I am the manager of Advanced Computing and Networking in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Lab. We are a research institution, with a primary focus on scientific computation, typically on supercomputers. We also do work in advanced visualization, high-performance networking, and collaboration.

I have a number of reasons for attending the workshop:

Many research projects in our division are being ported to NT. I am our primary contact with Microsoft, and one of the main decision makers about future technological directions in our division. The research being discussed at the workshop is of great interest to me because most of it pertains in one way or another to projects in our division. I expect to learn a lot which I can feedback to our various groups and contribute from our experiences. Among these projects are mathematical libraries, distributed computing tools, and immersive visualization systems.

I am in the middle of a project in which we are building a parallel computing cluster out of NT boxes in order to compare commodity-based supercomputing to the more traditional style that we currently use. I am presenting some of our systems administration experience with this cluster at the Lisa NT workshop, but hope to learn much about performance issues and code porting in the Research NT workshop.

I've been asked to participate in an evening panel on adminstrative issues of labs.

I think the workshop is going to be a blast and I dig Seattle.

So there you have it, that's why I'm coming, and that's some of the research that I'm involved with on NT.

Remy Evard
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Ave
Argonne, IL 60439
evard@mcs.anl.gov
https://www.mcs.anl.gov/home/evard
630-252-5963