Agenda

Thursday, November 29th

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and Introduction

  Bruce Hendrickson - Sandia Welcome to the DOE/DOD Workshop on Emerging Architectures & Applications

9:15 - 10:00 Trends in Architecture

    

Peter Kogge - Notre Dame

The Shape of Things to Come: Future Trends in HPC Architectures

10:00 - 10:30 HPC and Cell

Michael Perrone - IBM

Proper Care & Feeding of Multicore Beasts

Peter Hofstee - IBM

Intro to Cell Broadband Engine for HPC

10:30 - 11:00 XMT and Multithreading

Petr Konecny - Cray

Introducing the Cray XMT

11:45 - 12:45 Application Talks

Bob Lucas - USC

Interactive, Real-Time, Distributed, Heterogeneous, Agent-based Computing

Ken Koch - Los Alamos National Lab

Sweep3D (Sn transport) & other key Roadrunner applications

John Gilbert - UC Santa Barbara

Difficult Problems in High-Performance Computation on Large Graphs

Samuel Williams - UC Berkeley

Tuning Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication for multi-core SMPs

1:45 - 3:15 Application Talks

Lise Getoor - University of Maryland, College Park

Graph Identification & Alignment

Martin Berzins

Multi-scale Simulations of Fires and Explosions (and other things)

Sherry Li - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Sparse Direct Solver on Today's Architectures

David Bader - Georgia Tech.

Achieving sustainability through exascale analysis of complex biological networks

Jean-Paul Watson - Sandia

Some Challenges in Combinatorial Optimization for High-Performance Computing

Bradford W. Miller - Raytheon IDS

Characteristics of Cognitive Applications that Drive Architectural Choices

   
Friday, November 30th

8:30 - 10:15 Application Talks

Stéphane Ethier- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Computational Challenges in Large-Scale Gyrokinetic Particle-in-Cell
Christos Faloutsos - Carnegie Mellon University Graph Mining, self-similarity and power laws
Jarek Nieplocha - PNNL High Performance Computing for Situational Awareness in Power System Grid

Breakout Group Summaries

David A. Bader and John Johnson

Algorithmic scalability and load balancing

Mike Merrill / Peter Kogge Architectural Scalability
Lenny Oliker / Tom Sterling Memory System Utilization
Kathy Yelick
Jeff Vetter
Productivity and Performance
Bill Carlson
Guang Gao
Programming Models & Portability
Kunle Olukotun
Jarek Nieplocha
Single Node Performance

 


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