SCALI Technology

Presenter: Håkon O. Bugge
Title: VP Product Development
Organization: Scali AS
http://www.scali.com;
email: hob@scali.no; 
fax: +47 22 62 89 51;

Background:

Håkon Bugge worked for Norsk Data and Dolphin ICS until 1994, where he served as Systems Architect. He worked closely with the design of Dolphin's cache coherent cache&memory controller used in Data General's NumaLine series of computers. He also worked closely with Dolphin's partners to define the bussed version of SCI, i.e. B-Link. In 1994, Bugge started in Kongsberg Informasjonskontroll, where he developed a SPARC based SCI-cluster used in commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar processing. This work served as a basis for a new company, Scali, http://www.scali.com, which was founded in 1997. Since then, he has served as VP Product Development in Scali, which develops and integrates cluster management solutions for scalable clusters.


Lectures:

• Scalability issues with Shared Address Space cluster architectures

• Cons and Pros of a direct SCI network
  

• Fault tolerant routing in a 2D SCI Torus
  

• Low level SCI programming using ScaMPI
  

• Node level parallelism: would that be pthreads, OpenMP, or MPI?
  

• Cluster Management through Scali's Universe

 

SCALI Technology

 

Hands on:

• Low level SCI programming using ScaMPI

• Performance of sample pthreads, OpenMP, and MPI node parallel MPI examples

• Fault tolerance in practise, introduction to Scali's cluster management system, Universe