3rd SUN GRID ENGINE WORKSHOP

September 10-12, 2007


SORAT Insel-Hotel Regensburg
Müllerstraße 7
D-93059 Regensburg


Sun Microsystems GmbH
Dr.-Leo-Ritter-Straße 7
D-93049 Regensburg, Germany


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Day 1 · Monday, September 10, 2007

08:15 Welcome Reception at the Sorat Insel Hotel

09:00 Welcome; Organizational Status of Grid Engine Team in Sun

       Fritz Ferstl, Sun Microsystems

09:30 Community Information

        Joachim Gabler, Sun Microsystems

10:00 Sun Grid Engine Product

        Daniel Templeton, Sun Microsystems

10:30 Break

10:50 Sun Grid Engine Update

        Andy Schwierskott, Sun Microsystems

12:00 Experiences and Conclusions from Using SGE for Feature Visual Effects Work

        Author: Rising Sun Pictures

        Presenter: Andreas Haas, Sun Microsystems

12:40 Lunch

13:40 Interoperability Between Sun Grid Engine and the Windows Compute Cluster Server

        Steven Newhouse, Microsoft

14:10 Fun with Grid Engine XML

        Chris Dagdigian, BioTeam, Inc.

14:35 Automated Workflow for an SGE Environment, Grid Computing at DESY

        Andreas Haupt, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

15:05 Use of SGE Enhances Geoscience Technology at Hess Corporation

        R. W. (Mac) McCalla, Hess Corporation

15:25 Break

15:45 EnginFrame Portal and SGE

        Andrea Rodolico, NICE

16:15 Univa Open Source HPC Cluster and Grid Software

        Steve Tuecke, Univa

16:45 Web Services and SGE - Open DRMAA Service Provider (OpenDSP)

        Piotr Domagalski, PSNC

17:30 Guided City Tour

Day 2 ·Tuesday, September 11, 2007

09:00 FlexLM Loadsensor Integration with SGE

       Dr. Mark Olesen, EMCON Technologies Germany GmbH

09:30 Secure SGE Using Kerberos5, SSH and Accessing AFS

        Wolfgang Friebel, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

10:00 SGE vs. LSF

        Chris Dagdigian, BioTeam, Inc.

10:30 Break

10:50 Grid Scheduling Architectures with Globus, GridWay and SGE

        Prof. Ignacio Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), GridWay

11:40 SGE at Synopys

        Authors: Bogdan Vasiliu, Sun Microsystems; Joe Fu, Synopsys

        Presenter: Bogdan Vasiliu, Sun Microsystems

11:55 SGE at Cadence

       Bogdan Vasiliu, Sun Microsystems

12:10 Lunch

13:20 SGE-openSSH Tight Integration

        Authors: Ron Chen, Rayson Ho

        Presenter: Andy Schwierskott

13:45 Usage of a Secure Portal Infrastructure at HPCVL

        Ken Edgecomb, High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory HPCVL

14:15 Sun Grid Engine - From Download to Production

        Jeff Beadles, Mentor Graphics

14:45 Publishing Applications on the Internet via the EASA Portal Using SGE

          Dr. Deniz Savas, Sheffield University, CiCS Dept.

15:15 Break

15:35 Solaris for HPC/Grid

        Matthew Baier, Sun Microsystems

16:05 Sun Server, Storage and Visualization Solutions for Grid/HPC

       Constantin Gonzalez, Sun Microsystems

19:00 Dinner Reception at the Sorat Insel Hotel


Day 3 · Wednesday, September 12, 2007

09:00 User Feedback Panel Discussion

10:30 Break

10:50 Sun Grid Engine Roadmap Overview

       Fritz Ferstl, Sun Microsystems

11:05 Future Sun Grid Engine Core Enhancements

       Andy Schwierskott, Sun Microsystems

11:50 Project Hedeby - Service Domain Management

       Andreas Doerr, Richard Hierlmaier, Sun Microsystems

12:15 Lunch and Adjourn




Presentations:

