

The Art of Commodity Computing

Bret Stouder, Director, Atipa Technologies

3PM-3:30PM

LinuxBIOS for Beowulf Clusters

Steven M. James, CTO, Linux Labs/div>

3:30PM-4PM

Today's Cost Effective Supercomputer Solution

Danny J. Harrison, Senior Corporate Account Manager, RackSaver, Inc.

4PM-4:30PM

CIToolkit - making Alpha Linux cluster integration more reliable and repeatable

Chris Powell, Program Manager, High Performance Technologies, Inc.

4:30PM-5PM

Real-World Experiences in Building Production Computing Grids

Ian Lumb, Integration Architect, Platform Computing Inc.

5PM-5:30PM

Storage Area Networking

Brad Winett, VP Market Development, DataDirect Networks

5:30PM-6PM

The Importance of High Performance in Storage Area Networks

John R. Tibbitts, CEO, INLINE Corporation

WEDNESDAY November 14 [Details]

Time

Title

Exhibitor

10AM-10:30AM

Beyond Virtualization: Architecting the Ubiquitous Storage Utility

Wayne Karpoff, VP, CTO, YottaYotta

10:30AM-11AM

High Performance Archives, Towards GigaBytes Per Second

Jim P. Hughes, StorageTek Fellow, StorageTek

11AM-11:30AM

Scalable Disk Archives: Are Tape Archives Obsolete?

Greg Lindahl, CTO, Conservative Computer, Inc. (Logicon Booth)

11:30AM-12NN

High Performance Global Storage Networks: The INRANGE Way

Mark Sincevich, Federal & Partner Programs Manager, INRANGE Technologies

1PM-1:30PM

Intelligent Disaster Recovery Software Solutions

Vincent deVenoge, Senior Systems Engineer, VERITAS Software

1:30PM-2PM

Gigabit Ethernet and the Adapter Market

Terry Appling, Senior Manager of Technical Services, SysKonnect

2PM-2:30PM

Foundry Networks' Global Ethernet(tm) Solutions For Metro Networks

Jeffrey L. Carrell, Manager, Educational Services, Foundry Networks

2:30PM-3PM

Marconi Optical Networking

Robert J. Riehl, Technical Director, Marconi Communications Federal, Inc.

3PM-3:30PM

Juniper Networks Routers in Research & Education Networks

John Jamison, Consulting Engineer, Juniper Networks

3:30PM-4PM

InfiniBand Now

John Freisinger, VP of Sales & Marketing, Essential

4PM-4:30PM

Debugging Parallel Programs Automatically

Henry A. Gabb, Staff Parallel Applications Engineer, Intel Corp.

4:30PM-5PM

Mac OS X as a Unix Operating Systems for Scientists

John Martellaro, Apple Science & Technology, Apple Computer, Inc

5PM-5:30PM

Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures

Randy Allen, CEO and Founder of Catalytic Compilers, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers

5:30PM-6PM

Extending Source Analysis to Open MP

Monty Swaiss, CTO, Cleanscape Software International

THURSDAY November 15 [Details]

Time

Title

Exhibitor

10AM-10:30AM

High-Performance BioInformatics

Gerald Lipchus, Director of Sales, Scientific Computing Associates

10:30AM-11AM

Cracking MPI/OpenMP Performance Problems

Karl Solchenbach, Managing Director, Pallas

11AM-11:30AM

ChaMPIon/Pro: A Next-generation, Terascale MPI-2

Anthony Skjellum, President, MPI Software Technology, Inc.

11:30AM-12NN

PGI Linux Compilers and Tools for High Performance Computing

Vincent Schuster, Director AST Portland Lab, STMicroelectronics

12NN-12:30PM

ConsoleWorks the Web Based Console Management Solution - for High Performance Technical Computing (HPTC)

William D. Johnson, CEO, TECSys Development, Inc

12:30PM-1PM

Evolution of I/O Connection Technologies and Their Effect on Storage Architecture

Rip Wilson, Product Marketing Manager, LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc.

1PM-1:30PM

IBM Unparalleled Performance and Petaflop Research

Surjit Chana, VP HPC Marketing and Dave Jensen, Sr. Mgr, IBM Research

1:30PM-2PM

Meta-computing as the Key to Distributed, Multi-disciplinary Simulation

John A. Benek, Principal Scientist, Raytheon

2PM-2:30PM

New Architecture and Challenges in Creating Networks for the Teragrid

Wesley K. Kaplow, CTO, Government Systems Division, Qwest Communications

2:30PM-3PM

Open Inventor/CAVELib Integration

Mike Heck, VP of R&D, TGS, Inc.

3PM-3:30PM

A New Class of Challenges in Commercial HPC

Andrew Grimshaw, CTO, Avaki Corporation

3:30PM-4PM

Smarter AND Faster: Supercomputing with FPGAs

Richard Loosemore, Director of Research, Star Bridge Systems, Inc.