HPCwire's 60 DAY CONFERENCE AND EVENTS GUIDE 11.16.04 ========================================================================= 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 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. Take advantage of the the Early-Bird discount. Register by November 19th to save! **December 19-22, 2004 11th Annual International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2004) Bangalore, India http://www.hipc.org HiPC is an international meeting on high performance computing. It serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the high performance computing area. The meeting emphasizes both design and analysis of high performance computing systems and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Conference and/or tutorial(s) registration is now available for regular registrants (members, non-members and full-time students) of HiPC 2004. -- Unsubscribe-Ref: hpcoo3346 To stop bi-weekly HPC Conference email please forward this email with the above Ref: intact to unsubscribe@tgc.com