Today's Cost Effective Supercomputer Solution
Danny J. Harrison, Senior Corporate Account Manager, RackSaver, Inc.
The answer for a high performance, high-density supercomputer has traditionally required a large allocation of funds. However, with the leaps in clustering technology, companies such as RackSaver, Inc. are able to achieve the performance, once believed only available in multi million dollar supercomputers. RackSaver, now harnesses this power in the form of their expertly engineered 1U RackSaver line of servers. This results in a machine that outperforms the competition, in a fraction of the space, at a fraction of the cost.

The HPC industry as a whole has embraced the idea of using commodity components in their offerings, in an attempt to keep a better cost/performance relationship. RackSaver's manufacturing of custom servers for this industry, has given organizations the ability to implement large server clusters, which often outperform their high priced competition. These custom designed servers allow customers to have systems designed that meet and often times exceed their requirements.

RackSaver, Inc., is leader in this field and their servers continue to be one step ahead of the competition in their design and functionality.

4PM-4:30PM

CIToolkit - making Alpha Linux cluster integration more reliable and repeatable
Chris Powell, Program Manager, High Performance Technologies, Inc.
HPTi has integrated large Alpha Linux clusters for government labs and agencies, and has learned systems integration lessons from the cabling level on up to the user codes themselves. These lessons are captured in a developing program HPTi calls "CIToolkit", for Cluster Integration Toolkit. CIToolkit is being developed with Sandia National Labs in their CPlant environment, and leverages HPTi and customer expertise already appearing in cluster tools for job scheduling and systems management. It captures the entire cluster integration and bring-up process from initial hardware roll-out and capturing a cluster configuration database, through installation and running of user codes and systems management tools, including cluster maintenance and change activities. This exhibitor forum will give an overview of CIToolkit, including an overview of the configuration database, the processes and tools used for cluster interconnect routing, and tools used for cluster checkout and problem diagnosis.

4:30PM-5PM

Real-World Experiences in Building Production Computing Grids
Ian Lumb, Integration Architect, Platform Computing Inc.
The notion of federating geographically distributed compute centers for the purpose of aggregating resources, or providing access to specialized resources remotely, has been brought into focus in recent times through the concept of The Grid. Much like the ubiquitous, highly available electrical power grid, the global computing grid allows challenging problems in high-performance computing (HPC) to be addressed. Various academic research (e.g. the GLOBUS and Legion projects) and commercial (e.g. Applied Meta and Platform Computing) ventures are already realizing The Grid. Because grid computing necessitates increased collaboration between all stakeholders, standardization efforts such as the Global Grid Forum and New Productivity Initiative (http://www.newproductivity.org) are also of increasing importance.

Whereas much of the current activity in grid computing is focused on issues spanning from architecture to standards, the present approach is much more pragmatic. Through the use of currently available grid technologies from Platform Computing, the realization of production grids for compute capability and capacity is illustrated. These production implementations are already allowing organizations to derive value from the promise of grid computing. After a brief overview of the relevant Platform computing grid technologies, the bulk of consideration is given here to real-world experiences in building production grids. The primary example is drawn from an ongoing project at the U.S. Department of Defense.

5PM-5:30PM

Storage Area Networking
Brad Winett, VP Market Development, DataDirect Networks
Storage Area Networking appliance leader DataDirect Networks provides Rich-Media
communities with high bandwidth, virtualized, scalable and flexible network infrastructures, reducing TCO, enabling higher productivity with increased ROI. The SAN DataDirector, first of a family of intelligent SANappliances, allowing powerful and quick SAN deployment for rich media encoding, streaming and content delivery, will be exhibited.

5:30PM-6PM

The Importance of High Performance in Storage Area Networks
John R. Tibbitts, CEO, INLINE Corporation
This presentation will take a look at the scalability of Storage Area Networks. Special attention will be given to the need for high-throughput in order to accommodate more clients. There will also be a discussion of the technology that INLINE Corporation utilizes to maximize the available bandwidth in our SAN products.