Program

(All sessions will take place at CITRIS)

June 22 (Tuesday)

8:00-16:00
(Lobby)
Workshop/Tutorial Registration and VECPAR Early Registration
Workshop
8:30-18:00
(Auditorium)
iWAPT: Fifth international Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning
Workshop
8:30-18:00
(Room 250)
PEEPS: Workshop on Programming Environments for Emerging Parallel Systems
Tutorial
8:30-18:00
(Room 254)
HPC Tools: Tutorial on High Performance Tools for the Development of Scalable and Sustainable Applications

June 23 (Wednesday)

8:30-17:00
(Lobby)
Registration
9:00-09:30Coffee Break
Opening Session
09:30-09:45
(Auditorium)
Opening Remarks
Invited Talk I
9:45-10:45
(Auditorium)
HPC Techniques for a Heart Simulator
Takumi Washio (University of Tokyo, Japan), Jun-ichi Okada (University of Tokyo, Japan), Seiryo Sugiura (University of Tokyo, Japan), Toshiaki Hisad (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Session I: Large Scale Simulations in CS&E (I)
11:00-12:15
(Auditorium)
Petascale Parallelization of the Gyrokinetic Toroidal Code [slides]
Stephane Ethier (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory), Mark Adams (Columbia University), Jonathan Carter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Leonid Oliker (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
The High Performance Solution of Sparse Linear Sytems and its Application to Large 3D Electromagnetic Problems. [slides]
David Goudin (CEA/DAM/CESTA), Agnes Pujols (CEA/DAM/CESTA), Muriel Sesques (CEA/DAM/CESTA), Michel Mandallena (CEA/DAM/CESTA), Jean Pesque (CEA/DAM/CESTA), Bruno Stupfel (CEA/DAM/CESTA)
Parallel Multilevel Methods for Implicit Solution of Shallow Water Equations with Nonsmooth Topography on Cubed-sphere [slides]
Chao Yang (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Xiao-Chuan Cai (Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder)
Session II: Linear Algebra on GPUs and FPGAs
11:00-12:15
(Room 250)
Multifrontal Computations on GPUs and Their Multi-core Hosts
Robert Lucas (University of Southern California), Gene Wagenbreth (University of Southern California), Dan Davis (University of Southern California), Roger Grimes (Livermore Software Technology Corporation)
Accelerating GPU kernels for Dense Linear Algebra
Rajib Nath (Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Stanimire Tomov (Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Jack Dongarra (Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
A Scalable High Performant Cholesky Factorization for Multicore with GPU Accelerators [slides]
Hatem Ltaief (University of Tennessee), Stanimire Tomov (University of Tennessee), Rajib Nath (University of Tennessee), Peng Du (University of Tennessee), Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee)
12:15-13:30Lunch
Invited Talk II
13:30-14:30
(Auditorium)
The Parallel Revolution Has Started: Are You Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?
David Patterson (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Poster Briefings
14:30-14:50
(Auditorium)
3D-Parallel Simulation of Contaminant Diffusion in Waste Disposals
Alexandre Francisco (Universidade Federal Fluminense), Bruno Pereira (Universidade Federal Fluminense), José Adilson de Castro (Universidade Federal Fluminense)
Numerical Simulation of Two-phase Flows on a GPU
Arunasalam Rahunanthan (Department of Mathematics and School of Energy Resources, University of Wyoming, WY 82071), Felipe Pereira (Department of Mathematics and School of Energy Resources, University of Wyoming, WY 82071)
A Load Balancing Model for 3D HPC Image Reconstruction Applications To Reduce Unnecessary Overheads
Jose Antonio Alvarez-Bermejo (Universidad de Almeria), Javier Roca-Piera (Universidad de Almeria)
Characterizing Grid experiments in Bioinformatics for an efficient scheduling
Ignacio Blanquer (GRyCAP(Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)), Abel Antonio Carrión (GRyCAP(Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)), Vicente Hernández (GRyCAP(Universidad Politécnica de Valencia))
Multiple Job Allocation in Multicluster System
Hector Blanco (Universitat de Lleida), Damia Castella (Universitat de Lleida), Josep Lluis Lerida (Universitat de Lleida), Fernando Guirado (Universitat de Lleida)
Session III: Large Scale Simulations in CS&E (II)
15:00-16:15
(Auditorium)
Parallel Multigrid Solvers using OpenMP/MPI Hybrid Programming Models on Multi-Core/Multi-Socket Clusters [slides]
Kengo Nakajima (The University of Tokyo)
