HPCS’2002: CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

SUNDAY, June 16th

7:30-9:00 am

Continental Breakfast; C3 TASP-TC, Upper Mezzanine

9:00-1:30 pm

C3 TASP-TC meeting, P. Masiar (C3); Coffee break and lunch, Shediac A-Room

1:30-5:00 pm

 

 

Workshop - How to build ClustersR. Impey (NRC), G. Kettman (IBM), R. Fridman (U of Calgary), Shediac B-Room

3:00 pm Coffee break, Sponsored by IBM

2:00 pm-5:00 pm C3 TASP-RC meeting, A. Pollard (C3), Restigouche Room

6:00-8:00 pm

Registration, L. Richard; Refreshments, Mezzanine

MONDAY, June 17th

7:30-9:00 am

Registration, L. Richard; Continental Breakfast, Sponsored by IBM, Mezzanine

9:00-9:30 am

Inauguration, Ball Room B-C

9:30-10:30 am

Invited speaker: Future Technologies for Grid Computing
W. P. Horn, Scalable Systems Group, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center,

Ball Room B-C

10:30-11:00 am

Break, Mezzanine

11:00-12:30 pm

Algorithms and Models I  Ball Room B

Chair: C. Moghrabi

 

The Characterization of Parallel Real-Time Optimization Problems

S. D. Bruda, S. G. Akl

 

Replication Algorithms for the World-Wide Web

F. Tenzekhti, K. Day, M. Ould-Khaoua.

 

Asynchronism for iterative algorithms in Global Computing Environment

S. Contassot-Vivier, R. Couturier, J. M. Bahi

 

A Communication Model for CORBA Systems

B. J. d'Auriol, R. Sáenz

 

Applications I –General  Ball Room C

Chair: J. Schaeffer

 

A Parallel Shared Memory Simulator for Command and Control

C. Jaillet, M. Krajecki, J. Fugère

 

Using Spare Network Computing Power for Genetic Algorithm Problems

A. Hamilton-Wright, D. Stacey

 

Bandwidth Efficient Tamper Detection for Distributed Java Systems

M. Jochen, L. Marvel, L. L. Pollock

 

Life with Ed: A Case Study of a Linux BIOS/BProc Cluster

S-E. Choi, E. A. Hendriks,

R. G. Minnich, M. J. Sottile, A. J. Marks

12:30-2:00 pm

Lunch Break

2:00-3:00 pm

Algorithms and Models II  Ball Room B

Chair: B. d’Auriol

 

Efficient All-to-All Broadcast Schemes in Distributed-Memory Parallel Computers

E. Oh, I. A. Kanj

 

On the Design of Scalable Pipelined Broadcasting for Interconnection Mesh Networks

A. Y. Al-Dubai, M. Ould-Khaoua

 

PRO: a Model for Parallel Resource-Optimal Computation

A. H. Gebremedhin, I. G. Lassous, J. Gustedt, J. A. Telle.

Applications II - Computational Chemistry Ball Room C

Chair: A. Bandrauk

 

Computational Chemistry as Tool for the Development of Biological Models

R. J. Boyd

 

Computational Chemistry Applications: Performance on High-End and Commodity-class Computers

M. F. Guest, P. Sherwood.

 

Distributed Load Balancing for Molecular Dynamics Simulations

A. Di Serio, M. B. Ibáñez.

3:00-3:30 pm

Break, Mezzanine

3:30-4:30 pm

Networks and Grids  Ball Room B

Chair: R. Impey

 

Handoff In Mobile ATM Networks: A Framework for Performance Optimization.

S. R. Medidi, F. Golshani

 

MetaGrid: A Scalable Framework for Wide­Area Service Deployment and Management.

M. Maheswaran, B. Maniymaran, P. Card, F. Azzedin

 

Self-Adaptive Parallel Processing Architecture for High-Speed Networking

J. Foag, N. Pazos, T. Wild, W. Brunnbauer

 

Applications III - Computational Chemistry

Ball Room C

Chair: E. Aubanel

 

Molecular Photonics - The Nonlinear Nonperturbative Response of Molecules in Intense Laser Fields

A. Bandrauk

 

Dissociation of  Molecular Ions in Strong Laser Fields: Simulations and Interpretive Models

J. Paci, D. Wardlaw

 

Discussion (E. Aubanel)

5:00-6:30 pm

C3.ca Annual General Meeting and Board of Directors(BoD) meeting, A. Pollard,

Ball Room B-C

6:30-7:30 pm

Reception: Wine and Cheese; AC3 Meeting; Poster Session, please see the list of posters at the end of the program, Mezzanine

TUESDAY, June 18th

7:30-9:00 am

Registration, L. Richard; Continental Breakfast, Sponsored by HP, Mezzanine

8:00:10:00 am, C3BoD Meeting, A. Pollard,  Shediac C-Room

9:00-10:00 am

Invited Speaker, Grid Computing at HP, S. Murphy, Ball Room B-C

10:00-10:30 am

Break, Mezzanine

10:30-12:00 am

Numerical Algorithms I  Ball Room B

Chair: L. Garey

 

Explicit Loop Scheduling in OpenMP for Parallel Automatic Differentiation

H. M. Bücker, B. Lang, D. an Mey, A. Rasch, C.H. Bischof

 

A Fast Algorithm for the Computation of Robust Q-Mode Principal Component Analysis in L1 (RQMPCAL1)

J. Almhana, V. Choulakian

 

The IBiCGStab Method for Large and Sparse Unsymmetric Linear Systems on BSP Architectures

L. T. Yang, R. E. Shaw

 

