Final Program

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday  

Monday, September 3, 2007
Aachen

08:15 Bustransfer Aachen => Jülich (MPI tutorial participants only)
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08:45 Taxitransfer to Tutorial Lecture Hall (OpenMP tutorial participants only)
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09:30-18:00  
TUTORIAL
Advanced OpenMP

 
RWTH Aachen University
Lecture Hall of:
Faculty of Civil Engineering
Mies-van-der-Rohe-Str.
Aachen
 
 
TUTORIAL
MPI Application Performance
on the IBM Blue Gene Architecture

 
Forschungszentrum Jülich
ZAM
Jülich
18:00 Bustransfer Jülich => Aachen (MPI tutorial participants only)
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Taxitransfer back to Hotel IBIS Marschiertor (OpenMP tutorial participants only)
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19:00-21:00 Early Registration and Reception Aachen
Hotel IBIS Marschiertor

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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Jülich

08:00 Bustransfer Aachen => Jülich
Leaves from Hotel IBIS Marschiertor
09:00-09:30 Registration
09:30-10:00 Opening Session & Welcome
  Welcome ParCo Conference Committee Chair
Gerhard Joubert
Welcome Chairman of the Board of Directors, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Achim Bachem
Local Announcements
Bernd Mohr
Welcome Program Committee Chair
Christian Bischof
10:00-11:00 Invited Talks
  European E-Infrastructure: Promoting Global Virtual Research Communities
Maria Ramalho-Natario
Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PACE)
Thomas Lippert
Chair: Christian Bischof
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Session 1
  Track A1
(Room 1)
Track B1
(Room 2)
Mini-Symposium C1
(Room 3)
Mini-Symposium D1
(Room 4)
A1: Electronic Structure Simulation
Chair: Thomas Lippert
B1: Parallel Performance Tools
Chair: Bettina Krammer
C1: The Future of OpenMP in the Multi-Core Era
Chair: Dieter an Mey
D1: Scaling Science Applications on Blue Gene
Chair: Bill Gropp
11:30 Domain Decomposition for Electronic Structure Computations
Guy Bencteux, Maxime Barrault, Eric Cancès, William Hager, Claude Le Bris
Visualising Parallel Functional Program Runs: Case Studies with the Eden Trace Viewer
Jost Berthold, Rita Loogen
Towards OpenMP V3.0
J. Mark Bull
Turbulence in Laterally Extended Systems
Jörg Schumacher, Matthias Pütz
12:00 Scalable Dynamic Adaptations for Electronic Structure Calculations
Masha Sosonkina
Automatic Phase Detection of MPI Applications
Marc Casas, Rosa M. Badia, Jesús Labarta
Large Simulations of Shear Flow in Mixtures via the Lattice Boltzmann Equation
Kevin Stratford, Jean Christophe Desplat
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Session 2
  Track A2
(Room 1)
Track B2
(Room 2)
Mini-Symposium C2
(Room 3)
Mini-Symposium D2
(Room 4)
A2: Particle +Atomistic Simulation
Chair: Paul Gibbon
B2: Performance Modelling and Analysis
Chair: Felix Wolf
C2: The Future of OpenMP in the Multi-Core Era
Chair: Barbara Chapman
D2: Scaling Science Applications on Blue Gene
Chair: Kirk Jordan
14:00 Load Balanced Parallel Simulation of Particle-Fluid DEM-SPH Systems with Moving Boundaries
Florian Fleissner, Peter Eberhard
Distribution of Periscope Analysis Agents on ALTIX 4700
Michael Gerndt, Sebastian Strohhäcker
OpenMP for Clusters
Larry Meadows
Simulating Materials with Strong Correlations on BlueGene
Erik Koch