A Parallel Strategy for a Level Set Simulation of Droplets Moving in a Liquid Medium [slides]
Oliver Fortmeier (Institute for Scientific Computing, RWTH Aachen University, Germany), H. Martin Bücker (Institute for Scientific Computing, RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Optimization of Aircraft Wake Alleviation Schemes Through an Evolution Strategy
Philippe Chatelain (Chair of Computational Science, ETH Zurich), Mattia Gazzola (Chair of Computational Science, ETH Zurich), Stefan Kern (Chair of Computational Science, ETH Zurich), Petros Koumoutsakos (Chair of Computational Science, ETH Zurich)
Session IV: Linear Algebra on Emerging Architectures
15:00-16:15
(Room 250)
Factors Impacting Performance of Multithreaded Sparse Triangular Solve [slides]
Michael Wolf (Sandia National Laboratories), Mike Heroux (Sandia National Laboratories), Erik Boman (Sandia National Laboratories)
Performance and Numerical Accuracy Evaluation of Heterogeneous Multicore Systems for Krylov Orthogonal Basis Computation [slides]
Jerome Dubois (CEA-Saclay), Christophe Calvin (CEA-Saclay), Serge Petiton (Université de Lille 1 - CNRS/LIFL)
An Error Correction Solver for Linear Systems: Evaluation of Mixed Precision Implementations [slides]
Hartwig Anzt (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Applied and Numerical Mathematics 4), Björn Rocker (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Applied and Numerical Mathematics 4), Vincent Heuveline (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Applied and Numerical Mathematics 4)
16:15-16:45Coffee Break
Session V: Numerical Algorithms (I)
16:45-18:25
(Auditorium)
A Parallel Implementation of the Jacobi-Davidson Eigensolver for Unsymmetric Matrices [slides]
Eloy Romero (Instituto I3M, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia), Manuel Cruz (Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Politecnico do Porto), Jose Roman (Instituto I3M, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia), Paulo Vasconcelos (Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto)
The Impact of Two-dimensional Block Cyclic Distribution in Accuracy and Performance of Parallel Linear Algebra Subroutines
Mariana Kolberg (ULBRA/ PUCRS), Björn Rocker (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)), Vincent Heuveline (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
On a strategy for Spectral Clustering with parallel computation [slides]
Sandrine Mouysset (IRIT-ENSEEIHT), Joseph Noailles (IRIT-ENSEEIHT), Daniel Ruiz (IRIT-ENSEEIHT), Ronan Guivarch (IRIT-ENSEEIHT)
A Parallelizable Probabilistic Cellular Automata Model for Highway Trafic Simulation: Periodic and Open Boundaries Conditions
Marcelo Zamith (Federal Fluminense University), Regina Célia Leal-Toledo (Federal Fluminense University), Mauricio Kischinhevsky (Federal Fluminense University), Esteban Clua (Federal Fluminense University), Diego Brandão (Federal Fluminense University), Anselmo Montenegro (Federal Fluminense University), Edgar Lima (Federal Fluminense University)
Session VI: Solvers on Emerging Architectures
16:45-18:25
(Room 250)
On the Performance of an Algebraic Multigrid Solver on Multicore Clusters
Allison Baker (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Martin Schulz (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Ulrike Yang (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
An Hybrid Approach for the Parallelization of a Block Iterative Algorithm
Carlos Balsa (Instituto Politécnico de Bragança), Ronan Guivarch (Université de Toulouse; INP (ENSEEIHT); IRIT), Daniel Ruiz (Université de Toulouse; INP (ENSEEIHT); IRIT), Mohamed Zenadi (Université de Toulouse; INP (ENSEEIHT); IRIT)
Towards an Efficient Tile Matrix Inversion of Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices on Multicore Architectures
Emmanuel Agullo (Dpt of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee), Henricus Bouwmeester (Dpt of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Colorado Denver), Jack Dongarra (Dpt of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee), Jakub Kurzak (Dpt of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Colorado Denver), Julien Langou (University of Colorado Denver), Lee Rosenberg (Dpt of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Colorado Denver)
A Massively Parallel Dense Symmetric Eigensolver with Communication Splitting Multicasting Algorithm [slides]
Takahiro Katagiri (Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo), Shoji Itoh (Advanced Center for Computing and Communication, RIKEN)

