The fast development of the processing power of high-end PCs and workstations, together with the availability of open source operating systems such as Linux have made it possible to build very cost effective clusters of commodity hardware, also known as beowulfs. With the addition of high bandwidth networks with low latency, open source based beowulfs has become the most common platform for high performance computing.

Assembling a beowulf is, however, a non-trivial task due to the fast moving hardware market as well as the rapid development of Linux and available tools for clustered computing. The aim of the workshop is to gather together both people with experience of buildning and maintaining clusters and people using or interested in using cluster resources. The workshop will address the hardware and software issues encountered during design as well deployed applications' efficiency, portability and utilization.

We intend to cover the following topics:

• Storage solutions for clusters and Grids.
• Distributed computing and Grid technologies
• Applications adapted for using parallel and distributed resources
• Software and tools for using and managing clusters
• Scalability issues, benchmarking and tuning
• Job scheduling strategies
• Key application areas
• Update on the latest hardware developments

In addition to invited talks, there will be tutorials (Oct. 22), exhibits and vendor presentations.

The complete list of speakers and programme will be available at http://www.nsc.liu.se/lcsc/.

If you wish to present your own cluster, Grid project, software development or give a talk on a topic related to clusters or Grid computing you are most welcome to contact

Niclas Andersson
E-mail: <nican@nsc.liu.se>
Phone: +46 13 281464
Fax: +46 13 282535

Torgny Faxén
E-mail: <faxen@nsc.liu.se>
Phone: +46 13 285798
Fax: +46 13 282535