14:30 Communication and Load Balancing of Force-Decomposition Algorithms for Parallel Molecular Dynamics
Godehard Sutmann, Florian Janoschek
Analysis of the Weather Research and Forcasting (WRF) Model on Large-Scale Systems
Darren J. Kerbyson, Kevin J. Barker, Kei Davis
Getting OpenMP Up to Speed
Ruud van der Pas
DL_POLY_3: Parallel Performance and Large Scale Simulations
Ilian T. Todorov
15:00 Aspects of a Parallel Molecular Dynamics Software for Nano-Fluidics
Martin Bernreuther, Martin Buchholz, Hans-Joachim Bungartz
Analytical Performance Models of Parallel Programs in Clusters
Diego R. Martínez, Vicente Blanco, Marcos Boullón, José Carlos Cabaleiro, Tomás F. Pena
PerfOMP: A Runtime Performance Monitoring API for OpenMP
Van Bui, Oscar Hernandez, Barbara Chapman, Rick Kufrin, Danesh Tafti, Pradeep Gopalkrishnan
Massively Parallel Simulation of Cardiac Electrical Wave Propagation on Blue Gene
Jeffrey Fox, Gregery T. Buzzard, Robert Miller, Fernando Siso-Nadal
15:30 Massively Parallel Qunatum Computer Simulations: Towards Realistic Systems
Marcus Richter, Guido Arnold,  Binh Trieu, Thomas Lippert
Computational Force: A Unifying Concept for Scalability Analysis
Robert W. Numrich
Affinity Matters! OpenMP on Multicore and ccNUMA Architectures
Dieter an Mey, Christian Terboven
Simulations of QCD in the Era of Sustained TFlop/s Computing
Thomas Streuer, Hinnerk Stüben
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Session 3
  Track A3
(Room 1)
Track B3
(Room 2)
Track C3
(Room 3)
Mini-Symposium D3
(Room 4)
A3: Image Reconstruction
Chair: Gerhard Joubert
B3: Parallel Algorithms
Chair: Martin Bücker
C3: Parallel Programming with OpenMP
Chair: Dieter an Mey
D3: Scaling Science Applications on Blue Gene
Chair: Boris Orth
16:30 A Parallel Workflow for the Reconstruction of Molecular Surfaces
Daniele D'Agostino, Ivan Merelli, Andrea Clematis, Luciano Milanesi, Alessandro Orro
Parallelisation of Block Recursive Matrix Multiplication in Prefix Computations
Michael Bader, Sebastian Hanigk, Thomas Huckle
Implementing Data-Parallel Patterns for Shared Memory with OpenMP
Michael Süß, Claudia Leopold
Blue Gene/P: The Next Generation Enabling Breakthrough Simulation Based Engineering and Science
Kirk E. Jordan
17:00 HPC Simulation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Tony Stöcker, Kaveh Vahedipour, N. Jon Shah
Parallel Exact Inference
Yinglong Xia, Viktor K. Prasanna
Generic Locking and Deadlock-Prevention with C++
Michael Süß, Claudia Leopold
Petascale Atmospheric General Circulation Models for CCSM
Henry M. Tufo
17:30 A Load Balancing Framework in Multithreaded Tomographic Reconstruction
José A. Álvarez, Javier Roca Piera, Jose J. Fernández
Efficient Parallel String Comparison
Peter Krusche, Alexander Tiskin
Parallelizing a Real-Time Steering Simulation for Computer Games with OpenMP
Bjoern Knafla, Claudia Leopold

18:00 Bustransfer Jülich => Aachen
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Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Jülich

08:00 Bustransfer Aachen => Jülich
Leaves from Hotel IBIS Marschiertor
09:00-09:30 Registration & Opening Session
09:30-10:30 Invited Talk
  Programming in the Multi-Core Era
Barbara Chapman
Chair: Bernd Mohr
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 4
  Track A4
(Room 1)
Track B4
(Room 2)
Mini-Symposium C4
(Room 3)
Mini-Symposium D4
(Room 4)
A4: Parallel Computing with FPGAs
Chair: Dirk Stroobandt
B4: Numerical
Algorithms I

