Conference Program


SBAC-PAD Sessions

Session 1 - Best Paper Finalists (Wed, 10 am - 12 pm) - SESSION CHAIR: PAVAN BALAJI (ANL, USA)

  • A Scalable Algorithm for Simulating the Structural Plasticity of the Brain. Sebastian Rinke, Markus Butz-Ostendorf, Marc-Andre Hermanns, Mikael Naveau, Felix Wolf
  • Using Balanced Data Placement to Address I/O Contention in Production Environments. Sarah Neuwirth, Feiyi Wang, Sarp Oral, Sudharshan Vazhkudai, James Rogers, Ulrich Bruening
  • Dynamic Inter-Thread Vectorization Architecture: extracting DLP from TLP. Sajith Kalathingal, Sylvain Collange, Bharath Swamy, André Seznec
  • HYPPO: A Hybrid, Piecewise Polynomial Modeling Technique for Non-Smooth Surfaces. Travis Johnston, Connor Zanin, Michela Taufer

Session 2 - Hardware Accelerators (Wed, 1 pm - 3 pm) - SESSION CHAIR: JESUS LABARTA (BSC, SPAIN)

  • Automatic Insertion of Copy Annotation in Data-Parallel Programs. Gleison Mendonca, Breno Campos Ferreira Guimaraes, Péricles Alves, Marcio Machado Pereira, Guido Araújo, Fernando Magno Quintao Pereira
  • Partitioning GPUs for Improved Scalability. Johan Janzén, David Black-Schaffer, Andra Hugo
  • MAGC: A Mapping Approach for GPU Clusters. Seyed Mirsadeghi, Iman Faraji, Ahmad Afsahi
  • Designing High Performance Heterogeneous Broadcast for Streaming Applications on GPU Clusters. Ching-Hsiang Chu, Khaled Hamidouche, Akshay Venkatesh, Hari Subramoni, Bracy Elton, Dhabaleswar Panda

Session 3 - Applications (Wed, 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm) - SESSION CHAIR: MICHELA TAUFER (UDELAWARE, USA)

  • Performance-Aware Device Driver Architecture for Signal Processing. Stefan Sydow, Mohannad Nabelsee, Anselm Busse, Sebastian Koch, Helge Parzyjegla
  • Speeding up Stencil Computation with Kernel Convolution. Guilherme Carvalho Januario, Bryan Rosenburg, Yoonho Park, Michael Perrone, Jose Moreira, Tereza Carvalho
  • A Study of Power-Performance Modeling Using a Domain specific Language. Mariam Umar, Jeremy Meredith, Jeffrey Vetter, Kirk Cameron
  • STOMP: Statistical Techniques for Optimizing and Modeling Performance of blocked sparse matrix vector multiplication. Steena Monteiro, Daniel Wong, Forrest Iandola

Session 4 - Memory Systems (Thu, 11 am - 12 pm) - SESSION CHAIR: CLAUDE TADONKI (MINES PARIS TECH, FRANCE)

  • Empirical, Analytical Study of Hardware-based Page Swap in Hybrid Main Memory System. Ju-Young Jung, Rami Melhem
  • Building a Low Latency, Highly Associative DRAM Cache with the Buffered Way Predictor. Zhe Wang, Daniel Jimenez, Tao Zhang, Gabriel Loh, Yuan Xie

Session 5 - Applications on Heterogeneous Platforms (Thu, 1 pm - 3 pm) - SESSION CHAIR: RAFAEL FERREIRA DA SILVA (USC, USA)

  • Breath-First Search on Heterogeneous Platforms: A Case of Study on Social Networks. Luis Remis, Maria Jesus Garzaran, Rafael Asenjo, Angeles Navarro
  • Optimisation of a Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Chromosome Condensation. Timothy Law, Jonny Hancox, Tammy Cheng, Raphael Chaleil, Steven Wright, Paul Bates, Stephen Jarvis
  • A Parallelization of a Simulated Annealing Approach for 0-1 Multidimensional Knapsack Problem Using GPGPU. Bianca de Dantas, Edson Norberto Cáceres
  • Parallel Pairwise Correlation Computation On Intel Xeon Phi Clusters. Yongchao Liu, Tony Pan, Srinivas Aluru

Session 6 - Architecture (Thu, 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm) - SESSION CHAIR: CRISTIANA BENTES (UERJ, BRAZIL)

  • REPP-H: Runtime Estimation of Power and Performance on Heterogeneous Data Centers. Rajiv Nishtala, Xavier Martorell, Vinicius Petrucci, Daniel Mosse
  • An Image Processing VLIW Architecture for Real-Time Depth Detection. Dan Iorga, Razvan Nane, Yi Lu, Edwin Van Dalen, Koen Bertels
  • On the Dark Silicon Automatic Evaluation on Multicore Processors. Ricardo Santos, Tony Bignardi, Ana Silva, Liana Duenha, Edward Ordonez, Rodolfo Azevedo
  • Value Reuse Potential in ARM Architectures. Rodrigo Moura, Giovane Torres, Maurício Pilla, Laércio Pilla, Amarildo Costa, Felipe França

Session 7 - Parallel and Distributed Systems (Fri, 10 am - 12:30 pm) - SESSION CHAIR: LUCIA DRUMMOND (UFF, BRAZIL)

  • Planning Your SQL-on-Hadoop Deployment Using a Low-Cost Simulation-Based Approach. Jun Liu
  • Dynamic Reconfiguration of Data Parallel Programs. Vinícius Dias, Wagner Meira Jr., Dorgival Guedes
  • MR-Advisor: A Comprehensive Tuning Tool for Advising HPC Users to Accelerate MapReduce Applications on Supercomputers. Md Rahman, Nusrat Islam, Xiaoyi Lu, Dipti Shankar, Dhabaleswar Panda
  • Energy Aware Dynamic Provisioning for Heterogeneous Data Centers. Violaine Villebonnet, Georges Da Costa, Laurent Lefevre, Jean-Marc Pierson, Patricia Stolf
  • Scheduling Matters: Area-oriented Heuristics for Resource Management. Jeremy Benson, Trilce Estrada, Arnold Rosenberg, Michela Taufer