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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Please forgive the third email in as many days. However a
very important HPC related conference will be held at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">George</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Washington</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> October 3-4<sup>th</sup><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thomas Sterling, one of the co founders of the Beowulf
Projects at NASA Goddard will be one of the speakers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The Second Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) Programming Models
Conference (PGAS 2006)<br>
Cafritz Conference Center/Marvin Center<br>
The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">George</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Washington</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><br>
<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">800 21st Street NW</st1:address></st1:Street><br>
Grand Ballroom<br>
<a href="http://www.ahpcrc.org/conferences/PGAS2006/" target=l
title="http://www.ahpcrc.org/conferences/PGAS2006/"><font color="#3a2eb5"
title="http://www.ahpcrc.org/conferences/PGAS2006/"><span style='color:#3A2EB5'>http://www.ahpcrc.org/conferences/PGAS2006/</span></font></a><br>
<br>
<br>
Preliminary Program <br>
<br>
Tuesday, 3 October 2006 <br>
07:00 - 08:00 Registration and Breakfast <br>
08:00 - 08:15 Welcome, Conference Co-Chairs<br>
Paul Muzio <br>
AHPCRC-NCSI <br>
Tarek El-Ghazawi <br>
The George Washington University <br>
<br>
<br>
08:15 - 09:00 Keynote Address: Towards a New Parallel Execution Model for PGAS
Architectures <br>
Thomas Sterling <br>
Louisiana State University <br>
SESSION 1: Innovative Applications that Use the PGAS Programming Model <br>
<br>
Chair: David Doherty <br>
AHPCRC <br>
09:00 - 09:25 Complex Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulations Enabled by PGAS
Concepts and UPC <br>
Andrew Johnson <br>
AHPCRC-NCSI <br>
09:25 - 09:50 A Case Study of Programmability and Performance of the Titanium
Language <br>
Tong Wen, Jimmy Su, Phillip Colella and Katherine Yelick <br>
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and University of California, Berkeley <br>
09:50 - 10:05 Break <br>
10:05 - 10:30 Using Co-Array Fortran to Implement Fine-Grain Dynamic Load Balancing
in EPIC <br>
Jef Dawson <br>
AHPCRC-NCSI <br>
10:30 - 10:55 Parallelizing Multiscale and Multigranular Spatial Data Mining
Algorithms <br>
Vijay Gandhi, Mete Celik, and Shashi Shekhar <br>
AHPCRC-University of Minnesota <br>
10:55 - 11:20 Parallel Out-of-Core Programming in MATLAB® Using the PGAS Model <br>
Hahn Kim and Jeremy Kepner <br>
MIT Lincoln Laboratory <br>
<br>
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch <br>
SESSION 2: New Developments in PGAS <br>
Chair: Jeremy Kepner <br>
MIT Lincoln Laboratory <br>
13:00 - 13:25 Towards a Sequentially Consistent Memory Model for PGAS Languages
<br>
Amir Kamil, Jimmy Su, and Katherine Yelick <br>
University of California, Berkeley <br>
13:25 - 13:50 The UPC-IO Library, Specification and Reference Implementation <br>
Yiyi Yao, Kun Xi, Tarek El-Ghazawi, and Rajeev Thakur <br>
The George Washington University and Argonne National Laboratory <br>
13:50 - 14:15 Enhancing the expressiveness, programmability and performance of
Co-array Fortran <br>
Yuri Dotsenko and John Mellor-Crummey <br>
Rice University <br>
14:15 - 14:40 Cooperative Multithreading and Remote Function Invocation in UPC <br>
Parry Husbands, Esmond Ng, and Katherine Yelick <br>
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory <br>
14:40 - 15:05 Atomic Memory Operations for PGAS programming <br>
Phillip R. Merkey <br>
Michigan Tech <br>
<br>
15:05 - 15:20 Break <br>
SESSION 3: HPCS Languages Update <br>
15:20 - 15:25 Introduction <br>
Rusty Lusk, Chair <br>
Argonne National Laboratory <br>
15:25 - 15:50 Programming Scientific Computations in X10 <br>
Tong Wen, Vijay Saraswat, and Vivek Sarkar <br>
IBM <br>
15:50 - 16:15 Early Experiences with Chapel <br>
Brad Chamberlain <br>
Cray Inc. <br>
16:15 - 16:40 Fortress from the Programmer's Perspective <br>
Jan-Willem Maessen and Christine Flood <br>
Sun <br>
16:40 - 17:05 What's in it for the Users? Looking Toward the HPCS Languages and
Beyond <br>
David Bernholdt, Wael Elwasif, and Robert Harrison <br>
<st1:City w:st="on">Oak Ridge</st1:City> National Laboratory <br>
17:05 - 17:30 HPCS Language Workshop Report: Findings and Plans for HPCS
Language Development <br>
Katherine Yelick and Rusty Lusk <br>
Lawrence <st1:City w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:City> National Laboratory and <st1:place
w:st="on">Argonne</st1:place> National Laboratory <br>
<br>
18:30 Banquet <br>
The Hotel Washington <br>
15th & <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Pennsylvania Ave.
