Monday, September 26

7:30am - 5:00pm

Conference Registration (Massachusetts Room)

8:30am - 10:00am

Morning Tutorials (Vermont and Rhode Island)

RAIT Workshop Session 1 (New Hampshire)

 

Parallel I/O in Practice

Rob Ross

Programming with Grid Superscalar

Rosa Badia

 

[TUTORIAL CANCELLED]

Transparently Achieving Superior Socket Performance using Zero Copy Socket Direct Protocol over 20 Gb/s InfiniBand Links

Dror Goldenberg, Michael Kagan, Ran Ravid, Michael Tsirkin

A Performance Analysis of the Ammasso RDMA Enabled Ethernet Adapter and its iWARP API

Dennis Dalessandro

Interoperability through Conformance The iWARP Validation Process

Barry Reinhold

 

10:00am - 10:30am

Break and Refreshments (Salon F)

10:30am - 12:00pm

Morning Tutorials (Vermont and Rhode Island)

RAIT Workshop Session 2
(
New Hampshire)

 

Parallel I/O in Practice

Rob Ross

Programming with Grid Superscalar

Rosa Badia

 

[TUTORIAL CANCELLED]

RNIC-PI: The last step in standardizing RDMA

Ramesh VelurEunni

Memory Management Support for Multi-Programmed Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) Systems

Kostas Magoutis

 

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Afternoon Tutorials (Vermont and Rhode Island)

RAIT Workshop Session 3
(
New Hampshire)

 

State of InfiniBand in Designing Next Generation Clusters, File/Storage Systems and Datacenters

D. K. Panda

Towards Highly Available, Scalable, and Secure HPC Clusters  with HA-OSCAR

Chokchai Leangsuksun

Supporting iWARP Compatibility and Features for Regular Network Adapters

P. Balaji, H. W. Jin, K. Vaidyanathan, and D. K. Panda

Multi-stream MPA

Caitlin Bestler

 

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Break and Refreshments (Lobby)

3:00pm - 4:30pm

Afternoon Tutorials (Vermont and Rhode Island)

RAIT Workshop Panel
(
New Hampshire) 

 

State of InfiniBand in Designing Next Generation Clusters, File/Storage Systems and Datacenters

D. K. Panda

Towards Highly Available, Scalable, and Secure HPC Clusters  with HA-OSCAR

Chokchai Leangsuksun

RDMA : Where is it heading and what is it missing?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, September 27

7:30am - 5:00pm

Conference Registration (Vermont Room)

8 - 8:45am

Breakfast (Foyer - in front of Grand Ballroom)

 

8:45 - 9:10am

Welcome and Opening Remarks (Grand Ballroom - Salon E)

9:10am - 10:00am

Keynote (Grand Ballroom - Salon E)

On the evolution of communication hardware and parallel programming models

Marc Snir (UIUC, USA)

Chair: Kurt Keville

 

10:30am - 12:00pm

Session 1A (Salon E)
Optimizing with MPI

Chair: Toni Cortes

Session 1B (Salon ABC)
Scheduling I

Chair: Box Leangsukun

 

TCP Adaptation for MPI on Long-and-Fat Networks

Motohiko Matsuda, Tomohiro Kudoh, Yuetsu Kodama, Ryousei Takano, Yutaka Ishikawa

 

Extracting Critical Path Graphs from MPI Applications

Martin Schulz

 

Accelerating List Management for MPI

Keith D. Underwood, Arun Rodrigues, K. Scott Hemmert

Search-based Job Scheduling for Parallel Computer Workloads

Sangsuree Vasupongayya, Su-Hui Chiang, and Bart Massey

 

A Case for Cooperative and Incentive-Based Coupling of Distributed Clusters

Rajiv Ranjan, Rajkumar Buyya and Aaron Harwood

 

Transparent Networked Checkpoint-Restart for Commodity Clusters

Oren Laadan, Dan Phung, Jason Nieh

 

12:00pm - 1:30pm

Lunch (Allies American Grille)

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Session 2A (Salon E)
Parallel I/O and Efficient Communications

Chair: Jayanta Sircar

Session 2B (Salon ABC)
Fault Tolerance

Chair: Yutaka Ishikawa

 

Load Balancing using Grid-based Peer-to-Peer Parallel I/O

Yijian Wang David Kaeli

 

An Efficient, Non Intrusive, Log Based I/O Mechanism for Scientific Simulations on Clusters

Soumyadeb Mitra, Rishi Sinha, Marianne Winslett, Xiangmin Jiao

 

Near Overhead-free Heterogeneous Thread-migration

Ronald Veldema Michael Philippsen

Job-Site Level Fault Tolerance for Cluster and Grid Environments

Kshitij Limaye, Box Leangsuksun, Zeno Greenwood, Stephen L. Scott, Christian Engelmann, Richard Libby and Kasidit Chanchio

 

An Efficient Network API for in-Kernel Applications in Clusters

Brice Goglin, Olivier Gluck and Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet

