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ECMWF High-Performance Networking Technology Workshop
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22 September |
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Registration |
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14:00 |
Welcome |
Neil Storer, ECMWF |
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Session 1: User Applications requiring High-Performance Networking |
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14:10 |
High Performance Networking at ECMWF | Dieter Niebel, ECMWF |
| HPN configuration and Load-balancing for Cluster Synchronization | ||
| 14:30 |
Infiniband and 10G in I/O-intensive farm computing |
Andras Horvath, CERN |
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Network technologies for the LHC Computing Grid? Report on 10G and Infiniband as interconnects into our computing farm; Wide area transfer results with 10G. |
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| 14:50 | GridKa LAN, an LHC Tier-1 Centre Network | Bruno Hoeft, FZK Karlsruhe |
| Network implementation; Roadmap for 2007/8 (start of LHC at CERN); Setting up of the 10G test bed, GridKa-CERN. | ||
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15:10 |
Coffee Break | |
| 15:30 | Data Intensive Applications and Networking | Nathaniel Mendoza, SDSC |
| Overview of the TeraGrid and its applications | ||
| 15:50 | Current Hardware (NEC SX-6, Cray Opteron Cluster); Future Hardware & Networks (NEC SX-6X with high-performance interconnect; PC-Cluster and interconnect; Integration on the file system level) |
Thomas Boenisch, HLRS Stuttgart |
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Session 2: High-Performance Interconnect |
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16:10 |
Advances in Myrinet Technology |
Michael Rudgyard, Streamline |
| Current Myrinet technology; outline of future offerings from Myricom | ||
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16:40 |
Demo: Participants are Extreme, Force10, Foundry, Intel, LNXI |
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17:30 |
Cocktail Party |
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23 September |
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8:30 |
Registration |
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Session 2: High-Performance Interconnect |
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| 9:00 | InfiniBand update | John Asher, Voltaire |
| The growth in numbers of installations, HPC and Enterprise Grid applications & installed "total solutions" | ||
| 9:30 | Linux Networx - Infiniband Experiences | David Flynn, LNXI |
| Past experiences, current status, and future innovations offered by InfiniBand interconnect technologies from an integrator's view. | ||
| 10:00 | Advanced Switching (AS) Technology Update from the Intel Perspective | Mark Green, INTEL |
| Host-bus (tree topology) technologies versus backplane fabric interconnects; AS Interconnect (based on PCI-Express), current status, and roadmap for the technology adoption and Intel's vision. | ||
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10:30 |
Coffee Break & Demo | |
| 11:00 | A Single-Chip 10Gbps Ethernet Switch and Its Switch Box XG800 | Yukihiro Nakagawa, Fujitsu |
| 11:30 | The IBM Federation Switch | Jonathan Follows, IBM |
| Architecture overview; performance comparisons against the "Colony" switch measured on the "other" UK HPS implementation - HPCx. | ||
| 12:00 | QsNetII - A High Performance Solution for Large Scale Commodity Computing | John Taylor, Quadrics |
| Network characteristics, recent developments, case study on integration of Quadrics based supercomputing clusters, futures | ||
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12:30 |
A survey of the Cray XD1 to the RedStorm system, with an overview of future interconnects for the Ranier system. |
Dennis Abts, Cray |
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13:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 |
Computer Hall Tour 1 |
User Support |
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14:30 |
Discussion |
Moderation: ECMWF |
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Session 3 (part 1): BUS, 10G adapters & media, TCP Offload Engines on Servers |
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| 15:00 | IBM's 10GbE, iSCSI, other TCP/IP offload efforts and performance challenges for 10GbE | Sivarama Kodukula, IBM |
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15:30 |
Coffee Break & Demo | |
| 16:00 | "10 Gigabit Ethernet over Copper" - Latest Developments in Balanced Cabling Systems | Kevin Anderson, KRONE |
| Upcoming standards and technical challenges for manufacturers | ||
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16:30 |
Discussion |
Moderation: ECMWF |
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Session 4: FC, iSCSI & SAN (>1 Gigabit) |
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| 17:00 | Evolution of Fibrechannel, 1/2/4/8/10 Gbps, compared with Ethernet; New development in iSCSI space (iSER), and comparison with TOE (TCP Offload Engine) solutions. |
Walter Dey, Cisco
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| 17:30 | Discussion |
Moderation: ECMWF |
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18:00 |
Demo |
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19:00 |
Dinner - sponsored by Force10, Cray, Extreme, 3Com, IBM, Quadrics | |
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24 September |
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Session 5: 10G- Switch/Routers & Architecture |
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9:00 |
The reality of delivering very scaleable high performance computing over low-cost 10GB and 1GB ethernet solutions. |
Joe Carlucci, 3Com |
| 9:30 | Terascale architecture and levels of performance, scalability and resiliency required for Grid and Cluster applications | Adam Filby, Force10 |
| 10:00 | High Performance Interconnect Solutions | Mark Danckert, Foundry |
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10:30 |
Coffee Break & Demo | |
| 11:00 | High Performance Open Switch Architecture for Cluster applications | Martin van Schooten, Extreme |
| A high-speed switch architecture adaptable to changing network applications without downtime of critical services. | ||
| 11:30 |
Cisco Catalyst 6500: 10GE offering, switching fabric and linecard architecture overview. |
Christopher Paggen, Cisco |
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12:00 |
Discussion | |
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12:30 |
Computer Hall Tour 2 |
User Support |
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13:00 |
Lunch | |
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Session 3 (part 2): BUS, 10G adapters & media, TCP Offload Engines on Servers |
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14:00 |
Intel's current view of TCP/IP offload |
Mark Godding, Intel |
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Session 6: Future of High-Performance Networking |
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14:30 |
Round-Table: Pannelists briefly present their views | |
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15:00 |
Round-Table: Discussion |
Moderation: ECMWF |
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16:00 |
Close |
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Demo |
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The Demo is to include 10G Switch/Routers; Infiniband Interconnect & 10G Server adapters |
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11.10.2004 |
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