The Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies (CREST) at the University of Indiana will organize a workshop to celebrate 20 years of Beowulf and to honour Professor Thomas Sterling for his 65th birthday. The workshop will be held October 13-14, 2014. Visit the 20 Years of Beowulf website to register or learn more.
The Beowulf project introduced clusters build from COTS (Commodity Off The Shelf) parts and open source software. The approach was extremely successful and adopted worldwide and brought computing clusters to the masses.
The workshop will also celebrate the 65th birthday of Professor Thomas Sterling, the “Father Beowulf”. Professor Sterling has made major contributions to high-performance computing over his career.
The list of distinguished speakers for the workshop includes: Paul Messina (Argonne National Laboratory), John Salmon (D. E. Shaw Research), Mark Seager (Intel), Don Becker (NVIDIA), Bill Gropp (University of Illinois), Dan Reed (University of Iowa), Jim Fischer (NASA Goddard), and Steve Wallach (Convey).
A special feature at the workshop on Monday afternoon will be a panel presentation, organized and moderated by Mike Bernhardt, former publisher of The Exascale Report and a Community Evangelist with Intel. This panel discussion will feature a number of long-time colleagues of Thomas Sterling as they explore “Why Beowulf Matters” and compete in a fast-paced trivia round titled, “So You Think You Know Thomas Sterling!”
The workshop is being held in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC.
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