Table of Contents
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
By Joachim Gabler, Sun Microsystems GmbH
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.
By Andy Schwierskott, Sun Microsystems
Author: Matthew Landauer, Rising Sun Pictures, Presenter:
Andreas Haas, Sun Microsystems
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.
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
By Andreas Haupt, Grid Computing at DESY
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.
By Andrea Rodolico, NICE
By Steve Tuecke, Univa
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
By Bogdan Vasiliu, Sun Microsystems
Authors: Rayson Ho and Ron Chen; Presenter:
Andy Schwierskott, Sun Microsystems
By Ken Edgecombe, High Performance Computing
Virtual Laboratory HPCVL
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.
By Dr Deniz Savas, Sheffield University, CiCS
Dept.
By Matthew Baier, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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
By Andy Schwierskott, Sun Microsystems
By Andreas Doerr, Richard Hierlmeier, Sun
Microsystems