PDSEC-13: The 14th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing

Friday, May 24, 2013, Boston, Massachusetts USA

8:35 - 8:40 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Chair: Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany

8:40 - 9:30

Keynote talk
Chair: Yinglong Xia, IBM Watson Research Center, USA  

On Determining a Viable Path to Resilience at Exascale
Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University, USA
 

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 11:10

Session 1: Performance Evaluation on Large-Scale Systems
Chair: Neal N. Xiong, Colorado Technical University, USA

Performance Characteristics of Hardware Transactional Memory for Molecular Dynamics Application on BlueGene/Q (Best Paper).
Manaschai Kunaseth, Rajiv Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Priya Vashishta, David Richards, James Glosli

Increasing the Scalability of PISM for High Resolution Ice Sheet Models.
Phillip Dickens, Timothy Morey

Understanding the Performance of Two Production Supercomputers.
Scott Pakin, Michael Lang
 

11:10 - 12:20

Session 2: Applications via Heterogeneous Computing
Chair: Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA

Performance dissection of a Molecular Dynamics code across CUDA and GPU generations.
Matthew Wezowicz, Trilce Estrada, Sandeep Patel, Michela Taufer

Leveraging GPUs in Ab Initio Nuclear Physics Calculations.
Dossay Oryspayev, Hugh Potter, Pieter Maris, Masha Sosonkina, James P. Vary, Sven Binder, Angelo Calci, Joachim Langhammer, Robert Roth

Orthogonalization on a General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit with Double Double and Quad Double Arithmetic.
Jan Verschelde, Genady Yoffe
 

12:20 - 13:30

Lunch break

13:30 - 15:00

Session 3: Linear Algebra & Infrastructure
Chair: Ichitaro Yamazaki, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA

A NUMA-aware fine grain parallelization framework for multi-core architecture.
Corentin Rossignon, Pascal Henon, Olivier Aumage, Samuel Thibault

On partitioning and reordering problems in a hierarchically parallel hybrid linear solver.
Ichitaro Yamazaki, Xiaoye Li, Francois-Henry Rouet, Bora Ucar

Scheduling a Parallel Sparse Direct Solver to Multiple GPUs.
Kyungjoo Kim, Victor Eijkhout

A Scalable Implicit Solver for Phase Field Crystal Simulations.
Chao Yang, Xiao-Chuan Cai
 

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:00

 

 

 

 

Session 4: Cloud, Grid & Distributed Systems
Chair: Phillip M. Dickens, University of Maine, USA

An Efficient Scheduling Model for Broadcasting in Wireless Sensor Networks.
Hongju Cheng, Naixue Xiong, Xingbo Huang, Laurence Yang

Dynamic Loop Scheduling SimGrid.
Nitin Sukhija, Ioana Banicescu, Srishti Srivastava, Florina M. Ciorba

Efficient and Fault-Tolerant Static Scheduling for Grids.
Patrick Eitschberger, Jorg Keller

Briareus: An Architecture for Running Python Code in the Cloud.
Zhaomeng Zhu, Gongxuan Zhang, Yongping Zhang, Jian Guo
 

17:00 - 17.10

Closing Remarks

*: the presenter, 25 min for best paper and 22.5 min for each talk