Speaker: Stephen Adler
Institution: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Talk Title: Conference Introduction and Summary

Talk Summary: Laying the ground work for a conference on Open Source in science.

Stephen Adler is a member of the scientific staff in the BNL physics department. He works with the BNL PHENIX data acquisition group and serves as the scientific computing advisor to the physics department chair. He received his Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook in the field of Elementary Particle Physics.

Panelist: Larry M. Augustin
Institution: VA Linux

Larry Augustin is President and co-founder of VA Research. VA was founded in 1993 to build computer systems and software around the Linux operating system. Larry holds PhD (1991) and MSEE (1996) degrees from Stanford University and a BSEE from The University of Notre Dame. He worked with mostly every variant of UNIX since 1984 as a developer, consultant, and system administrator. Prior to VA Research, he was a Research Associate in the Program Analysis and Verification Group at Stanford where he was working on programming language design, hardware description languages, CAD tools, and computer systems architecture. From 1984 to 1987 Larry was a member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked on high speed switched digital services. As an undergraduate at Notre Dame in the Distributed Computing Research Lab he designed and implemented a cache system for the IBM Micro 370 and a networked file system linking VM/CMS to DOS.

Speaker: Malcolm Capel
Institution: BNL Structural Biology
Talk Title: Using Beowulf for Macromolecular Crystallography at the National Synchrotron Light Source.

Malcolm Capel is a biophysicist in the Biology Department of BNL. He designs instrumentation and control and data analysis software for synchrotron-based macromolecular crystallography and small angle scattering (NSLS beamline X12B). He develops and supports a visualization and integration package that supports most 2D x-ray imaging detectors, based on open source software packages. (url: http://crim12b.nsls.bnl.gov/x12b_downloads.html). He received his PhD from the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Arizona, and postdoctoral training at Yale University.

Speaker: Yuefan Deng
Institution: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Talk Title: The Galaxy Parallel Computer Project at SUNY Stony Brook

Yuefan Deng is on the faculty of Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Stony Brook.

Speaker: Don Fleming
Institution: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Talk Title: Welcome Address

Donald Fleming is Chief Information Officer and Director of the Information Technology Division (ITD) at BNL. Before coming to BNL, Dr. Fleming developed and managed networking, computing and application infrastructures for Fortune 100 and multinational corporations, including Standard Oil, GE, Allied Signal Corp. and EG&G Inc. Dr Fleming has a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the University of Massachusetts.

Speaker: Mark Galassi
Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Talk Title: The GNU Scientific Library

The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a collection of high quality subroutines for the numerical solution of scientific and engineering problems, such as numerical quadrature, root finding, pseudorandom number generation, special functions, Fourier transforms, linear algebra, etc. There are many classic FORTRAN libraries which cover similar territory, but GSL has some important differences in its requirements, and hence in its design and implementation.

Mark Galassi is a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and a free software hacker. He received his undergraduate degree from Reed College, and his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook in the field of General Relativity. Among other projects, he is currently working on the HETE-2 Gamma Ray Burst satellite, to be launched in January 2000, and maintaining some GNU packages, including the DocBook tools and the GNU Scientific Library (GSL). Mark can be reached at rosalia@lanl.gov.

Speaker: Dan Gezelter
Institution: University of Notre Dame
Talk Title: Catalyzing Open Source development in Science: The OpenScience Project.

Many of the recent developments in science center around computation and the development of algorithms to simulate large complex systems. Since scientific research must be verifiable to be accepted by the scientific community, and since this kind of research can be advanced more rapidly if there is widespread collaboration on computer codes, there is a clear need for an Open Source initiative within science itself. The OpenScience project was founded to reintroduce this ethic to the scientific community.

Dan is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Notre Dame. He can be reached at gezelter.1@nd.edu.

Panelist: Jon Hall
Institution: Linux International
Talk Title: It Aint Open 'til its Open

Jon has been in the computer industry for over a quarter century, 17 years of that with UNIX. He has been a software engineer, systems administrator, product manager, marketing manager and professional educator. Currently working for Compaq Computer Corporation in the Digital UNIX Marketing group, he previously worked for Bell Laboratories. Before that he was Department Head of Computer Science at Hartford State Technical College, where his students lovingly (he hopes) gave him the nickname maddog. Maddog as he prefers to be called, has an MS in Computer Science from RPI (1977) and a BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University (1973).

Speaker: Bill Horn
Institution: IBM
Talk Title: Open Source Experiences with Open Visualization Data Explorer (OpenDX)

The talk will cover goals, issues, experiences, and anecdotes related to the transition of IBM Visualization Data Explorer (DX) to IBM Open Visualization Data Explorer (OpenDX).

