program
The 10th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing was held March 9-12, 2009, in Boulder, Colorado, USA. The 4-day event, which included conference and tutorials, featured a broad range of presentations and papers from HPC and large-scale cluster computing professionals in industry, academia, and government. Speakers addressed efforts to integrate and develop science and engineering applications for large-scale clusters, to achieve maximum performance and scalability. A full day of tutorials were offered as part of the overall program.
The conference will focus on the challenge of breaking the petascale barrier and examine the promise of new technologies such as multi-core processors, acceleration coprocessors, advanced interconnects and high-performance I/O solutions. It will also explore the potential scaling and performance modifications necessary for systems, data and applications to achieve petascale-class performance.
The technical program included both peer-reviewed paper presentations and discipline- and industry-specific sessions that offered researchers and industry leaders the opportunity to present their experiences with applications. tools, user environments, and administration of large-scale clusters. Presentations from industry were specifically invited from the petroleum and geophysics, bioinformatics, aerospace and automotive, and finance sectors.
Final update: March 9, 2009.
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Monday, march 9, 2009 |
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| 8:00 AM | Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 AM | Tutorials [Chair: Erik Scott, Kinder-Morgan, USA] | |||
| Tutorial I Parallel Performance Evaluation Tools: TAU, PerfSuite, PAPI, Scalasca Sameer Shende, Allen Malony, University of Oregon, USA; Rick Kufrin, NCSA, USA; Raghu Reddy, Nick Nystrom, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, USA; Shirley Moore, University of Tennessee, USA |
Tutorial II HDF5 and netCDF-4: Two Solutions for Data Management Problems Based on One File Format Elena Pourmal, Albert Cheng, Ruth Aydt, The HDF Group; Ed Hartnett, Unidata/UCAR, USA |
Tutorial III Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 Wenming Ye, Microsoft Corp., USA |
Tutorial IV Introduction to Multicore Performance Galen Arnold, NCSA, USA |
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| 10:00 Am | Break | |||
| 10:30 am | Tutorial I (cont'd) |
Tutorial II (cont'd) |
Tutorial III (cont'd) |
Tutorial IV (cont'd) |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch - Center Green Lobby | |||
| 1:00 pm | Tutorial I (cont'd) |
Tutorial II (cont'd) |
Tutorial V Quick Start Linux Cluster Construction Matthew Woitaszek, Michael Oberg, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA; Theron Voran, Paul Marshall, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA |
Tutorial VI Introduction to CUDA Galen Arnold, NCSA, USA |
| 2:30 pm | Break - Center Green Lobby | |||
| 3:00 pm | Tutorial I (cont'd) |
Tutorial II (cont'd) |
Tutorial V (cont'd) |
Tutorial VI (cont'd) |
| 4:30 pm | End of Tutorials | |||
| 6:00 pm | Welcome and
Opening Speaker Adaptive Mantle Convection Simulation on Petascale Supercomputers Omar Ghattas, University of Texas at Austin, USA |
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| 7:00- 9:00 pm |
Vendor Reception - Center Green Lobby | |||
Tuesday, march 10, 2009 |
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| 8:00 am | Coffee - Center Green Lobby | ||
| 8:30 am | Welcome - CG Room 3131 | ||
| 8:45 am | Keynote
Challenges on the Path to Efficient, Affordable and Effective Exascale Computing Henry Gabb, Intel, USA |
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| 10:00 am | Break - Center Green Lobby | ||
| 10:30 am | Applications A Parallel Algorithm for Large, Multi-Scale Simulations of Liquid/Gas Phase Interfaces Marcus Herrmann, Arizona State University, USA |
Power and Cooling Towards Real-World HPC Energy Efficiency and Productivity Metrics in a Fully Instrumented Datacenter Andres Marquez, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA |
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| Weather
Research and Forecast (WRF) Model: Performance
Analysis on Advanced Multi-core HPC Clusters Gilad Shainer, Mellanox Technologies, USA |
Cyber-Physical
Autonomic Resource management for High-Performance
Datacenters Georgios Varsamopoulos, Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, USA |
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| Performance Evaluation of Ultra-high
Resolution Climate Simulations John Dennis, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA |
Breaking the Power
and Cooling Petascale Barriers Mike Patterson, Intel Corp., USA |
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| 12:00 pm | Lunch - Center Green Lobby | ||
| 1:30 pm | Vendor Presentations
and Technical Briefs I Application Acceleration, Multicore, LSF and MPI Ron Van Holst, Platform Computing, Canada Perspectives on Petascale Computing for Earth System Modeling Per Nyberg, Cray, USA Managing Mountains of Data in Large Scale HPC Systems Roger Goff, Sun Microsystems, USA SiCortex System Design Kevin Harris, SiCortex, USA |
Vendor Presentations and Technical
Briefs II Introducing Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 Wenming Ye, Microsoft Corp., USA Striking The Right Balance Srilatha Manne, Advanced Micro Devices, USA Scheduling Complex Workload in Large Scale Environment Renita Leung, Platform Computing, Canada Cloud Networking: Trends in Networking and the Emergence of Non-blocking, Low Latency Networks for Cloud Computing Anshul Sadana, Arista Networks, USA |
