Agenda for the NGS Workshop at IPDPS2008
Sunday, April 13, 2008 - Ibis Room
Session 1: System and I/O Management: 8:00AM-10:15AM
Introduction to the Workshop -- Anita LaSalle
Seung Woo Son, Mahmut Kandemir and Mustafa Karakoy
Improving I/O Performance through Compiler-Directed Code Restructuring and
Adaptive Prefetching
Dimitris S. Nikolopoulos, Godmar Back, Jyotirmaya Tripathis and Matthew
Curtis-Maury
VT-ASOS: Holistic System Software Customization for Many Cores
Ram Dantu, Henning Schulzrinne and Paul Sroufe
Experiences in Building a Multi-University Testbed for Research in Multimedia
Communications
Duc A. Tran and K. Nguyen
Multidimensional Information Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Bhuvan Urgaonkar and Anand Sivasubramaniam
RIVER: Resource Management Infrastructure for Consolidated Hosting in
Virtualized Data Centers
Jing Yu, Maria Jesus Garzaran and Marc Snir
Efficient Software Checking for Fault Tolerance
Youtao Zhang, Jun Yang and Weijia Li
Towards Energy-Efficient Code Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks
Yanyong Zhang and Anand Sivasubramaniam
Failure Prediction in IBM BlueGene/L Event Logs
Break - 10:15AM - 10:45AM
Session 2: Architecture and Optimization: 10:45am-12:15pm
Joseph Lancaster, Ron Cytron and Roger D. Chamberlain
Understanding the Performance of Streaming Applications Deployed on Hybrid
Systems
Jack B. Dennis
The Fresh Breeze Project: A Multi-Core Chip Supporting Composable Parallel
Programming
Melina Demertzi, Pedro C. Diniz, Mary W. Hall, Anna C. Gilbert and Yi Wang
The Potential of Computation Reuse in High-Level Optimization of a Signal
Recognition System
David Whalley and Gary Tyson
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Utilizing an Instruction Register File
Yuan Xie and Feng Wang
Embedded Multi-Processor System-on-chip (MPSoC) Design Considering Process
Variation
Yu Sun and Wei Zhang
Improving Code Caching Performance for Java Applications
Lunch - 12:15PM - 1:30PM
Session 3: Software Systems: 1:30pm-3:30pm
David A. Bader and Viktor K. Prasanna
DOSA: Design Optimizer for Scientific Applications
Nitesh V. Chawla, Douglas Thain, Ryan Lichtenwalter and David A. Cieslak
Troubleshooting Grids with Machine Learning
Anthony Danalis, Aaron Brown, Lori Pollock and Martin Swany
Introducing Gravel: An MPI Companion Library
Karen Zee, Viktor Kuncak and Martin Rinard
Full Functional Verification of Linked Data Structures
Jay Smith, Howard Jay Siegel and Anthony A. Maciejewski
A Stochastic Model for Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Parallel and
Distributed Computing Systems
David Garlan, Bradley Schmerl and Peter Steenkiste
Activity-Oriented Computing
Sean Callanan, Daniel J. Dean, Michael Gorbovitski, Radu Grosu, Justin
Seyster, Scott A. Smolka, Scott D. Stoller and Erez Zadok
Software Monitoring with Bounded Overhead
Michael Marsh, Jik-Soo Kim, Beomseok Nam, Jaehwan Lee, San Ratanasanya,
Bobby Bhattacharjee, Peter Keleher, Derek Richardson, Dennis Wellnitz and Alan
Sussman
Matchmaking and Implementation Issues for a P2P Desktop Grid
Break - 3:30PM - 4:00PM
Session 4: Compilation and Tuning: 4:00PM - 5:45PM
Franz Franchetti, Yevgen Voronenko, Peter A. Milder, Srinivas Chellappa, Marek
R. Telgarsky, Hao Shen, Paolo D'Alberto, Frederic de Mesmay, James C. Hoe, Jose
M.F. Moura and Markus Puschel
Domain-Specific Library Generation for Parallel Software and Hardware Platforms
Seyong Lee and Rudolf Eigenmann
Adaptive Tuning in a Dynamically Changing Resource Environment
Brian A. Garber, Dan Hoeflinger, Xiaoming Li, Maria Jesus Garzaran and David
Padua
Automatic Generation of a Parallel Sorting Algorithm
Uday Bondhugula, Muthu Baskaran, Albert Hartono, Sriram Krishnamoorthy, J.
