Agenda for the NGS Workshop at IPDPS2007

 

Sunday,  March 25, 2007

 

Session 1: 8:30am-10:30am

 

Introduction to the WorkshopFrederica Darema

 

ParalleX: A Study of A New Parallel  Computation Model

Guang R. Gao, Thomas Sterling, Rick Stevens, Mark Hereld, and Weirong Zhu

 

Improving MPI Independent Write Performance Using A Two-Stage Write-Behind Buffering Method

Wei-keng Liao, Avery Ching, Kenin Coloma, and Alok Choudhary

 

Automatic MPI application transformation with ASPhALT

Anthony Danalis, Lori Pollock, and Martin Swany

 

Formal Analysis for Debugging and Performance Optimization of MPI

Ganesh L. Gopalakrishnan and Robert M. Kirby

 

Automatic Parallelization of Scripting Languages: Toward Transparent Desktop Parallel Computing

Xiaosong Ma, Jiangtian Li, and Nagiza F. Samatova

 

Virtual Execution Environments:  Support and Tools

Apala Guha, Jason D. Hiser, Naveen Kumar, Jing Yang, Min Zhao, Shukang Zhou, Bruce R. Childers, Jack W. Davidson, Kim Hazelwood, and Mary Lou Soffa

 

 

Session 2: 11:00am-12:30pm

 

Intelligent Optimization of Parallel and Distributed Applications

Bhupesh Bansal, Umit Catalyurek, Jacqueline Chame, Chun Chen,  Ewa Deelman, Yolanda Gil, Mary Hall, Vijay Kumar, Tahsin Kurc, Kristina Lerman, Aiichiro Nakano, Yoon-ju Lee Nelson, Joel Saltz, Ashish Sharma, Priya Vashishta

 

Scheduling issues in optimistic parallelization
Milind Kulkarni and Keshav Pingali

 

New Results on the Performance Effects of Autocorrelated Flows in Systems

Evgenia Smirni, Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, and Giuliano Casale

 

The Adaptive Code Kitchen: Flexible Tools for Dynamic Application Composition

Pilsung Kang, Mike Heffner, Joy Mukherjee, Naren Ramakrishnan, Srinidhi Varadarajan, Cal Ribbens, and Danesh K. Tafti

 

DOSA: Design Optimizer for Scientific Applications

David A. Bader and Viktor K. Prasanna

 

The TMO Scheme for Wide-Area Distributed Real-Time Computing and Distributed Time-Triggered Simulation

K.H. (Kane) Kim and Stephen W. Jenks

 

 

Session 3: 1:30pm-3:30pm

 

Adaptive Scheduling with Parallelism Feedback

Kunal Agrawal, Yuxiong He, Wen-Jing Hsu, and Charles E. Leiserson

 

Weaving Atomicity Through Dynamic Dependence Tracking

Suresh Jagananthan

 

A Key-based Adaptive Transactional Memory Executor

Tongxin Bai, Xipeng Shen, Chengliang Zhang, William N. Scherer, Chen Ding, and Michael L. Scott

 

Optimizing Sorting with Machine Learning Algorithms

Xiaoming Li, María Jesús Garzarán, and David Padua

 

Knowledge and Cache Conscious Algorithm Design and Systems Support for Data Mining Algorithms

Amol Ghoting, Gregory Buehrer, Matthew Goyder, Shirish Tatikonda, Xi Zhang, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Tahsin Kurc, and Joel Saltz

 

Memory Optimizations For Fast Power-Aware Sparse Computations

Konrad Malkowski, Padma Raghavan and Mary Jane Irwin

 

A global address space framework for locality aware scheduling of block-sparse computations

Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Umit Catalyurek, Jarek Nieplocha, Atanas Rountev, and P. Sadayappan

 

Speedup using Flowpaths for a Finite Difference Solution of a 3D Parabolic PDE

Darrin M. Hanna, Anna M. Spagnuolo, and Michael DuChene

 

 

Session 4: 4:00pm-6:15pm

 

NGS: Service Adaptation in Open Grid Platforms

Krishnaveni Budati, Jinoh Kim, Abhishek Chandra, and Jon Weissman

 

Creating a Robust Desktop Grid using Peer-to-Peer Services

Jik-Soo Kim, Beomseok Nam, Michael Marsh, Peter Keleher, Bobby Bhattacharjee, Derek Richardson, Dennis Wellnitz, and Alan Sussman

 

Locality-aware Buffer Management: Algorithms Design and Systems Implementation for Data Intensive Applications - A Brief Progress Report

Xiaodong Zhang

 

Designing Effcient Systems Services and Primitives for Next-Generation Data-Centers

K. Vaidyanathan,  S. Narravula, P. Balaji, and  D. K. Panda

 

