armstrongk@LUAC.SDSC.EDU (KAREN ARMSTRONG 619-534-5077) (07/22/89)
**************************************** **************************************** Networking and Supercomputers Fifth Annual Workshop July 11-13 San Diego, CA **************************************** **************************************** Contact: Sandra Davey San Diego Supercomputer Center Networking and Supercomputers Workshop PO Box 85608 San Diego, CA 92138-5608 or by telephoning 619-534-5026 or by sending electronic mail to daveysl@sds.sdsc.edu Networking plays an important role in today's distributed computing and in nationwide user communities. The development and availabilitiy of Local Area Networks (LANs), national and regional Wide Area Networks (WANs) to interconnect the LANs, and affordable yet powerful workstations are helping change the users interface to supercomputing resources. In this Workshop, we will examine current developments in the following areas: *Wide Area Networks (Developments and Infrastructure) *New and Evolving Standards (Technology and Environment) *Supercomputer Performance (Benchmarks) *Local and Wide Area Networks Performance/Statistics *Network Operations *New Applications Utilizing Networks *Network Security PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS Dr. Robert Kahn, Corporation for National Research Initiatives, will be the keynote speaker at the Workshop. Dr. Kahn is heading up the collaborative research effort on Very High Speed Networks, sponsored by DARPA and the NSF. This program is designed to involve industry and the academic community in a cooperative effort to explore the technology necessary for the development of a gigabit/second research network and to demonstrate its utility. Dr. Kahn will describe the progress of this plan. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (This is a tentative agenda which is subject to minor changes.) TUESDAY, JULY 11 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome 9:15 - 10:45 Keynote Address - Dr. Robert Kahn, President, Corporation for National Research Initatives, Gigabit Research Networks for the 90s. 10:45 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 11:45 Introduction to the Federation of American Research Networks (FARnet)-Speaker to be announced. 11:45 - 1:00 Lunch 1:00 - 1:45 NASA/DARPA Research Internet Gateway- John Lekasman, NASA/AMES 1:45 - 2:30 To Be Announced 2:30 - 2:45 Break 2:45 - 3:30 Supercomputer Performance Measurement - The PERFECT Club - Mike Berry, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champlain 3:30 - 4:30 Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) - To Be Announced Evening: Harbor Excursion (Boarding Time 6:00 p.m.) WEDNESDAY, JULY 12 9:00 - 9:45 Network Performance Benchmarking - Bilal Chinoy , MERIT 9:45 - 10:45 Network Monitoring in Los Nettos - A High Bandwidth Network - Danny Cohen and Walter Prue, Information Sciences Institute 10:45 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:00 Network Security - A Discussion of the Worm - Keith Thompson, NASA/AMES, Phil Lapsley, LBL, Keith Bostic, LBL 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch 1:00 - 1:45 CP* and the High Speed Channel - Randy Holbelheinrich, Los Alamos National Laboratories 1:45 - 2:30 Bringing Supercomputer Graphics to your Desktop with Compression/Decompression - Dr. Larry Rapagnani, Air Force Weapons Laboratory 2:30 - 2:45 Break 2:45 - 3:30 Using X-Windows Remotely - Alan Katz, Information Sciences Institute 3:30 - 4:30 POSIX - To Be Announced Evening: Tour of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Refreshments courtesey of Cray Research, Inc.(Bus departs Holiday Inn at 4:45 p.m.) THURSDAY, JULY 13 9:00 - 10:30 Panel discussion on using WANs and Supercomputers Panel Moderator - Paul Love, San Diego Supercomputer Center Panel Participants: Joe Choy, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Alan Blatechey, North Carolina State Network, Bill Yurick 10:30-10:45 Break 10:45 - 12:00 Panel Discussion on using LANs and Supercomputers Panel Moderator - Charlie Catlett, National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Panel Participants: Keith Bossange, Ultra, Jim Hughes, Network Systems Corporation, Joe Wenker, Cray Research, Kirk Lougheed, ciscoSystems 12:00 Conference Ends REGISTRATION Registration is $200 per person. If registration is mailed by June 23 no late fee will be charged. Please contact Sandra Davey for further information.