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IEEE Cluster 2009 Schedule

Registration and Exhibits Schedule

Registration Schedule (all in Queen Anne/Mezzanine A)
Monday, August 317:30 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, September 17:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, September 27:00 am - 4:00 pm
Thursday, September 37:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, September 48:00 am - noon
Exhibits Schedule (all in La Nouvelle Orleans East & West)
Tuesday, September 110:00 am - 3:00 pmExhibits set-up
3:00 pm - 3:30 pmExhibits Open & Break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pmExhibits Open
6:00 pm - 8:00 pmExhibits Open & Poster Session & Reception
Wednesday, September 210:00 am - 10:30 amExhibits Open & Break
10:30 am - 3:00 pmExhibits Open
3:00 pm - 3:30 pmExhibits Open & Break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pmExhibits Open
Thursday, September 38:30 am - 3:00 pmExhibits tear-down

 

Technical Program Schedule

(Click title for talk/poster abstract)

Monday, August 31
La Nouvelle Orleans EastLa Nouvelle Orleans WestOrleans RoomIberville Room
8:30-10:00 Tutorial: Performance Analysis and optimization with Open_SpeedShop
Jim Galarowicz, Don Maghrak - Krell Institute; Martin Schulz - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; David Montoya - Los Alamos National Laboratory; Scott Cranford - Sandia National Laboratories
(slides)
Tutorial: Developing Scientific Applications Using Eclipse and the Parallel Tools Platform
Beth Tibbitts, Greg Watson - IBM; Jay Alameda - NCSA; Jeff Overbey - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(slides)
Workshop: High Performance Interconnects for Distributed Computing
8:30 - Invited Research Talk - Nageswara S. V. Rao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Wide-Area InfiniBand RDMA: Experimental Evaluation
(slides)
9:00 - Invited Research Talk - Jim Hofmann, Naval Research Laboratory, Lustre in a WAN Environment
(slides)
Workshop on Parallel Programming on Accelerator Clusters (PPAC)
8:45 - Opening Remarks
9:00 - Keynote: Adolfy Hoisie (Los Alamos National Laboratory), An End-to-End Example of Performance Modeling in Action: Hybrid Architectures and Applications
10:00-10:30 Break (Bienville Room)
10:30-12:00 Tutorial: Performance Analysis and optimization with Open_SpeedShop continues
Tutorial: Developing Scientific Applications Using Eclipse and the Parallel Tools Platform continues
Workshop: High Performance Interconnects for Distributed Computing
10:30 - Gilad Shainer, Tong Liu, Jeffrey Layton and Joshua Mora (Mellanox). Scheduling Strategies for HPC as a Service (HPCaaS)
(slides)
11:00 - Hari Subramoni, Ping Lai, Miao Luo and Dhabaleswar Panda (The Ohio State University). RDMA over Ethernet - A Preliminary Study
(slides)
11:30 - Benjamin Allan, Helen Chen, Scott Cranford, Ron Minnich, Don Rudish and Lee Ward (Sandia National Laboratory). On Optimizing I/O Through InfiniBand RDMA for Commodity Clusters
(slides)
Workshop on Parallel Programming on Accelerator Clusters (PPAC)
10:30 - Volodymyr Kindratenko, Jeremy Enos, Guochun Shi, Michael Showerman, Galen Arnold, John Stone, James Phillips and Wen-mei Hwu, GPU Clusters for High-Performance Computing
11:00 - Orion Lawlor, Message Passing for GPGPU Clusters: cudaMPI
(slides)
11:30 - Veerendra Allada, Troy Benjegerdes and Brett Bode, Performance Analysis of Memory Transfers and GEMM subroutines on NVIDIA Tesla GPU Cluster
(slides)
12:00-1:00 Lunch (Royal Ballroom)
1:00-3:00 Tutorial: Parallel Distributed-Memory Visualization with Paraview
Kenneth Moreland - Sandia National Laboratories; David E DeMarle - Kitware, Inc.
(slides)
Tutorial: Programming using the Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) Model
Tarek El-Ghazawi - George Washington University; Vijay Saraswat - IBM
(slides)
Workshop: High Performance Interconnects for Distributed Computing
1:00 - Invited Industry Talk: David Southwell, Obsidian Strategics Inc.
(slides)
2:00 - Panel Discussion: Disruptive Forces in Distributed High Performance Communication Services
Workshop on Parallel Programming on Accelerator Clusters (PPAC)
1:30 - Naohito Nakasato and Jun Makino, A Compiler for High Performance Computing With Many-Core Accelerators
(slides)
2:00 - Timothy Hartley, Ahmed Fasih, Charles Berdanier, Fusun Ozguner and Umit Catalyurek, Investigating the Use of GPU-Accelerated Nodes for SAR Image Formation
(slides)
2:30 - Eric Van Hensbergen and Damir Jamsek, Kirin: Experiences with Hybrid Clusters
(slides)
3:00-3:30 Break (Bienville Room)
3:30-5:00 Tutorial: Parallel Distributed-Memory Visualization with Paraview continues
Tutorial: Programming using the Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) Model continues
Workshop: High Performance Interconnects for Distributed Computing
3:30 - German Rodriguez (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Cyriel Minkenberg (IBM Research, Zurich Research Laboratory), Ramon Beivide (Universidad de Cantabria), Ronald Luijten (IBM Research, Zurich Research Laboratory), Jesus Labarta and Mateo Valero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center). Oblivious Routing Schemes in Extended Generalized Fat Tree Networks
(slides)
4:00 - Kim Khoa Nguyen and Brigitte Jaumard (Concordia University). Distributed Control Plane Architecture of Next Generation IP Routers
(slides)
4:30 - Diego Lugones, Daniel Franco and Emilio Luque (Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona, Spain). Fast-Response Multipath Routing Policy for High-Speed Interconnection Networks
(slides)
Workshop on Parallel Programming on Accelerator Clusters (PPAC)
3:30 - Panel: Programming Accelerator Clusters — Where Do We Go From Here?
Panelists: Wuchun Feng, Adolfy Hoisie, Jeffrey Vetter