Community Information

    By Joachim Gabler, Sun Microsystems GmbH

Sun Grid Engine Product

    By Daniel Templeton, Sun Microsystems

Daniel Templeton is an engineer on the Sun Grid Engine team at Sun Microsystems and a Software & Java Ambassdor. His current role is focusing on customer and ISV issues, internal collaboration, and training. Daniel has been with Sun for ten years, both in sales and engineering, and has been working with the Java platform since 1995. He is the primary author of the Distributed Resource Management Application API Java Language Binding Specification, and a co-author of several other DRMAA specifications. Daniel has been an active member of the Open Grid Forum since 2003. Daniel speaks regularly at conferences and workshops, both internal and external, including SunNetwork and the Grid Engine Workshop, and he teaches classes on Sun Grid Engine. He has also been a speaker at JavaOne each of the last six years and is an Advanced Toastmaster Bronze.

Sun Grid Engine Update

    By Andy Schwierskott, Sun Microsystems

Experiences and conclusions from using SGE for feature visual effects work

    Author: Matthew Landauer, Rising Sun Pictures, Presenter: Andreas Haas, Sun Microsystems

Interoperability between Sun Grid Engine and the Windows Compute Cluster Server

    By Steven Newhouse, Microsoft

Steven Newhouse is a Program Manager in the High Performance Computing group in the Windows Server division at Microsoft. Based in Redmond, WA he manages access to the Windows Compute Cluster Server product from non-Windows environments, primarily through the Open Grid Forum's (OGF) High Performance Computing Basic Profile (HPCBP) specification. He is a member of the OGF Steering group, where he is responsible for Application Standards. Before starting at Microsoft in May 2007 he was Director of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK (OMII-UK), and on the management or supervisory boards of the Grid Operational Support Centre (GOSC), AstroGrid and GridPP . He remains active in the Open Grid Services Architecture Working Group (OGSA-WG) of the OGF.

Fun with Grid Engine XML

    By Chris Dagdigian, BioTeam Inc.

Chris Dagdigian is an infrastructure geek. He works as a consultant for BioTeam generally for biotech, pharmaceutical, academic and government clients although he has done Grid Engine consulting, training and application integration work in other fields as well including Digital Content Creation and the Oil & Gas industry. In his spare time he volunteers for the Open Bioinformatics Foundation and runs the informal Grid Engine blog located at http://www.gridengine.info

Automated workflow for an SGE environment

    By Andreas Haupt, Grid Computing at DESY

Use of SGE Enhances Geoscience Technology at Hess Corporation

    By R. W. (Mac) McCalla , Hess Corporation

Mr. McCalla holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma. He has worked in the petroleum industry since 1981, and been a Hess employee since 1985, working in the Geoscience Systems Services / Technical Computing area beginning in 1997.

EnginFrame Portal and SGE

    By Andrea Rodolico, NICE

Univa Open Source HPC Cluster and Grid Software

    By Steve Tuecke, Univa

Web Services and SGE - Open DRMAA Service Provider (OpenDSP )

    By Piotr Domagalski, PSNC

Piotr Domagalski joined PSNC two years ago and since then, as a research programmer, has been actively involved in various research and development activities in the scope of EU funded IST projects such as InteliGrid and QosCosGrid. PSNC as a Sun Center of Excellence gave him opportunity to learn about Sun technologies, especially in the field of distributed and high-performance computing. He contributed to some open source projects, e.g. Open DRMAA Service Provider (OpenDSP), integrated with Sun Grid Engine as a remote standard based job submission and control service. He participates in OGF standardization work and helps to bring various grid standards and technologies on the market under the FedStage open source initiative (www.fedstage.com)

FlexLM loadsensor integration with SGE

    By Dr. Mark Olesen, EMCON Technologies Germany GmbH

Mark Olesen studied Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in (Computational) Fluid Dynamics. He currently leads the simulation methodology team at EMCON Technologies in Augsburg (Germany). The primary task of the team is the development of new CFD simulation techniques, as well as improvement of the simulation workflow and the computing infrastructure.