Parallel Asynchronous Richards Method for The Solution of Obstacle Problem

M. Chau, P. Spiteri

10:30-12:30 pm

Workshop (Ball Room C) on High Performance Computer Simulation of Cooperative Phenomena

K. De'Bell, J. Whitehead

 

Modelling and Simulations of Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers

M. Whitmore

 

Understanding the Glass Transition:  Recent Progress from Computer
Simulations
P. H. Poole

 

Talk #3 A. Rutenberg

 

Talk #4 A. MacIsaac

12:00-1:30 pm

Lunch, Sponsored by HPCS’2002, Mezzanine

1:30-2:30 pm

Invited Speaker, The Grid Infrastructure: R & D for the Advanced Web, B. Hammond, Sun Microsystems, Ball Room B-C

2:30-3:00 pm

Break, Mezzanine

3:00-5:00 pm

3:00–4:30 pm

Numerical Algorithms II  Ball Room B

Chair: P. Spiteri

 

The Parallel Waveform IBiCG Technique for Transient Simulation of Semiconductor Devices

L. T. Yang

 

Efficient Interval Methods for Finite Element Solutions

R. L. Mullen, R. L. Muhanna

 

Parallel Gaussian Elimination using OpenMP and MPI

S. F. McGinn, R. E. Shaw

 

Numerical Applications and Sub-Word Parallelism: The NAS Benchmarks on a Pentium

D. Etiemble

3:00-4:00 pm

Workshop  Ball Room C

HPC Tools P. Lu (U of Alberta)

4:00-5:00 pm

Scheduling and Performance Evaluation I Ball Room C

Chair: N. J. Dimopoulos

 

An Evaluation of Thread Migration for Exploiting Distributed Array Locality

S. Jenks, J-L. Gaudiot.

 

Compiler Support for Automatic Checkpointing

S-E. Choi, S. J. Deitz

 

Simulating the Dynamics of Flexible Wood Pulp Fibres in Suspension

J. M. Stockie

5:00-6:00 pm

Grid Canada update-BoF Meeting, R. Impey, Ball Room B-C

6:30-7:30 pm

Cash Bar, Ball Room A

7:30-10:00 pm

Banquet; Entertainment, Sponsored by SUN, Ball Room A

WEDNESDAY, June 19th

7:30-9:00 am

Registration, L. Richard; Continental Breakfast, Sponsored by Cray Inc., Mezzanine

9:00-10:00 am

Invited Speaker, Recent Developments in Environmental Industries, P. Nyberg, Environment Issues Manager, Cray Inc., Ball Room B-C

10:00-10:30 am

Break

10:30-12:00 am

 

Architectures I  Ball Room B

Chair: D. Stacey

 

Architectural Extensions to support Efficient Communication Using Message Prediction

A. Afsahi, N. J. Dimopoulos

 

CoStore: A Reliable and Highly Available Storage System Using Clusters

Y. Chen, L. M. Ni, M. Yang, C. Xu, J. F. Kusler, P. Zheng

 

Increasing Predictive Accuracy through Limited Prefetching by Program and User Information

T. Yeh, D. D. E. Long, S. A. Brandt

 

Hybrid System, A New Low Cost Parallel Cluster

L. C. Sim,  H. Schroder

 

Scheduling and Performance Evaluation II Ball Room C

Chair: D. Etiemble

 

An Enhanced Scheduling Approach in a Distributed Parallel Environment Using Mobile Agents

M. A. R. Dantas, J. G. R. C. Lopes, T. G. Ramos

 

Efficient Gather Operation in Heterogeneous Cluster Systems

F. Ooshita, S. Matsumae, T. Masuzawa

 

Towards Asynchronous Metacomputing in MPI

A. C. Sodan

 

Performance Analysis of a Multithreaded Pricing Algorithm on Clik

R. K. Thulasiram, P. Thulasiraman, C. Adiele, D. Bondarenko

12:00-12:30 pm

Symposium Closing, Ball Room B-C

1:30-8:00 pm

Trip to Hopewell Rocks; Max. 47 persons. The trip will be cancelled if less than 30 persons. Fee: 50 $CAN/person (dinner included).

Posters Session

 

Heterogeny in a Beowulf

A. Macks

 

Graph-Based Algorithms for Parallel Processes

S. Yordanova

 

Parallel Sorting on Heterogeneous Platforms

G. Mateescu

 

Analysis on the Significant Information to Update the Tables on Occupation of Resources

by using a Peer-to-Peer Protocol

R. F. de Mello, M. S. V. Paiva, L. C. Trevelin

 

Algebraic Fractal Computations: Execution Time Behavior and Efficient Partitioning

for Parallel Computation

F. C. MacPhee, V.C. Bhavsar

 

A Preliminary Proposal of a Complete Environment for Practical DSMs’s Evaluation Based

on Benchmark’s Execution

M. D. Marino

 

Distributed Electric Field Approximation, Cluster Based Computations

D. Trybus, Z. Kucerovsky, A. Ieta, T. E. Doyle

 

Recovery Distributed Data Using a Virtual Fragmentation Method

J. A. Aguilera Vázquez

 

Concurrent and Distributed Data Structures for Multikey Sorting on Computer Clusters

A. Fellah

 

Distributed Rasterization Using Open GL

D. Calvert, D. Thompson

 

NLP, Computational Complexity, and Parallelism

C. Moghrabi, S. E. Moussa, M. S. Eid

 

Notes: 1. The schedule is subject to change.

            2. There may be additional  “Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF)” sessions, in parallel to other 

                 sessions.

 

Revised on:   June 12, 2002