University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

18-20 October 2004

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Time Location Program
October 18
9:15-10:00am 2405 SC
Breakfast (for registered participants)
Tutorials
10:00-12:00
4405 SC
Charm++ Tutorial:
This tutorial will give a basic introduction to Charm++. It will cover
basic virtualization concepts, proxies and basic uses of
arrays.
10:00-12:00
2405 SC
AMPI Tutorial: Chao Huang
This tutorial will give a basic introduction to AMPI, our adaptive version of MPI on top of Charm++. Some familiarity with MPI is assumed. It will cover the major differences between MPI and AMPI, and discuss threadsafety issues like global variables.
2:00-4:00pm
2405 SC
FEM framework Tutorial: Sayantan Chakravorty
A basic introduction to the Charm++ Finite-Element Framework (FEM Framework). It will cover the concepts and major functions of the FEM framework, and show how to convert a serial FEM program into a parallel FEM program running in the framework

October 19
8:00-8:30am 2405 SC Breakfast
Welcome/Talks
8:30-9:15 2405 SC
Welcome and Overview :  Laxmikant V. Kale
9:15-10:15 2405 SC
Keynote Talk: The IBM BlueGene/L Supercomputer - Manish Gupta, IBM T.J Watson Research Center
10:15-10:30 2405 SC
Open Discussion
10:30-10:45
BREAK
10:45-11:15
2405 SC
NAMD3: Designing the Next Generation Scalable Molecular Dynamics Application - Jim Phillips
11:15-11:45 2405 SC
Scaling Applications to Massively Parallel Machines using Projections Performance Analysis Tool - CheeWai Lee
11:45-1:30pm 2405 SC Lunch for registered guests
Afternoon Session
1:30-2:00 pm
2405 SC
BigSim: Simulation-based performance prediction for large parallel machines- Eric Bohm
2:00-2:30 2405 SC
QM/MM using Charm++ - Glen Martyna , Mark Tuckerman
2:30-3:00 2405 SC
Using Charm++ to Mask Latency in Grid Computing Applications - Greg Koenig
3:00-3:15

BREAK
3:15-3:45
2405 SC
Salsa: A Parallel Interactive Analysis Tool for Particle-based Data
3:45-4:15
2405 SC
Fault Tolerance and Checkpointing - Sayantan Chakravorty
4:15-4:45
2405 SC
Parallel Impostors for Computer Graphics-Orion Lawlor
4:45-5:15
2405 SC
Automatic Communication Optimizations - Filippo Gioachin
7:00-10:00pm 5269 Beckman Banquet for registered guests
October 20
8:30-9:00am 2405 SC
Breakfast
Talks/Concurrent Tutorials/Discussions
9:00-9:30
2405 SC
Higher Level Parallel Programming Language - Chao Huang
9:30-10:00
2405 SC
Sparse approximate inverse methods based on processor virtualization : Kai Wang
10:00-12:00 4405 SC
Projections and Performance Analysis Tutorial - CheeWai Lee
10:00-12:00
2405 SC
Advanced Charm++  Tutorial:  Sameer Kumar/Orion Lawlor
SDAG, threads, priortized mesaages. groups, load balancers, expedited and immediate messages, etc.
2:00-4:00
2405 SC
BigSim Tutorial : Gengbin Zheng and Eric Bohm
A basic introduction to the BigSim simulation framework. It will cover performance prediction of parallel applications for very large machines with BigSim using conventional parallel machines.
2:00-4:00 4405 SC
Faucets Tutorial: Tarun Agarwal and Justin Meyer
Scheduling on Clusters and across Grid