Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative Moderator: Alexander Larzelere, Department of EnergyAn overview of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) will be given by program managers in the Department of Energy, highlighting how we got to this point in the program, results to date and future plans. Technical presentations on parts of the nuclear stockpile stewardship program will be presented by principal investigators from Sandia, Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.
TUESDAY 1:30 P.M. - 3:00 P.M. Supercomputing Applications in Medicine Moderator: John Gilbertson, The University of PittsburghComputing systems have become central to medical care and research, and their success has created a demand for systems with ever increasing capabilities. Some applications are reaching computing power, bandwidth and storage requirements associated with supercomputers. The multimedia electronic patient record is such an application, especially at major medical centers where large scale image storage is becoming common. At the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a supercomputer-like machine (MARS - Medical Archival System) is now used for this purpose. In addition, current high-end workstations based on the Alpha and other leading-edge microprocessors now have the compute power and memory bandwidth of supercomputers 10 years ago. Assuming this trend continues, we should ask what medical applications the supercomputer community should be developing today that may run on desktop machines in the next decade.
TUESDAY 3:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Ten Years of K-12 High Performance Computing and Communications: What have we learned? What are we building for the future? Moderator: Wally Feurzeig, BB&N;Programs such as Adventures in Supercomputing (AiS), the Alabama Supercomputing Program to Inspire computational Research in Education (ASPIRE), Earth Vision, the National Education Supercomputer Program (NESP), the PSC High School Initiative, SuperQuest and others have been offering in-depth training and experience with computational science tools and methods to teachers for a decade. This roundtable will offer a forum for those involved to discuss the successes and failures of these efforts and to communicate needs and goals for future programs.
WEDNESDAY 10:00 A.M.-NOON DOD Modernization Program: Parallel Software Solving Government Applications Moderator: Keith Bromley, NOSCPresentations will be provided by developers within the Federal Government (i.e., DoD, DoE, NOAA, NASA, NIH) on their experiences in developing scalable parallel application software to solve critical challenges in the areas of: computational fluid dynamics, computational structural mechanics, environmental quality modeling and computational electromagnetics. These talks will address the technical challenges of the efforts, the programming methods applied to solve them and the lessons learned in the research so far. After the initial stage-setting overview speakers, the presentations will be given by the working team leaders who are developing the codes.
Computation and Competitiveness-High Performance Computing and Industrial Leadership Moderator: Peter R. Bridenbaugh, AlcoaThe effective use of knowledge lies at the heart of industrial leadership. This panel will discuss the role of high-performance computing in creating competitive advantage in the aerospace, automotive, materials and energy, and industries. They will also offer their view of the future for HPC and their requirements of the HPC community.
WEDNESDAY 1:30 P.M. - 3:00 P.M. Center Directors Roundtable Moderator: Andy White, LANL, in coordination with Ken Kliewer, ORNL This session will include topics on: ¥ transformation of centers ¥ effects of rapid changes in industry ¥ ever-increasing storage capabilities ¥ practical management issues WEDNESDAY 3:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Archival Storage Systems Experience for High Speed Computing Moderator: Alan Powers, NASA AmesRepresentatives of four sites, each running a different archiving solution, will form the panel. Each panel member will present information about their archive solution and usage statistics. They will discuss their perspective about the archive solution's features, faults, and future enhancements. Each panel member will provide their software and hardware solutions and costs for three proposed archive requirements (5 TB, 125 TB, and 1000 TB). A lengthy question and answer session will follow the discussions.
THURSDAY 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Opportunities and Barriers to Petaflops Computing Moderator: Paul Messina, CalTechPetaflops computing has been explored through a series of federally sponsored community led forums. Although the feasibility and application of petaflops systems within the next twenty years are considered a distinct possibility, there are highly conflicting views concerning the means by which this is to be achieved. Such issues as architectural capabilities, system software user interface, exotic technologies, applications that will benefit, economic business model in support of industry, and research and development paths are all considered controversial. Also, diverse perspectives are sometimes in direct conflict. For example, one approach dictates the use of commercial off-the-shelf components as the only practical approach to funding the necessary hardware and software technology. Another approach considers alternative structures of processing logic and memory on a single chip for more efficient computing. A third approach proposes to exploit exotic technologies in hybrid organizations, including superconducting logic, optical communications and storage, and semiconductor memories. At the same time, it is quite possible that the first petaflops computer will be a special-purpose device good for only a single class of applications but available in just a few years. Other approaches have been considered as well.
The panel will present an array of such views and invite the audience to contribute their own ideas on possible paths to petaflops computing.
THURSDAY 3:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Scalable I/O Initiative Roundtable on Portable Programming Interfaces for Parallel Filesystems Moderator: Jim Zelenka, Carnegie Mellon UniversityThe Scalable I/O (SIO) Initiative intends to release for public review a draft parallel filesystem API suite no later than six weeks before this conference. The goal of this suite is to define a common set of powerful interfaces for application, compiler and toolkit programmers to use for high-performance I/O on a variety of parallel machine architectures. In this roundtable, the SIO Initiative would like to collect, interpret and discuss the community's responses to, and suggestions for, the proposed API suite. Broad-based comments are sought, but we will be especially interested in the programming experiences of I/O-intensive applications, out-of-core compilers/toolkits and parallel file system implementations. This draft will be available no later than October 1, 1996 at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/PDL/SIO/SC96.html.
