ARCADE 2000
Bergen, Norway, November 27 - 28, 2000

Parallab

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Bergen
Norway

The ARCADE workshop (Academic Research Computing Advanced facilities Discussion group Europe) is an annual meeting for Directors of Supercomputer Centers and Research Institutes, which use HPC in their work. It is open by invitation only.

The ARCADE 2000 event is organized and hosted by Parallab, University of Bergen, Norway, November 27-28, 2000, and will be held at Høyteknologisenteret, Thormøhlensgt. 55, Bergen (see map for exact location). The workshop will follow the established pattern having a mix of plenary talks and round table discussions, as well as a section with HPC vendor presentations.

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS

There will be three broad themes to focus the discussions. Within each theme the participants are encouraged to explore new ways where cooperation among the European HPC centers can be extended and enhanced. The discussion will be on the following themes:

• The role of HPC in the development of new curricula in Computational Science.

• Development of a European HPC GRID infrastructure.
  

• The HPC model in the future, Shared or Distributed?

PLENARY LECTURES

• Dr. Jack D. Dongarra (University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge Natl. Lab., USA)
  High Performance Computing and Trends: Connecting Computational Requirements with Computing Resources
• Dr. Victor Alessandrini (IDRIS, France)
  The EuroGrid project: A Strategic action of HPC centers for the deployment of computational grids in Europe.
• Dr. Ole H. Nielsen (DTU, Denmark)
  Will Beowulf clusters displace computer centers?
• Dr. Lennart Johnsson (PDC/KTH, Sweden, Univ. of Houston and Rice Univ.)
  Education in Computational Science, What must be done?
• Dr. Rolf Jeltsch (ETH, Switzerland)
  Education in CSE: Are we doing the right thing?

VENDOR PRESENTATIONS:

• IBM: Peter Ungaro, Vice President Science and Technology
  Deep computing at IBM
• COMPAQ: Martin Walker, Compaq, EMEA
  Scalable Scientific Computing at Compaq.
• SGI: Dr. Wolfgang Mertz
  Modular Supercomputing
• HP: Adrian Hillcoat
  HP's High Performance Computing Strategy