Workshops and Conference Schedule

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Conference Program by Session

Wednesday, September 1st, 09:30-10:00, Conference Opening - Room: PITHECUSA 
Wednesday, September 1st, 10:00-11:00,  Keynote 1
Chair: D. Talia         Room: Pithecusa
Title: Innovation in Cloud Computing Architectures
Name & Affiliation: Prof. Ignacio M. Llorente - Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Wednesday, September 1st, 11:30-13:00, Paper Session A1
Topic 1   Chair: E. Jeannot   Room: Nitrodi A
1. Starsscheck: A Tool to Find Errors in Task-Based Parallel Programs
    Paul Carpenter, Alex Ramirez and Eduard Ayguade 
2. Automated Tuning in Parallel Sorting on Multi-Core Architectures 
    Haibo Lin, Chao Li, Qian Wang, Yi Zhao, Ninghe Pan, Xiaotong Zhuang and Ling Shao 
3. Estimating and Exploiting Potential Parallelism by Source-Level Dependence Profiling
    Jonathan Mak, Karl-Filip Faxén, Sverker Janson and Alan Mycroft

Wednesday, September 1st, 11:30-13:00, Paper Session A2
Topic 3   Chair: R. Yahyapour   Room: Primavera
1. A Fast 5/2 Approximation Algorithm for Hierarchical Scheduling
    Marin Bougeret, Pierre- Françoise Dutot, Klaus Jansen, Christina Otte and Denis Trystram 
2. Non-Clairvoyant Scheduling of Multiple Bag-of-Tasks Applications
    Henri Casanova, Matthieu Gallet and Frédéric Vivien 
3. Extremal Optimization Approach Applied to Initial Mapping of Distributed Java Programs
    Ivanoe De Falco, Eryk Laskowski, Richard Olejnik, Umberto Scafuri, Ernesto Tarantino and Marek Tudruj

Wednesday, September 1st, 11:30-13:00, Paper Session A3
Topic 11   Chair: J. Larsson Traff   Room: Pithecusa
1. JavaSymphony: A Programming and Execution Environment for Parallel and Distributed Many-Core Architectures
    Muhammad Aleem, Radu Prodan and Thomas Fahringer
2. Scalable Producer-Consumer Pools based on Elimination-Diffraction Trees
    Yehuda Afek, Guy Korland, Maria Natanzon and Nir Shavit 
3. Productivity and Performance: Improving Consumability of Hardware Transactional Memory through a Real-World Case Study
    Huayong Wang, Yi Ge, Yanqi Wang and Yao Zou

Wednesday, September 1st, 11:30-13:00, Paper Session A4
Topic 8   Chair: G. Schmid   Room: Nitrodi C
1. Improving Message Logging Protocols Scalability through Distributed Event Logging
    Thomas Ropars and Christine Morin
2. Value-Based Sequential Consistency for Set Objects in Dynamic Distributed Systems
    Roberto Baldoni, Silvia Bonomi and Michel Raynal 
3. Robust Self-Stabilizing Construction of Bounded Size Weight-Based Clusters
    Colette Johnen and Fouzi Mekhaldi

Wednesday, September 1st, 14:30-16:00, Paper Session B1
Topic 6   Chair: F. Desprez   Room: Primavera
1. Deployment of a Hierarchical Middleware
    Eddy Caron, Benjamin Depardon and Frederic Desprez
2. Toward Real-Time, Many-Task Applications on Large Distributed Systems
    Sangho Yi, Derrick Kondo and David Anderson 
3. Scheduling Scientific Workflows to Meet Soft Deadlines in the Absence of Failure Models
    Kassian Plankensteiner, Radu Prodan and Thomas Fahringer

Wednesday, September 1st, 14:30-16:00, Paper Session B2
Topic 10   Chair: D. di Serafino   Room: Nitrodi A
1. Scalability and Locality of Extrapolation Methods for Distributed-Memory Architectures
    Matthias Korch, Thomas Rauber and Carsten Scholtes
2. CFD Parallel Simulation using Getfem++ and Mumps
    Michel Fournié, Nicolas Renon, Yves Renard and Daniel Ruiz 
3. Aggregation AMG for Distributed Systems Suffering from Large Message Numbers
    Maximilian Emans

