Tuesday * Wednesday * Thursday * Friday

• Workshop 1 – FTS 2015: 1st International Workshop on Fault Tolerant Systems-(Room: Superior I)
• Workshop 2 – HUCAA: Heterogeneous and Unconventional Cluster Architectures and Applications-(Room: Superior II)
• Workshop 3 – HPCMASPA 2015: 2nd Workshop on Monitoring and Analysis for High Performance Computing Systems Plus Applications-(Room: Huron)
• Workshop 4 – WRAp: Workshop on Representative Applications-(Room: Michigan)
• Workshop 5 – HiPINEB: High-Performance Interconnection Networks Towards the Exascale and Big-Data Era-(Room: Superior III)
• Workshop 6 – Campus Bridging: Reducing Obstacles on the Path to Big Answers-(Room: Superior II)
• Student Mentoring I – Master Class on Career Challenges-(Room: Superior I)
• Student Mentoring II – Master Class on Poster Presentation-(Room: Superior I)

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Program

TUESDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER

HUCAA: Heterogeneous and Unconventional Cluster Architectures and Applications. (8:15AM – 12:30PM, Room: Superior II)

HiPINEB: High-Performance Interconnection Networks Towards the Exascale and Big-Data Era. (8:15AM – 6:00PM, Room: Superior III)

FTS 2015: 1st International Workshop on Fault Tolerant Systems. (8:30AM – 12:30PM, Room: Superior I)

HPCMASPA 2015: 2nd Workshop on Monitoring and Analysis for High Performance Computing Systems Plus Applications. (8:30AM – 5:30PM, Room: Huron)

WRAp: Workshop on Representative Applications. (9:00AM – 5:00PM, Room: Michigan)

Campus Bridging: Reducing Obstacles on the Path to Big Answers. (1:30PM – 6:00PM, Room: Superior II)

Student Mentoring Program: Master Class on Career Challenges ans Poster Presentation. (2:00PM – 5:30PM, Room: Superior I)

WEDNESDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER

Session 1: Best Paper Candidates-(Room: LaSalle Ballroom)
Chair: Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo Inst. Technology)

• Parallel Modularity-based Community Detection on Large-scale Graphs
  Jianping Zeng and Hongfeng Yu
• Optimizing Explicit Hydrodynamics for Power, Energy, and Performance
  Edgar A. Leon, Ian Karlin and Ryan E. Grant (Best Paper)
• Machines Tuning Machines: Configuring Distributed Stream Processors with Bayesian Optimization
  Lorenz Fischer, Shen Gao and Abraham Bernstein
• Workload-Aware Resource Reservation for Multi-Tenant NoSQL
  Jiaan Zeng and Beth Plale

Session 3: Big Data Processing-(Room: LaSalle Ballroom II)
Chair: Gabriel Antoniu (INRIA)

• Taming Non-local Stragglers using Efficient Prefetching in MapReduce
  Ze Yu, Min Li, Xin Yang, Han Zhao and Xiaolin Li
• IOSIG+: on the Role of I/O Tracing and Analysis for Hadoop Systems (short paper)
  Bo Feng, Xi Yang, Kun Feng, Yanlong Yin and Xian-He Sun
• Exploring Memory Hierarchy to Improve Scientific Data Read Performance (short paper)
  Wenzhao Zhang, Houjun Tang, Xiaocheng Zou, Steven Harenberg, Qing Liu, Scott Klasky and Nagiza Samatova
• S-Shuffle: Optimizing Big Data Analytical Stacks on Large Clusters using Structured Data Shuffling (short paper)
  Dixin Tang, Taoying Liu, Rubao Lee, Hong Liu and Wei Li
• An SSD-HDD Integrated Storage Architecture for Write-Once-Read-Once Applications on Clusters (short paper)
  Cailiang Xu, Wei Wang, Deng Zhou and Tao Xie

Session 4: GPU Computing-(Room: LaSalle Ballroom I)
Chair: Naoya Maruyama (Riken AICS)

