Agenda

Chair: Dr. Joel Saltz

Co-Chair: Dr. Alan Sussman

Conference Organizers: Andrea Busada and Therese Forbes

The workshop will be held in the East and Calvert Chambers located in the Governor Calvert House.

Wednesday, August 19

8:00 - 8:30 Breakfast in the Atrium
Session I - Project Overviews
8:30 - 8:45 Introduction - Joel Saltz and Frederica Darema
8:45 - 9:45 POEMS group

Project Overview - Jim Brown, University of Texas at Austin

Introduction to Sweep3D - Yong Luo, LANL

Representation of Applications in POEMS - Vikram Adve, Rice University

Operating System Component Models - Rajive Bagrodia and Ewa Deelman, UCLA

Hardware Domain Specification - Pat Teller and Richard Oliver, University of Texas at El Paso

9:45 - 10:45 Delphi group

Delphi: Integrated, Language-Directed Performance Prediction, Measurement, and Analysis" - Dan Reed, University of Illinois

10:45 - 11:15 A.M. Break in the Atrium
Session II- Project Overviews
11:15 - 12:15 University of Maryland group

Towards Petaflop Architectures - Joel Saltz, University of Maryland, College Park

Overview of PetaSIM and its relationship to Application Emulators - Geoffrey Fox, Syracuse University; and Apostolos Gerasoulis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

12:15 - 1:30 Lunch in the Atrium
Session III- University of Warwick
1:30 - 3:00 PACE The Warwick Performance System - Graham Nudd, Efstathios Papaefstathiou, and Darren Kebyson, University of Warwick
3:00 - 3:30 P.M. Break in the Atrium
3:30 - 5:30 Session IV- Breakout sessions - additional details forthcoming
  1. Application requirements
  2. Middleware/software requirements
  3. Hardware (compute/network/storage) requirements
6:30 - 8:30 Reception - The Duke of Gloucester Room at the Maryland Inn
(Main Street and Church Circle)

Thursday, August 20

8:00 - 8:30 Breakfast in the Atrium
Session I- Software Tools and Applications
9:00 - 10:00 Delphi group

Performance Measurement and Modeling in Computational Grids - Ian Foster, Argonne National Lab

Performance Models for Threads and Distributed Objects - Dennis Gannon, Indiana University

10:00 - 11:00 POEMS group

Compositional Compiler - Jim Browne, University of Texas at Austin

Automatic Task Graph Generation - Rizos Sakellariou and Vikram Adve, Rice University

IFESTOS: A KB System for POEMS - Elias Houtis and John Rice, Purdue University

Task Execution Description (TED) and Task Execution Time Measurement - Pat Teller and Richard Oliver, University of Texas at El Paso (Talk not presented.)

11:00 - 11:30 A.M. Break in the Atrium
Session II- Software Tools and Applications
11:30 - 12:30 University of Maryland group

Application Emulators and Simulation Models - Tahsin Kurc, University of Maryland, College Park

Details of PetaSIM and its relationship to Performance Specification Languages - Geoffrey Fox, Syracuse University

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch in the Atrium
Session III
1:30 - 2:30 Breakout session summaries, Reactions from F. Darema
  1. Applications Working Group - Geoffrey Fox
  2. Middleware/Systems Software Breakout Group - Dan Reed
  3. Hardware - Pat Teller
2:30 - 3:30 Performance Characteristics of Commercial Scientific/Engineering Applications - John McCalpin, Silicon Graphics (with Edward A. Rothberg, ILOG)
3:30 - 4:00 P.M. Break in the Atrium
Session IV- UC San Diego
4:00 - 5:00 Performance Prediction Engineering - Fran Berman, University of California, San Diego
5:00 - 6:00 Forecasting Resource Performance for Performance Prediction Engineering - Rich Wolski, University of California, San Diego

Friday, August 21

8:00 - 8:30 Breakfast in the Atrium
Session I - Software Tools and Applications
8:30 - 9:30 POEMS group

Performance Modeling of Sweep3D - Yong Luo, Los Alamos

MPISIM SweepP3D Studies- Rajive Bagrodia, Ewa Deelman, UCLA

LoGP Model of Sweep3D - Mary Vernon, Dave Sundaram, University of Wisconsin

9:30 - 10:30 Delphi group

Performance Measurement and Prediction - Luiz Derose, University of Illinois

Cache Misses Prediction Using Stack Distances - Calin Cascaval and David Padua, University of Illinois

Delphi Tools Update:  Instrumenting Threaded Programs - VIRTUAL Bart Miller, University of Wisconsin (Dennis Gannon, Indiana University)

10:30 - 11:00 A.M. Break in the Atrium
Session II- Software Tools and Applications, Wrapup
11:00 - 12:00 University of Maryland group

Scheduling Tools for Performance Prediction of Parallel Programs - Apostolos Gerasoulis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

The Rapid Software Tool and Sparse Gaussian Elimination - Tao Yang, University of California, Santa Barbara

Multi-resolution Simulations for Large-scale I/O Intensive Applications - Jeff Hollingsworth, University of Maryland, College Park