Wednesday, September 1st, 14:30-16:00, Paper Session B3
Topic 11  Chair: B. Di Martino   Room: Pithecusa
1. Exploiting Fine-Grained Parallelism on Cell Processors
    Ralf Hoffmann, Andreas Prell and Thomas Rauber
2. Optimized On-Chip-Pipelined Mergesort on the Cell/B.E.
    Rikard Hultén, Christoph W. Kessler and Jörg Keller
3. Near-Optimal Placement of MPI Processes on Hierarchical NUMA Architectures
    Emmanuel Jeannot and Guillaume Mercier

Wednesday, September 1st, 14:30-16:00, Paper Session B4
Topic 5  Chair: R. Sakellariou   Room: Nitrodi C
1. Federated Enactment of Workflow Patterns
    Gagarine Yaikhom, Chee Sun Liew, Liangxiu Han, Jano van Hemert, Malcolm Atkinson and Amy Krause
2. A Distributed Approach to Detect Outliers in Very Large Data Sets
    Fabrizio Angiulli, Stefano Basta, Stefano Lodi and Claudio Sartori
Topic 7 
3. Overlay Management for Fully Distributed User-Based Collaborative Filtering
    Róbert Ormándi, István Hegedűs and Mark Jelasity

Wednesday, September 1st, 16:30-18:00, Paper Session C1
Topic 9  Chair: S. Gorlatch   Room: Pithecusa
1. Transactional Mutex Locks
    Luke Dalessandro, Dave Dice, Michael Scott, Nir Shavit and Michael Spear
2. Exceptions for Algorithmic  Skeletons
    Mario Leyton, Ludovic Henrio and José M. Piquer
3. Generators-of-Generators Library with Optimization Capabilities in Fortress
    Kento Emoto, Zhenjiang Hu, Kazuhiko Kakehi, Kiminori Matsuzaki and Masato Takeichi

Wednesday, September 1st, 16:30-18:00, Paper Session C2
Topic 2  Chair: M. Cannataro   Room: Primavera
1. A Model for Space-Correlated Failures in Large-Scale Distributed Systems
    Matthieu Gallet, Nezih Yigitbasi, Bahman Javadi, Derrick Kondo, Alexandru Iosup and Dick Epema
2. Architecture Exploration for Efficient Data Transfer and Storage in Data-Parallel Applications
    Rosilde Corvino, Abdoulaye Gamatié and Pierre Boulet
3. jitSim: A Simulator for Predicting Scalability of Parallel Applications in Presence of OS Jitter
    Vijay Mann and Pradipta De

Wednesday, September 1st, 16:30-18:00, Paper Session C3
Topic 13  Chair: J. Flich   Room: Nitrodi A
1. An Efficient Strategy for Reducing Head-Of-Line Blocking in Fat-Trees
    Jesus Escudero-Sahuquillo, Pedro Javier Garcia, Francisco J. Quiles and Jose Duato
2. A First Approach to King Topologies for On-Chip Networks
    Esteban Stafford, Jose L. Bosque, Carmen Martínez, Fernando Vallejo, Ramon Beivide and Cristobal Camarero
3. Optimizing Matrix Transpose on Torus Interconnects
    Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy, Nikhil Jain and Yogish Sabharwal

Wednesday, September 1st, 16:30-18:00, Paper Session C4
Topic 7  Chair: P. Trunfio   Room: Nitrodi C
1. Dynamic Publish/Subscribe to Meet Subscriber-defined Delay and Bandwidth Constraints
    Muhammad Adnan Tariq, Gerald Koch and Boris Koldehofe
2. Combining Hilbert SFC and Bruijn Graphs for Searching Computing Markets in a P2P System
    Damia Castellà, Hector Blanco, Francesc Giné and Francesc Solsona
3. Sampling Bias in BitTorrent Measurements
    Boxun Zhang, Alexandru Iosup, Johan Pouwelse, Dick Epema and Henk Sips
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Thursday, September 2nd, 09:30-10:30, Keynote 2
Chair: P. D'Ambra         Room: Pithecusa
Title: Impact of Architecture and Technology for Extreme Scale on Software and Algorithm Design
Name & Affiliation: Prof. Jack Dongarra - University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Manchester