Secure SGE using Kerberos5, ssh and accessing AFS

    By Wolfgang Friebel, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

Dr. Wolfgang Friebel studied Physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and received his Ph.D in 1977. He took part in several high energy physics experiments at research labors such as CERN and DESY. He is working since several years at DESY in the computing division where he is involved in providing central services to users such as a batch service based on SGE, file services using the Andrew File System, the mail service and others.

Grid Scheduling Architectures with Globus, GridWay and SGE

    By Prof. Ignacio Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), GridWay

Dr. Ignacio M. Llorente has a graduate degree in Physics (M.S. in Computer Science), a Ph.D. in Physics (Program in Computer Science) and an Executive Master in Business Administration. He is a Full Professor in Computer Architecture and Technology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he leads the Distributed Systems Architecture Group, being involved in several research activities related to dynamic allocation and scheduling of jobs (GridWay Metascheduler), overlay of virtual machines over physical resources (GridHypervisor ) and federation of grid infrastructures (Grid4Utility ). In the past, he has also held visiting positions at ICASE-NASA-LaRC and consultancy positions with Sun Microsystems.

SGE at Synopys

    Authors: Bogdan Vasiliu, Sun Microsystems and Joe Fu, Synopsys; Presenter: Bogdan Vasiliu

Bogdan Vasiliu has been a member of the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Engineering organization at Sun Microsystems since 2000. His expertise is in grid and parallel computing, performance tuning and analysis. Bogdan studied computer science and engineering and has been involved with High Performance Computing since 1995. Prior to joining Sun, he worked at Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University and Politehnica University of Bucharest. At Sun, Bogdan is responsible for architecting grid solutions for Sun's partners and customers, porting, optimizing and benchmarking numerically-intensive ISV applications on Sun systems, and acting as a liaison to product engineering, driving resolution to problems affecting ISVs, and providing feedback on future product directions for Sun.

SGE at Cadence

    By Bogdan Vasiliu, Sun Microsystems

SGE-openSSH tight integration

    Authors: Rayson Ho and Ron Chen; Presenter: Andy Schwierskott, Sun Microsystems

Usage of a Secure Portal Infrastructure at HPCVL

    By Ken Edgecombe, High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory HPCVL

Sun Grid Engine - From Download to Production

    By Jeff Beadles, Mentor Graphics

Jeff Beadles is the technical program manager for Grid computing at Mentor Graphics. Jeff has been with Mentor for more than 16 years in a variety of development and support roles. He has been instrumental in the development and deployment of grid computing at Mentor both designing and implementing grid architecture as well as training product and IT groups to implement, integrate and manage grid processes.

Publishing Applications on the Internet via the EASA Portal using SGE

    By Dr Deniz Savas, Sheffield University, CiCS Dept.

Solaris for HPC/Grid

    By Matthew Baier, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Server, Storage and Visualization Solutions for Grid/HPC

    By Constantin Gonzalez, Sun Microsystems

Constantin joined Sun Germany in 1998 after earning a degree in computer science. As a member of the Sun Technical Systems Ambassadors, he focuses on the adoption of new technologies among Sun's customer base. This includes know-how exchange between Sun's engineering organization and the field as well as customer pilot projects and customer/partner technical workshops. Constantin's expertise ranges from CPU and systems technology to Solaris, grid computing, workstations and high end graphics. You're invited to read his blog at http://blogs.sun.com/constantin

Future Sun Grid Engine Core Enhancements

    By Andy Schwierskott, Sun Microsystems

Project Hedeby - Service Domain Management

    By Andreas Doerr, Richard Hierlmeier, Sun Microsystems