FRIDAY 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Impacts of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 on the HPCC Community Moderator: Dave Farber, The University of PennsylvaniaThe Telecommunications Act of 1996 has made major changes in the rules of engagement of the key stakeholders in the telecommunications field. Key FCC rulings on interconnection Rules and Universal Service are expected in August and November, respectively. (An Access Reform ruling is expected in January.) The panelists will be drawn from the local, long distance, cable, metropolitan, cellular, FCC and internet communities. A brief summary by each panelist of the key impacts already seen will lead to a lively debate.
Session 1: 10:30 a.m.-Noon 1A Biology Applications Parallel Hierarchical Molecular Structure Estimation Cheng Che Chen and Russ B. Altman, Stanford University; Jaswinder Pal Singh, Princeton University A DATA-Parallel Implementation of O(N) Hierarchical N-body Methods Yu Hu, Harvard University; S. Lennart Johnsson, University of Houston and Harvard University The Design of a Portable Scientific Tool: A Case StudY Using SnB Steven M. Gallo and Russ Miller, State University of New York at Buffalo; Charles M. Weeks, Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Institute 1B Performance I RUNTIME Performance of parallel array assignment: an empirical study Siddhartha Chatterjee and Lei Wang, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill James M. Stichnoth, Carnegie Mellon University ScaLAPACK: A Portable Linear Algebra Library for Distributed Memory Computers - Design Issues and Performance Jack Dongarra, Laura Blackford, A. Cleary, S. Hammarling, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Jaeyoung Choi, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea; J. Demmel, I. Dillon, University of California, Berkeley; G. Henry, Intel SSPD Network performance modeling for PVM Clusters Mark J. Clement, Phyllis E. Crandall, Michael R. Steed Session 2: 1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. 2A Visualization & Education Scalable Algorithms for Interactive Visualization of Curved Surfaces Dinesh Manocha, Subodh Kumar and Chun-Fa Chang, University of North Carolina STREN: A Highly Scalable parallel stereo terrain renderer for planetary mission simulations Ansel Teng and Meemong Lee, Jet Propulsion Lab Scott Whitman, Cray Research Inc. Education in High Performance Computing via the WWW: Designing and Using Technical Materials Effectively Susan Mehringer, Cornell Theory Center 2B Compiler Analysis Compiler-directed Shared-Memory Communication for Iterative Parallel Applications Guhan Viswanathan and James R. Larus, University of Wisconsin-Madison Dynamic Data Distribution with Control Flow Analysis Jordi Garcia, Eduard Ayguade and Jesus Labarta, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Transformations for Imperfectly Nested Loops Induprakas Kodukula and Keshav Pingali, Cornell University Session 3: 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. 3A Geophysical Applications Earthquake Ground Motion Modeling on Parallel Computers Omar Ghattas, Hesheng Bao, Jacobo Bielak, Loukas F. Kallivokas, David R. O'Hallaron, Jonathan R. Shewchuk and Jifeng Xu, Carnegie Mellon University Performance Analysis and Optimization on the UCLA Parallel Atmospheric General Circulation Model Code John Lou, California Institute of Technology; John Farrara, University of California Climate Data Assimilation on a Massively Parallel Supercomputer Hong Q. Ding and Robert D. Ferraro, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 3B Tools Performance Analysis Using the MIPS R10000 Performance Counters Marco Zagha, Silicon Graphics, Inc. Profiling A Parallel Language Based on Fine-Grained Communication Kaus E. Schauser, Bjoern Haake and Chris Scheiman, University of California at Santa Barbara Modeling, Evaluation and Testing of Paradyn Instrumentation System Abdul Waheed, Michigan State University Wednesday, November 20 Session 4: 10:00 a.m.-Noon 4A Performance II An Analytical Model of the HINT Performance Metric Quinn O. Snell and John L. Gustafson, Ames Laboratory Communication Patterns and Models in Prism: A Spectral Element-Fourier Parallel Navier-Stokes Solver George Em Karniadakis and Constantinos Evangelinos, Brown University The C3I Parallel Benchmark Suite - Introduction and Preliminary Results Rakesh Jha, Brian VanVoorst, Luiz S. Pires, Wing Au, Minesh Amin, Honeywell Technology Center; Richard C. Metzger, USAF Rome Laboratory; David A. Castanon, ALPHATECH, Inc.; Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota The Performance of the NEX SX-4 on the NCAR Benchmark Suite Steven W. Hammond, Richard D. Loft, NCAR; Philip D. Tannenbaum, HNSX Supercomputers, Inc. 4B Networking & Architecture Minimal Adaptive Routing with Limited Injection on Toroidal k-ary n-cubes Fabrizio Petrini and Marco Vanneschi, Universita di Pisa Low-Latency Communication on the IBM RISC System/6000 SP Chi-Chao Chang, Grzegorz Czajkowski, Chris Hawblitzell and Thorsten von Eicken, Cornell University CompileD Communication for All-optical TDM Networks Xin Yuan, Rami. Melhem and Rajiv. Gupta,The Univ. of Pgh. Increasing the Effective Bandwidth of Complex Memory Systems IN Multivector Processors Anna M. del Corral and Jose M. Llaberia, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Session 5: 1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. 