N.W.</st1:address></st1:Street> <br>
Wednesday, 4 October 2006 <br>
07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast <br>
POSTER SESSION <br>
07:00 - 08:30 <br>
<br>
One-Sided UPC Collectives <br>
Steve Seidel <br>
<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Michigan</st1:place></st1:State>
Tech. U. <br>
<br>
Sourcery VSIPL++ - A Library Providing Parallel Global Array Semantics <br>
Jules Bergmann <br>
CodeSourcery, Inc. <br>
<br>
Parallel Global Address Space Framework with Multiple Inter-Operable
Abstractions <br>
Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Brian Larkins, Atanas Rountev, P. Sadayappan,
Jarek Nieplocha, and Robert J. Harrison <br>
The Ohio State University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Oak
Ridge National Laboratory <br>
<br>
A Parallel Global Address Space Framework for MATLAB® <br>
Rajkiran Panuganti, Muthu Baskaran, David Hudak, Ashok Krishnamurthy,
Jarek Nieplocha, Atanas Rountev, and P. Sadayappan <br>
The Ohio State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory <br>
<br>
A Demonstration of the GASP Tool Interface and the PPW Performance Tool <br>
Adam Leko, Hung-Hsun Su, Dan Bonachea, Max Billingsley III, Hans Sherburne,
Bryan Golden and Alan D. George <br>
University of Florida and University of California, Berkeley <br>
<br>
SESSION 4: PGAS Tools <br>
Chair: Tarek El-Ghazawi <br>
The George Washington University <br>
08:30 - 08:55 pMapper: Automatically Partitioning the Global Address Space <br>
Nadya Travinin Bliss and Sanjeev Mohindra <br>
MIT Lincoln Laboratory <br>
08:55 - 09:20 Performance Analysis Tools for Partitioned Global-Address-Space
Programming <br>
Adam Leko, Hung-Hsun Su, Dan Bonachea, Max Billingsley III, Hans
Sherburne, Bryan Golden and Alan D. George <br>
University of Florida and University of California, Berkeley <br>
09:20 - 09:45 Strong Scaling Analysis of CAF Codes Using Calling Contexts <br>
Cristian Coarfa, Nathan Froyd, Fengmei Zhao, and John Mellor-Crummey <br>
Rice University <br>
<br>
09:45 - 10:00 Break <br>
SESSION 5: PGAS Optimization and Performance <br>
Chair: Lauren Smith <br>
Department of Defense <br>
10:00 - 10:25 Efficient Point-to-point Synchronization in UPC <br>
Dan Bonachea, Rajesh Nishtala, Paul Hargrove, and Katherine Yelick <br>
University of California, Berkeley <br>
10:25 - 10:50 Exploring the Performance, Efficiency, and Complexity of PGAS
Languages with Apex-MAP <br>
Erich Strohmaier and Hongzhang Shan <br>
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory <br>
10:50 - 11:15 A Performance Comparison of UPC vs MPI and OpenMP <br>
Jason Beech-Brandt and Andrew Johnson <br>
AHPCRC-NCSI <br>
CLOSING PANEL DISCUSSION: What Do We Need from Hardware Designers to Support
PGAS Performance? <br>
11:15 - 12:30 <br>
<br>
William Carlson, Chair <br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">IDA</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> for Computing Sciences <br>
<br>
Richard Walsh <br>
AHPCRC-NCSI <br>
<br>
Greg Titus <br>
Cray Inc. <br>
<br>
Dan Bonachea <br>
University of California, Berkeley <br>
<br>
Patrick Geoffray <br>
Myricom, Inc. <br>
<br>
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