 

 

 

Tuesday, September 1
7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast (Royal Ballroom)
8:30-8:45 Opening Remarks (Queen Anne Ballroom)
Daniel S. Katz
8:45-9:30 Keynote (Queen Anne Ballroom)
John Gustafson
Intel
Future Clusters
(slides)
9:30-10:00 Plenary (Queen Anne Ballroom)
David Jackson
Adaptive Computing
Adaptive HPC - the next generation of HPC workload and systems management
10:00-10:30 Break (Bienville Room and Queen Anne Parlor)
10:30-12:00 Orleans RoomIberville RoomQueen Anne Ballroom
Technical Paper Session: Scheduling I
Chair: Amy Apon
Technical Paper Session: Networking
Chair: Daniel S. Katz
Technical Paper Session: Reliability I
Chair: Gagan Agarwal
John Duselis, Enrique Cauich, Richert Wang and Isaac Scherson. Resource Selection and Allocation for Dynamic Adaptive Computing in Heterogeneous Clusters
(slides)
Abhinav Vishnu, Manoj Krishnan and Dhabaleswar Panda. An Efficient Hardware-Software Approach to Network Fault Tolerance with InfiniBand
(slides)
Can Ma, Zhigang Huo and Dan Meng. DCR: A Fully Transparent Checkpoint/Restart Framework for Distributed Systems
(slides)
Wei Tang, Zhiling Lan, Narayan Desai and Daniel Buettner. Fault-Aware Utility-Based Job Scheduling on Blue Gene/P systems
(slides)
Georgios Goumas, Nikos Anastopoulos, Nikolas Ioannou and Nectarios Koziris. Overlapping Computation and Communication in SMT Clusters with Commodity Interconnects
(slides)
Thomas Bressoud and Michael Kozuch. Cluster Fault-Tolerance: An Experimental Evaluation of Checkpointing and MapReduce through Simulation
(slides)
Yang Zhang, Charles Koelbel and Keith Cooper. Batch Queue Resource Co-scheduling for Workflow Applications
(slides)
Matthew Koop, Miao Luo and Dhabaleswar K. Panda. Reducing Network Contention with Mixed Workloads on Modern Multicore Clusters
(slides)
Aurelien Bouteiller, Thomas Ropars, George Bosilca, Christine Morin and Jack Dongarra. Reasons for a Pessimistic or Optimistic Message Logging Protocol in MPI Uncoordinated Failure Recovery
(slides)
12:00-1:30 Lunch (Riverview Room & Royal Ballroom)
1:30-3:00 Orleans RoomIberville RoomQueen Anne Ballroom
Technical Paper Session: I/O
Chair: Gabrielle Allen
Technical Paper Session: Programming Models I
Chair: Thomas Sterling
Technical Paper Session: Algorithms I
Chair: Ajay Kshemkalyani
Xuhui Liu, Jizhong Han, Yunqin Zhong, Chengde Han, and Xubin He. Implementing WebGIS on Hadoop: A Case Study of Improving Small File I/O Performance on HDFS
(slides)
Hiroko Midorikawa, Kazuhiro Saito, Mitsuhisa Sato and Taisuke Boku. Using a Cluster as a Memory Resource: A Fast and Large Virtual Memory on MPI
(slides)
Shubin Zhang, Jizhong Han, Zhiyong Liu and Kai Wang. SJMR:Parallelizing Spatial Join with MapReduce in Cluster
(not presented)
Christina Patrick, Rajat Garg, Seung Woo Son and Mahmut Kandemir. Improving I/O Performance using Soft-QoS Based Dynamic Storage Cache Partitioning
(slides)
Brice Goglin and Nathalie Furmento. Finding a Tradeoff between Host Interrupt Load and MPI Latency over Ethernet
(slides)
Sangwon Seo, Ingook Jang, Kyungchang Woo, Inkyo Kim, Jin-Soo Kim and Seungryoul Maeng. HPMR: Prefetching and Pre-shuffling in Shared MapReduce Computation Environment
(slides)
Hasan Abbasi, Jay Lofstead, Fang Zheng, Scott Klasky, Karsten Schwan and Matthew Wolf. Extending I/O through High Performance Data Services
(slides)
Gopalakrishnan Santhanaraman, Tejus Gangadharappa, Sundeep Narravula, Amith Mamidala and Dhabaleswar Panda. Design Alternatives for Implementing Fence Synchronization in MPI-2 One-sided Communication on InfiniBand Clusters
(slides)
Wei Jiang, Vignesh Ravi and Gagan Agrawal. Comparing Map-Reduce and FREERIDE for Data-Intensive Applications
(slides)
3:00-3:30 Break (La Nouvelle Orleans East & West)
3:30-5:00 Panel (Queen Anne Ballroom)
Cluster Applications in the Petascale Decade
Amy Apon (Moderator), Gabrielle Allen, DK Panda, Paul Saylor, Alex Szalay
6:00-8:00 Poster Session & Reception (La Nouvelle Orleans East & West)
Posters listed below