5A Hydrodynamics Applications A Parallel Cosmological Hydrodynamics Code Paul W. Bode, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Guohong Xu, University of California at Santa Cruz; Renyue Cen, Princeton University Transient Dynamics Simulations: Parallel Algorithms for Contact Detection and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Bruce Hendrickson, Steve Plimpton, Steve Attaway, Jeff Swegle, Courtenay Vaughan, Dave Gardner, Sandia National Labs Performance of a Computational Fluid Dynamics Code on NEC and CRAY Supercomputers: BEYOND 10 GIGAFLOPS Ferhat F. Hatay, University of Colorado at Boulder 5B Algorithms Parallel Preconditioners for Elliptic PDEs Vivek Sarin and Ahmed Sameh, University of Minnesota Sparse LU Factorization with Partial Pivoting on Distributed Memory Machines Cong Fu and Tao Yang, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara Implementation of Strassen's Algorithm for Matrix Multiplication Elaine M. Jacobson, Anna Tsao and Thomas Turnbull, Center for Computing Sciences; Steven Huss-Lederman, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jeremy R. Johnson, Drexel University Session 6: 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. 6A Algorithms II Global Load Balancing with Parallel Mesh Adaption on Distributed - Memory Systems Rupak Biswas, NASA Ames Research Center; Leonid Oliker, Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science; Andrew Sohn, Dept. of Computer & Information Science Parallel Hierarchical Solvers and Preconditioners for Boundary Element Methods Ananth Grama, Vipin Kumar, and Ahmed Sameh, University of Minnesota Parallel Multilevel k-way Partitioning Scheme for Irregular Graphs George Karypis and Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota 6B Parallel Programming Support Double Standards: Bringing Task Parallelism to HPF Via the Message Passing Interface Ian Foster and David R. Kohr, Jr., Argonne National Laboratory; Rakesh Krishnaiyer and Alok Choudary, Syracuse University OMPI: Optimizing MPI Programs Using Partial Evaluation Hirotaka Ogawa and Satoshi Matsuoka, The University of Tokyo Particle-in-Cell Simulation Codes in High Performance Fortran Erol Akarsu, Kivanc Dincer, Geoffrey C. Fox and Tomasz Haupt, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
Session 7: 10:00 a.m.-Noon 7A Scheduling Application-Level Scheduling on Distributed Heterogeneous Networks Francine D. Berman, Rich Wolski, Silvia Figueira, Jennifer Schopf and Gary Shao, University of California at San Diego NetSolve: A Network Server for Solving Computational Science Problems Henri Casanova, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Multimethod Communiction for High Performance Metacomputing Ian Foster, Jonathan Geisler, Steven Tuecke, Argonne National Laboratory; Karl Kesselman, California Institute of Technology BUilding A World-Wide Virtual Machine Based on Web and HPCC Technologies Kivanc Dincer and Geoffrey C. Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center 7B Data Mining & Modeling Parallel Data Mining for Association Rules on Shared-memory Multi-processors M.J. Zaki, M. Ogihara, S. Parthasarathy and W. Li, University of Rochester Dynamic Computation Migration in DSM Systems Wilson C. Hsieh, University of Washington; M. Frans Kaashoek, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science; William E. Weihl, DEC Systems Research Center Performance Modeling for the Panda Array I/O Library Ying Chen, Marianne Winslett, Szu-wen Kuo, Yong Cho, University of Illinois; Mahesh Subramaniam, Oracle Corportion; Kent Seamons, Transarc Corporation Striping in Disk Array rm2 Enabling the Tolerance of Double Disk Failures Chan-Ir, POSTECH Session 8: 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. 8A Particle Dynamics Lightweight Computational Steering of Very Large Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations David M. Beazley, University of Utah; Peter S. Lomdahl, Los Alamos National Laboratory Design of a Large Scale Discrete Element Soil Model for High Performance Computing Systems Alex R. Carrillo, David A. Horner, John F. Peters, John E. West, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station Molecular Simulation of RheologicaProperties Using Massively Parallel Supercomputers P. T. Cummings, R. K. Bhupathiraju, S.T. Cui and S. Gupta, University of Tennessee; H. D. Cochran, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 8B Data & Scheduling Virtual Memory Versus File Interfaces for Large, Memory-Intensive Scientific Applications Yoonho Park and Ridgway Scott, University of Houston; Stuart Sechrest, University of Michigan Impact of Job Mix on Optimizations for Space Sharing Schedulers Jaspal Subhlok, Thomas Gross and Takashi Suzuoka, Carnegie Mellon University