Papers

The SC11 Technical Papers program received 352 high quality submissions covering a variety of advanced research topics in HPC spanning six areas--Applications, Architecture/Networks, Clouds and Grids, Performance, Storage, and Systems Software. After an extremely rigorous peer review process in which all the papers were subject to at least three (most four) careful reviews, a two-day face-to-face committee meeting was held June 6-7 in Seattle. The meeting was attended by over 100 technical paper committee members who discussed each and every paper and finalized the selections. At the conclusion of the meeting, 74 papers were accepted for presentation. They cover some of today's hottest topics, such as exploiting multicore systems and GPUs for large-scale computing, scalable systems and storage, and programming models and fault tolerance for exascale computing. The result is one of the most exciting Technical Papers programs in the history of SC. With an acceptance rate of 21 percent, SC11 is one of the most competitive technical conferences in high-performance computing.

Among the excellent contributions, one outstanding paper will be presented at the conference as a best paper candidate and four papers as the best student paper finalists. 

The Best Student Paper and the Best Paper awards were announced at the conference awards ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 17. The Best Student Paper Award winner is "Simplified Parallel Domain Traversal" by Wesley Kendall, Jingyuan Wang, Melissa Allen, Tom Peterka, Jian Huang, David Erickson. The Best Paper Award winner is "Parallel Random Numbers: As Easy as 1, 2, 3" by John K. Salmon, Mark A. Moraes, Ron O. Dror, David E. Shaw.