 

Toward an Optimal Redundancy Strategy for Distributed Computations

D. Szajda, B. Lawson, J. Owen

 

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Break and Refreshments (Lobby)

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Session 3A (Salon E)
Collective Communication Optimizations

Chair: Neil Pundit

Session 3B (Salon ABC)
Networking I

Chair: Ira Pramanik

 

Efficient and Robust Computation of Resource Clusters in the Internet

Chuang Liu, Ian Foster

 

Fast Query Processing by Distributing an Index Over CPU Caches

Xiaoqin Ma and Gene Cooperman

 

Online Critical Path Profiling for Parallel Applications

Wenbin Zhu, Patrick G. Bridges, and Arthur B. Maccabe

Bandwidth Efficient All-to-All Broadcast on Switched Clusters

Ahmad Faraj, Pitch Patarasuk, Xin Yuan

 

Swapping to Remote Memory over InfiniBand: An Approach using a High Performance Network Block Device

Shuang Liang, Ranjit Noronha and Dhabaleswar K. Panda

 

Optimizing Latency under Throughput Requirements for Streaming Applications on Cluster Execution

F.Guirado, A.Ripoll, C.Roig, E.Luque

 

 

5:30pm - 7:30pm

Poster Session (Salon F)

Reception in Exhibitor Area (Salon F), Sponsored by AMD

Poster List

 

 

 

7:00pm - 8:30pm

Steering Committee Meeting
Fitzwilliams.

 

8:30pm - 9:30pm

Steering Committee Dinner
Fitzwilliams.

 







 

Wednesday, September 28

8:00am - 5:00pm

Conference Registration (Vermont Room)

8 - 8:50 am

Breakfast (Foyer - in front of Grand Ballroom)

8:50 – 9 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks (Salon E)

9:00am - 10:30am

Outstanding Papers (Salon E) Track 4A

Chair: Tom Stricker

Experiment Management and Analysis with perfbase

Joachim Worringen

Service Augmentation for High End Interactive Data Services

Matthew Wolf, Hasan Abbasi, Benjamin Collins, David Spain, Karsten Schwan

Distributed Out-of-Core Preprocessing of Very Large Microscopy Images for Efficient Querying

Benjamin Rutt, Vijay S. Kumar, Tony Pan, Tahsin Kurc, Umit Catalyurek, Yujun Wang, Joel Saltz

10:30 -11am

Break and Refreshments (Salon F)

11:00am - 12:30pm

Session 5A (Salon E)
Security

Chair: Kevin Gleason

Session 5B (Salon ABC)
Reliability Mechanisms

Chair: Rolf Riesen

 

A Generic Proxy Mechanism for Secure Middlebox Traversal

Sechang Son, Matthew Farrellee, Miron Livny

 

A Load Balancing Scheme for Cluster-based Secure Network Servers

Jin-Ha Kim, Gyu Sang Choi and Chita R. Das

 

A New Allocation Scheme for Parallel Applications with Deadline and Security Constraints on Clusters

Tao Xie and Xiao Qin

Reliability-aware Checkpoint /Restart Scheme: A Performability Trade-off

Yudan Liu, Chokchai "Box" Leangsuksun

 

A pipelined data-parallel algorithm for ILP

Nuno A. Fonseca, Fernando Silva, Vitor Santos Costa, Rui Camacho

 

An Efficient Metadata Distribution Policy for Cluster File Systems

Jin Xiong, Rongfeng Tang, Sining Wu, Dan Meng, Ninghui Sun

 

12:30 – 2pm

Lunch (Allies American Grill)

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Session 6A (Salon E)
Systems Analysis and Performance

Chair: Chris Kurmann

Session 6B (Salon ABC)
Distributed Apps and OS

Chair: Barney Maccabe

 

Implementation and Performance of Portals 3.3 on the Cray XT3

Ron Brightwell, Trammell Hudson, Kevin Pedretti, Rolf Riesen, Keith D. Underwood

 

A Cost/Benefit Estimating Service for Mapping Parallel Applications on Heterogeneous Clusters

Dimitrios Katramatos, Steve J. Chapin

 

A Feasibility Analysis of Power Awareness in Commodity-Based High-Performance Clusters

C. Hsu and W. Feng

VioCluster: Virtualization for Dynamic Computational Domains

Paul Ruth, Phil McGachey, Xuxian Jiang, Dongyan Xu

 

Analysis of Distributed Java Applications Using Dynamic Instrumentation

Clovis Seragiotto and Thomas Fahringer

 

Fire Phoenix cluster operating system kernel and its evaluation

Jianfeng Zhan

 

3:30 – 4pm

Break and Refreshments (Salon F)

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Invited Plenary Speaker (Salon E)

The design of scalable systems for content management and processing: Thoughts and Experiences

Pankaj Mehra (HP Labs, USA)

Chair: Dimiter Avresky


 