Chair: Martin Bücker
C4: Scalability and Usability of HPC Programming Tools
Chair: Felix Wolf
D4: DEISA: Extreme Computing in an Advanced Supercomputing Environment
Chair: Hermann Lederer
11:00 IANUS: Scientific Computing on an FPGA-Based Architecture
Francesco Belletti, Maria Cotallo, Andres Cruz, Luis Antonio Fernández, Antonio
Gordillo, Andrea Maiorano, Filippo Mantovani, Enzo Marinari, Victor Martín-Mayor, Antonio Muñoz-Sudupe, Denis Navarro, Sergio Pérez-Gaviro,
Mauro Rossi, Juan Jesus Ruiz-Lorenzo, Sebastiano Fabio Schifano, Daniele Sciretti, Alfonso Tarancón, Raffaele Tripiccione, Jose Luis Velasco
Strategies for Parallelizing the Solution of Rational Matrix Equations
José M. Badía, Peter Benner, Maribel Castillo, Heike Faßbender, Rafael Mayo,
Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí, Gregorio Quintana-Ortí
Benchmarking the Stack Trace Analysis Tool for BlueGene/L
Gregory L. Lee, Dong H. Ahn, Dorian C. Arnold, Bronis R. de Supinski, Barton P. Miller, Martin Schulz
DEISA: Enabling Cooperative Extreme Computing in
Europe
Victor Alessandrini
11:30 Optimizing Matrix Multiplication on Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Systems
Ling Zhuo, Viktor K. Prasanna
A Heterogeneous Pipelined Parallel Algorithm for Minimum Mean Squared Error Estimation with Ordered Successive Interference Cancellation
Francisco-Jose Martínez-Zaldívar, A.M. Vidal-Maciá, A. González
Scalable, Automated Performance Analysis with TAU and PerfExplorer
Kevin A. Huck, Allen D. Malony
Effective Methods for Accessing Resources in a Distributed HPC Production System
Andrea Vanni
12:00  
Developing Scalable Applications with Vampir
Matthias S. Müller, Holger Brunst, Matthias Jurenz, Andreas Knüpfer, Wolfgang E. Nagel
GPFS: a Cluster Filesystem
Klaus Gottschalk
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session 5
  Track A5
(Room 1)
Track B5
(Room 2)
Mini-Symposium C5
(Room 3)
Mini-Symposium D5
(Room 4)
A5: Parallel Programming Models
Chair: Michael Gerndt
B5: Numerical
Algorithms II

Chair: Bernhard Steffen
C5: Scalability and Usability of HPC Programming Tools
Chair: Matthias Müller
D5: DEISA: Extreme Computing in an Advanced Supercomputing Environment
Chair: Victor Alessandrini
14:00 A Framework for Performance-Aware Composition of Explicitly Parallel Components
Christoph Kessler, Welf Löwe
OpenMP Implementation of the Householder Reduction for Large Complex Hermitian Eigenvalue Problems
Andreas Honecker, Josef Schüle
Scalable Collation and Presentation of Call-Path Profile Data with CUBE
Markus Geimer, Björn Kuhlmann, Farzona Pulatova, Felix Wolf, Brian Wylie
Development Strategies for Modern Predictive Simulation Codes
Alice Koniges, Robert Anderson, Aaron Fisher, Brian Gunney, Nathan Masters
14:30 A Framework for Prototyping and Reasoning about Distributed Systems
Marco Aldinucci, Marco Danelutto, Peter Kilpatrick
Multigrid Smoothers on Multicore Architectures
Carlos García, Manuel Prieto, Fransisco Tirado
Coupling DDT and Marmot for Debugging of MPI Applications
Bettina Krammer, Valentin Himmler, David Lecomber
Submission Scripts for Scientific Simulations on DEISA
Gavin J. Pringle, Terence M. Sloan, Odysseas Bournas, Elena Breitmoser, Arthur S. Trew
15:00 Formal Semantics Applied to the Implementation of a Skeleton-Based Parallel
Programming Library