Questions: papers@info.supercomputing.org

Tuesday, November 15th

TIME	PRESENTATION	SPEAKER	LOCATION	PLANNER
10:30AM - 11:00AM	Optimizing Symmetric Dense Matrix-Vector Multiplication on GPUs	Rajib Nath, Stanimire Tomov, Tingxing Dong, Jack Dongarra	TCC 305
10:30AM - 11:00AM	Liszt: A Domain Specific Language for Building Portable Mesh-based PDE Solvers	Zachary DeVito, Niels Joubert, Francisco Palacios, Stephen Oakley, Montserrat Medina, Mike Barrientos, Erich Elsen, Frank Ham, Alex Aiken, Karthik Duraisamy, Eric Darve, Juan Alonso, Pat Hanrahan	TCC 304
10:30AM - 11:00AM	CudaDMA: Optimizing GPU Memory Bandwidth via Warp Specialization	Michael Bauer, Henry Cook, Brucek Khailany	TCC 303
11:00AM - 11:30AM	Tiled QR factorization algorithms	Henricus M. Bouwmeester, Mathias Jacquelin, Julien Langou, Yves Robert	TCC 305
11:00AM - 11:30AM	Simplified Parallel Domain Traversal	Wesley Kendall, Jingyuan Wang, Melissa Allen, Tom Peterka, Jian Huang, David Erickson	TCC 304
11:00AM - 11:30AM	Dymaxion: Optimizing Memory Access Patterns for Heterogeneous Systems	Shuai Che, Jeremy Sheaffer, Kevin Skadron	TCC 303
11:30AM - 12:00PM	Parallel Reduction to Condensed Forms for Symmetric Eigenvalue Problems using Aggregated Fine-Grained and Memory-Aware Kernels	Azzam Haidar, Hatem Ltaief, Jack Dongarra	TCC 305
11:30AM - 12:00PM	Physis: An Implicitly Parallel Programming Model for Stencil Computations on Large-Scale GPU-Accelerated Supercomputers	Naoya Maruyama, Tatsuo Nomura, Kento Sato, Satoshi Matsuoka	TCC 304
11:30AM - 12:00PM	GROPHECY: GPU Performance Projection from CPU Code Skeletons	Jiayuan Meng, Vitali Morozov, Kalyan Kumaran, Venkatram Vishwanath, Thomas Uram	TCC 303
1:30PM - 2:00PM	Server-Side I/O Coordination for Parallel File Systems	Huaiming Song, Yanlong Yin, Xian-He Sun, Rajeev Thakur, Samuel Lang	TCC 305
1:30PM - 2:00PM	GreenSlot: Scheduling Energy Consumption in Green Datacenters	Íñigo Goiri, Kien Le, Md. E. Haque, Ryan Beauchea, Thu D. Nguyen, Jordi Guitart, Jordi Torres, Ricardo Bianchini	TCC 304
1:30PM - 2:15PM	Multithreaded Global Address Space Communication Techniques for Gyrokinetic Fusion Applications on Ultra-Scale Platforms	Robert Preissl, Nathan Wichmann, Bill Long, John Shalf, Stephane Ethier, Alice Koniges	TCC 303
2:00PM - 2:30PM	QoS Support for End Users of I/O-intensive Applications using Shared Storage Systems	Xuechen Zhang, Kei Davis, Song Jiang	TCC 305
2:00PM - 2:30PM	A `Cool' Load Balancer for Parallel Applications	Osman Sarood, Laxmikant Kale	TCC 304
2:15PM - 3:00PM	Parallel Random Numbers: As Easy as 1, 2, 3	John K. Salmon, Mark A. Moraes, Ron O. Dror, David E. Shaw	TCC 303
2:30PM - 3:00PM	Topology-aware data movement and staging for I/O acceleration on Blue Gene/P supercomputing systems	Venkatram Vishwanath, Mark Hereld, Vitali Morozov, Michael E. Papka	TCC 305
2:30PM - 3:00PM	Reducing Electricity Cost Through Virtual Machine Placement in High Performance Computing Clouds	Kien Le, Jingru Zhang, Jiandong Meng, Yogesh Jaluria, Thu Nguyen, Ricardo Bianchini	TCC 304
3:30PM - 4:00PM	Gyrokinetic Toroidal Simulations on Leading Multi- and Manycore HPC Systems	Kamesh Madduri, Khaled Z. Ibrahim, Samuel Williams, Eun-Jin Im, Stephane Ethier, John Shalf, Leonid Oliker	TCC 304
3:30PM - 4:00PM	The IBM Blue Gene/Q Interconnection Network and Message Unit	Dong Chen, Noel A. Eisley, Philip Heidelberger, Robert M. Senger, Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow, Yutaka Sugawara, Sameer Kumar, Jeffrey J. Parker, Valentina Salapura, David L. Satterfield	TCC 303
3:30PM - 4:00PM	I/O Streaming Evaluation of Batch Queries for Data-Intensive Computational Turbulence	Kalin Kanov, Eric Perlman, Randal Burns, Yanif Ahmad, Alexander Szalay	TCC 305
4:00PM - 4:30PM	Unitary Qubit Lattice Simulations of Multiscale Phenomena in Quantum Turbulence	George Vahala, Min Soe, Bo Zhang, Jeffrey Yepez, Linda Vahala, Jonathan Carter, Sean Ziegeler	TCC 304
4:00PM - 4:30PM	High-Efficiency Server Design	Eitan Frachtenberg, Ali Heydari, Harry Li, Amir Michael, Jacob Na, Avery Nisbet, Pierluigi Sarti	TCC 303
4:00PM - 4:30PM	Parallel Index and Query for Large Scale Data Analysis	Jerry Chou, Kesheng Wu, Mark Howison, Mr. Prabhat, Oliver Ruebel, Brian Austin, E. Wes Bethel, Ji Qiang, Robert D. Ryne, Arie Shoshani	TCC 305
4:30PM - 5:00PM	An Image Compositing Solution at Scale	Kenneth Moreland, Wesley Kendall, Tom Peterka, Jian Huang	TCC 304
4:30PM - 5:00PM	Using the TOP500 to Trace and Project Technology and Architecture Trends	Peter Michael Kogge, Timothy J. Dysart	TCC 303
4:30PM - 5:00PM	ISABELA-QA: Query-driven Data Analytics over ISABELA-compressed Extreme-Scale Scientific Data	Sriram Lakshminarasimhan, Jonathan Jenkins, Robert Latham, Robert Ross, Nagiza F. Samatova, Isha Arkatkar, Zhenhuan Gong, Hemanth Kolla, Jackie Chen, Seung-Hoe Ku, C.S. Chang, Stephane Ethier, Scott Klasky	TCC 305