June 24 (Thursday)

Invited Talk III
9:00-10:00
(Auditorium)
HPC in Phase Change: Towards a New Execution Model
Thomas Sterling (Louisiana State University, USA)
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
Session VII: Load Balancing
10:30-12:10
(Auditorium)
A P2P Approach to Many Tasks Computing for Scientific Workflows [slides]
Eduardo Ogasawara (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Jonas Dias (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Daniel Oliveira (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Carla Rodrigues (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Carlos Pivotto (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Rafael Antas (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Vanessa Braganholo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Patrick Valduriez (INRIA & Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier), Marta Mattoso (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Intelligent Service Trading and Brokering for Distributed Network Services in GridSolve [slides]
Aurélie Hurault (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse - UMR 5505), Asim YarKhan (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - University of Tennessee)
Load Balancing in Dynamic Networks by Bounded Delays Asynchronous Diffusion [slides]
Jacques M. Bahi (University of Franche-Comté, Belfort, France), Sylvain Contassot-Vivier (University Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France), Arnaud Giersch (University of Franche-Comté, Belfort, France)
A Computing Resource Discovery Mechanism Over a P2P Tree Topology [slides]
Damia Castella (University of Lleida), Hector Blanco (University of Lleida), Francesc Gine (University of Lleida), Francesc Solsona (University of Lleida)
Session VIII: Parallel and Distributed Computing (I)
10:30-12:10
(Room 250)
On-Line Multi-Threaded Processing of Web User Clicks by Using Multi-Core Processors
Carolina Bonacic (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Carlos Garcia (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Mauricio Marin (Yahoo! Research Latin America), Manuel Prieto-Matias (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Francisco Tirado (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Performance Evaluation of Improved Web Search Algorithms
Esteban Feuerstein (Yahoo! Research Latin America), Veronica Gil-Costa (Yahoo! Research Latin America), Michell Mizrahi (Yahoo! Research Latin America), Mauricio Marin (Yahoo! Research Latin America)
On Demand Replication of WSRF-based Grid Services via Cloud Computing [slides]
Germán Moltó (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia), Vicente Hernández (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
Text Classification on a Grid Environment [slides]
Valeriana Roncero (COPPE/UFRJ), Myrian Costa (COPPE/UFRJ), Nelson Ebecken (COPPE/UFRJ)
12:10-13:30Lunch
Invited Talk IV
13:30-14:30
(Auditorium)
Debugging at Scale
David Mapples (Allinea Software Inc)
Session IX: Parallel and Distributed Computing (II)
14:30-16:10
(Auditorium)
On the Vectorization of Engineering Codes Using Multimedia Instruction [slides]
Manoel Cunha (Federal University of Parana), Alvaro Coutinho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Jose Telles (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
The Parallelization of the direct and Iterative Schemes for Solving Boundary Layer Problem on Heterogeneous Cluster Systems
Norma Alias (Ibnu Sina Institute For Fundamental Science Studies, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia), Norhafiza Hamzah (Department Of Mathematics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia), Norsarahaida S. Amin (Department Of Mathematics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia), Noriza Satam (Department Of Mathematics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia), Zarith Safiza Abd. Ghaffar (Department Of Mathematics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia), Roziha Darwis (Department Of Mathematics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia)
Numerical Library Reuse in Parallel and Distributed Platforms
Nahid Emad (University of Versailles), Olivier Delannoy (University of Versailles), Makarem Dandouna (University of Versailles)
Improving Memory Affinity of Geophysics Applications on NUMA platforms Using Minas
Christiane Pousa Ribeiro (University of Grenoble - INRIA - Mescal Research Team), Márcio Bastos Castro (University of Grenoble - INRIA - Mescal Research Team), Jean-François Méhaut (University of Grenoble - INRIA - Mescal Research Team), Alexandre Carissimi (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
HPC Environment Management: New Challenges in the Petaflop Era [slides]
Jonas Dias (High Performance Computing Center, COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Albino Aveleda (High Performance Computing Center, COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Session X: Numerical Algorithms (II)
14:30-16:10
(Room 250)
On Techniques to Improve the Robustness and Scalability of the Schur Complement Method
Ichitaro Yamazaki (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Xiaoye Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Solving Dense Interval Linear Systems with Verified Computing on Multicore Architectures
Cleber Roberto Milani (GMAP - PUCRS), Mariana Kolberg (GMAP - PUCRS), Luiz Gustavo Fernandes (GMAP - PUCRS)
VDBSCAN and α-Bisecting Spherical K-Means in Distributed Information Retrieval Systems
Daniel Jiménez (Department of Computer Systems and Computation (Polytechnic University of Valencia)), Vicente Vidal (Department of Computer Systems and Computation (Polytechnic University of Valencia)), Leroy Anthony Drummond (Computational Research Division (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory))
TRACEMIN-Fiedler: A Parallel Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler Vector
Murat Manguoglu (Purdue University), Eric Cox (Purdue University), Faisal Saied (Purdue University), Ahmed Sameh (Purdue University)
16:10-16:30Coffee Break
Invited Talk V
16:30-17:30
(Auditorium)
Exascale Computing Technology Challenges
John Shalf (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
18:30-21:30Banquet Dinner (UC Berkeley Faculty Club)

