PGAS 2009

Conference Program


Monday, Oct. 5
9:00 am      Tutorials (Parallel Sessions 1, 2, 3)
 
Tutorial Session 1 - Room # 131
Unified Parallel C
   Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University
Tutorial Session 2 - Room # 133
Co-Array Fortran
   Robert Numrich, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
Tutorial Session 3 - Room # 305
X10
   Igor Peshansky, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
12:00 pm Lunch - Room #121
1:00 pm      Tutorials (Parallel Sessions 4, 5, 6)
 
Tutorial Session 4 - Room # 131
PGAS Application Analysis using Parallel Performance Wizard
   Max Billingsley III, Hung-Hsun Su, University of Florida
Tutorial Session 5 - Room # 133
Approaches to Teaching PGAS Languages - Experiences with Co-Array Fortran
   Dan Nagle, Chair J3 Fortran Working Group
   Bill Long, Cray Inc.
   Robert Numrich, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
   John Wallin, George Mason University
Tutorial Session 6 - Room # 305
Chapel
 Steve Deitz, Cray Inc.
4:00 pm   Adjourn
   
Tuesday, Oct. 6
8:30 am Welcome and Opening Remarks: Tarek El-Ghazawi, Steve Seidel
9:00 Keynote Address: Douglass Post, DoD
10:00 Break - Room #121
Contributed Papers Session 1: Language Design - Room # 101
Chair : Lauren Smith, DoD
10:30 Teams for Co-Array Fortran
Robert Numrich
Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
10:50 A New Vision for Coarray Fortran
John Mellor-Crummey,  Laksono Adhianto,  William Scherer III
Rice University
11:10 A Comparative Study and Empirical Evaluation of Global View HPL Program in X10
Ganesh Bikshandi1,  Gheorghe Almasi2,  Sreedhar Kodali1,  Vijay Saraswat2,  Sayantan Sur2
1IBM STG, India, 2IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
11:30 Evaluating Error Detection Capabilities of UPC Run-time Systems
Glenn Luecke,  James Coyle,  James Hoekstra,  Marina Kraeva,  Ying Xu,  Elizabeth Kleiman,  Olga Weiss
Iowa State University
12:00 Lunch - Room #121
1:00 pm Keynote Address: Beyond UPC,Kathy Yelick, NERSC
2:00 Panel: Is the PGAS model appropriate for heterogenous computing? - Room # 101
Convener: Tarek El-Ghazawi, GWU
Kathy Yelick, NERSC
Jeff Vetter, ORNL
Marc Snir, UIUC
Barbara Chapman, Univ. of Houston
Steve Seidel, MTU
Contributed Papers Session 2: Performance - Room # 101
3:30 Break - Room #121
Chair : Beth Tibbitts, IBM
4:00 A Practical Study of UPC with the NAS Parallel Benchmarks
Haoqiang Jin,  Robert Hood,  Piyush Mehrotra
NASA Ames
4:20 UPC Performance Evaluation on a Multicore System
Damian A. Mallon1,  J. Carlos Mouriño1,  Andres Gomez1,  Guillermo L. Taboada2,  Carlos Teijeiro2,  
Juan Touriño2,  Basilio B. Fraguela2,  Ramon Doallo2,  Brian Wibecan3

1Galicia Supercomputing Center (CESGA), 2University of A Coruna (UDC), 3Hewlett-Packard (HP)
4:40 Evaluation of UPC Programmability Using Classroom Studies
Carlos Teijeiro1,  Guillermo L. Taboada1,  Juan Touriño1,  Basilio B. Fraguela1,  
Ramón Doallo1,  Damián A. Mallón2,  Andrés Gómez2,  J. Carlos Mouriño2,  Brian Wibecan3

1University of A Coruña, 2CESGA, 3Hewlett-Packard
5:00 ScaleUPC: A UPC Compiler for Multi-Core Systems
Weiming Zhao and Zhenlin Wang
Michigan Technological University
5:30 Reception/Banquet
   
Wednesday, Oct. 7
8:30 am Announcements: Tarek El-Ghazawi
9:00 Keynote Address: Shared memory programming on distributed memory systems, Marc Snir, UIUC
Contributed Papers Session 3: Applications - Room # 101
Chair : Brian Wibecan, HP
10:00 A Simple Parallel Approximation Algorithm for Maximum Weight Matching
Alicia Thorsen1,  Phillip Merkey1,  Fredrik Manne2
1Michigan Technological University, 2University of Bergen, Norway
10:20 Fast PGAS Connected Components Algorithms
Guojing Cong,  Gheorghe Almasi,  Vijay Saraswat
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
10:40 Break - Room #121
11:00 Invited Talk: Coarrays in Fortran 2008
John Reid, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
12:00 Lunch - Room #121
1:00 pm Panel: Runtime systems and hardware support for PGAS languages - Room # 101
Convener: Stephen Poole, ORNL
Tong Liu, Mellanox
Christian Bell, Myricom
Keith Underwood, Intel
Georghe Almasi, IBM
Vinod Tipparaju, ORNL
2:30 Break - Room #121
    Parallel Sessions
    Tutorial Session 7 - Room # 131
3:00 - 5:00 UPC Eclipse Tools
     Beth Tibbitts, IBM
    UPC Workshop - Room # 305
3:00 - 4:15 Standards And Governance
4:15   Break - Room #121
4:30 - 6:30 Language Proposals
   
Thursday, Oct. 8
    UPC Workshop - Room # 305
8:00 am Language Proposals
10:00 Break - Room #121
10:15 Language Proposals
12:15 pm Working lunch - Language Proposals
1:30   Language Proposals
4:00 Adjourn

 

 

Shuttle Schedule (between Hyatt Place Sterling and GWU):

Monday, October 5

 

Depart Hotel

8:15 am

Depart GWU

4:15 pm

Tuesday, October 6

 

Depart Hotel

7:45 am

Depart GWU

8:30 pm

Wednesday, October 7

 

Depart Hotel

7:45 am

Depart GWU

5:00 pm

Thursday, October 8

 

Depart Hotel

7:15 am

Depart GWU

3:30 pm