Welcome

When: March 11-13, 2009
Where: JICS Auditorium ORNL (Oak Ridge, TN)

Welcome to HUF 2009 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). This year's HPSS User Forum will be hosted jointly by the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) and the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS).

We invite HPSS users to share your successes, lessons learned, and solutions to unique site issues. We look forward to hearing the latest on HPSS directions and new features from developers and support representatives.

Our Sponsors

Agenda and Call for presentations

Please note that this page will most likely be changing up to the date of the conference. If you have a presentation listed, please review the entry and email Stan White at whitesr@ornl.gov for modifications.

We currently have one hour allocated for site presentations. These will be presented back to back. Each site is requested to proved 4 slides to include the following:

1) Site introduction – summarize who you are, what you do, and how HPSS fits in to this
2) HPSS configuration diagram – emphasize unique equipment/configurations, high-level stats (peak number of files/day, bytes/day, bytes/second)
3) Future plans for HPSS – problems you want and/or need to solve, technical challenges
4) Wish List – problems you have encountered with HPSS, new features you would like to see

You are welcome to provide a superset of slides that will be posted to the collaboration web site. The above is to limit the presentation time requirements. Plan 5 minutes to present the 4 slides.

Please email the site presentations in PPT format to whitesr@ornl.gov. These presentations should be submitted by February 24th, 2009.

Please email ALL presentations in advance so they can be preloaded and ready for the conference. All hand carried CD and USB media must be scanned before it may be used on ORNL computers. Please let us know if you intend to use your own computer for presentations. Power and networking is provided in the conference room.

Get Registered

REGISTRATION CLOSED

Registration Fee: $250

Hotel accommodations must be arranged by the attendee. Please see the "Accommodations" link for details.

Payment by Credit Card

• The credit cards we accept are VISA, Master Card, Discover, and American Express.
• Check "Credit Card" for payment type and enter all the required information.
• Please note that your credit card will not be charged until February 29, 2009.

To Pay by Check or Money Order

• Complete the online registration form.
• Check "Check / Money Order" for payment type and enter all the required information.
• Print off the payment form and return a copy of it with your check or money order, made out to:
  
  Sherry Hempfling, MAEd
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  User Assistance and Outreach
  P.O. Box 2008
  One Bethel Valley Road
  Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6008
  Phone: 865-574-5162
  Fax: 865-241-2850

Cutoff Dates

• January 11 for sensitive countries
• February 15 for non-sensitive countries
• February 28 registration ends.

Cancellations

• Cancellations must be submitted by February 28 to Sherry Hempfling.

Registered Attendees

• Attendee List

Questions?

Hotels

ORNL has a block of 20 rooms (SpringHill Suites), 25 rooms (TownePlace Suites), 10 rooms (Residence Inn) reserved for the HUF. Each person must make their own hotel reservations. The hotel links below will take you to web pages with the dates and discounts pre-entered. All rooms are reserved under the DOE GSA Schedule.

If you need to call the hotel for "standard" reservations use the numbers provided below. If you wish to extend your stay and do not use the web pages for reservations, please contact Charity Wilson in sales at 865-218-5505 or email at knoxvillesm@mckibbonhotels.com.

On the night of March 10, 2009 we will have representatives of ORNL available for pre-registration.

Hotel reservations are not included in the conference fee.

SpringHill Suites Knoxville at Turkey Creek

URL: Hotel Link
Address: 10955 Turkey Drive Knoxville, Tennessee 37934
Phone: 1-865-966-8888
Fax: 1-865-966-8898
Reservation: GROUP BLOCK FULL

TownePlace Suites Knoxville at Cedar Bluff

URL: Hotel Link
Address: 205 Langley Place Knoxville, Tennessee 37922
Phone: 1-865-693-5216
Fax: 1-865-693-5240
Reservation: REGISTRATION CLOSED

Residence Inn Knoxville at Cedar Bluff

URL: Hotel Link
Address: 215 Langley Place Knoxville, Tennessee 37922
Phone: 1-865-539-5339
Fax: 1-865-539-0030
Reservation: GROUP BLOCK FULL

Travel

Bus schedules between the hotels and ORNL will be provided once we have attendance information.

Taxi service is available between the hotel and ORNL using a pre-approved taxi company at approximately $50 per trip. The approved Taxi Company for lab access is

Transportation to and from the Airport is the responsibility of the attendee.

Local Coordinator & Treasurer

Sherry Hempfling
ORNL NCCS
hempflingce@ornl.gov
Office: 865-574-5162
Fax: 865-241-2850

Technical Contact

Stan White
ORNL NCCS
whitesr@ornl.gov
Office: 865-241-5630

Hosts

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORNL is a multiprogram science and technology laboratory managed for the U.S. Department of Energy by UT-Battelle, LLC.

National Center for Computational Sciences
The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) provides the most powerful computing resources in the world for open scientific research.

National Institute for Computational Sciences
The University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS) leads a partnership to empower and prepare the U.S. academic research community for sustained petascale science and engineering.

Travel & Shopping

Visitor Information & Tours
Oak Ridge National Laboratory hosts thousands of visitors every year. The information below may help make your visit more productive and enjoyable.

Pavilions at Turkey Creek Shopping
Online Directory for the Pavilions at Turkey Creek, Colonial Pinnacle Lifestyle Center, and the surrounding Knoxville & Farragut areas.

Sponsors

Sun Microsystems
Sun provides a diversity of software, systems, services, and microelectronics that power everything from consumer electronics, to developer tools and the world's most powerful datacenters.

Spectra Logic
Spectra Logic Corporation manufactures tape, disk and encryption libraries that help organizations save time, lower costs and reduce risks while protecting and storing data.

DataDirect Networks
DataDirect Networks is a leading, global supplier of storage systems specifically designed for large capacity and high bandwidth applications.