Tuesday, March 23
MS9
Innovative Applications of Wide Area Computing
4:30 PM-6:30 PM
Room: Ballroom C
Rapid advances in wide area network capabilities are enabling
interesting new supercomputing applications based on the coupling of
geographically distributed resources. In some cases, the purpose of
this coupling is to enable collaboration; in others, to make the
power of a supercomputer available at the scientist's desktop. The
speakers in this minisymposium will introduce this important new
technology and its applications, and will examine the application
classes in which progress has already been made, the nature of the
technical problems encountered when implementing these applications,
and the tools that can be used to simplify application development.
They will also discuss advanced applications in four different areas:
desk-top problem solving environments, computational steering, remote
visualization, and online instrument control.
Organizer: Ian Foster
Argonne National Laboratory
- 4:30-4:55 Using the Grid to Support Software Component Systems
- Randall Bramley, Dennis Gannon, and Juan Villacis,
Indiana University, Bloomington
- 5:00-5:25 The SCIRun Problem Solving Environment:
Implementation Within a Distributed Environment
- Michelle Miller, Charles D. Hansen, and Christopher R.
Johnson, University of Utah
- 5:30-5:55 Real-time Analysis, Visualization, and Steering of
Microtomography Experiments at Photon Source
- Gregor
von Laszewski and Joseph A. Insley, Argonne National Laboratory; Ian
Foster, Organizer; John Bresnahan, Argonne National Laboratory; Carl
Kesselman, Mei-Hui Su, and Marcus Thiebaux, University of Southern
California; Mark L. Rivers, The University of Chicago; Steve Wang,
Argonne National Laboratory; Brian Tieman and Ian McNulty, The
University of Chicago
- 6:00-6:25 Numerical Relativity in a Distributed Environment
- Werner
Benger, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert
Einstein Institut, and Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für
Informationstechnik Berlin, Germany; Ian Foster, Organizer; Jason
Novotny, National Center for Supercomputing Applications; Edward
Seidel, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert
Einstein Institut, National Center for Supercomputing Applications,
and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; John Shalf, National
Center for Supercomputing Applications; Warren Smith,
Argonne National Laboratory; and Paul Walker, Max-Planck-Institut
für Gravitationsphysik, Albert Einstein Institut, Berlin, Germany
MMD, 1/6/99