Joel Falcou, Jocelyn Sérot
Parallelization of Multilevel Preconditioners Constructed from Inverse-Based ILUs on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
José I. Aliaga, Matthias Bollhöfer, Alberto F. Martín, Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí
Compiler Support for Efficient Profiling and Tracing
Oscar Hernandez, Barbara Chapman
Application Enabling in DEISA: Hyperscaling of Turbulence Codes Supporting ITER
Hermann Lederer, Reinhard Tisma, Roman Hatzky, Alberto Bottino, Frank Jenko
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Session 6
  Track A6
(Room 1)
Track B6
(Room 2)
Mini-Symposium C6
(Room 3)
Mini-Symposium D6
(Room 4)
A6: Parallel Data Distribution and I/O
Chair: Henry Tufo
B6: Parallel Automatic Differentiation
Chair: Christian Bischof
C6: Scalability and Usability of HPC Programming Tools
Chair: Bettina Krammer
D6: DEISA: Extreme Computing in an Advanced Supercomputing Environment
Chair: Alice Koniges
16:00 Optimization Strategies for Data Distribution Schemes in a Parallel File System
Jan Seidel, Rudolf Berrendorf, Ace Crngarov, Marc-André Hermanns
Parallelism in Structured Newton Computations
Thomas F. Coleman, Wei Xu
Comparing Intel Thread Checker and Sun Thread Analyzer
Christian Terboven
First Principles Simulations of Plasma Turbulence within DEISA
Frank Jenko, Alberto Bottino, Tobias Görler, and Emanuele Poli
16:30 Parallel Redistribution of Multidimensional Data
Tore Birkeland, Tor Sørevik
Automatic Computation of Sensitivities for a Parallel Aerodynamic Simulation
Arno Rasch, H. Martin Bücker, Christian H. Bischof
Continuous Runtime Profiling of OpenMP Applications
Karl Fürlinger, Shirley Moore
Heavy Particles Transport in Turbulent Flows
Alessandra S. Lanotte, Luca Biferale, Jérémie Bec, Massimo Cencini, Stefano
Musacchio, Federico Toschi
17:00 Parallel I/O aspects in PIMA(GE)2 Lib
Andrea Clematis, Daniele D'Agostino,Antonella Galizia
Parallel Jacobian Accumulation
Ebadollah Varnik, Uwe Naumann
Understandling Memory Access Bottlenecks on Multi-core
Josef Weidendorfer
Membranes Under Tension: Atomistic Modeling of the Membrane-Embedded Synaptic Fusion Complex
Marc Baaden
17:30  
18:00-21:00 Barbecue Jülich
at the lake
21:00 Bustransfer Jülich => Aachen
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Thursday, September 6, 2007
Aachen

08:45 Bustransfer Aachen => RWTH Aachen
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09:00-09:30 Registration & Opening Session
09:30-10:30 Invited Talk
  Simulation of Heart-Assist Devices
Marek Behr
Chair: Martin Bücker
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 7
  Track A7
(Room 1)
Track B7
(Room 2)
Track C7
(Room 3)
Mini-Symposium D7
(Room 4)
Vendor Session E7
(Room 5)
A7: Scheduling
Chair: Anne Elster
B7: Performance
Analysis I

Chair: Bill Gropp
C7: Bio-Medical Applications
Chair: Gerhard Joubert
D7: Parallel Computing with FPGAs
Chair: Abdellah Touhafi
E7: Tools
Chair: Bernd Mohr
11:00 Layer-Based Scheduling Algorithms for Multiprocessor-Tasks with Precedence Constraints
Joerg Dümmler, Raphael Kunis, Gudula Rünger
Analyzing Cache Bandwidth on the Intel Core 2 Architecture
Robert Schöne, Wolfgang E. Nagel, Stefan Pflüger
Experimenting Grid Protocols to Improve Privacy Preservation in Efficient Distributed
Image Processing

