PDSEC-11: The 12th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing

Friday, May 20, 2011, Anchorage(Alaska), USA

8:00-8:10 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:10-9:00 am

Keynote Speech

Session chair: Peter Strazdins, Thomas Rauber, Gudula Runger and John O’Donnell

 

The Challenges of Programming for Exascale Class Machines

Robert L Clay

9:00-10:00 am

Session 1: Applications

Session chair: Thomas Rauber

 

Graph Model for Minimizing the Storage Overhead of Distributing Data for the Parallel Solution of Two-Phase Flows

Oliver Fortmeier, Alin Bastea, H. Martin Bücker

 

Profiling Methodology and Performance Tuning of the Unified Model for Weather and Climate Simulations

Peter Strazdins, Margaret Kahn, Joerg Henrichs, Tim Pugh, Mike Rezny

 

Dynamic Adaptations in ab-Initio Nuclear Physics Calculations on Multicore Computer Architectures

Avinash Srinivasa, Masha Sosonkina, Pieter Maris, James Vary

10:00-10:30 am

Coffee Break

10:30-11:50 pm

Session 2: Applications on GPUs

Session chair: Robert Clay

 

Efficiently Computing Tensor Eigenvalues on a GPU

Grey Ballard, Tamara Kolda, Todd Plantenga

 

Evaluation of Likelihood Functions for Data Analysis on Graphics Processing Units

Sverre Jarp, Alfio Lazzaro, Julien Leduc, Andrzej Nowak, Felice Pantaleo

 

Deployment on GPUs of an application in computational atomic physics

Pierre Fortin, Rachid Habel, Fabienne Jézéquel, Jean-Luc Lamotte, Norman Stanley Scott

 

Parallel Automatic Registration of Large Scale Microscopic Images on Multiprocessor CPUs and GPUs

Lee Cooper, Kun Huang, Manuel Ujaldon

11:50-12:30 pm

Session 3: Performance Analysis and GPUs

Session chair: Gudula Runger

 

Comprehensive Performance Monitoring for GPU Cluster Systems

Karl Fuerlinger, Nick Wright, David Skinner

 

GPU Accelerating for Rapid Multi-core Cache Simulation

Wan Han, Long Xiang, Gao Xiaopeng and Li Yi

12:30-13:30 pm

Lunch

13:30-14:30 pm

 

 

 

 

Session 4: Multicore and Manycore Processing

Session chair: Peter Strazdins

 

A Fast Heuristic for Scheduling Parallel Software with Respect to Energy and Timing Constraints

Margarete Sackmann, Peter Ebraert, Dirk Janssens

 

Self-adaptive Evidence Propagation on Manycore Processors

Yinglong Xia, Viktor Prasanna

 

Speculative Contention Avoidance in Software Transactional Memory

Ehsan Atoofian

14:30-15:30 pm

 

 

 

 

Session 5: Algorithms

Session chair: Oliver Fortmeier

 

Hyperspectral Data Processing in a High Performance Computing Environment: A Parallel Best Band Selection Algorithm

Stefan Robila, Gerald Busardo

 

Flexible Development of Dense Linear Algebra Algorithms on Massively Parallel Architectures with DPLASMA

George Bosilca, Aurelien Bouteiller, Anthony Danalis, Mathieu Faverge, Azzam Haidar, Thomas Herault, Jakub Kurzak, Julien Langou,

Pierre Lemarinier, Hatem Ltaief, Piotr Luszczek, Asim YarKhan, Jack Dongarra

 

Exploiting Multi-core Architectures in Clusters for Enhancing the Performance of the Parallel Bootstrap Simulation Algorithm

César A. F. De Rose, Paulo Fernandes, Antonio M. Lima, Afonso Sales, Thais Webber

15:30-16:00 pm

Coffee Break

16:00-17:20 pm

Session 6: Distributed Computing and Middleware

Session chair: John O’Donnell

 

An Efficient Search Algorithm without Memory for Peer-to-Peer Networks

Naixue Xiong, Yuhua Liu, Shishun Wu, Laurence T. Yang, Kaihua Xu

 

Asynchronous Peer-to-peer Distributed Computing for Financial Applications

Thierry Garcia, Ming Chau, The Tung Nguyen, Didier El Baz, Pierre Spiteri

 

The Large Scale Data Facility: Data Intensive Computing for scientific experiments

Ariel Garcia, Serguei Bourov, Ahmad Hammad, Jos van Wezel, Volker Hartmann, Thomas Jejkal, Patrick Neuberger, Rainer Stotzka

 

Design and Performance of a Scalable, Parallel Statistics Toolkit

Philippe Pébay, David Thompson, Janine Bennett, Ajith Mascarenhas

17:20 – 17.30 pm

Closing the Workshop