Thursday, September 2nd, 10:30-11:00 - Achievement Award Ceremony
Chairs: C. Lengauer, D. Talia              Room: Pithecusa

Thursday, September 2nd, 11:30-13:00, Paper Session D1
Topic 1   Chair: G. Spezzano   Room: Primavera
1. Source-to-Source Optimization of CUDA C for GPU Accelerated Cardiac Cell Modeling
    Fred Lionetti, Andrew McCulloch and Scott Baden
2. Efficient Graph Partitioning Algorithms for Collaborative Grid Workflow Developer Environments
    Gergely Sipos and Peter Kacsuk
3. Profile-Driven Selective Program Loading
    Tugrul Ince and Jeffrey Hollingsworth 

Thursday, September 2nd, 11:30-13:00, Paper Session D2
Topic 3   Chair: R. Perego   Room: Pithecusa
1. A Delay-Based Dynamic Load Balancing Method and Its Stability Analysis and Simulation
    Qingyang Meng, Jianzhong Qiao and Shukuan Lin
2. Code Scheduling for Optimizing Parallelism and Data Locality
    Taylan Yemliha, Mahmut Kandemir, Ozcan Ozturk, Emre Kultursay and Sai Prashanth Muralidhara
3. Hierarchical Work-Stealing
    Jean-Noel Quintin and Frédéric Wagner

Thursday, September 2nd, 11:30-13:00, Paper Session D3
Topic 4   Chair: M. Danelutto   Room: Nitrodi A
1. Power-Efficient Spilling Techniques for Chip Multiprocessors
    Enric Herrero, Jose Gonzalez and Ramon Canal
2. Scalable Object-Aware Hardware Transactional Memory (SOHTM)
    Behram Khan, Mikel Lujan, Ian Watson and Matthew J. Horsnell
3. Efficient Address Mapping of Shared Cache for On-Chip Many-Core Architecture
    Fenglong Song, Zhiyong Liu, Dongrui Fan, Junchao Zhang and Lei Yu  

Thursday, September 2nd, 11:30-13:00, Paper Session D4
Topic 14   Chair: G. De Pietro   Room: Nitrodi C
1. cTrust: Trust Aggregation in Cyclic Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
    Huanyu Zhao, Xin Yang and Xiaolin Li
2. Maximizing Growth Codes Utility in Large-scale Wireless Sensor Networks
    Yao Zhao, Xin Wang, Jin Zhao and Xiangyang Xue
3. Caching Dynamic Information in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
    Nicholas Loulloudes, George Pallis and Marios D. Dikaiakos

Thursday, September 2nd, 14:30-16:00, Paper Session E1
Topic 8   Chair: G. Schmid   Room: Nitrodi C
1. Adaptive Conflict Unit Size for Distributed Optimistic Synchronization
    Kim-Thomas Rehmann, Marc-Florian Mueller and Michael Schoettner
2. Frame Allocation Algorithms for Multi-Threaded Network Cameras
    Jose  Piquer and Javier Bustos-Jiménez
3. Scalable Distributed Simulation of Large Dense Crowds Using the RTF Middleware
    Sergey Gorlatch and Ole Scharf, Felix Blanke, Christoph Hemker, Sebastian Westerheide, Tobias Priebs, Christoph Bartenhagen, Alexander Ploss, Frank Glinka, and Dominik Meilaender

Thursday, September 2nd, 14:30-16:00, Paper Session E2
Topic 11   Chair: B. Di Martino   Room: Pithecusa
1. Parallel Enumeration of Shortest Lattice Vectors
    Özgür Dagdelen and Michael Schneider
2. A Parallel GPU Algorithm for Mutual Information based 3D Nonrigid Image Registration
    Vaibhav Saxena, Jonathan Rohrer and Leiguang Gong
3. Multi-GPU and Multi-CPU Parallelization for Interactive Physics Simulations
    Everton Hermann, Bruno Raffin, Françoise Faure, Thierry Gautier and Jérémie Allard

