Workshop Program

Six submitted papers have been accepted for presentation at the workshop and inclusion in the proceedings published by Springer-Verlag as well as the IPPS/SPDP'99 CD-ROM. Accepted papers have been organized in three sessions. In addition to contributed papers two invited talks will be presented by Mark Baker (DCS, U. of Portsmouth, Hants, UK) on the organization of a new IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing and Giuseppe Ciaccio (DISI, U. of Genoa, Italy) on efficient porting of MPI over Fast Ethernet clusters.

Condado Plaza Hotel, April 16th 1999

(see http://www.ippsxx.org/ipps99/ for logistic details)

8:30- 8:40 Opening

G. Chiola and G. Conte, workshop co-chairs

8:40- 9:30 Invited Speech

Mark Baker, DCS, U. of Portsmouth,
"A new IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing"
URL http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/tfcc/

9:30-10:30 Session 1: Implementation of BSP Clusters

• S.R. Donaldson, J.M.D. Hill, D.B. Skillicorn
  " Performance Results for a Reliable Low-latency Cluster Communication Protocol"
  
  
• Holger Karl
  " Coscheduling through Synchronized Scheduling Servers - A Prototype and Experiments"
  

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Session 2: Applications and Measurements

• C. Anglano, A. Giordana, G. Lo Bello
  " High-Performance Knowledge Extraction from Data on PC-based Networks of Workstations"
  
  
• U.K.V. Rajasekaran, M. Chetlur, G.D. Sharma, R. Radhakrishnan, P.A. Wilsey
  " Addressing Communication Latency Issues on Clusters for Fine Grained Asynchronous Applications - A case study"
  
• G. Conte, M. Mazzeo, A. Poggi, P. Rossi, and M. Vignali
  " Low Cost Databases for NOW"
  

12:30-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-14:50 Session 3: Efficient MPI on Clusters

• G. Ciaccio, invited talk on
  "Efficient porting of MPICH on Fast Ethernet based cluster"
  
• T. Takahashi, F. O'Carrol, H. Tezuka, A. Hori, S. Sumimoto, H. Harada, Y. Ishikawa, P.H. Beckman
  " Implementation and Evaluation of MPI on an SMP Cluster"
  

14:50-15:00 Closing Session

G. Chiola and G. Conte, workshop co-chairs

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:00 Open Discussion

Open discussion on the perspectives of cluster computing based on PC technology and organization of the IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing.