HPCwire's 60 DAY CONFERENCE AND EVENTS GUIDE 11.02.04 ========================================================================= Important Upcoming HPC Events... As an added service to our readers, HPCwire produces a 60 Day Conference and Events section, which offers information related to conferences, workshops, and user group meetings within the USA, Europe and Asian Pacific Rim. The content in this section will be updated bi-weekly and provides an excellent planning guide to subscribers. For information and quotes for posting your organization's individual or multiple conference/events, contact Andrea Johnson at (858) 625-0070 or events@hpcwire.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ** Indicates New Event Listing NOVEMBER ^^^^^^^^ November 6-7, 2004 Sun HPC Consortium Marriott City Center Pittsburgh, PA http://www.sun-registration.com/hpc WHO SHOULD ATTEND: CIOs, system managers and all Sun users in the scientific, engineering or other technical applications and disciplines. The Sun High Performance Computing Consortium is an international group that use Sun computer systems with emphasis on technical computing and visualization. This meeting will feature talks from users and Sun technologists such as Marc Tremblay, VP and Sun Fellow on Sun's HPTC strategy including Chip Multithreading. Other talks feature Sun's new Opteron systems, Solaris 10, graphics, and BOFs on Grids, Computational Biology, application performance, cluster life cycle management, and storage. November 6-12, 2004, SC 2004 Pittsburg, PA http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2004/ SC2004, the worlds leading conference on high performance computing, networking and storage, will be held in the brand new David L. Lawrence Convention Center (http://www.pittsburghcc.com/html/introduction.html) in Pittsburgh on November 6-12, 2004. The SC2004 Conference will bring representatives from many technical communities together to exchange ideas, celebrate past successes and plan for the future. To reflect this important function, the conference theme is Bridging Communities, which represents not only the technical communities participating in the conference but the architecture of the city, too. November 7-11, 2004 International Congress of Nanotechnology and Nano World Expo 2004 San Francisco, CA http://www.nanotechcongress.com/ The 2004 Conference Theme: Bridging to the Next Frontier: Bridging to the convergence of physical science, IT, engineering and biomedical science. Bridging to global collaboration to explore the mystery of the nanoscale world and how to make use of its application for the benefits of mankind. Bridging the communication gap to address key issues facing the scientific research, business development and social, environmental and health safety implications of Nanotechnology. There are more than 65 distinguished speakers and 100 papers from physicists, chemists, computer scientists, engineers, biotechnologists, medical researchers and business executives from leading research institutes, universities and industrial corporations in 23 countries. November 14-19, 2004 18th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '04) Atlanta, GA http://www.usenix.org/lisa04/xxx Join us in Atlanta, GA, November 14-19, 2004, for the 18th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '04). LISA '04 Offers the Latest in System Administration Training and Cutting-Edge Practices. This year's program, "System Administration Reality-Automation, Configuration, and Users," includes training every day by industry experts such as Aeleen Frisch, Gerald Carter, Tom Limoncelli, and Marcus Ranum; keynote address "Going Digital at CNN" by Howard Ginsberg; the 2nd Annual Spam Mini-Symposium; invited talks by industry experts; refereed papers; Guru Is In sessions; a vendor exhibition; and more. Sponsored by USENIX and SAGE. Register by October 22 and save up to $300! DECEMBER ^^^^^^^^ **December 5, 2004 First Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS '04) San Francisco, CA http://www.usenix.org/events/worlds04/index.html Join us in San Francisco, December 5, 2004, for the First Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS '04). WORLDS will bring together people who are exploring the new challenges of building widely distributed networked systems and who lean toward the "rough consensus and running code" school of systems building. WORLDS will offer short talks followed by general discussion on a number of fresh ideas concentrated on distributed systems, including those that: span a significant portion of the globe, spread over a large number of sites and those that are designed to run on a real platform for a period of time. Register by November 19, 2004 and save! **December 6-8, 2004 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '04) San Francisco, CA http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi04/index.html Join us in San Francisco, December 68, 2004, for the 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '04). OSDI brings together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in what has become a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software. The program this year offers 27 papers on a wide range of topics including: Dependability and Recovery, Automated Management, Files and Storage Systems, Distributed Systems, Kernel Networking, and more. Tuesday evening's Work-in-Progress reports (WiPs) offer a first look at what's on the horizon. Finally, evening Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) provide an additional opportunity to mingle with peers and discuss topics of common interest. 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