PDSEC08: The 9th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing

April 18, 2008Miami, Florida, USA

8:00-8:05 am

Welcome

8:05-9:00 am

Keynote Talk

Scientific Computing on Public Computing Platforms - Practices and Experiences
Yi Pan, Georgia State University

9:00-10:00 am

Applications I

 

A Linear Solver for Benchmarking Partitioners

Kambiz Ghazinour, Ruth Shaw, Eric Aubanel, Larry Garey

 

SWAMP: Smith-Waterman using Associative Massive Parallelism

Shannon Steinfadt, Johnnie Baker

 

A Distributed Simulation Framework for Conformal Radiotherapy

Gagarine Yaikhom, Jonathan Giddy, David Walker, Emiliano Spezi, David Lewis, Patrick Downes

 

Implementation of NAMD molecular dynamics non-bonded force-field on the Cell Broadband Engine processor

Guochun Shi, Volodymyr Kindratenko

10:00-10:30 am

Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 am

Applications II

 

Parallel Implementation of Three Scientific Applications Using LB_Migrate

Rohit Chaube, Ricolindo Carino, Ioana Banicescu

 

A Parallel Sewing Method for Solving Tridiagonal Toeplitz Diagonally Dominant Systems

Maryam Majedi, Ruth Shaw, Larry Garey

 

Efficient Parallelization Method for Large Scale Beam Dynamics Simulations in Linear Accelerators

Jin Xu, Brahim Mustapha, Vladislav Aseev, Peter Ostroumov, Jerry Nolen

 

Fast and Efficient Formation Flocking for a Group of Autonomous Mobile Robots

Naixue Xiong, Yingshu Li, Laurence T. Yang, Jong Hyuk Park, Yan Yang

 

Large Scale Execution of a Bioinformatic Application on a Volunteer Grid

Raphaël Bolze, Frédéric Desprez, Kevin Reed, Viktors Bertis

 

MUPHY: A Parallel High Performance MUlti PHYsics/Scale code

Massimo Bernaschi, Simone Melchionna, Sauro Succi, Maria Fyta, Tim Kaxiras, Joy Sircar

12:00-13:30 pm

Lunch Break

13:30-15:00 pm

Performance Analysis and Optimizations

 

Outlier Detection in Performance Data of Parallel Applications

Katharina Benkert, Edgar Gabriel, Michael Resch

 

On synthesizing workloads emulating MPI applications

Javier Navaridas, Jose Miguel-Alonso, Francisco Javier Ridruejo

 

Performance of MPI Broadcast Algorithms

Daniel Wadsworth, Zizhong Chen

 

Parallel Performance Wizard: A Performance Analysis Tool for Partitioned Global-Address-Space Programming

Hung-Hsun Su, Max Billingsley III, Alan D. George

 

Optimizing Network Performance of Computing Pipelines in Distributed Environments

Qishi Wu, Yi Gu, Mengxia Zhu, Nageswara Rao

 

Performance Effects of Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization on Multi-Core Infiniband Clusters

Gudula Rünger, Michael Schwind

15:00-15:30 pm

Coffee Break

15:30-17:30 pm

Systems and Software

 

Finite-Difference Time-Domain on the Cell/B.E. Processor

Meilian Xu, Parimala Thulasiraman

 

A Parallel Implementation of Fault Simulation on a Cluster of Workstations

Kyunghwan Han, Soo-Young Lee

 

Evaluation of Dynamic Scheduling Methods in Simulations of Storm-time Ion Acceleration

Ioannis Riakiotakis, Georgios Goumas, Nectarios Koziris, Fiori-Anastasia Metallinou, Ioannis Daglis

 

Evaluation and Tuning of the Level 3 CUBLAS for Graphics Processors

Sergio Barrachina, Maribel Castillo, Francisco D. Igual, Rafael Mayo, Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí

 

A Lightweight Scalable I/O Utility for Optimizing High-End Computing Applications

Shujia Zhou, Bruce Van Aartsen, Tomas Clune

 

Trace-based Automatic Padding for Locality Improvement with Correlative Data Visualization Interface

Marco Hoebbel, Thomas Rauber, Carsten Scholtes

 

DLBEM: Dynamic Load Balancing Using Expectation-Maximization

Han Zhao, Xinxin Liu, Xiaolin Li

 

Towards an Adaptive Task Pool Implementation

Michael Hofmann, Gudula Rünger

17:30 pm

Workshop Closing