PDSEC-16: Advanced Program

May 27, 2016, Chicago, USA

8:30 - 8:35 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks (Keita Teranishi)

8:35 – 9:30 am

Keynote #1:

 

Undisrupted Applications

George Bosilca (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)

9:30 – 10:00 am

Break

10:00-11:30 am

Session #1: Application and Task Parallelism
Session Chair: Anne Benoite

 

Electron Dynamics Simulation with Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory on Large Scale Symmetric Mode Xeon Phi Cluster

Yuta Hirokawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan), Taisuke Boku (University of Tsukuba, Japan), Shunsuke Sato (University of Tsukuba, Japan), Kazuhiro Yabana  (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

 

Towards an efficient Task-based Parallelization over a Runtime System of an Explicit Finite-Volume CFD Code with Adaptive Time Stepping

Jean Marie Couteyen Carpaye (Inria/Airbus Defence and Space, France), Pierre Brenner (Airbus DS, France), Jean Roman (INRIA, France)

 

Radiative Heat Transfer Calculation on 16384 GPUs Using a Reverse Monte Carlo Ray Tracing Approach with Adaptive Mesh Refinement

Alan Humphrey (University of Utah, USA), Daniel Sunderland (Sandia National Laboratories, USA), Todd Harman (University of Utah, USA), Martin Berzins (University of Utah, USA)

11:30 - 13:00 pm

Lunch Break

13:00 - 14:00 pm

Keynote #2:

 

Does Scientific Computing Need a Grand Unified Theory for Parallel Programming Models?  Experiences at Sandia National Labs with Asynchronous Runtime

Jeremiah Wilke (Sandia National Laboratories, CA, USA)

14:00 - 15:00 pm

Session #2: Resilience
Session Chair: Alan Humphrey

 

Application Fault Tolerance for Shrinking Resources via the Sparse Grid Combination Technique

Peter E Strazdins (Australian National University, Australia), Md Mohsin Ali (The Australian National University, Australia), Bert Debusschere (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)

 

Two-level Checkpointing and Verifications for Linear Task Graphs

Anne Benoit (ENS Lyon, France), Aurelien Cavelan (ENS Lyon, France), Yves Robert (ENS Lyon, France), Hongyang Sun (ENS Lyon & INRIA, France)

15:00 - 15:30 pm

Break

15:30 16:30 pm

Session #3: Performance
Session Chair: Taisuke Boku

 

On the Development of Variable Size Batched Computation for Heterogeneous Parallel Architectures

Pricing of Cross-Currency Interest Rate Drivatives on Graphics Processing Units

Ahmad Abdelfattah (University of Tennessee, USA), Azzam Haidar (University of Tennessee, USA), Stanimire Tomov (University of Tennessee, USA), Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, University of Manchester, UK and Ork Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

 

Synapse: Synthetic Application Profiler and Emulator

Andre Merzky (Rutgers University, USA) and Shantenu Jha (Rutgers University, USA)

16:30 – 16:35 pm

Closing Remarks (Keita Teranishi)