June 25 (Friday)

Invited Talk VI
9:30-10:30
(Auditorium)
Game Changing Computational Engineering Technology
Charbel Farhat (Stanford University, USA)
10:30-10:45Coffee Break
Session XI: Parallel and Distributed Computing (III)
10:45-12:00
(Auditorium)
Evaluation of Message Passing Communication Patterns in Finite Element Solution of Coupled Problems [slides]
Renato Elias (Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro), Jose Camata (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Albino Aveleda (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Alvaro Coutinho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Massively Parallel Monte Carlo Tree Search
Kamil Rocki (The University of Tokyo), Reiji Suda (The University of Tokyo)
Applying Processes Migration on a BSP-Based LU Decomposition Application
Rodrigo Righi (UFRGS), Laercio Pilla (UFRGS), Alexandre Carissimi (UFRGS), Philippe Navaux (UFRGS), Hans-Ulrich Heiss (TU Berlin)
Session XII: Numerical Algorithms on GPUs
10:45-12:00
(Room 250)
Global Memory Access Modelling for Efficient Implementation of the Lattice Boltzmann Method on Graphics Processing Units [slides]
Christian Obrecht (Centre de Thermique de Lyon (CETHIL)), Frédéric Kuznik (Centre de Thermique de Lyon (CETHIL)), Bernard Tourancheau (Laboratoire de l’Informatique du Parallélisme (LIP)), Jean-Jacques Roux (Centre de Thermique de Lyon (CETHIL))
Data Structures and Transformations for Physically Based Simulation on a GPU
Perhaad Mistry (Northeastern University), Dana Schaa (Northeastern University), Byunghyun Jang (Northeastern University), David Kaeli (Northeastern University), Albert Dvornik (Simquest LLC), Dwight Meglan (Simquest LLC)
Applying Parallel Design Techniques to Template Matching with GPUs [slides]
Robert Anderson (University of Texas at Dallas), Steven Kirtzic (University of Texas at Dallas), Ovidiu Daescu (University of Texas at Dallas)
Closing Session
12:10-12:30
(Auditorium)
Best Student Paper Award and Closing Remarks
12:30-14:00Lunch