 
  Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation 
of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS16) 
held as part of ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2016 (SC16), Salt Lake City, UT, USA
 
   
   
  
  Session 1: Machine Benchmarking and Evaluation
Chair: Stephen Jarvis
9:00 - 9:30
HPC Benchmarking: Problem Size Matters [abstract] [paper]
         
Vladimir Marjanović, José Gracia, Colin W. Glass
         High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, University of Stuttgart, Germany
9:30 - 10:00
An Evaluation of Network Architectures for Next Generation Supercomputers [abstract] [paper]
         
Dong Chen, Philip Heidelberger, Craig Stunkel, Yutaka Sugawara
         IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Cyriel Minkenberg, German Rodriguez
         Rockley Photonics, Switzerland
Bogdan Prisacari
         ETH Zürich, Switzerland
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Session 2: Performance Modeling
Chair: Doug Doerfler
10:30 - 11:00
A Performance Model for Allocating the Parallelism in a Multigrid-in-Time Solver [abstract] [paper]
         
Hormozd Gahvari, Veselin A. Dobrev, Robert D. Falgout, Tzanio V. Kolev, Jacob B. Schroder, Martin Schulz, Ulrike Meier Yang
         Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
11:00 - 11:30
Data-driven Performance Modeling of Linear Solvers for Sparse Matrices [abstract] [paper]
         
Jae-Seung Yeom, Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Abhinav Bhatele, Tzanio Kolev
         Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Greg Bronevetsky
         Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Session 3: Late-breaking Research and Preliminary Techniques
Chair: Steven Wright
11:30 - 11:50
Phase Recognition from Power Traces of HPC Workloads [abstract] [paper]
         
Joseph Granados, Jake Probst, Nick Armour, Jeff Bahns, Suzanne Rivoire
         Department of Computer Science, Sonoma State University, CA
Chang-Hsing Hsu
         Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
11:50 - 12:10
GEOPM: A Vehicle for HPC Community Collaboration Toward Co-Designed Energy Management Solutions [abstract] [paper]
         
Jonathan Eastep, Steve Sylvester, Christopher Cantalupo, Federico Ardanaz, Brad Geltz, Asma Al-Rawi, Fuat Keceli, Kelly
	 Livingston
         Advanced Strategy and Execution, Data Center Group, Intel Corporation
12:10 - 12:30
A Metric for Performance Portability [abstract] [paper]
         
Simon John Pennycook, Jason Sewall, Victor Lee
         Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Session 4: Accelerators and Co-processors
Chair: Satheesh Maheswaran
13:30 - 14:00
Evaluating and Optimizing the NERSC Workload on Knights Landing [abstract] [paper]
         
Taylor Barnes, Brandon Cook, Jack Deslippe, Douglas Doerfler, Brian Friesen, Yun (Helen) He, Thorsten Kurth, Tuomas Koskela, Mathieu Lobet, Tareq Malas, Leonid Oliker, Andrey Ovsyannikov, Abhinav Sarje, Jean-Luc Vay, Henri Vincenti, Samuel Williams
         Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
         
Pierre Carrier, Nathan Wichmann, Marcus Wagner
         Cray Inc., Seattle, WA
Paul Kent
         Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
Christopher Kerr, John Dennis
         National Center for Atmospheric Research, Bolder, CO
14:00 - 14:30
Performance Analysis and Optimization of Clang's OpenMP 4.5 GPU Support [abstract] [paper]
         
Matt Martineau, Simon McIntosh-Smith
         University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Carlo Bertolli, Arpith C. Jacob, Samuel F. Antao, Alexandre Eichenberger, Gheorghe-Teodor Bercea, Tong Chen, Tian Jin, Kevin O'Brien, Georgios Rokos, Hyojin Sung, Zehra Sura
         IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
14:30 - 15:00
Effective Use of Large High-Bandwidth Memory Caches in HPC Stencil Computation via Temporal Wave-Front Tiling [abstract] [paper]
         
Charles Yount
         Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
Alejandro Duran
         Intel Corporation Iberia, Spain
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
Session 5: Performance Modeling and Simulation
Chair: Guido Juckeland
15:30 - 16:00
Static Cost Estimation for Data Layout Selection on GPUs [abstract] [paper]
         
Yuhan Peng, Max Grossman, Vivek Sarkar
         Department of Computer Science Rice University Houston, TX
16:00 - 16:30
Visual Data-Analytics of Large-Scale Parallel Discrete-Event Simulations [abstract] [paper]
         
Caitlin Ross, Christopher D. Carothers
         Computer Science Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY
Misbah Mubarak, Philip Carns, Robert Ross
         Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL
Jianping Kelvin Li and Kwan-Liu Ma
         Computer Science Department University of California, Davis, CA
Session 6: Benchmarking with Proxy- and Mini-applications
Chair: Simon Hammond
16:30 - 17:00
Enabling Work Migration in CoMD to Study Dynamic Load Imbalance Solutions [abstract] [paper]
         
Olga Pearce, David F. Richards
         Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Hadia Ahmed
         Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL
Rasmus W. Larsen
         Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
17:00 - 17:30
Reproducible Stencil Compiler Benchmarks Using PROVA! [abstract] [paper]
         
Danilo Guerrera, Helmar Burkhart, Antonio Maffia
         University of Basel, Switzerland