liPDSEC09: The 10th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing

Friday, May 29, 2009Rome, Italy

9:00-9:05 am

Opening

9:05-10:00 am

Keynote Presentation

Laxmikant Kale, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA

10:00-10:30 am

Coffee Break

10:30-11:30 am

Session 1: Applications

Session chair: Alexey Lastovetsky, University College of Dublin, Ireland

 

NUMA-ICTM: A Parallel Version of ICTM Exploiting Memory Placement Strategies for NUMA Machines

Marcio Castro, Luiz Gustavo Fernandes, Christiane Pousa, Jean-Francois Mehaut, Marilton Sanchotene de Aguiar

 

Optimizing the Execution of a Parallel Meteorology Simulation Code

Sonia Jerez, Juan-Pedro Montavez, Domingo Gimenez

 

Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Modelling: A New Parallel Approach

Philip Vardon, Ioana Banicescu, Peter Cleall, Hywel Thomas, Roger Philp

11:30-12:30 pm

Session 2: Linear Algebra Computations

Session chair: Jörg Keller, FernUniversität Hagen, Germany

 

Parallel Solvers for Dense Linear Systems for Heterogeneous Computational Clusters

Ravi Reddy Manumachu, Alexey Lastovetsky, Pedro Alonso

 

Exploring the Effect of Block Shapes on the Performance of Sparse Kernels

Vasileios Karakasis, Georgios Goumas, Nectarios Koziris

 

Solving “Large” Dense Matrix Problems on Multi-Core Processors

Mercedes Marques, Gregorio Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Quintana-Orti, Robert A. van de Geijn

12:30-13:40 pm

Lunch Break (on your own)

13:40-15:00 pm

Session 3: Performance Optimization Techniques

Session chair: Enrique Quintana-Orti, University of Jaime I, Spain

 

Guiding Performance Tuning for Grid Schedules

Jörg Keller and Wolfram Schiffmann

 

Optimization Techniques for Concurrent STM-Based Implementations: A Concurrent Binary Heap as a Case Study

Kristijan Dragicevic, Daniel Bauer

 

Towards a Framework for Automated Performance Tuning

Guojing Cong, David Klepacki, Sophia Wen, I-Hsin Chung

 

Optimizing Assignment of Threads to SPEs on the Cell

C. Devi Sudheer, T. Nagaraju, Pallav K. Baruah, Ashok Srinivasan

15:00-15:30 pm

Coffee Break

15:30-16:30 pm

 

 

 

 

Session 5: Distributed and Grid Computing (I)

Session chair: Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

 

EHGrid: an Emulator of Heterogeneous Computational Grids

Eric Aubanel, Basile Clout

 

Distributed Randomized Algorithms for Low-Support Data Mining

Alfredo Ferro. Rosalba Giugno. Misael Mongiovi. Alfredo Pulvirenti

 

Concurrent Scheduling of Parallel Task Graphs on Multi-Clusters Using Constrained Resource Allocations

Tchimou N'Takpe, Frederic Suter

16:30-16:35 pm

Short Break

16:35-17:55 pm

Session 6: Distributed and Grid Computing (II)

Session chair: Eric Aubanel, University of New Brunswick, Canada

 

Toward Adjoinable MPI

Jean Utke, Laurent Hascoet, Chris Hill, Paul Hovland, Uwe Naumann

 

Parallel Numerical Asynchronous Iterative Algorithms: Large Scale Experimentations

Jean-Claude Charr, Raphael Couturier, David Laiymani

 

Concurrent Adaptive Computing in Heterogeneous Environments

John Duselis, Isaac Scherson

 

Design and analysis of QoS Supporting Flow Control in Wireless Multicast Networks

Naixue Xiong, Laurence T. Yang, Y. Pan, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Jing He

17:55 – 18:00 pm

Closing the Workshop