Antonella Galizia, Federica Viti, Daniele D’Agostino, Ivan Merelli, Luciano Milanesi, Andrea Clematis
Parallel Computing wih Low-Cost FPGAs: A Framework for COPACOBANA
Tim Güneysu, Christoph Paar, Jan Pelzl, Gerd Pfeiffer, Manfred Schimmler, Christian Schleiffer
Recent Advances in Debugging and Profiling at Allinea
David Lecomber
Allinea
11:30 Unified Scheduling of I/O- and Computation-Jobs for Climate Research Environments
N. Peter Drakenberg, Sven Trautmann
Analyzing Mutual Influences of High Performance Computing Programs on SGI Altix 3700 and 4700 Systems with PARbench
Rick Janda, Matthias S. Müller, Wolfgang E. Nagel, Bernd Trenkler
Efficient Parallel Simulations in Support of Medical Device Design
Marek Behr, Mike Nicolai, Markus Probst
Accelerating the Cube Cut Problem with an FPGA-Augmented Compute Cluster
Tobias Schumacher, Enno Lübbers, Paul Kaufmann, Marco Platzner
Grid Monitor
Michael Rauh
ParTec
12:00   Low-level Benchmarking of a New Cluster Architecture
Norbert Eicker, Thomas Lippert

A Run-Time Reconfigurable Cache Subsystem
Fabian Nowak, Rainer Buchty, Wolfgang Karl
High Performance Computing Made Easy
Ullrich Becker-Lemgau
Intel
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Session 8
  Track A8
(Room 1)
Track B8
(Room 2)
Track C8
(Room 3)
Mini-Symposium D8
(Room 4)
Vendor Session E8
(Room 5)
A8: Fault Tolerance
Chair: Stefan Lankes
B8: Performance
Analysis II

Chair: Matthias Müller
C8: MHD and Turbulance Simulation
Chair: Paul Gibbon
D8: Parallel Computing with FPGAs
Chair: Dirk Stroobandt
E8: Tools
Chair: Bernd Mohr
14:00 Mitigating the Post-Recovery Overhead in Fault Tolerant Systems
Guna Santos, Angelo Duarte, Dolores Rexachs, Emilio Luque
Comparative Study of Concurrency Control on Bulk-Synchronous Parallel Search Engines
Carolina Bonacic and Mauricio Marin
Massively Parallel Simulations of Solar Flares and Plasma Turbulence
Lukas Arnold, Christoph Beetz, Jürgen Dreher, Holger Homann, Christoph
Schwarz, Rainer Grauer
Novel Brain-Derived Algorithms Scale Linearly with Number of Processing Elements
Jeff Furlong, Andrew Felch, Jayram Moorkanikara Nageswaran, Nikil Dutt, Alex Nicolau, Alex Veidenbaum, Ashok Chandrashekar, Richard Granger
 
14:30 Towards Fault Resilient Global Arrays
Vinod Tipparaju, Manoj Krishan, Bruce Palmer, Fabrizio Petrini, Jarek Nieplocha
Gb Ethernet Protocols for Clusters: An OpenMPI, TIPC, GAMMA Case Study
Stylianos Bounanos, Martin Fleury
Object-Oriented Programming and Parallel Computing in Radiative Magnetohydrodynamics Simulations
Vladimir Gasilov, Sergei D’yachenko, Olga Olkhovskaya, Alexei Boldarev, Elena Kartasheva, Sergei Boldyrev
Programmable Architectures for Realtime Music Decompression
Martin Botteck, Holger Blume, Jörg von Livonius, Martin Neuenhahn, Tobias G. Noll
 
15:00 Using AOP to Automatically Provide Distribution, Fault Tolerance, and Load Balancing to the CORBA-LC Component Model
Diego Sevilla, José M. García, Antonio F. Gómez
Performance Measurements and Analysis of the BlueGene/L MPI Implementation
Michael Hofmann, Gudula Rünger
Parallel Simulation of Turbulent Magneto-hydrodynamic Flows
Axelle Viré, Dmitry Krasnov, Bernard Knaepen, Thomas Boeck
The HARWEST High Level Synthesis Flow to Design a Special-Purpose Architecture to Simulate the 3D Ising Model
Alessandro Marongiu, Paolo Palazzari
 