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| 3:15 pm | Break - Center Green Lobby | ||
| 3:45 pm | Performance Evaluation Performance Analysis of the SiCortex SC072 Brian Martin, Andrew Leiker, Douglas Doerfler, James Laros III, Sandia National Laboratories, USA QP: A Heterogeneous Multi-Accelerator Cluster Michael Showerman, Wen-Mei Hwu, University of Illinois, USA; Jeremy Enos, Avneesh Pant, Volodymyr Kindratenko, Craig Steffen, Robert Pennington, NCSA, USA Experiences with Managed Hosting of Virtual Machines Dustin Leverman, University of Colorado, USA; Henry Tufo, Michael Oberg, Matthew Woitaszek, NCAR, USA |
SC08 Cluster Challenge Windows HPC Server 2008 at the SC08 Cluster Challenge Benjamin Jimenez, Arizona State University, USA Bringing Disruptive Technology to Competition: Purdue and SiCortex Alexander Younts, Andrew Howard, Preston Smith, Jeffrey Evans, Purdue University, USA University of Colorado's Undergraduate Cluster Challenge 2008 Doug Smith, University of Colorado, USA Optimizing Cluster Configuration and Applications to Maximize Power Efficiency Jupp Müller, Timo Schneider, Jens Domke, Robin Geyer, Matthias Häsing, Torsten Hoefler, Stefan Höhlig, Guido Juckeland, Andrew Lumsdaine, Matthias S. Müller and Wolfgang E. Nagel |
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| 5:15 pm | Adjourn | ||
| 6:30 pm | Conference Reception - Greenbriar Inn Restaurant | ||
| 7:00PM-9:00 pm | Dinner - Greenbriar Inn Restaurant | ||
Wednesday, march 11, 2009 |
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| 8:00 am | Coffee - Center Green Lobby | |
| 8:30 am | Introduction - CG North Auditorium | |
| 9:00 am | Keynote Driving Forces Shaping Future Systems Design Pratap Pattnaik, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA |
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| 10:00 am | Break - Center Green Lobby | |
| 10:30 am | Performance Analysis Active Harmony: Getting the Human Out of the Performance Tuning Loop Jeffrey Hollingsworth, University of Maryland, USA Accelerating the Computation of Theoretical Spectro-Polarimetric Signals: Comparative Analysis of the Cell BE, and the NVIDIA and AMD Graphics Card Architectures for Implementing the Voigt Function Jose Garcia, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA; Theron Voran, University of Colorado, USA Experiences in Tuning Performance of Hybrid MPI/Open MP Applications on Quad-core Systems Ashay Rane, Dan Stanzione, Arizona State University, USA |
System Software Evaluating the Shared Root File System Approach for Diskless High-Performance Computing Systems Christian Engelmann, Hong Ong, Stephen Scott, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA A Profile Guided Approach to Scheduling in Cluster and Multi-cluster Systems Arvind Sridhar Dan Stanzione, Arizona State University, USA Parallel File Systems on High-End Computers Walter Ligon, Clemson University, USA |
| 11:30 pM | Excursion / Box Lunch | |
| 6:30 pm | Special Session on
Next-Generation Computing - NCAR Mesa Lab,
Main Seminar Room Michael Levine, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, USA; John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, USA; Steve Louis, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, USA |
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| 8:00 pm | Poster Session and Reception - NCAR Mesa Lab Cafeteria | |
| 9:00 pm | Speakers Corner / Poster Session- NCAR Mesa Lab Cafeteria | |
Thursday, march 12, 2009 |
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| 8:00 am | Coffee - Center Green Lobby | |
| 8:30 am | Introduction - CG North Auditorium | |
| 8:45 am | Keynote Microprocessor Technologies for HPC Marc Tremblay, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA |
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| 10:00 am | Break - Center Green Lobby | |
| 10:30 am | Data / Grids Addressing HPC Infrastructure Problems by Pooling HPC Resources: The Thebes Middleware Consortium Arnie Miles, Georgetown University, USA |
Tools XGet: A Highly Scalable and Efficient File Transfer Tool for Clusters Hugh Greenberg, Latchesar Ionkov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; Ronald Minnich, Sandia National Laboratory, USA |
| Policy-Driven Data Management Reagan Moore, UNC, USA |
Characterizing
Parallel Scaling of Scientific Applications Using
IPM Nicholas Wright, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA |
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| A
Framework for Semantic-Based Dynamic Access Control
in Data Grids Anil Pereira, Charles Moseley, Benjamin VanTreese, David Goree, Karl Kirch, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, USA; Dennis Ferron, Delta Dental, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA |
Performance
Measurement and Analysis Tools for Very Large
Clusters Bernd Mohr (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany) |
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| 12:00 pm | Awards and Box Lunch | |
| 1:30 pm | Panel: Acceleration
Strategies for Cluster Computing Fabrizio Petrini, IBM, USA Pat McCormick, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Bobbie Manne, Advanced Micro Devices, USA Andy Kuzma, Intel Corp., USA The Top 500 List is currently led by a heterogeneous machine comprising Opteron and Cell processors. Is a heterogeneous approach really best? If so, which is better: Cell, GPU, or something else? Our panel of experts will debate the acceleration options of today and of the near future. |
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| 3:30 PM | Conference Adjourns | |
