Moab•Con 2009 date announced: June 16-19, 2009
MOAB•CON 2008:
Advancing Computing Intelligence
May 27-30, 2008
Provo Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
Provo, UT
Moab•Con was a great success! Thanks to everyone who attended. PowerPoints can be found beneath each section title below, and photos can be seen here: [link].
Clicking on a session time will take you to the session abstract.
Weds. May 28
General Sessions, Day 1
Main Track |
Breakout Sessions |
8:00 AM - 8:55 AM Keynote: Powering Data Pipelines at Yahoo! with Moab and TORQUE - Presented by Kazi Zaman, Yahoo! |
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9:00 AM - 9:55 AM Holistic Scheduling—Interfacing to Hardware Monitors, Performance Monitors, etc. - Presented by Trev Harmon, Cluster Resources, Inc.; and Brent Welch, Panasas Cluster Resources PDFPanasas PDF |
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Making the Most of Moab Diagnostics - Presented by Douglas Wightman, Cluster Resources, Inc. |
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Tuning for Massive Systems - Presented by Jerry Smith, Sandia National Laboratories |
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Moab Cluster Manager Workshop - Presented by Nate Seeley, Cluster Resources, Inc. |
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Improving Availability w/ Triggers and Autonomics - Presented by David Litster, Cluster Resources, Inc. |
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Policies for Optimization—Q&A w/ Moab Workload Manager Developers |
1:15 PM - 2:10 PM Moab Case Studies - Presented by J.W. ("Pat") O’Bryant, Jr., ExxonMobil; and Josh Bernstein, Penguin Computing Penguin Computing PDF |
1:15 PM - 2:10 PM Policies for Fairness - Q&A w/ Moab Workload Manager Developers |
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM The Intersection of HPC & the Data Center—SOA, Dynamic Services and Transaction Management - Presented by Trev Harmon, Cluster Resources, Inc. |
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM High Availability—TORQUE, Moab & General Workload - Presented by Josh Butikofer, Cluster Resources, Inc. |
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM Getting Smarter—Utilizing Moab’s Learning Features - Presented by David Jackson, CTO Cluster Resources, Inc. |
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM Q&A w/ GOLD Developers |
3:30 PM - 4:10 PM Scheduling in the Unified Fabric Era - Presented by Aviv Cohen, Voltaire |
3:30 PM - 4:10 PM Applying Green Computing to Clusters and the Data Center - Presented by Steven DuChene and Andre Kerstens, SGI |
4:15 PM - 4:55 PM Managing an SLA-Centric Workload - Josh Butikofer and Stephen McQuay, Cluster Resources, Inc. |
4:15 PM - 4:55 PM Automated Cluster Deployment with Rocks+ by Clustercorp and Moab Cluster Builder - Presented by Tim McIntire, President of Clustercorp; Nathan Conger, Novell; and Michael Jackson, President, and Jared Mecham, Cluster Resources, Inc. |
5:00 PM – 5:40 PM Panel: What is my Cluster Doing?—Best Practices in Managing the Flood of System Data |
Thurs. May 29
General Sessions, Day 2
Main Track |
Breakout Sessions |
8:00 AM - 8:55 AM Keynote: The Evolution of Scale-Out Computing - Presented by Egan Ford, IBM |
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9:00 AM - 9:55 AM Adaptive Data Center - Presented by Susanne M. Balle, Hewlett-Packard |
9:00 AM - 9:55 Moab Internals - Presented by Douglas Wightman, Cluster Resources, Inc. |
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Simulation and Emulation for Performance Prediction - Presented by Baochuan Lu and Wesley Emeneker, University of Arkansas |
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Q&A w/ TORQUE Developers |
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Utility Computing and Hosted Resources - Presented by Trev Harmon, Cluster Resources, Inc. |
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Managing a Real-World Grid—Politics, Resources Heterogeneity, User Issues and Competing Technologies - Presented by Peter Enstrom, National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
1:15 PM - 2:10 PM Best Practices in Capacity Planning - Presented by Brady Kimball, Cluster Resources, Inc. |
1:15 PM - 2:10 PM Q&A w/ Moab Access Portal Developers |
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM Green Computing—Power and Thermal Optimized Scheduling - Presented by Georgios Varsamopoulos, Arizona State University, and Michael Jackson, President of Cluster Resources ASU PDFCluster Resources PDF |
2:15-3:15 PM Workload Management on Leadership Class Architectures - Presented by Peter Savinelli, IBM; Don Maxwell, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Michael Karo, Cray; and Scott Jackson, Cluster Resources, Inc. ORNL PDFCray PDF |
3:30 PM - 4:10 PM Cluster Consolidation and Sovereign Grids - Presented by Jonathan Ryskamp and Josh Butikofer, Cluster Resources, Inc. |
3:30 PM - 4:10 PM Q&A w/ Moab Grid Developers |
4:15 PM - 4:55 PM Windows+Linux Dynamic Hybrid Clusters - Presented by Matt Blythe, Microsoft |
4:15 PM - 4:55 PM Managing Workflows - Trev Harmon, Cluster Resources, Inc. |
5:00 PM – 5:40 PM Panel: Cloud Computing—Is it Time or is it Hype? |
Fri. May 30
General Sessions, Day 3
Main Track |
Breakout Sessions |
8:00 AM - 8:55 AM Keynote: David Jackson, CTO of Cluster Resources |
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9:00 AM - 9:55 AM Advanced TORQUE Administration |
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM Q&A w/ Moab Cluster Manager Developers – Capacity Planning, Automated Reports, and Visualizing Generic Metrics |
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Moab Case Studies—- Presented by Oliver Baltzer, Flagstone; Nicholas P. Cardo, NERSC; and Jess Arrington, Cluster Resources, Inc. NERSC PDFCambridge Univ. Case Study PDF |
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Managing Clusters w/ Moab+SLURM - Presented by Don Lipari, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; and David Hill, Cluster Resources, Inc. |
10:30 – 11:00 AM Managing Clusters w/ Moab+SGE - Presented by Scott Jackson, Cluster Resources, Inc. |
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11:15 AM - 12:10 PM Moab and Virtualization in HPC - Presented by Dan Stanzione, Arizona State University |
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Q&A w/ Moab Workload Manager Developers - Preemption, High Throughput, and Massive Workloads |
12:15 PM – 1:00 PM Panel: The Next-Generation in Workload Management—What is Most Needed Now and Over the Next 18 Months |
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2:00 PM - 2:50 PM Roadmap and Conclusions |