Wednesday, November 16th

TIME	PRESENTATION	SPEAKER	LOCATION	PLANNER
10:30AM - 11:00AM	FTI: high performance Fault Tolerance Interface for hybrid systems	Leonardo Arturo Bautista Gomez, Dimitri Komatitsch, Naoya Maruyama, Seiji Tsuboi, Franck Cappello, Satoshi Matsuoka, Takeshi Nakamura	TCC 304
10:30AM - 11:00AM	Fast Implementation of DGEMM on Fermi GPU	Guangming Tan, Linchuan Li, Sean Triechler, Everett Phillips, Yungang Bao, Ninghui Sun	TCC 303
10:30AM - 11:00AM	Virtual I/O Caching: Effective Storage Cache Management for Concurrent Workloads	Michael R. Frasca, Ramya Prabhakar, Padma Raghavan, Mahmut Kandemir	TCC 305
11:00AM - 11:30AM	Checkpointing strategies for parallel jobs	Marin Bougeret, Henri Casanova, Mikael Rabie, Yves Robert, Frédéric Vivien	TCC 304
11:00AM - 11:30AM	Scalable Fast Multipole Methods on Distributed Heterogeneous Clusters	Qi Hu, Nail A. Gumerov, Ramani Duraiswami	TCC 303
11:00AM - 11:30AM	SCMFS: A File System for Storage Class Memory	Xiaojian Wu, Narasimha Reddy	TCC 305
11:30AM - 12:00PM	BlobCR: Efficient Checkpoint-Restart for HPC Applications on IaaS Clouds using Virtual Disk Image Snapshots	Bogdan Nicolae, Franck Cappello	TCC 304
11:30AM - 12:00PM	Multi-Science Applications with Single Codebase - GAMER - for Massively Parallel Architectures	Hemant Shukla, Hsi-Yu Schive, Tak-Pong Woo, Tzihong Chiueh	TCC 303
11:30AM - 12:00PM	Optimized Pre-Copy Live Migration for Memory Intensive Applications	Khaled Z. Ibrahim, Costin Iancu, Steven Hofmeyr, Eric Roman	TCC 305
1:30PM - 2:00PM	Scalable Hashing for Shared Memory Supercomputers	Eric L. Goodman, M. Nicole Lemaster, Edward Jimenez	TCC 303
1:30PM - 2:00PM	Evaluating the Viability of Process Replication Reliability for Exascale Systems	Kurt, B. Ferreira, Rolf Riesen, Patrick Bridges, Dorian Arnold, Jon Stearley, James H. Laros, Ron A. Oldfield, Kevin Pedretti, Ron Brightwell	TCC 304
1:30PM - 2:00PM	TRACON: Interference-Aware Scheduling for Data-Intensive Applications in Virtualized Environments	Ron C. Chiang, H. Howie Huang	TCC 305
2:00PM - 2:30PM	An Early Performance Analysis of POWER7-IH HPC Systems	Kevin Barker, Adolfy Hoisie, Darren Kerbyson	TCC 303
2:00PM - 2:30PM	Modeling and Tolerating Heterogeneous Failures in Large Parallel Systems	Eric M. Heien, Derrick Kondo, Ana Gainaru, Dan LaPine, Bill Kramer, Franck Cappello	TCC 304
2:00PM - 2:30PM	Flexible Resource Allocation for Reliable Virtual Cluster Computing Systems	Thomas Hacker, Kanak Mahadik	TCC 305
2:30PM - 3:00PM	A Similarity Measure for Time, Frequency, and Dependencies in Large-Scale Workloads	Mario Lassnig, Thomas Fahringer, Vincent Garonne, Angelos Molfetas, Martin Barisits	TCC 303
2:30PM - 3:00PM	System Implications of Memory Reliability in Exascale Computing	Sheng Li, Ke Chen, Ming-Yu Hsieh, Naveen Muralimanohar, Chad Kersey, Jay B. Brockman, Arun F. Rodrigues, Norman P. Jouppi	TCC 304
2:30PM - 3:00PM	Auto-Scaling to Minimize Cost and Meet Application Deadlines in Cloud Workflows	Ming Mao, Marty Humphrey	TCC 305
3:30PM - 4:00PM	Large Scale Debugging of Parallel Tasks with AutomaDeD	Ignacio Laguna, Todd Gamblin, Bronis R. de Supinski, Saurabh Bagchi, Greg Bronevetsky, Dong H. Ahn, Martin Schulz, Barry Rountree	TCC 304
3:30PM - 4:00PM	Sniper: Exploring the Level of Abstraction for Scalable and Accurate Parallel Multi-Core Simulation	Trevor E. Carlson, Wim Heirman, Lieven Eeckhout	TCC 305
4:00PM - 4:30PM	Efficient Data Race Detection for Distributed Memory Parallel Programs	Chang-Seo Park, Paul Hargrove, Costin Iancu, Koushik Sen	TCC 304
4:00PM - 4:30PM	MAximum Multicore POwer (MAMPO) - An Automatic Multithreaded Synthetic Power Virus Generation Framework for Multicore Systems	Karthik Ganesan, Lizy John	TCC 305