• Exploiting GPUDirect RDMA in Designing High Performance OpenSHMEM for NVIDIA GPU Clusters
  Khaled Hamidouche, Akshay Venkatesh, Ammar Ahmad Awan, Hari Subramoni, Ching-Hsiang Chu and Dhabaleswar Panda
• Improving Strong-Scaling on GPU Cluster Based on Tightly Coupled Accelerators Architecture (short paper)
  Toshihiro Hanawa, Hisafumi Fujii, Norihisa Fujita, Tetsuya Odajima, Kazuya Matsumoto, Yuetsu Kodama and Taisuke Boku
• Exploring the Suitability of Remote GPGPU Virtualization for the OpenACC Programming Model Using rCUDA (short paper)
  Adrian Castello, Antonio J. Pena, Rafael Mayo Gual, Pavan Balaji and Enrique S. Quintana-Orti
• PLB-HeC: A Profile-based Load-Balancing algorithm for Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Clusters
  Luis Sant Ana, Daniel Cordeiro and Raphael Camargo
• A TSQR based Krylov Basis Computation Method on Hybrid GPU Cluster (short paper)
  Langshi Chen and Serge Petiton
• Detecting Thread-Safety Violations in Hybrid OpenMP/MPI Programs (short paper)
  Hongyi Ma and Liqiang Wang

Session 5: Machine Learning and Data Mining-(Room: LaSalle Ballroom II)
Chair: Osamu Tatebe (Univ. Tsukuba)

• Fast and Accurate Support Vector Machines on Large Scale Systems
  Abhinav Vishnu, Jeyanthi Narasimhan, Lawrence Holder, Darren Kerbyson and Adolfy Hoisie
• A Machine-Learning Approach for Communication Prediction of Large-Scale Applications (short paper)
  Nikela Papadopoulou, Georgios Goumas and Nectarios Koziris
• An Efficient Parallel Approach of Parsing and Indexing for Large-scale XML Datasets (short paper)
  Song Kunfang and Lu Hongwei
• Collective I/O Tuning Using Analytical and Machine Learning Models
  Florin Isaila, Prasanna Balaprakash, Stefan Wild, Robert Latham, Dries Kimpe, Robert Ross and Paul Hovland
• Large Scale Frequent Pattern Mining using MPI One-Sided Model
  Abhinav Vishnu and Khushbu Agarwal

THURSDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER

Session 6: Resilience and Reliability-(Room: LaSalle Ballroom I)
Chair: Bronis R. de Supinski (LLNL)

• Fast Fault Injection and Sensitivity Analysis for Collective Communications
  Kun Feng, Manjunath Gorentla Venkata, Dong Li and Xian-He Sun
• A Practical Approach for Handling Soft Errors in Iterative Applications (short paper)
  Jiaqi Liu, Mehmet Can Kurt and Gagan Agrawal
• Ensuring Data Durability with Increasingly Interdependent Content (short paper)
  Veronica Del Carmen Estrada Galinanes and Pascal Felber
• On the Need for Reproducible Numerical Accuracy through Intelligent Runtime Selection of Reduction Algorithms at the Extreme Scale
  Dylan Chapp, J. Travis Johnston and Michela Taufer
• Towards Building Resilient Scientific Applications: Resilience Analysis on the Impact of Soft Error and Transient Error Tolerance With the CLAMR Hydrodynamics Mini-App (short paper)
  Qiang Guan, Nathan Debardeleben, Brian Atkinson, Robert Robey and William Jones
• DINO: Divergent Node Cloning for Sustained Redundancy in HPC (short paper)
  Arash Rezaei and Frank Mueller

Session 7: High Performance I/O-(Room: LaSalle Ballroom II)
Chair: D.K. Panda (Ohio State U.)