Ramanujam, Atanas Rountev and P. Sadayappan
Towards Effective Automatic Parallelization for Multicore Systems
Yunlian Jiang and Xipeng Shen
Adaptive Speculation in Behavior-Oriented Parallelization
Timothy Richards, Edward K. Walters II, J. Eliot B. Moss, Trek Palmer and
Charles C. Weems
Towards Universal Code Generator Generation
Jaspal Subhlok and Qiang Xu
Automatic Construction of Coordinated Performance Skeletons
Monday, April 14, 2008 - Ibis Room
Session 5: Data Driven Systems: 8:00AM - 10:00AM
Craig Douglas, Paul Dostert, Yalchin Efendiev and Deng Li
Improving Predictions for Water Spills Using DDDAS
Vijay Kumar, Mary Hall, Jihie Kim, Yolanda Gil, Tahsin Kurc, Ewa Deelman and
Joel Saltz
Designing and Parameterizing a Workflow for Optimization: A Case Study in
Biomedical Imaging
Qi Han, Anura P. Jayasumana, Tissa Illangaskare and Toshihiro Sakaki
A Wireless Sensor Network Based Closed-Loop System for Subsurface Contaminant
Plume Monitoring
Jan Mandel, Jonathan D. Beezley, Soham Chakraborty, Janice L. Coen, Craig C.
Douglas, Anthony Vodacek and Zhen Wang
Towards a Real-Time Data Driven Wildland Fire Model
Nanyan Jiang and Manish Parashar
Programming Support for Sensor-based Scientific Applications
Xiaojiang Feng, Joshua Rabinowitz and Herschel Rabitz
Development of Laboratory and Computational Techniques for Optimal and
Quantitative Understanding of Cellular Metabolic Networks
Huaming Li and Jindong Tan
ECG Segmentation in a Body Sensor Network Using Hidden Markov Models
Andriy Fedorov and Nikos Chrisochoides
Toward Improved Tumor Targeting for Image Guided Neurosurgery with
Intra-operative Parametric Search using Distributed and Grid Computing
Break - 10:00AM - 10:30AM
Session 6: Reliability: 10:30AM - Noon
Cheng-Zhong Xu
Quality Assurance and Adaptation of Internet Services: Early Experience
Lance Fiondella and Swapna Gokhale
Software Reliability with Architectural Uncertainties
Ganesh Gopalakrishnan and Robert M. Kirby
Runtime Verification Methods for MPI
Rajiv Gupta, Neelam Gupta, Xiangyu Zhang, Dennis Jeffrey, Vijay Nagarajan,
Sriraman Tallam and Chen Tian
Scalable Dynamic Information Flow Tracking and its Applications
Zhiling Lan, Yawei Li, Ziming Zheng and Prashasta Gujrati
Enhancing Application Robustness through Adaptive Fault Tolerance
Tao Xie, Mithun Acharya, Suresh Thummalapenta and Kunal Taneja
Improving Software Reliability and Productivity via Mining Program Source Code
Lunch - Noon - 1:30PM
Session 7: Algorithms, Models, and Simulation: 1:30PM - 3:15PM
Jason Liu
Immersive Real-Time Large-Scale Network Simulation: A Research Summary
Derek Chiou, Dam Sunwoo, Hari Angepat, Joonsoo Kim, Nikhil A. Patil, William
Reinhart and D. Eric Johnson
Parallelizing Computer System Simulators
Todd Mytkowicz, Amer Diwan, Matthias Hauswirth and Peter F. Sweeney
We have it easy, but do we have it right?
Amit Kumar, Niket Agarwal, Li-Shiuan Peh and Niraj K. Jha
A System-Level Perspective for Efficient NoC Design
Michael Dubois and Hyunyoung Lee
STAMP: A Universal Algorithmic Model for Next-Generation Multithreaded Machines
and Systems
Gurdip Singh
Methodologies for Optimization of Distributed Algorithms and Middleware
Giuliano Casale, Ningfang Mi and Evgenia Smirni
Versatile Models of Systems Using MAP Queueing Networks
Break - 3:15PM - 3:45PM
Session 8: Power Optimization: 3:45PM - 5:30PM
Bithika Khargharia, Salim Hariri, Wael Kdouh, Manal Houri, Hesham El-Rewini and
Mazin Yousif
Autonomic Power and Performance Management of High-performance Servers
Jun Wang
Energy-efficient High-performance Storage System
Ishfaq Ahmad, Sanjay Ranka and Samee Ullah Khan
Using Game Theory for Scheduling Tasks on Multi-Core Processors for Simultaneous
Optimization of Performance and Energy
Adam Manzanares, Kiranmai Bellam and Xiao Qin
A Prefetching Scheme for Energy Conservation in Parallel Disk Systems
Padma Raghavan, Mahmut Kandemir, Mary Jane Irwin and Konrad Malkowski
Managing Power, Performance and Reliability Trade-offs
Francesca J. Mesa-Martinez, Michael Brown, Joseph Nayfach-Battilana and Jose
Renau
Measuring Power and Temperature from Real Processors
Xiaorui Wang and Ming Chen
Adpative Power Control for Server Clusters
Session
9: 5:30PM-6:00PM
Closing Discussion