Thursday, November 17th

TIME	PRESENTATION	SPEAKER	LOCATION	PLANNER
10:30AM - 11:00AM	Performance of the Community Earth System Model	Patrick H. Worley, Anthony P. Craig, John M. Dennis, Arthur A. Mirin, Mark A. Taylor, Mariana Vertenstein	TCC 303
10:30AM - 11:00AM	Hadoop Acceleration Through Network Levitated Merge	Yandong Wang, Xinyu Que, Weikuan Yu, Dror Goldenberg, Dhiraj Sehgal	TCC 305
10:30AM - 11:00AM	Copernicus: A New Paradigm for Parallel Adaptive Molecular Dynamics	Sander Pronk, Per Larsson, Iman Pouya, Greg Bowman, Imran Haque, Kyle Beauchamp, Berk Hess, Vijay Pande, Peter Kasson, Erik Lindahl	TCC 304
11:00AM - 11:30AM	Extracting Ultra-Scale Lattice Boltzmann Performance via Hierarchical and Distributed Auto-Tuning	Samuel Williams, Leonid Oliker, Jonathan Carter, John Shalf	TCC 303
11:00AM - 11:30AM	Purlieus: Locality-aware Resource Allocation for MapReduce in a Cloud	Balaji Palanisamy, Aameek Singh, Ling Liu, Bhushan Jain	TCC 305
11:00AM - 11:30AM	Enabling and Scaling Biomolecular Simulations of 100 Million Atoms on Petascale Machines with a Multicore-optimized Message-driven Runtime	Chao Mei, Yanhua Sun, Gengbin Zheng, James C. Phillips, Eric J. Bohm, Chris Harrison, Laxmikant V. Kale	TCC 304
11:30AM - 12:00PM	Highly Scalable Ab Initio Genomic Motif Identification	Benoit Marchand, Vadimir Bajic, Dinesh Kaushik	TCC 303
11:30AM - 12:00PM	A Distributed Look-up Architecture for Text Mining Applications using MapReduce	Atilla S. Balkir, Ian Foster, Andrey Rzhetsky	TCC 305
11:30AM - 12:00PM	Parallelization Design for Multi-core Platforms in Density Matrix Renormalization Group toward 2-D Quantum Strongly-correlated Systems	Susumu Yamada, Toshiyuki Imamura, Masahiko Machida	TCC 304
1:30PM - 2:00PM	A Scalable Eigensolver for Large Scale-Free Graphs Using 2D Partitioning	Andy Yoo, Allison Baker, Roger Pearce, Van Henson	TCC 305
1:30PM - 2:00PM	SciHadoop: Array-based Query Processing in Hadoop	Joe Buck, Noah Watkins, Jeff LeFevre, Kleoni Ioannidou, Carlos Maltzahn, Neoklis Polyzotis, Scott Brandt	TCC 303
1:30PM - 2:00PM	High-Performance Lattice QCD for Multi-core Based Parallel Systems Using a Cache-Friendly Hybrid Threaded-MPI Approach	Mikhail Smelyanskiy, Karthikeyan Vaidyanathan, Jee Choi, Balint Joo, Jatin Chhugani, Michael A. Clark, Pradeep Dubey	TCC 304
2:00PM - 2:30PM	Scalable Stochastic Optimization of Complex Energy Systems	Miles Lubin, Cosmin G. Petra, Mihai Anitescu, Victor Zavala	TCC 305
2:00PM - 2:30PM	On the Duality of Data-intensive File System Design: Reconciling HDFS and PVFS	Wittawat Tantisiriroj, Swapnil Patil, Garth Gibson, Seung Son, Samuel Lang, Robert Ross	TCC 303
2:00PM - 2:30PM	Scaling Lattice QCD beyond 100 GPUs	Ronald Babich, Michael A. Clark, Bálint Joó, Guochun Shi, Richard C. Brower, Steven Gottlieb	TCC 304
2:30PM - 3:00PM	Parallel Breadth-First Search on Distributed Memory Systems	Aydin Buluc, Kamesh Madduri	TCC 305
2:30PM - 3:00PM	End-to-End Network QoS via Scheduling of Flexible Resource Reservation Requests	Sushant Sharma, Dimitrios Katramatos, Dantong Yu	TCC 303
2:30PM - 3:00PM	Large Scale Plane Wave Pseudopotential Density Functional Theory Calculations on GPU Clusters	Long Wang, Weile Jia, Xuebin Chi, Yue Wu, Weiguo Gao, Lin-Wang Wang	TCC 304
3:30PM - 4:00PM	Scalable Implementations of Accurate Excited-state Coupled Cluster Theories: Application of High-level Methods to Porphyrin-based Systems	Karol Kowalski, Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Ryan Olson, Vinod Tipparaju, Eduardo Apra	TCC 304
3:30PM - 4:00PM	Optimizing the Barnes-Hut Algorithm in UPC	Junchao Zhang, Babak Behzad, Marc Snir	TCC 305
4:00PM - 4:30PM	Hardware, Software Co-design for Energy Efficient Seismic Modeling	Jens Krueger, David Donofrio, John Shalf, Samuel Williams, Leonid Oliker, Marghoob Mohiyuddin, Franz-Josef Pfreundt	TCC 304
4:00PM - 4:30PM	Avoiding hot-spots on two-level direct networks	Abhinav Bhatele, Nikhil Jain, William D. Gropp, Laxmikant V. Kale	TCC 305
4:30PM - 5:00PM	A Fast Solver for Modeling the Evolution of Virus Populations	Gerhard Niederbrucker, Wilfried N. Gansterer	TCC 304
4:30PM - 5:00PM	Improving Communication Performance in Dense Linear Algebra via Topology Aware Collectives	Edgar Solomonik, Abhinav Bhatele, James Demmel	TCC 305