Thursday, September 2nd, 14:30-16:00, Paper Session E3
Topic 3  Chair: D. Epema   Room: Primavera
1. Optimum Diffusion for Load Balancing in Mesh Networks
    George Markomanolis and Nikolaos Missirlis
2. A Dynamic, Distributed, Hierarchical Load Balancing for HLA-based Simulations on Large-Scale Environments
    Robson De Grande and Azzedine Boukerche

Thursday, September 2nd, 14:30-16:00, Paper Session E4
Topic 9   Chair: T. Kielmann   Room: Nitrodi A
1. User Transparent Task Parallel Multimedia Content Analysis
    Timo van Kessel, Niels Drost and Frank J. Seinstra
2. Parallel Simulation for Parameter Estimation of Optical Tissue Properties
    Mihai Duta, Jeyarajan Thiyagalingam,  Anne Trefethen, Ayush Goyal, Vicente Grau and Nic Smith
Topic 1
3. Characterizing the Impact of Using Spare-Cores on Application Performance
    Jose C. Sancho, Darren Kerbyson and Michael Lang

Thursday, September 2nd, 16:30-18:00, Distinguished Papers Session
Chair: R. Perrot     Room: Pithecusa
1. Long DNA Sequence Comparison on Multicore Architectures
    Friman Sánchez, Felipe Cabarcas, Alex Ramirez and Mateo Valero
2. The x-Wait-freedom Progress Condition
    Michel Raynal and Damien Imbs
3. Adaptive Fault Tolerance for Many-Core based Space-Borne Computing
    Mark James, Paul Springer and Hans Zima

Thursday, September 2nd, 18:30-20:00, Industrial Session
Chair: P. D'Ambra     Room: Pithecusa
1. When benchmarking makes the difference: simulation of pump and probe experiments, a practical case.
    Piero Altoè, HPC Specialist (EMEA) at E4 Computer Engineering
2. IBM solutions for HPC looking at large scale infrastructures
    Marco Briscolini, Senior Consultant, IBM Italy 
3. HPC Clusters and Solutions
    Alberto Galli, HPC Cosultant at HP

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Friday, September 3rd, 09:30-11:00, Paper Session F1
Topic 6  Chair: P. Trunfio   Room: Primavera
1. A GPGPU Transparent Virtualization Component for High-performance Computing Clouds
    Giulio Giunta, Raffaele Montella, Giuseppe Agrillo and Giuseppe Coviello
2. What Is the Price of Simplicity? A Cross-platform Evaluation of the SAGA API
    Mathijs den Burger, Ceriel Jacobs, Thilo Kielmann, Andre Merzky, Ole Weidner and Hartmut Kaiser
3. User-centric, Heuristic Optimization of Service Composition in Clouds
    Kevin Kofler, Irfan UI Haq and Erich Schikuta

Friday, September 3rd, 09:30-11:00, Paper Session F2
Topic 10  Chair: M. Vajtersic   Room: Nitrodi A
1. A Parallel Implementation of the Jacobi-Davidson Eigensolver and its Application in a Plasma Turbulence Code
    Eloy Romero and Jose E. Roman
2. Scheduling Parallel Eigenvalue Computations in a Quantum Chemistry Code
    Martin Roderus, Anca Berariu, Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Sven Krüger, Alexei Matveev and Notker Rösch
3. Scalable Parallelization Strategies to Accelerate NuFFT Data Translation on Multicores
    Yuanrui Zhang, Jun Liu, Emre Kultursay, Mahmut Kandemir, Nikos Pitsianis and Xiaobai Sun

Friday, September 3rd, 09:30-11:00, Paper Session F3
Topic 11  Chair: D. Trystram   Room: Pithecusa
1. Maestro: Data Orchestration and Tuning for OpenCL Devices
    Kyle Spafford, Jeremy Meredith and  Jeffrey Vetter
2. Multithreaded Geant4: Semi-Automatic Transformation into Scalable Thread-Parallel Software
    Xin Dong, Gene Cooperman and John Apostolakis
3. Parallel Exact Time Series Motif Discovery
    Ankur Narang and Souvik Bhattacherjee