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 2
7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast (Royal Ballroom)
8:30-8:45 Opening Remarks (Queen Anne Ballroom)
Thomas Sterling
8:45-9:30 Keynote (Queen Anne Ballroom)
David Kirk
NVIDIA
The Power of Heterogeneous Computing
(slides)
9:30-10:00 Plenary (Queen Anne Ballroom)
Dhabaleshwar K. (DK) Panda
The Ohio State University
Networking Technologies for Clusters: Where do We Stand and What Lies Ahead?
(slides)
10:00-10:30 Break (La Nouvelle Orleans East & West)
10:30-12:00 Orleans RoomIberville RoomQueen Anne Ballroom
Technical Paper Session: Systems I
Chair: Ron Brightwell
Technical Paper Session: Performance I
Chair: Dhableshwar Panda
Technical Paper Session: Distributed Computing
Chair: Daniel S. Katz
Reza Farivar, Abhishek Verma, Ellick Chan and Roy Campbell. MITHRA: Multiple data Independent Tasks on a Heterogeneous Resource Architecture
(slides)
Nawab Ali, Philip Carns, Kamil Iskra, Dries Kimpe, Samuel Lang, Robert Latham, Robert Ross, Lee Ward and P Sadayappan. Scalable I/O Forwarding Framework for High-Performance Computing Systems
(slides)
Hao Liu, Amril Nazir and Søren-Aksel Sørensen. On-line Automatic Resource Selection in Distributed Computing
(not presented)
Emiliano Betti, Marco Cesati, Roberto Gioiosa and Francesco Piermaria. A Global Operating System for HPC Clusters
(slides)
H'sien Jin Wong and Alistair Rendell. Integrating Software Distributed Shared Memory and Message Passing Programming
(slides)
Jared Wilkening, Narayan Desai, Folker Meyer and Andreas Wilke. Using clouds for metagenomics -- A case study
(slides)
Latchesar Ionkov and Eric Van Hensbergen. XCPU2 Process Management Sysem
(slides)
George Teodoro, Rafael Sachetto, Olcay Sertel, Metin Gurcan, Wagner Meira Jr., Umit Catalyurek and Renato Ferreira. Coordinating the Use of GPU and CPU for Improving Performance of Compute Intensive Applications
(slides)
Enis Afgan, Purushotham Bangalore and Dustin Duncan. GridAtlas - A Grid Application and Resource Configuration Repository and Discovery Service
(slides)
12:00-1:30 Lunch (on your own)
1:30-3:00 Orleans RoomIberville RoomQueen Anne Ballroom
Technical Paper Session: Virtualization
Chair: David Grove
Technical Paper Session: Scheduling II
Chair: Brian Barrett
Technical Paper Session: Algorithms II
Chair: Pete Beckman
Hong Ong, Kasidit Chanchio, Box Leangsuksun and Natthapol Saragol. VCCP: A Transparent, Coordinated Checkpointing System for Virtualization-based Cluster Computing
(slides)
Alexandre Beaudoin, Dhrubajyoti Goswami and Sudhir Mudur. Two-phase Load Distribution for Rendering Large 3D Models on a Graphics Cluster
(slides)
Janine Bennett, Philippe Pébay, Diana Roe and David Thompson. Numerically Stable, Single-Pass, Parallel Statistics Algorithms
(slides)
Ellard Roush and Zoram Thanga. Zone Clusters: A Virtual Cluster based upon Solaris Containers
(slides)
Bernardo Labronici, Lúcia Drummond, Cristiana Bentes and Ricardo Farias. Dynamic Screen Division for Load Balancing the Raycasting of Irregular Data
(slides)
Shrideep Pallickara, Jaliya Ekanayake and Geoffrey Fox. Granules: A Lightweight, Streaming Runtime for Cloud Computing With Support for Map-Reduce
(slides)
Hai Jin, Li Deng, Song Wu and Xuanhua Shi. Live Virtual Machine Migration Integrating Memory Compression with Precopy
(slides)
Francois Trahay and Alexandre Denis. A scalable and generic task scheduling system for communication libraries
(slides)
Huan Liu. Computing median values in a Cloud environment using GridBatch and MapReduce
(slides)
3:00-3:30 Break (La Nouvelle Orleans East & West)
3:30-5:00 Panel (Queen Anne Ballroom)
Clusters vs. MPPs : Competing for the future
Pete Beckman (Moderator), Ron Brightwell, David Grove, John Gustafson, John Towns
7:00-10:00 Banquet (Bourbon Vieux, 501 Bourbon St.)