15:30 VirtuaLinux: Virtualized High-Density Clusters with no Single Point of Failure
Marco Aldinucci, Marco Danelutto, Massimo Torquati, Francesco Polzella, Gianmarco Spinatelli, Marco Vanneschi, Alessandro Gervaso, Manuel Cacitti, Pierfrancesco Zuccato
Potential Performance Improvement of Collective Operations in Current UPC Implementations
Rafik A. Salama, Ahmed Sameh
Pseudo-Spectral Modeling in Geodynamo
Maxim Reshetnyak, Bernhard Steffen
Towards an FPGA Solver for the PageRank Eigenvector Problem
Séamas McGettrick, Dermot Geraghty, Ciarán McElroy
 
16:00 Bustransfer RWTH Aachen => Aachen
Leaves from RWTH Computer Science Lecture Hall
17:00-18:30 Guided tours
Aachen
(a) Cathedral and treasury
(b) Historical city center
18:30-19:00  
19:00-to end Dinner Aachen
Ratskeller (city hall)

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Friday, September 7, 2007
Jülich

08:00 Bustransfer Aachen => Jülich
Leaves from Hotel IBIS Marschiertor
09:00-09:30 Registration & Opening Session
09:30-10:30 Invited Talk
  Towards Petascale Grids as a Foundation of E-Science
Satoshi Matsuoka
Chair: Thomas Lippert
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session 9
  Track A9
(Room 1)
Track B9
(Room 2)
Track C9
(Room 3)
Track D9
(Room 4)
A9: Parallel Tools and Middleware
Chair: Christoph Kessler
B9: Image Processing and Visualization
Chair: Frans Peters
C9: Fluid Dynamics Simulation
Chair: Christian Bschof
D9: Hyperscalable Applications
Chair: Thomas Lippert
11:00 Design and Implementation of a General-Purpose API of Progress and Performance Indicators
Ivan Rodero, Francesc Guim, Julita Corbalan, Jesús Labarta
Lessons Learned Using a Camera Cluster to Detect and Locate Objects
Daniel Stødle, Phuong Hoai Ha, John Markus Bjørndalen, Otto J. Anshus
Parallelisation of a Geothermal Simulation Package: A Case Study on Four Multicore Architectures
Andreas Wolf, Volker Rath, Martin Bücker
Massively Parallel All Atom Protein Folding in a Single Day
Abhinav Verma, Srinivasa M. Gopal, Alexander Schug, Jung S. Oh, Konstantin V.
Klenin, Kyu H. Lee, Wolfgang Wenzel
11:30 Efficient Object Placement including Node Selection in a Distributed Virtual Machine
Jose M. Velasco;David Atienza; Katzalin Olcoz; Francisco Tirado
Hybrid Parallelization for Interactive Exploration in Virtual Environments
Marc Wolter, Marc Schirski, Torsten Kuhlen
A Lattice Gas Cellular Automata Simulator with Cell Broadband Engine
Yusuke Arai, Ryo Sawai, Yoshiki Yamaguchi, Tsutomu Maruyama, Moritoshi Yasunaga
Optimizing Lattice QCD Simulations on BlueGene/L
Stefan Krieg
12:00 Memory Debugging of MPI-Parallel Applications in Open MPI
Rainer Keller, Shiqing Fan, Michael Resch



12:30-12:45 Closing Session (Room 3)
12:45-13:45 Lunch
13:45 Bustransfer Jülich => Train station Düren / Aachen
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Forschungszentrum Jülich
D-52425 Jülich
Central Institute for Applied Mathematics (ZAM)
Information Imprint
07.09.2007
parco07@fz-juelich.de