Conferences, Symposiums and Talks

The organizers for the 6th annual Symposium on OSCAR and HPC Cluster Systems invite authors to submit papers to this year's symposium, which is being held in Quebec City, QB, Canada. This year's symposium has an expanded scope to encompass more generally the area of HPC cluster computing. Please read the OSCAR'08 - Call for Papers for further details.

The team from the University of Alberta has won the first Cluster Challenge at SC|07. As reported previously, the cluster runs OSCAR where OSCAR's rapid deployment and suite of management/monitoring tools played a role in the outcome. Congratulations to the team.

For further reading, follow this link.

Paul Greidanus and the team from University of Alberta, Canada has entered the SuperComputing 07 Cluster Challenge with SGI hardware running OSCAR 5.0 and Scientific Linux 4.5.

Best of luck to him and the team!

This is a reminder to mark your calendars for the "OSCAR Community Meeting" at the upcoming Supercomputing conference (SC|07) in Reno, NV.

What: OSCAR Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF)
Where: SC|07, Reno, NV (A2 / A5)
When: Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Info: http://sc07.supercomputing.org/schedule/event_detail.php?evid=11311

See you in Reno!

UPDATE: Deadlines Extended! see Call for Papers

The organizers of the 5th Annual OSCAR Symposium (OSCAR'07) invite authors to
submit papers related to cluster computing -- Call for Papers. This year's conference is co-hosted with HPCS'07, which is May 13-16, 2007 in Saskatoon, Canada. More details are available at the OSCAR'07 web page.

If you are around the Baltimore-Washington area and would like to learn more about clustering, check out this class:

http://www.gridswatch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=640&Itemid=25

"Georgetown University's Advanced Research Computing, in cooperation with
the Baltimore Washington Beowulf User Group, is pleased to announce
"Introduction to Beowulf Administering," the first course in the High
Performance and High Throughput Computing Series. This introductory
course is geared toward Linux/Unix system administrators who want to
learn how to design, build, and maintain Beowulf Clusters. For more
course details and registration information, see the URL."

Don't worry, they will be teaching OSCAR ;-)