 

 

 

Thursday, September 3
7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast (Royal Ballroom)
8:30-8:45 Opening Remarks (Queen Anne Ballroom)
Daniel S. Katz
8:45-9:30 Keynote (Queen Anne Ballroom)
Satoshi Matsuoka
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Petascaling Commodity onto Exascale: GPUs as Multithreaded Massively-Parallel Vector Processors - the Only Road to Exascale
(slides)
9:30-10:00 Plenary (Queen Anne Ballroom)
Ronald Minnich
Sandia National Laboratories
Is that all there is? future operating systems and clusters
(
slides)
10:00-10:30 Break (Bienville Room and Queen Anne Parlor)
10:30-12:00 Orleans RoomIberville RoomQueen Anne Ballroom
Technical Paper Session: Power Aware
Chair: John Towns
Technical Paper Session: Performance II
Chair: Ron Minnich
Vendor Presentations
Chair: George Jones, Dell
James Laros, Kevin Pedretti, Suzanne Kelly, John Vandyke, Kurt Ferreia, Courtenay Vaughan and Mark Swan. Topics on Measuring Real Power Usage on High Performance Computing Platforms
(slides)
Fengguang Song, Shirley Moore and Jack Dongarra. Analytical Modeling and Optimization for Affinity Based Thread Scheduling on Multicore Systems
(slides)
Dr. William Lu, Industry Market Director, Platform Computing
Inter-Cluster and Hybrid-Cluster Workload Scheduling

Brady Black, HPC Solutions Architect, QLogic Corporation
Next Generation InfiniBand Clustering and Network Administration Tools

John Vert, Architect, Windows High Performance Computing, Microsoft
Data-Intensive Computing on HPC Server with the DryadLINQ framework

Jeff Layton, Enterprise Technologist, Dell
IO Pattern Characterization in HPC Applications

