Workshop Programme

 

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09:00 - Opening Remarks (Prof. Stephen Jarvis, Workshop Chair)


09:00 - 09:30 - Using Simulation to Design Extreme Scale Applications and Architectures

  1. C.L. Janssen, J.P. Kenny, H. Adalsteinsson & A.G. Taube

  2. Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, USA; D.E. Shaw Research, New York, NY, USA


09:30 - 10:00 - Performance Analysis of the OP2 Multi-Layer Abstraction Framework on Many-Core Architectures

  1. M.B. Giles, P.H. Kelly, G. Markall, G.R. Mudalige & Z. Sharif

  2. University of Oxford, UK; Imperial College London, UK


10:00 - 10:30 - Coffee Break


10:30 - 11:00 - Benchmarking and Modelling of POWER-7, Westmere, BG/P and GPUs: An Industry Case Study

  1. J.A. Herdman

  2. Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE plc), UK


11:00 - 11:30 - Performance Analysis of a Hybrid MPI/CUDA Implementation of the NAS-LU Benchmark

  1. S.J. Pennycook, S.D. Hammond, G.R. Mudalige & S.A. Jarvis

  2. University of Warwick, UK; University of Oxford, UK


11:30 - 12:00 - Memory Trace Compression and Replay for SPMD Systems using Extended PRSDs

  1. S. Ramanna, F. Mueller & T. Gamblin

  2. North Carolina State University, USA; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA


12:00 - 12:30 - The Structural Simulation Toolkit

  1. A.F. Rodrigues, J. Cook, E. Cooper-Balis, K. Scott Hemmert, C. Kersey, R. Riesen, P. Rosenfield, R. Oldfield, M. Weston, B. Barrett & B. Jacob

  2. Sandia National Laboratory, NM, USA; New Mexico State University, USA; University of Maryland, USA


12:30 - 13:00 - Lunch


13:30 - 14:00 - Parallel Memory Prediction for Fused Linear Algebra Kernels

  1. I. Karlin, E.R. Jessup, G. Belter & J. Siek

  2. University of Colorado, USA


14:00 - 14:30 - A Fast GEMM Implementation on a Cypress GPU

  1. N. Nakasato

  2. University of Aizu, Japan


14:30 - 15:00 - Performance Characteristics of Hybrid MPI/OpenMP Implementations of NAS Parallel Benchmarks

SP and BT on Large-Scale Multi-core Clusters

  1. X. Wu & V. Taylor

  2. Texas A&M University, USA


15:00 - 15:30 - Coffee Break


15:30 - 16:00 - A Framework for Architecture-Level Power, Area and Thermal Simulation and its Application to

Network-on-chip Design Exploration

  1. M. Hsieh, K. Thompson, W. Song, A.F. Rodrigues & R. Risen

  2. Sandia National Laboratory, NM, USA; New Mexico State University, USA; Georgia Institute of Technology, USA


16:00 - 16:30 - Should We Worry About Memory Loss?

  1. O.F.J. Perks, S.D. Hammond, S.J. Pennycook, S.A. Jarvis, I. Miller, J.A. Herdman & J. Hollocombe

  2. University of Warwick, UK; Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE plc), UK; Tessella PLC, UK


16:30 - 17:00 - A Statistical Performance Model of the Opteron Processor

  1. J. Cook & W. Al-Kohlani

  2. New Mexico State University, USA


17:00 - 17:30 - Preliminary Design Examination of the ParalleX System from a Software and Hardware Perspective

  1. A. Tabbal, M. Anderson, M. Brodowics, H. Kaiser & T. Sterling

  2. Louisiana State University, USA


17:30 - 18:00 - Energy-aware Metrics for Benchmarking Heterogeneous Systems

  1. S.N. McIntosh-Smith, T. Wilson, A. Avila Ibarra & R.B. Sessions

  2. University of Bristol, UK


18:00 - Closing Remarks