16th International Workshop on
High-Level Parallel Programming Models and
Supportive Environments

held in conjunction with

Anchorage (Alaska) USA, May 20, 2011

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Keynote Photos

 

Scope

The 16th HIPS workshop, to be held as a full-day meeting at the IPDPS 2011 conference in Anchorage, focuses on high-level programming of multiprocessors, compute clusters, and massively parallel machines. Like previous workshops in the series, which was established in 1996, this event serves as a forum for research in the areas of parallel applications, language design, compilers, runtime systems, and programming tools. It provides a timely and lightweight forum for scientists and engineers to present the latest ideas and findings in these rapidly changing fields.

Topics of Interest

This year we especially encourage innovative approaches in the areas of emerging programming models for large-scale parallel systems and many-core architectures. The topics include but are not limited to:

Invited Keynote

Speaker:: John Mellor-Crummey

Title: "Coarray Fortran 2.0: A productive language for scalable scientific computing"

Abstract: Coarray Fortran 2.0 (CAF 2.0) is a set of extensions to Fortran that we believe provides a practical, productive model for writing scientific programs for scalable parallel systems. CAF 2.0, a partitioned global address space programming model based on one-sided communication, is a coherent synthesis of concepts from MPI, Unified Parallel C, and IBM's X10 programming language. CAF 2.0 includes a broad array of features including process subsets known as teams, team-based asynchronous collective communication, communication topologies, dynamic allocation of shared data, global pointers, along with synchronization constructs including finish, a communication fence, and events. The design of CAF 2.0 is intended to support coupled parallel applications such as the Community Earth System Model. This talk will describe the design and implementation of CAF 2.0, present examples from benchmarks and emerging applications to highlight the utility of CAF 2.0 features, and summarize emerging performance results with benchmarks and applications on large-scale parallel systems.

Workshop Program

TimeHoward Rock AHoward Rock B
8:45-9:00Torsten Hoefler: Workshop Opening and Overview
9:00-10:00Keynote: John Mellor-Crummey: Coarray Fortran 2.0: A productive language for scalable scientific computing
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:00
Message-Driven and Task-Based Environment
(Chair: Pavan Balaji)
Phil Miller and Aaron Becker and Laxmikant V. Kale:
  Using Shared Arrays in Message-Driven Parallel Programs
George Bosilca and Aurelien Bouteiller and Anthony Danalis and Thomas Herault and Jack Dongarra and Pierre Lemarinier:
  DAGuE: A generic distributed DAG engine for high performance computing
Clemens Grelck:
 The Essence of Synchronisation in Asynchronous Data Flow
GPU Computing and Compilation
(Chair: Felix Wolf)
Daniel Playne and Kenneth A. Hawick:
 Auto-Generation of Parallel Finite-Differencing Code for MPI, TBB and CUDA
Michel Steuwer and Philipp Kegel and Sergey Gorlatch:
 SkelCL - A Portable Skeleton Library for High-Level GPU Programming
Jing Guo and Antonio Wendell O Rodrigues and Jeyarajan Thiyagalingam and Frederic Guyomarc'h and Pierre Boulet and Sven-Bodo Scholz:
 Harnessing the Power of GPUs without Losing Abstractions in SAC and ArrayOL: A Comparative Study
12:00-13:00Lunch Break
13:00-15:00
PGAS and MPI
(Chair: Torsten Hoefler)
Olivier Serres and Ahmad Anbar and Saumil Merchant and Abdullah Kayi and Tarek El-Ghazawi:
 Address translation optimization for Unified Parallel C multi-dimensional arrays
Jesper Larsson Traff:
 A (radical) proposal addressing the non-scalability of the irregular MPI collective interfaces
Joshua J Hursey and Richard Graham:
 Preserving Collective Performance Across Process Failure for a Fault Tolerant MPI
Lingyuan Wang and Saumil Merchant and Tarek El-Ghazawi:
 Exploiting Hierarchical Parallelism Using UPC
High-Level Programming
(Chair: Patricia Kovatch)
Kostadin Damevski and Tamara Dahlgren:
 Parallel Object Contracts for High Performance Computing
Pieter Hijma and Rob V van Nieuwpoort and Ceriel Jacobs and Henri Bal:
 Automatically Inserting Synchronization Statements in Divide-and-Conquer Programs
Bin Ren and Gagan Agrawal:
 Translating Chapel to Use FREERIDE: A Case Study in Using a HPC Language for Data-Intensive Computing
Shigeru Kusakabe:
 Large Volume Testing for Executable Formal Specification using Hadoop
15:00-15:30Coffee Break
15:30-17:00
Performance Analysis and Debugging
(Chair: Jesper Larsson Träff)
Geoffrey Stoker and Jeffrey K Hollingsworth:
 Towards a Methodology for Deliberate Sample-Based Statistical Performance Analysis
Vilas Jagannath and Zuoning Yin and Mihai Budiu:
 Monitoring and Debugging DryadLINQ Applications with Daphne
Nick Rutar and Jeffrey K Hollingsworth:
 Data Centric Techniques for Mapping Performance Measurements
Many- and Multicore Architectures and Optimizations
(Chair: Craig Rasmussen)
Fuat Keceli and Alexandros Tzannes and George Caragea and Rajeev Barua and Uzi Vishkin:
 Toolchain for Programming, Simulating and Studying the XMT Many-Core Architecture
Martin Sandrieser and Siegfried Benkner and Sabri Pllana:
 Explicit Platform Descriptions for Heterogeneous Many-Core Architectures
Ettore Speziale and Andrea Di Biagio and Giovanni Agosta:
 An Optimized Reduction Design to Minimize Atomic Operations in Shared Memory Multiprocessors