• Dynamic Model-driven Parallel I/O Performance Tuning
  Babak Behzad, Surendra Byna, Stefan Wild, Mr Prabhat and Marc Snir
• TRIO: Burst Buffer Based I/O Orchestration
  Teng Wang, Sarp Oral, Michael Pritchard, Bin Wang and Weikuan Yu
• BPS: A Balanced Partial Stripe Write Scheme to Improve the Performance of RAID-6
  Congjin Du, Chentao Wu, Jie Li, Minyi Guo and Xubin He
• RDMA-based Direct Transfer of File Data to Remote Page Cache
  Shin Sasaki, Kazushi Takahashi, Yoshihiro Oyama and Osamu Tatebe

Session 8: MPI and OpenCL-(Room: LaSalle Ballroom I)
Chair: Pavan Balaji (ANL)

• High Performance MPI Datatype Support with User-mode Memory Registration: Challenges, Designs and Benefits
  Mingzhe Li, Hari Subramoni, Khaled Hamidouche, Xiaoyi Lu and Dhabaleswar Panda
• Automatic Command Queue Scheduling for Task-Parallel Workloads in OpenCL
  Ashwin Aji, Antonio J. Pena, Pavan Balaji and Wu-Chun Feng

Session 9: Distributed Data Processing-(Room: LaSalle Ballroom II)
Chair: Zhiling Lan (IIT)

• Overcoming Hadoop Scaling Limitations through Distributed Task Execution
  Ke Wang, Ning Liu, Iman Sadooghi, Xi Yang, Xaiobing Zhou, Michael Lang, Xian-He Sun and Ioan Raicu
• SideWalk: A Facility of Lightweight Out-of-band Communications for Augmenting Distributed Data Processing Flows (short paper)
  Yin Huai, Yuan Yuan, Rubao Lee and Xiaodong Zhang
• High-performance, Distributed Dictionary Encoding of RDF Datasets (short paper)
  Alessandro Morari, Jesse Weaver, Oreste Villa, David Haglin, Vito Giovanni Castellana, Antonino Tumeo and John Feo
• I/O-Aware Batch Scheduling for Petascale Computing Systems
  Zhou Zhou, Xu Yang, Dongfang Zhao, Paul Rich, Wei Tang, Jia Wang and Zhiling Lan

Session 10: Energy Efficiency-(Room: LaSalle Ballroom I)
Chair: Masaaki Kondo (Univ. Tokyo)

• Performance-to-Power Ratio Aware Virtual Machine (VM) Allocation in Energy-Efficient Clouds
  Xiaojun Ruan and Haiquan Chen
• A Workload-Aware Energy Model for Virtual Machine Migration
  Vincenzo De Maio, Gabor Kecskemeti and Radu Prodan

Session 11: Graph Processing-(Room: LaSalle Ballroom II)
Chair: Seetharami Seelam (IBM)

• GraphTrek: Asynchronous Graph Traversal for Property Graph Based Metadata Management
  Dong Dai, Philip Carns, Robert Ross, John Jenkins, Kyle Blauer and Yong Chen
• Towards Multi-Site Metadata Management for Geographically Distributed Cloud Workflows
  Luis Pineda-Morales, Alexandru Costan and Gabriel Antoniu

FRIDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER

Session 12: Application Acceleration-(Room: LaSalle Ballroom I)
Chair: Tom Peterka (ANL)

• PaRSEC in Practice: Optimizing a legacy Chemistry application through distributed task-based execution
  Anthony Danalis, Heike McCraw, George Bosilca and Jack Dongarra
• Optimizing Large Scale I/O for Petascale Seismic Simulations on Unstructured Meshes (short paper)
  Sebastian Rettenberger and Michael Bader
• LBM-HPC an Open-Source Tool for Fluid Simulations. Case Study: Unified Parallel C (UPC-PGAS) (short paper)
  Pedro Valero-Lara and Johan Jansson
• Scaling Data Intensive Physics Applications to 10k Cores on Non-Dedicated Clusters with Lobster
  Anna Woodard, Matthias Wolf, Charles Mueller, Nil Valls, Ben Tovar, Patrick Donnelly, Peter Ivie, Kenyi Hurtado Anampa, Paul Brenner, Doug Thain, Kevin Lannon and Michael Hildreth
• RE-PAGE: Domain-Specific REplication and PArallel Processing of GEnomic Data
  Mucahid Kutlu and Gagan Agrawal

Session 13: Network and High Performance Communication-(Room: LaSalle Ballroom II)
Chair: Ron Brightwell (Sandia National Laboratories)

