3rd International Conference
on SCI-based Technology and Research

held in conjunction with

Euro-Par 2000
The European Conference on Parallel Computing

Technische Universität München
Munich, Germany, August 29th-30th, 2000

Introduction

• Preface

• People involved in SCI-Europe 2000

Invited Presentations / Future directions for SCI 1

• Parallel Processing - the Wrong Answer?
  Phil Broughton, ICL

• Experience of SCI-based systems in Particle Physics and prospects for their future use
  Fred Wickens, RAL

Technical Session 1: Message Passing Programming

• Comparing MPI Performance of SCI and VIA
  Friedrich Seifert, Daniel Balkanski, and Wolfgang Rehm, Technische Universität Chemnitz

• SCI-MPICH: The Second Generation
  Joachim Worringen, RWTH-Aachen

Invited Presentations / Future directions for SCI 2

• Dolphin's Perspective on SCI
  Hugo Kohmann, Dolphin ICS

• Cluster Computing: Past, Present, and the Future. With SCI?
  Einar Rustad, SCALI

Technical Session 2: Middleware for SCI based clusters

• Exploiting SCI in the MultiOS management system
  Ronan Cunniffe and Brian A. Coghlan, Trinity College, Dublin

• Efficient Coherency and Synchronization Management in SCI based DSM systems
  Martin Schulz, Technische Universität München

• Architectural issues of creating portable SCI cluster middleware
  Lars Paul Huse, Knut Omang, Géraud Krawezik, and Håkon O. Bugge, SCALI AS

Technical Session 3: SCI Monitoring

• Design and Implementation Aspects for the SMiLE Hardware Monitor
  Robert Hockauf, Jürgen Jeitner, Wolfgang Karl, Robert Lindhof, and Martin Schulz, Technische Universität München, Vicente González, Enrique Sanchis, and Gloria Torralba, University of Valencia

• Understanding the Behavior of Shared Memory Applications
  Jie Tao, Wolfgang Karl, and Martin Schulz, Technische Universität München

Technical Session 4: SCI Hardware Developments

• PPRAM-Link : A New High-Speed Communication Interface Standard for Merged-DRAM/Logic Systems-on-a-Chip Architecture
  Koji Hashimoto, Masaya Yamasaki, Hiroto Tomita, Katsuhiko Metsugi, and Kazuaki Murakami, Kyushu University

• Fault Tolerant Routing in SCI
  Olav Lysne and Sissel Heramb Tangen, University of Oslo

Technical Session 5: SCI-based Data Acquisition in High Energy Physics

• 1 MHz Transaction Processor Farm For High Energy Physics
  Alexander Walsch, Volker Lindenstruth, and Markus W. Schulz, Universität Heidelberg

• Running the Level-2 Trigger Software of the ATLAS Experiment on a Large Commercial Cluster
  A. Bogaerts, F. Giacomini, and S. Tapprogge, CERN, R. Hauser, Michigan State University

• ATLAS Level-2 Trigger SCI Demonstrator Evaluation Report
  A. Bogaerts, F. Giacomini, and P. Werner, CERN, A. Belias, D. Botterill, R. Middleton, and F. Wickens, RAL, R. Hauser, Michigan State University

Technical Session 6: SCI Switch Evaluation and Design

• Evaluation of a 16-port SCI Switch
  A. Bogaerts, F. Giacomini, and P. Werner, CERN, A. Belias, D. Botterill, R. Middleton, and F. Wickens, RAL

• High performance switching and congestion avoidance in SCI
  Petter Gustad, Kåre Løchsen, and Ola Tørudbakken, Dolphin ICS

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