Friday, September 3rd, 09:30-11:00, Paper Session F4
Topic 7  Chair: P. Diniz   Room: Nitrodi C
1. A Formal Credit-Based Incentive Model for Sharing Computer Resources
    Josep Rius, Ignasi Barri, Fernando Cores and Francesc Solsona
Topic 4
2. Thread Owned Block Cache: Managing Latency in Many-Core Architecture
    Fenglong Song, Zhiyong Liu, Dongrui Fan, Lei Yu and Shibin Tang
3. Extending the Cell SPE with Energy Efficient Branch Prediction
    Cor Meenderinck and Ben Juurlink

Friday, September 3rd, 11:30-13:30, Paper Session G1
Topic 6  Chair: J. Cunha   Room: Primavera
1. A Distributed Market Framework for Large-scale Resource Sharing
    Marian Mihailescu and Yong-Meng Teo
2. Using Network Information to Perform Meta-scheduling in Advance in Grids
    Luis Tomàs Bolìvar, Agustin Caminero, Carmen Carrion  and Blanca Caminero
Topic 2
3. pCFS vs. PVFS: Comparing a Highly-Available Symmetrical Parallel Cluster File System with an Asymmetrical Parallel File System
    Paulo Lopes and Pedro Medeiros
4. Comparing Scalability Prediction Strategies on an SMP of CMPs
    Karan Singh, Matthew Curtis-Maury, Sally McKee, Filip Blagojevic, Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Bronis de Supinsk and Martin Schulz

Friday, September 3rd, 11:30-13:30, Paper Session G2
Topic 12  Chair: C. Scholtes   Room: Nitrodi A
1. Analysis of Multi-Organization Scheduling Algorithms
    Johanne Cohen, Daniel Cordeiro, Denis Trystram and Frédéric Wagner
2. Area-Maximizing Schedules for Series-Parallel DAGs
    Gennaro Cordasco and Arnold L. Rosenberg
3. Parallel Selection by Regular Sampling
    Alexander Tiskin
4. Ants in Parking Lots
    Arnold L. Rosenberg

Friday, September 3rd, 11:30-13:30, Paper Session G3
Topic 11  Chair: E. Cesario   Room: Pithecusa
1. Optimized Dense Matrix Multiplication on a Many-Core Architecture
    Elkin Garcia, Ioannis E. Venetis, Rishi Khan and Guang R. Gao
2. A Language-Based Tuning Mechanism for Task and Pipeline Parallelism
    Frank Otto, Christoph A. Schaefer, Matthias Dempe and Walter F. Tichy
3. A Study of a Software Cache Implementation of the OpenMP Memory Model for Multicore and Manycore Architectures
    Chen Chen, Joseph B. Manzano, Ge Gan, Guang R. Gao and Vivek Sarkar
4. Programming CUDA-based GPUs to Simulate Two-Layer Shallow Water Flows
    Marc de la Asunción, Jose M. Mantas and Manuel J. Castro

Friday, September 3rd, 11:30-13:30, Paper Session G4
Topic 14  Chair: G. De Pietro   Room: Nitrodi C
1. On Deploying Tree Structured Agent Applications in Networked Embedded Systems
    Nikos Tziritas, Thanasis Loukopoulos, Spyros Lalis and Petros Lampsas
2. Meaningful Metrics for Evaluating Eventual Consistency
    João Barreto and Paulo Ferreira
3. @Flood: Auto-Tunable Flooding for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
    José Mocito, Luís Rodrigues and Hugo Miranda
4. Collaborative Cellular-based Location System
    David Navalho and Nuno Preguiça

Friday, September 3rd, 14:30-15:30, Keynote 3
Chair: M.R. Guarracino           Room: Pithecusa
Title: Computational Epidemiology: a New Paradigm in the Fight against Infectious Diseases
Name & Affiliation: Dr. Vittoria Colizza - ISI Foundation

Friday, September 3rd, 15:30-15:45, Conference Closing - Room Pithecusa