4th International Workshop on

Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS13)

held as part of SC13, Denver, Colorado, USA, November 2013

in cooperation with ACM SIGMETRICS

08:50 - 09:00 - Welcome to PMBS Workshop (Rm 502)


09:00 - 10:00 - Technical Papers


09:00 - 09:30 - Analysis of Cray XC30 Performance using Trinity-NERSC-8 Benchmarks and Comparison with Cray XE6 and IBM BG/Q [Preliminary PDF]

M. Cordery, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, N. Wright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, B. Austin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, C. Daley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, H. Wasserman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, S. Hammond, Sandia National Laboratories, D.Doerfler, Sandia National Laboratories


09:30 - 10:00 - Quantifying Architectural Requirements of Contemporary Extreme-Scale Scientific Applications [Preliminary PDF]

J. Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Georgia Tech, S. Lee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, D. Li, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, G. Marin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, C. McCurdy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, J. Meredith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P. Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, K. Spafford


10:00 - 10:30 - Coffee


10:30 - 12:30 - Technical Papers


10:30 - 11:00 - Performance Evaluation of the Intel Sandy Bridge Based NASA Pleiades Using Scientific and Engineering Applications [Preliminary PDF]

Subhash Saini, NASA


11:00 - 11:30 - SESH framework: A Space Exploration Framework for GPU Application and Hardware Codesign [Preliminary PDF]

J. Hwan Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, J. Meng, Argonne National Laboratory, H. Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology


11:30 - 12:00 - Toward Better Simulation of MPI Applications on Ethernet/TCP Networks [Preliminary PDF]

P. Bedaride, LORIA/INRIA/University of Nancy, A. Degomme, CNRS/INRIA/University of Grenoble, S. Genaud, University of Strasbourg, A. Legrand, CNRS/INRIA/University of Grenoble, G. Markomanolis, INRIA/LIP/ENS-Lyon, M. Quinson, LORIA/University of Nancy, M. Stillwell, Cranfield University, F. Suter, CC IN2P3/CNRS, B. Videau, CNRS/INRIA/University of Grenoble


12:00 - 12:30 - Performance Tuning of Fock Matrix and Two-Electron Integral Calculations for NWChem on Leading HPC platforms [Preliminary PDF]

H. Shan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, W. Jong, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, L. Oliker, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, N. Wright, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, B. Austin, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center


12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch


13:30 - 15:00 - Technical Papers


13:30 - 14:00 - Multi Objective Optimization of HPC Kernels for Performance, Power, and Energy [Preliminary PDF]

P. Balaprakash, Argonne National Laboratory, A. Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, S. Wild, Argonne National Laboratory


14:00 - 14:30 - Characterizing the Impact of Prefetching on Scientific Application Performance [Preliminary PDF]

C. McCurdy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, G. Martin, University of Tennessee, J. Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Georgia Tech


14:30 - 15:00 - Tuning HipGISAXS on Multi and Many Core Supercomputers [Preliminary PDF]

A. Sarje, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, X. Sherry Li, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory


15:00 - 15:30 - Coffee


15:30 - 16:30 - Technical Papers


15:30 - 16:00 - Using Simulation to Evaluate the Performance of Resilience Strategies at Scale [Preliminary PDF]

S. Levy, University of New Mexico, B. Topp, University of New Mexico, K. Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories, D. Arnold, University of New Mexico, T. Hoefler, ETH Zurich, P. Widener, Sandia National Laboratories


16:00 - 16:30 - Performance Modeling of Gyrokinetic Toroidal Simulations for a Many-tasking Runtime System [Preliminary PDF]

M. Anderson, Indiana University, M. Brodowicz, Indiana University, A. Kulkarni, Indiana University, T. Sterling, Indiana University


16:30 - 17:45 - Late Breaking and Short Research Papers


16:30 - 16:55 - Analysis of Data Reuse in Task-Parallel Runtimes

M. Pericas, Tokyo Institute of Technology, A. Amer, Tokyo Institute of Technology, K. Taura, University of Tokyo and S. Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology [Preliminary PDF]


16:55 - 17:20 - Performance Analysis of the NWChem TCE for Different Communication Patterns [Preliminary PDF]

P. Ghosh, University of Houston, J. Hammond, Argonne National Laboratory, S. Ghosh, University of Houston and B. Chapman, University of Houston


17:20 - 17:45 - Optimal Checkpointing Period: Times vs. Energy [Preliminary PDF]

G. Aupy, LIP-ENS Lyon-INRIA, A. Benoit, ENS Lyon - LIP, T. Herault, University of Tennesse, Knoxville, Y. Robert, ENS Lyon and J. Dongara, University of Tennesse, Knoxville


17:45 - Workshop Close