Schedule and Submission Procedure

Submission deadline: December 20, 2010 (extended)
Author notification: February 7, 2011
Camera-ready final papers due: February 18, 2011

The HIPS workshop proceedings will be published electronically along with the IPDPS conference proceedings via IEEE Xplore. Submitted manuscripts should be formatted according to IPDPS proceedings guidelines: 10-point fonts, single-spaced, and two-column format. The page size is US letter (8.5x11 inch). The maximal length is 8 pages. All papers must be in English. A call for papers in pdf format can be found here.

The workshop uses the EDAS conference manager for submission and notification. An author needs to register with EDAS as a user if this has not been done previously. Start the paper by providing the title and the abstract in plain text, and then submit the full paper in PDF. Please click here to start the process and follow the instructions. If you experience any problem, please contact us immediately.

The best papers in the area of parallel computing will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of Elsevier Parallel Computing (PARCO).

Committees

Workshop Chair
Torsten Hoefler Blue Waters Directorate, NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Steering Committee
Rudolf Eigenmann Purdue University, USA
Michael Gerndt Technische Universität München, Germany
Frank Müller North Carolina State University, USA
Craig Rasmussen Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Martin Schulz Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Program Committee (alphabetically)
Sadaf Alam Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland
Pavan Balaji Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Richard Barrett Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Brett Bode National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA
George Bosilca University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA
Greg Bronevetsky Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Anthony Danalis University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA
Bronis de Supinski Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Chen Ding University of Rochester, USA
Michael Gerndt Technische Universität München, Germany
Thomas Fahringer University of Innsbruck, Austria
Yutaka Ishikawa University of Tokyo, Japan
Andreas Knüpfer Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Bernd Mohr Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Craig Rasmussen Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Sven-Bodo Scholz University of Herfordshire, UK
Martin Schulz Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Tony Skjellum University of Alabama Birmingham, USA
Marc Snir University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Fabian Tillier Microsoft, USA
Jesper Larsson Träff University of Vienna, Austria
Jeremiah Willcock Indiana University, USA
Felix Wolf German Research School for Simulation Sciences, Germany

Contact

For further questions, please contact Torsten Hoefler.

  

This event is supported by

IEEE Computer Society

IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing

Previous HIPS Workshops

15th HIPS 2010 April 19th 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
14th HIPS 2009 May 25th 2009, Rome, Italy.
13th HIPS 2008 April 14th 2008, Miami, Florida, USA.
12th HIPS 2007 March 26th 2007, Long Beach, California, USA.
11th HIPS 2006 April 25th 2006, Rhodes Island, Greece.
10th HIPS 2005 April 4th 2005, Denver, Colorado, USA.
9th HIPS 2004 April 26th 2004, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
8th HIPS 2003 April 22th 2003, Nice, France.
7th HIPS 2002 April 15th 2002, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.
6th HIPS 2001 April 23rd 2001, San Francisco, CA, USA.
5th HIPS 2000 May 1st 2000, Cancun, Mexico.
4th HIPS 1999 April 12th 1999, San Juan, Puero Rico, USA.
3rd HIPS 1998 March 30th 1998, Orlando, FL, USA.
2nd HIPS 1997 April 1st, 1997, Geneva, Switzerland.
1st HIPS 1996 April 16th, 1996, Honolulu, HI, USA.

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