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29th SPEEDUP Workshop
on
Distributed Computing and High-Speed Networks
University of Bern, Switzerland, March 22 - 23, 2001
sponsored by Cisco Systems
(Switzerland) and Getronics
AG (Switzerland)
Summary
Distributed computing is becoming an alternative to traditional high-performance
computing based on central supercomputers. In this case, computing resources
of many distributed low performance computers can be bundled to clusters,
in which many computers collaborate in order to solve a given problem by
parallel processing. Nevertheless, supercomputers are still needed for
certain problems and users need access to those high-performance computing
resources. For both scenarios, powerful communication infrastructures such
as high-speed networks and interfaces are needed in order to interconnect
high-performance computers and allowing users to access computing resources.
In particular, the Internet has already or will become an enabling technology
for distributed / high-performance computing and will play a more important
role for interconnecting computing resources and users over the wide area
in the future. High-speed Internetworking technologies will enable applications
such as distance learning, remote device control, virtual reality, and
DNA analysis. The workshop will address several issues on high-speed networks
and communications, distributed systems and applications, as well as latest
trends in distributed high-performance computing. The 29th SPEEDUP Workshop
is intended to bring together members of academic institutions, private
enterprises and government who are interested in obtaining an overview
of the state-of-the-art of these areas.
Program
Thursday, March 22, 2001
Session I: High-Speed Networking I, Chair: Torsten
Braun (Uni Bern)
Session II: High-Speed Networking II, Chair: Peter
Arbenz (ETHZ)
Session III: Grid Computing, Chair: Michel
Deville (EPFL)
9th General Assembly
of the SPEEDUP Society
Workshop Dinner
The workshop dinner took place at the "Altes
Tramdepot".
Friday, March 23, 2001
Proceedings
Several authors provided a scientific paper about the topics of their talks. The
papers will be published within an issue of Elsevier's
Electronic Notes on Future
Generation Computer Systems.
Workshop Location
The workshop took place in Lecture Hall B7 at the building
Exakte Wissenschaften (Sidlerstrasse 5).
Registration and Participation Fees
Participation
fees have been SFr. 100,-. Students had to pay 50,- SFr.
Hotel Reservation
Hotels reservation has been supported by the Official
Tourist Office of Bern, +41 (0)31 328 12 12, E-Mail: info-res@bernetourism.ch
Participants
A participants list is available here. Please
contact Ruth Bestgen for more detailed
information.
Workshop Chair
Torsten Braun
Computer Networks and Distributed
Systems
Institute of Computer Science and
Applied Mathematics
University of Bern
Neubrückstr. 10
CH-3012 Bern
Switzerland
Phone: +41 31 631 4994
Fax: +41 31 631 3261
E-mail: braun@iam.unibe.ch
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