• Re-evaluating Network Onload vs. Offload for the Many-Core Era
  Matthew Dosanjh, Ryan Grant, Patrick Bridges and Ron Brightwell
• Fast Calculation of Max-min Fair Rates for Multi-commodity Flows in Fat-tree Networks
  Md Atiqul Mollah, Xin Yuan, Scott Pakin and Michael Lang
• Comparing Global Link Arrangements for Dragonfly Networks
  Emily Hastings, David Rincon-Cruz, Marc Spehlmann, Sofia Meyers, Anda Xu, David Bunde and Vitus Leung
• Towards the InfiniBand SR-IOV vSwitch Architecture
  Evangelos Tasoulas, Ernst Gunnar Gran, Bjorn Dag Johnsen, Kyrre Begnum and Tor Skeie

Session 14: Parallel Algorithms-(Room: LaSalle Ballroom I)
Chair: Hajime Fujita (Intel)

• Lossless Floating-Point Compression Algorithms for Massively Parallel Architectures
  Annie Yang, Hari Mukka, Farbod Hesaaraki and Martin Burtscher
• Balancing Thread-level and Task-level Parallelism for Data-Intensive Workloads on Clusters and Clouds (short paper)
  Olivia Choudhury, Dinesh Rajan, Nicholas Hazekamp, Sandra Gesing, Douglas Thain and Scott Emrich
• LU Factorization: Towards Hiding Communication Overheads With A Lookahead-free Algorithm (short paper)
  Tan Nguyen and Scott Baden
• Distributed-Memory Algorithms for Maximal Cardinality Matching using Matrix Algebra
  Ariful Azad and Aydin Buluc

Session 15: Task and Process Scheduling-(Room: LaSalle Ballroom II)
Chair: Todd Gamblin (LLNL)

• The Cost of Synchronizing Imbalanced Processes in Message Passing Systems
  Ivy Peng, Stefano Markidis and Erwin Laure
• An Approach to Selecting Thread + Process Mixes for Hybrid MPI + OpenMP Applications
  Hormozd Gahvari, Martin Schulz and Ulrike Yang
• On the Application Task Granularity and the Interplay with the Scheduling Overhead in Many-core Shared Memory Systems
  Dana Akhmetova, Gokcen Kestor, Roberto Gioiosa and Stefano Markidis

Session 16: PGAS and Shared Memory Programming-(Room: LaSalle Ballroom I)
Chair:  Abdelhalim Amer (ANL)

• OpenSHMEM as a Portable Communication Layer for PGAS Models – A Case Study with Coarray Fortran
  Naveen Namashivayam, Deepak Eachempati, Dounia Khaldi and Barbara Chapman
• A Team-Based Methodology of Memory Hierarchy-Aware Runtime Support in Coarray Fortran (short paper)
  Dounia Khaldi, Deepak Eachempati, Shiyao Ge, Pierre Jouvelot and Barbara Chapman
• Optimizing Caching DSM for Distributed Software Speculation (short paper)
  Sai Charan Koduru, Keval Vora and Rajiv Gupta
• Empirical Comparison of Three Versioning Architectures (short paper)
  Hajime Fujita, Kamil Iskra, Pavan Balaji and Andrew A. Chien

Session 17: Cluster Tools-(Room: LaSalle Ballroom II)
Chair: Ioan Raicu (IIT)

• Toward Rapid Understanding of Production HPC Applications and Systems
  Anthony Agelastos, Benjamin Allan, Jim Brandt, Ann Gentile, Sophia Lefantzi, Steve Monk, Jeff Ogden, Mahesh Rajan and Joel Stevenson
• ObsCon: Integrated Monitoring and Control for Parallel, Real-time Applications (short paper)
  Shwetha Mathangi Chandra Choodamani, Alan Nussbaum and Karsten Schwan
• VecMeter: An Easy-to-use Tool to Analyze Vectorization in HPC Codes (short paper)
  Joshua Peraza, Ananta Tiwari, William Ward, Roy Campbell and Laura Carrington
• Toward Interlanguage Parallel Scripting for Distributed-Memory Scientific Computing (short paper)
  Justin Wozniak, Timothy Armstrong, Ketan Maheshwari, Daniel Katz, Michael Wilde and Ian Foster