HPCwire's CONFERENCE AND EVENTS GUIDE 06.29.04 ========================================================================= Important Upcoming HPC Events... As an additional service to our readers, HPCwire's Conference and Event section offers our subscribers conference, workshops, user group meetings, and any HPC event information within the USA, Europe, and the Asian Pacific Rim. HPCwire will be providing updated information within this section semi-monthly providing an excellent event planner guide. For information and quotes for posting your organization's individual or multiple conference/events, contact Jennifer Tabor at (858) 625-0070 or events@hpcwire.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ** Indicates New Event Listing JUNE ^^^^ June 27-July 2, 2004 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference Boston, MA http://www.usenix.org/usenix04/ JOIN US IN BOSTON for the latest in groundbreaking research, open source development, and cutting-edge practices. Build your own single- or multi-day conference: mix and match training, technical tracks, SIGs, and Guru sessions to focus on just one topic or sample the best of everything! Plus an expanded program, with more training, research, security breakthroughs, sessions devoted to Linux and open source software, and practical approaches to the puzzles and problems you wrestle with. June 28-30, 2004 VECPAR'2004 Valencia, Spain http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2004/ VECPAR'2004 is a multidisciplinary meeting on High Performance Computing for Computational Science. The conference is the opportunity for gathering of an enlarged scientific community made up of mathematicians, physicists, engineers, i.e. all branches of science reverting to computer simulations for analysis of complex systems and phenomena. VECPAR'2004, the sixth edition the VECPAR series of conferences, is being held and organized by the Polytechnic University of Valencia, in Spain. June 28- July 2, 2004 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) San Francisco, CA http://developer.apple.com/wwdc The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is the most important week of the year for developers, IT professionals, and digital media authors. Apple CEO Steve Jobs will kick off this years conference with a keynote that includes a preview of"Tiger", the next release of Mac OS X - Apples critically acclaimed operating system. With seven tracks and more than 190 sessions planned, WWDC 2004 will be the most information-packed week of the year for developers. Youll find descriptions of over 130 sessions everything from basics and best practices to advanced techniques and new technologies available today. JULY ^^^^ **July 19-20, 2004 Windows High-Performance Computing Workshop (Free) Ithaca, New York http://www.tc.cornell.edu/services/edu/events/winHPC/ Free Windows-Based High-Performance Computing Workshop Available at Cornell Theory Center - The Cornell Theory Center (CTC) is offering a free, hands-on, two-day technical training course for members of qualified organizations interested in implementing high-performance computing on Windows-based clusters. The workshop is scheduled for July 19-20, 2004, at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Representatives from all industries and sectors, including corporations, universities, and government agencies, are invited to attend. Space is limited. Registration is required by July 9, 2004, and can be accomplished by submitting the form at http://www.tc.cornell.edu/services/edu/events/winHPC/. July 27-29, 2004 Cluster Symposium 2004 On the Use of Commodity Clusters for Large-Scale Scientific Applications Tysons Corner, VA http://www.arl.hpc.mil/Clusters2004 Hosted by the Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center (ARL MSRC), Raytheon, and the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), this year's international program will address challenges associated with the rapidly expanding interest and acceptance of the use of commodity computer clusters for scientific applications. The symposium will explore the suitability of these clusters to operate within a heterogeneous production computing environment to solve very large scientific applications requiring extensive computer resources and execution times. Concerns addressed will include: life-cycle costs, system stability, and system management and administration. Unsubscribe-Ref: hpcoh2825