Shu Yin, Xiaojun Ruan, Adam Manzanares, Kiranmai Bellam and Xiao Qin. How Reliable are Parallel Disk Systems When Energy-Saving Schemes are Involved?
(slides)
Tuan Zea Tan, Rick Siow Mong Goh, Verdi March and Simon See. Data Mining Analysis to Validate Performance Tuning Practices for HPL
(slides)
Gregor von Laszewski, Lizhe Wang, Andrew Younge and Xi He. Power-Aware Scheduling of Virtual Machines in DVFS-enabled Clusters
(slides)
Brian Barrett and K. Scott Hemmert. An Application Based MPI Message Throughput Benchmark
(slides)
12:00-1:30 Lunch (Riverview Room and Royal Ballroom)
1:30-3:00 Orleans RoomIberville RoomQueen Anne Ballroom
Technical Paper Session: Systems II
Chair: Chirag Dekate
Technical Paper Session: Reliability II
Chair: Rob Ross
Careers in Cluster Computing Panel
Chair: Gabrielle Allen, LSU
Enrique Cauich, John Duselis, Richert Wang and Isaac D. Scherson. A Distributed Device Paradigm for Commodity Applications
(slides)
Atsushi Hori, Yoshikazu Kamoshida, Hiroya Matsuba, Kazuki Ohta, Takashi Yasui, Shinji Sumimoto and Yutaka Ishikawa. On-Demand File Staging System for Clusters
(slides)
panelists: S.S. Iyengar, LSU, George Jones, Dell, Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, John Vert, Microsoft
Seung-Hwan Lim, Bikash Sharma, Eun Kyoung Kim, Gunwoo Nam and Chita Das. MDCSim : A Multi-tier Data Center Simulation Platform
(slides)
Ziming Zheng and Zhiling Lan. Reliability Aware Scalability Models for High Performance Computing
(slides)
Ying Song, Yanwei Zhang, Yuzhong Sun and Weisong Shi. Utility Analysis for Internet-Oriented Server Consolidation in VM-Based Data Centers
(slides)
Guna Santos, Leonardo Fialho, Dolores Rexachs and Emilio Luque. Increasing the Availability Provided by RADIC with Low Overhead
(slides)
3:00-3:30 Break (Bienville Room and Queen Anne Parlor)
3:30-5:00 Panel (Queen Anne Ballroom)
Clouds, Clusters and Commerce
Dennis Gannon (Moderator), George Jones, Satoshi Matsuoka, Rob Ross, John Vert
6:00-8:00 Steering Committee Meeting/Dinner (Ursuline Room)

 

 

 

Friday, September 4
La Nouvelle Orleans EastLa Nouvelle Orleans WestOrleans RoomIberville Room
8:30-10:00 Tutorial: High Performance Computing with CUDA
Massimiliano Fatica, Patrick LeGresley - NVIDIA; Jim Phillips - Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(slides)
Tutorial: Parallel Programming Using the Global Arrays Toolkit
Bruce Palmer, Manojkumar Krishnan, Sriram Krishnamoorthy - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; P Sadayappan - The Ohio State University
(slides)

Workshop: Interfaces and Abstractions for Scientific Data
8:30 - Welcome
8:45 - Keynote: Garth Gibson (CMU), Title TBA
9:30 - Philip Carns, Robert Latham, Robert Ross, Kamil Iskra, Sam Lang, Katherine Riley, 24/7 Characterization of Petascale I/O Workloads
(slides)
Workshop: Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Services and Applications
8:30 - Mark Baker,
The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users
(slides)
9:00 - Gabrielle Allen, Frank Löffler, Thomas Radke, Erik Schnetter, Edward Seidel, Integrating Web 2.0 Technologies with Scientific Simulation Codes for Real-Time Collaboration
(slides)
9:30 - Xian-He Sun, Cong Du, Hongbo Zou, Yong Chen, Prerak Shukla, V-MCS: A Configuration System for Virtual Machines
(slides)
10:00-10:30 Break (Bienville Room)
10:30-12:00 Tutorial: High Performance Computing with CUDA continues
Tutorial: Parallel Programming Using the Global Arrays Toolkit continues
Workshop: Interfaces and Abstractions for Scientific Data
10:30 - Christopher Mitchell, James Nunez, Jun Wang, Overlapped Checkpointing with Hardware Assist
11:00 - Stan Park, Kai Shen, A Performance Evaluation of Scientific I/O Workloads on Flash-Based SSDs
11:30 - Ekow Otoo, Doron Rotem, Shih-Chiang Tsao, Workload-Adaptive Management of Energy-Smart Disk Storage Systems
Workshop: Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Services and Applications
10:30 - discussion
11:30 - Mark Baker,
Closing Remarks
12:00-1:00 Lunch (Royal Ballroom)
1:00-3:00 Tutorial: Designing High-End Computing Systems with InfiniBand and 10-Gigabit Ethernet
D. K. Panda, M. Koop - The Ohio State University; P. Balaji - Argonne National Laboratory
(slides)
Tutorial: Hybrid Parallel Programming and Performance Optimization on a Multi-core, Multi-socket Cluster System
Byoung-Do Kim, John Cazes - Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), University of Texas at Austin
(slides)
Workshop: Interfaces and Abstractions for Scientific Data
1:00 - Peter van Gemmeren, David Malon, The Event Data Store and I/O Framework for the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
1:30 - Sarah Loebman, Dylan Nunley, YongChul Kwon, Bill Howe, Magdalena Balazinska, Jeffrey P. Gardner, Analyzing Massive Astrophysical Datasets: Can Pig/Hadoop or a Relational DBMS Help?
2:00 - Sam Lang, Robert Latham, Dries Kimpe, Robert Ross, Interfaces for Coordinated Access in the File System
2:30 - Kui Gao, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary, Robert Ross, Robert Latham, Combining I/O Operations for Multiple Array Variables in Parallel netCDF
3:00-3:30 Break (Bienville Room)
3:30-5:00 Tutorial: Designing High-End Computing Systems with InfiniBand and 10-Gigabit Ethernet continues
Tutorial: Hybrid Parallel Programming and Performance Optimization on a Multi-core, Multi-socket Cluster System continues

