Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: 71534.332@compuserve.com (Mark Friedman)
Subject: Parallel Applications Workshop
Organization: ICCM - Demand Technology
Date: 29 Sep 1995 17:31:45 GMT
Message-ID: <44hai1$62f@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

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			  2-Day Workshop
			 Herndon, Virginia
			October 18-19, 1995


		  Part of the Fall Seminar Series
		         Presented by the
		Institute for Computer Capacity Management 
			     (ICCM)


Intended Audience: Managers and technical staff, application
developers, large-scale database administrators, those interested in
keeping abreast of parallel technology trends, and those involved in
procurement, performance and capacity planning for parallel platforms.



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			| Purpose |
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There are a number of market indicators suggesting that massively parallel 
processing (MPP) systems are being positioned as the next generation, 
scalable, mainframes, or super-servers for enterprise computing applications. 
The centralized computing paradigm has waned. The new issue is cost-effective 
scalability. Parallel processing offers a solution.

This intensive two-day seminar, explores the background and technology
behind the perennial fascination with parallelism, the successes and
failures associated with the technology, a review of parallel platform
and parallel database architectures, and an exhaustive comparison of
the current crop of commercially viable MPPs.  The class also discusses
performance and capacity planning issues. Participants will evaluate a
detailed study of two very successful MPP architectures from Tandem and
Teradata, and will examine what these mature MPP systems can tell us
about the newer Open MPPs. A key theme throughout the class is the 
importance of commodity economics  in influencing which of the plethora 
of MPP architectures is likely to make it to the year 2000.


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			| Course Outline |
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Motivations for Parallelism

	o Deja vu - yet again?  
	o Widening the Von Neumann bottleneck 
	o Scientific vs. commercial workloads 
	o The role of SQL 
	o Commodity pressure and economies of scale
	o Highly parallel vs. Highly available


Parallel Platform Architectures 

	o SIMD vs. MIMD architectures
	o Multi-processors vs. multi-computers 
	o Interconnect topologies
	o Multi-processors - Shared memory 
	o Clusters - Shared disks
	o Massively Parallel Processors - Shared nothing 
	o Cooperative processing 
	o Peer-to-peer vs. Client/Server 
	o NOWS: Later, rather than sooner 
	o Open MPPs 
	o Taxonomy of large-scale computing

Platforms reviewed will include: Cray, DEC, Encore, IBM, KSR, nCUBE, 
Sequent, SNI/Pyramid, Sun, Tandem, Teradata, Thinking Machines, UniSys.


Parallel Database Architectures 

	o OLTP vs. OLAP workloads 
	o Inter- vs.  Intra-operational parallelism 
	o Parallel algorithms & queries 
	o ORACLE Parallel Server 
	o INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server 
	o SYBASE System 10 Navigation Server 
	o DB2 Parallel Edition 
	o ODBMSs -- Objects of envy?


Performance Analysis and Capacity Planning

	o Partitioning sensitivity
	o Measures of scalability 
	o Amdahl's law and seriality 
	o Super seriality and RDBMSs 
	o OLTP scalability models 
	o DSS workload models 
	o Parallel I/O subsystems 
	o Benchmarks: Wisconsin, ASAP, TPC, etc.  
	o Simple model for assessing OLTP scalability


What Can Mature Database Machines Tell Us?

	o Detailed study of Teradata DBC 10/12
	o Detailed study of Tandem Himalaya K10000 


Commercial Market Directions

	o Current Market Status 
	o Application areas: What's hot and what's not!  
	o The database market by 2000 A.D.



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			| The Instructor |
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Neil Gunther, Ph.D., is founder and principal of Computer Dynamics, 
a consulting organization specializing in sizing and planning of 
large-scale, client/server system architectures, and the development 
of distributed performance management tools.  Dr. Gunther holds an M.Sc. 
in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics. 

In the preceding 15 years he was a researcher at Xerox PARC, and Manager of
the Performance Group at Pyramid Technology.  Dr. Gunther has published over 
50 technical articles on performance analysis and capacity planning for open 
systems, given technical seminars in Europe, Australia and the U.S. and is 
presently writing a book on performance analysis for McGraw-Hill.


	"Very impressive in the Summer issue is a rigorous article on OLTP
	scalability for Open System microprocessors.  Dr. Neil Gunther 
	correctly notes that it is simply not satisfactory to dismiss the 
	question of OLTP scalability by just throwing in another piece of 
	hardware every time the user load increases.  Instead, Gunther walks 
	the reader through the math to optimize a symmetric multiprocessor 
	application.  This is the kind of hand-holding IT people appreciate."

 		-- John Kador, Enterprise Systems Journal



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			|  Registration  |
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Hotel Accommodations & Course Site
----------------------------------
Attendees are responsible for making their room reservations directly 
with the hotel listed below.  A block of hotel rooms have been reserved 
for your convenience.  To make your reservation for preferred treatment,
simply mention Demand Technology by name. 

The special rates quoted will only be available until one month prior to 
the seminar.  


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		The Marriott Washington Suites Dulles
		13101 Worldgate Drive
		Herndon, VA  22070
		(703)709-0400
		Rates: $119 single or double occupancy
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Substitutions and Cancellations
-------------------------------
Substitutions may be made at any time. Cancellations are accepted and 
registrations fees refunded (less a $100 cancellation fee) if notice is 
received two weeks prior to the seminar.  No refunds will be granted after 
that time.  If for any reason Demand Technology should cancel these seminars, 
it will not be responsible for any travel, hotel accommodations, or any other 
costs incurred by the registrant.

Registration Confirmation
-------------------------
Please contact seminar coordinator Joanne Decker at (813) 261-8945 if you 
need information about late registration, or if you do not receive a written 
confirmation.

Payment Options 
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Course fee: $795

[ ]   Check enclosed (payable to Demand Technology, Inc.
      Purchase Order no:

[ ]   American Express
      Credit Card # ________________________   Expiration Date

      Name of Cardholder (please print) __________________________________ 

      Signature of Cardholder ____________________________________________
      (signifies authorization)

Mail or Fax to: 
	Institute for Computer Capacity Management, 
	1020 Eighth Avenue South, Suite 6, Naples, FL  33940
	Phone:  (813)261-8945      Fax:  (813)261-5456

Email: 71534.332@compuserve.com
	Institute for Computer Capacity Management, 
	A Demand Technology company.
	Publishers of Capacity Management Review and Storage Management