5:30pm - 9:30pm

Conference Banquet
at MIT Stata Center

Please join us for The Cluster Agenda

 

 

 

 

Thursday, September 29

8:00am - 12:00pm

Conference Registration (Vermont Room)

8:00am - 9:00am

Breakfast (Foyer - in front of Grand Ballroom)

9:00am - 10:30pm

Session 7A (Salon E)
Networking II

Chair : Greg Lindahl

Session 7B (Salon ABC)
Visualization and Simulation

Chair : Adam Powell

 

Exploiting NIC Memory for Improving Cluster-Based Webserver Performance

Gyu Sang Choi, Jin-Ha Kim, Deniz Ersoz, Mazin S. Yousif and Chita R. Das

 

Head-to-TOE Evaluation of High-Performance Sockets over Protocol Offload Engines

P. Balaji, W. Feng, Q. Gao, R. Noronha, W. Yu and D. K. Panda

 

Modeling Protocol Offload for Message-oriented Communication

Patricia Gilfeather and Arthur B. Maccabe

A Web Services and Ontology Based Performance Visualization Framework for Grid Environments

Kukjin Lee, Diane T. Rover

 

Grid and Cluster Matrix Computation with Persistent Storage and Out-of-Core Programming

Lamine M. Aouad, Serge G. Petiton, and Mitsuhisa Sato

 

An Infrastructure of Network Services for Seamless Integration in Advanced Collaborative Computing Environments

Han Gao, Ivan R. Judson, Thomas Uram, Susanne Lefvert, Terry L. Disz, Michael E. Papka, Rick L. Stevens

 

10:30am - 11:00am

Break and Refreshments (Salon F)

11:00am - 12:30pm

Session 8A (Salon E)
Fairness II

Chair : Jayanta Sircar

Session 8B (Salon ABC)
Messaging

Chair : Mark Baker

 

Harnessing Non-dedicated Wide-area Clusters for On-demand Computing

Ramesh Viswanath, Mustaque Ahamad and Karsten Schwan

 

Minimizing the Network Overhead of Checkpointing in Cycle-harvesting Cluster Environments

Daniel Nurmi, John Brevik, Rich Wolski

 

Handling Penalty to Enhance Profitability for Service Level Agreement based Allocation of Cluster Resources

Chee Shin Yeo and Rajkumar Buyya

On the Discovery of Brokers in Distributed Messaging Infrastructures

Shrideep Pallickara, Harshawardhan Gadgil and Geoffrey Fox

 

A Case for Dynamic Page Migration in Multiple-Writer Software DSM Systems

Thomas Repantis, Christos D. Antonopoulos, Vana Kalogeraki, Theodore S. Papatheodorou

 

Macro-Dataflow using Software Distributed Shared Memory

Hiroshi Tanabe, Hiroki Honda, Toshitsugu Yuba

 

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch  (Allies American Grille)

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Endnote (Salon E)

Improving the Usability of Clusters

William Gropp (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)

Chair: Dan Katz

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Closing Remarks (Salon E)

4:00pm - 7:00pm

Conference Social Function
Google Logo
outing to the

Harvard Museums

 

Friday, September 30

 

8:00am - 12:00pm

Conference Registration (Vermont Room)

 

8:00am - 9:00am

HeteroPar Workshop

 

9:00am - 10:30pm

HeteroPar 1 (Maine)

 

 

Providing Local ORB-Like Services to Collocated CORBA

Vahid Rafe, Adel Rahmani

 

A Framework for Statistical Analysis of Datasets on
Heterogeneous Clusters

Ricolindo Carino, Ioana Banicescu

 

A Poly-Algorithm for Efficient Parallel Matrix
Multiplication on Metacomputing Platforms

Wahid Nasri, Sana Jeddi

 

 

10:30am - 11:00am

Break and Refreshments (Lobby)

 

11:00am - 12:30pm

HeteroPar 2 (Maine)

 

 

Processes Distribution of Homogeneous Parallel Linear
Algebra Routines on Heterogeneous Clusters

Luis Pedro Garcia, Domingo Gimenez, Jack Dongarra

 

TreeP: A tree based P2P network architecture

Benoit Hudzia, M-Tahar Kechadi, Adrian Ottewill

 

Robust Processor Allocation for Independent Tasks When
Dollar Cost for Processors is a Constraint

H.J. Siegel, Anthony A. Maciejewski, Junxing Zhang, Vladimir Shestak

 

 

 

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch  (Allies American Grille)

 

 

HeteroPar 3 (Maine)

 

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Static scheduling of dependent parallel tasks on
heterogeneous clusters

Jorge Barbosa, C. Morais, R. Nobrega, A.P. Monteiro

 

Topology-Based Meshes for Local Communication in
Data-Parallel Applications

Silvia Figueira, Steven Beeby, Annie Shuyan Wu

 

Toward global and grid computing for large scale linear
algebra problems

Laurent Choy, Serge Petiton