High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC 2007)

SCS Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim'07)

Monday March 26, 2007

07:00 - 08:00 Speaker's breakfast

08:30 - 10:00 Spring Simulation Multiconference Keynote Address

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00 SCS/SISO Joint Plenary Session

12:00 - 01:30 Lunch (on your own)

01:30 - 03:00 HPC Session 1

High Performance Computing Symposium Keynote Address:
Session Chair: Layne Watson

Mathematical Software for High-end Computational Science and Engineering
David Keyes, Columbia University

03:30 - 05:00 HPC Session 2

High Performance Applications
Session Chair: Tomasz Haupt

Fusing and Composing Macromolecular Regulatory Network Models
Ranjit Randhawa, Clifford A. Shaffer, and John J. Tyson (Virginia Tech)

Biomolecular Network Simulator: Software for Stochastic Simulation of Cellular Biological Processes
Yaroslav Chushak (US Army Medical Research and Material Command), Brent Foy (Wright State University), and John Frazier (AFRL)

A Shared Memory Parallel Algorithm for Hybrid Image Classification
Rhonda Phillips, Layne Watson, and Randolph Wynne (Virginia Tech)

Tuesday March 27, 2007

07:00 - 08:00 Speaker's breakfast

08:30 - 10:00 HPC Session 3

Problem-Solving Environments and High Performance Software Tools
Session Chair: Adrian Sandu

Simulation of a Complex Distributed Real-Time Database System
Waqar Haque and Paul Stokes (University of Northern British Columbia)

Dynamic Scheduling in Parallel Answer Set Programming Solvers
Hung Viet Le and Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State University)

Overcoming the processor communication overhead in MPI applications
Gabriel Mateescu (National Research Council, Canada)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00 HPC Session 4: Special Session

Component-based High Performance Applications
Session Chair: Masha Sosonkina

Application of the SALOME Software Architecture to Nuclear Reactor Research
Vincent Bergeaud and Marc Tajchman (CEA/DEN, France)

*HPC 2007 Best Paper Award*
A Hybrid Decomposition Scheme for Building Scientific Workflows
Wei Lu (Indiana University), Kenneth Chiu (SUNY Binghamton), Satoshi Shirasuna (Indiana University), and Dennis Gannon (Indiana University)

Analyzing the Impact of Computational Heterogeneity on Runtime Performance of Parallel Scientific Components
Sumir Chandra (Rutgers University), Manish Parashar (Rutgers University), and Jaideep Ray (Sandia National Laboratories)

12:00 - 01:30 Lunch. HPC 2008 Planning Meeting.

01:30 - 03:00 HPC Session 5

Parallel Algorithms and Architectures
Session Chair: Will Thacker

Performance of Stabilized Explicit Time Integration Methods For Parallel Air Quality Models
Anurag Srivastava, John C. Linford, and Adrian Sandu (Virginia Tech)

Optimization Algorithms for Multi-service IP Network Planning
Thi-Thanh-Mai Hoang (University of Potsdam, Germany)

Experimental Evaluation of Infiniband Transport over Local and Wide-Area Networks
Steven Carter, Makia Minich, and Nageswara S. V. Rao (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

03:00 - 03:30 Coffee break

03:30 - 05:00 HPC Session 6

Grid Computing
Session Chair: Cliff Shaffer

2-step Algorithm for Enhancing Effectiveness of Sender-based Message Logging
Jinho Ahn (Kyonggi University, South Korea)

C++ Reflection for High Performance Problem Solving Environments
Tharaka Devadithya (Indiana University), Kenneth Chiu (SUNY Binghamton), and Wei Lu (Indiana University)

BXSA for Fast Processing of Scientific Data
Tharaka Devadithya (Indiana University), Zongde Liu (SUNY Binghamton), Nayef Abu-Ghazaleh (SUNY Binghamton), Wei Lu (Indiana University), Kenneth Chiu (SUNY Binghamton), and Stephane Ethier (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)