Supporting Quality of Service in High-Performance Servers

Yan Solihin, Fei Guo, Seongbeom Kim, and Fang Liu

 

Enhancing Energy Efficiency in Multi-tier Web Server Clusters via Prioritization

Tibor Horvath, Kevin Skadron, and Tarek Abdelzaher

 

Autonomic Power and Performance Management for Large Scale Data Centers

Bithika Khargharia, Salim Hariri, Ferenc Szidarovszky, Hesham El-Rewini, Manal Houri, Samee Khan, Ishfaq Ahmad, and Mazin S. Yousif                                                                                                                                                 

 Improving Data Access Performance with Server Push Architecture

Xian-He Sun, Surendra Byna, and Yong Chen

 

Scalable, Dynamic Analysis and Visualization for Genomic Datasets

Kai Li, Matthew Hibbs, Grant Wallace Maitreya Dunham, Rachel Sealfon, and Olga Troyanskaya

 

 

Session 5: 7:30pm-9:00pm

 

Panel Discussion: Programmatic Directions

 

 

 

Monday,  March 26, 2007

 

Session 6: 8:15am-10:00am

 

Semi-automatic Generation of Systems Monitoring Tools

Kathleen Fisher, Yitzhak Mandelbaum, Vivek Pai, and David Walker

 

SimX meets SCIRun: A Component-based Implementation of a Computational Study System

Siu-Man Yau, Eitan Grinspun, Vijay Karamcheti, and Denis Zorin

 

VIProf: Vertically Integrated Full-System Performance Profiler

Hussam Mousa, Chandra Krintz, Lamia Youseff, and Rich Wolski

 

Model Predictive Control for Memory Profiling

Sean Callanan, Radu Grosu, Justin Seyster, Scott A. Smolka, and Erez Zadok

 

Understanding Measurement Perturbation in Trace-based Data

Todd Mytkowicz, Amer Diwan, Matthias Hauswirth, and Peter F. Sweeney

 

PROTOFLEX: FPGA-accelerated Hybrid Functional Simulator

Eric S. Chung, Eriko Nurvitadhi, James C. Hoe, Babak Falsafi, and Ken Mai

 

Models and Heuristics for Robust Resource Allocation in Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems

David L. Janovy, Jay Smith, Howard Jay Siegel, and Anthony A. Maciejewski

           

 

Session 7: 10:30am-12:30pm

 

Model-Driven Performance Analysis Methodology for Distributed Software Systems

Swapna S. Gokhale, Aniruddha Gokhale, Jeff Gray, Paul Vandal, Dimple Kaul, Arundhati Kogekar, and Yuehua Lin

 

J-Sim: An Integrated Environment for Simulation and Model Checking of Network Protocols

Ahmed Sobeih, Mahesh Viswanathan, Darko Marinov, and Jennifer C. Hou

 

Early Results with Precision Abstraction: Using Data-flow Analysis to Improve the Scalability of Model Checking

Adam Brown, James C. Browne, and Calvin Lin

 

Static Verification of Design Constraints and Software Correctness Properties in the Hob System

Patrick Lam and Martin Rinard

 

ExPert: Dynamic Analysis Based Fault Location via Execution Perturbations

Neelam Gupta and Rajiv Gupta

 

An Analysis of Availability Distributions in Condor

Rich Wolski, Daniel Nurmi Kim, and John Brevik

 

Identifying and Addressing Uncertainty in Architecture-Level Software Reliability Modeling

Leslie Cheung, Leana Golubchik, Nenad Medvidovic, and Gaurav Sukhatme

 

A Markov Reward Model for Software Reliability

YoungMin Kwon and Gul Agha

 

 

Session 8: 1:30pm-3:00pm

 

Modeling Modern Micro-architectures using CASL

Edward K. Walters II, J. Eliot B. Moss, Trek Palmer, Timothy Richards, and Charles C. Weems

 

Rethinking Automated Synthesis of MPSoC Architectures

Brett H. Meyer and Donald E. Thomas

 

A Reconfigurable Chip Multiprocessor Architecture to Accommodate Software Diversity

Engin Ipek, Meyrem Kirman, Nevin Kirman, and José F. Martínez

 

A Distributed Execution Environment for Large Data Visualization

Jian Huang, Huadong Liu, Micah Beck, Jinzhu Gao, and Terry Moore

 

Annotation Integration and Trade-off Analysis for Multimedia Applications

Radu Cornea, Alex Nicolau, and Nikil Dutt

 

 

Session 9: 3:30pm-5:00pm

 

Panel Discussion: Research, Technology and Education Drivers and Opportunities

(Industry Representatives) 

 

Session 10: 5:00pm-5:30pm

 

Closing Discussion

 

Adjournment: 5:30pm

 

 

 
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