May 23-25, 2001

Indian Wells, California, USA

Final Program Schedule

Thursday: SGI and CUG Members Attending

1 General Session, Chair, Hans-Hermann Frese (ZIB)

8:30

Welcome and Introductions, Larry Eversole (JPL), LAC Chair

9:00

Corporate Direction, Bob Bishop, CEO, SGI

9:45

Technology Direction, Eng Lim Goh, Vice-President and CTO, SGI
10:30 Break
2 General Session, Chair, Chuck Keagle (BCS)

11:00

Introduction, Jan Silverman, Sr. Vice-President, Marketing, SGI

11:10

Hardware Update, Dave Parry, Sr. Vice-President, High Performance Systems and Ben Passerelli, Sr. Director, Advanced Systems, SGI

11:40

Software Update, Gabriel Broner, Vice-President, Software Engineering, SGI

12:10

Service Update, Michael Anderson, Director, Service Strategy and Planning, SGI
Lunch 12:30-2:00
Technical Sessions

3A

3B

3C

 

IRIX

Storage

User Services

Chair, Cheryl Wampler (LANL)

Chair, Paul Anderson (DOD)

Chair, Chuck Niggley (NAS)

2:00

IRIX OS Update, Lynne Johnson, SGI Data Migration Facility 3.0, Client/Server Model, Thomas Goozen, SGI Early Experiences with the Developed Virtual User Account, Norbert Meyer, Miroslaw Kupc, Marcin Lawenda, and Pawel Wolniewicz (POZNAN)

2:30

Enhanced RAS features in IRIX, Russ Anderson, SGI SGI CXFS Overview, Current Status and Future Plans, Neil Bannister, SGI An Early Experience on Job Checkpoint/Restart - Working with SGI IRIX OS and the Portable Batch System (PBS), Yan-Tyng Chang (NAS)

3:00

Job Scheduling Techniques for Large Origin Systems, Steve Caruso, SGI

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Supporting Users of the NAS Facility at the NASA Ames Research Center, Chuck Niggley and Ed Hook (NAS)

3:30

Break
Interactive Sessions, Tutorial, and BoFs 4:00-5:30
 

4A

4B

4C

4D

 

Interactive Session

Tutorial

Interactive Session

Interactive Session

4:00

'SNIA' Product Directions, Steve Reinhardt, SGI SGI SAN/CXFS/FailSafe/DMF Demonstration, Dave Ellis, Linda Lait, and Paddy Sreenivasan SGI

Application Performance Metrics: SPEC Gigaflops vs. Linpack Gigaflops, Tom Elken, SGI

Origin 2000 and Origin 3000 State of the Product Family, Dave Morton, SGI

4:45

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Reception, Sponsored by SGI 6:00-7:00
6:00 Gala Reception and Welcome: Hosted by
Bob Bishop, CEO, SGI
Eng Lim Goh, VP and CTO, SGI
Jan Silverman, VP, Advanced Systems, SGI
Ben Passerelli, Sr. Director, Advanced Systems, SGI