Bill Horn currently manages the Visualization Systems group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and has worked on a variety of projects in computer-aided design and 3D graphics. In addition to the OpenDX project, his current interests include network graphics and problems related to the visualization of large models. His e-mail address is hornwp@us.ibm.com.

Panelist: Fred Johnson
Institution: Department of Energy, Office of Science

Fred Johnson is a program manager in the Mathematical, Information and Computational Sciences Division where his main area of interest is high end system software and tools. He's on detail from the National Institute of Standards and Technology where he spent a lot of years in a variety of assignments involving high end computing applications and strategy.

Panelist: Michael Johnson
Institution: Red Hat, Inc.

Michael K. Johnson downloaded the first public release of the Linux kernel (0.02) while he was an undergraduate at St. Olaf College, and has been a Linux developer ever since. He now happily slaves away for Red Hat, Inc., building Red Hat Linux. He is also the co-author of Linux Application Development, from Addison-Wesley.

Speaker: R. Kent Koeninger
Institution: SGI
Talk Title: Open Source XFS Journaling Filesystem for Linux

SGI is contributing the XFS filesystem to the Open Source Linux community using the copyleft GPL license. XFS is one of SGI's core competencies in high-performance computing. It is a highly scalable (64 bit), high-performance journaling filesystem. This talk with highlight the XFS features SGI plans to release in the Open Source Linux version of XFS, discuss SGI's motivation and plans for giving XFS to the Open Source community, give status on the XFS-Linux porting effort, and make suggestions on how people may contribute to the Open Source XFS effort. For more information see http://oss.sgi.com.

R. Kent Koeninger is a Strategic Technologist for SGI concentrating on filesystems, clustering, and scalability. He has worked on MPP, I/O, clustering, and storage technologies at SGI and Cray Research for seven years. Previously he was the "Cray Evangelist" at Apple Computer and the manager of the Systems Group for the supercomputing center at NASA/Ames. Mr. Koeninger has a BS in Mathematics (Cum Laude) from the California State University and is a National Merit Scholar. Mr. Koeninger has invented I/O products for Cray supercomputers and holds several patents.

Speaker: Jon Leech
Institution: SGI
Talk Title: OpenGL and GLX: High Performance 3D for Linux

OpenGL is the industry standard 3D graphics rendering API, used in applications ranging from games on consumer PCs to interactive scientific visualization tools running on the fastest computers made today. This talk will outline some solutions using OpenGL for scientific visualization and summarize how hardware accelerated OpenGL is being brought to the Linux platform, including open source contributions such as SGI's GLX as well as the latest news and current availability of OpenGL on Linux.

Jon Leech is a member of the OpenGL engineering team at SGI. He edits the OpenGL specification and works with commercial and open source developers to drive availability of OpenGL on all platforms, as well as Linux OpenGL driver work. He earned a M.S. from Caltech in Computer Science and later did research at the University of North Carolina on high performance graphics architectures and interactively steered molecular dynamics.

Speaker and Panelist: Bruce Perens
Institution: technocrat.net
Talk Title: What is Open Source?

Bruce Perens is a co-founder of Software in the Public Interest, a non-profit group that supports various Linux software developments. He was project leader for the Debian Linux Distribution, and was the primary author for the Debian Free Software Guidelines, which later became The Open Source Definition. He was, until recently, a Senior Systems Programmer at Pixar Animation Studios

Speaker: Bill Rooney
Institution: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Talk Title: Open Source in Medical Imaging

Computing requirements in medical imaging are often demanding in terms of acquisition, processing and visualization of data. Easy access to a wide variety of software packages, particularly those including the source code, has greatly enhanced the capabilities of medical imaging research. This talk will focus on public domain software utilized in medical imaging and its impact on research capabilities and scientific progress.

Bill Rooney is an assistant chemist working in the High-Field MRI Laboratory of BNL. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from SUNY/Stony Brook and postdoctoral training in neuroimaging at the University of California, San Francisco. He can be reached at wrooney@bnl.gov

Panelist: Ognjan V. Shentov
Institution: Pennie & Edmonds

Ogngan Shentov has been at Pennie & Edmonds since 1992 and worked there as a law clerk and later associate. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering, both from the University of California, Santa Barbara - with emphasis on signal processing (voice and images).

Speaker: Tom Throwe
Institution: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Talk Title: RHIC Computing Facility

Talk Summary: This talk will provide an overview of the RHIC Collider and the computing facility setup to handle the petabyte per year of data produced by the four RHIC experiments.

Tom Throwe is a physicist in the BNL physics department, and is part of the RHIC Computing Facility (RCF). His current duties include overseeing the RCF LINUX Farms and the Reconstruction Farm Management Software. He received his PH.D. from Indiana University in the field of Nuclear Physics.