 

 

 

Peer-Reviewed Posters

Ronal Roberto Muresano Caceres, Dolores Rexachs and Emilio Luque
How SPMD application could be efficiently executed on Multicore Environment
Paula Fritzsche, Ronal Muresano, Dolores Rexachs and Emilio Luque
An Assessment of Multi-Core for a Performance Prediction Model of Tomographic Reconstruction
Jose R. García Gutiérrez, Porfidio Hernández and Josep Lluis Lérida
Resource Manager with Multi-core Support for Parallel Desktop
Ajay Kshemkalyani
A Symmetric O(n log n) Message Distributed Snapshot Algorithm for Large-Scale Systems
Qiang Li, Panyong Zhang and Ninghui Sun
HPP-Controller: An Intra-node Controller Designed for Connecting Heterogeneous CPUs
Jacob Liberman, Li Ou and Suneet Chandok
Architecting iSCSI-based I/O Systems for High Performance Computing Clusters
(poster)
Grant Mackey, Saba Sehrish and Jun Wang
Improving Metadata Management for Small Files in HDFS
(poster)
Hisham Mohamed and Mohamed Abouelhod
WinBioinfTools: Bioinformatics Tools for Windows Cluster
(poster)
Nathan Mullenix and Alex Povitsky
Parallel Implementation of a Tightly Coupled Ablation Prediction Code Using MPI
Narate Taerat and Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun
HPC Failure Prediction Proficiency Metrics
Ruibo Wang, Kai Lu and Xicheng Lu
Two-Phase Conflict Detection for Transactional Memory on Clusters
Xinqi Wang, Ismail Akturk and Tevfik Kosar
Cross-Domain Metadata Management in Data Intensive Distributed Computing Environment
Seth Warn, Wesley Emeneker, Jackson Cothren and Amy Apon
Accelerating SIFT on Parallel Architectures
Alvaro Wong, Emilio Luque Fadon and Dolores Rexachs
Parallel Application Signature
(poster)
Zhifeng Yun, Zhou Lei, Gabrielle Allen, Daniel Katz, Tevfik Kosar, Shantenu Jha and Jagannathan Ramanujam
An Innovative Application Execution Toolkit for Multicluster Grids

Late-Breaking Student Posters

Abhishek Agrawal, Bina Ramamurthy
An Unfair Scheduler for Cloud Computing
(poster)
Alexander L. Burin, Michael E. Armbruster, Mahesh Hariharan, Frederick D. Lewis
Sum rules and determination of exciton coupling using absorption and circular dichroism spectra of biological polymers
John Herrera, Jharrod Lafon, Ben Haynes
QDR Infiniband Network Study
Anastassios Nanos, Nectarios Koziris,
MyriXen: Message Passing in Xen VMs
(poster)
Somdutta Saha, Anastas Pashov, Thomas Kieber-Emmons
In silico modeling of Antibody-Antigen Binding : Implications for Specificity and Cross-Reactivity
Shraddha Thakkar, Somdutta Saha, Roger Hall
BioX::DistDB. A Distributed Database system for use in Bioinformatics
(poster)
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