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MCS researchers play major role at SC15

The Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory was well represented at SC15, the premier annual conference in high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. This year’s event took place Nov. 15–20, 2015, in Austin, Texas.

Following is a list of some of the activities MCS researchers participated in at this year’s conference (staff names in bold).

Papers

  • Improving Concurrency and Synchrony in Multithreaded MPI Applications using Software Offloading,” Karthikeyan Vaidyanathan, Dhiraj D. Kalamkar, Kiran Pamnany, Jeff R. Hammond, Pavan Balaji, Dipankar Das, Jongsoo Park, Balint Joo
  • Fault Tolerant MapReduce-MPI for HPC Clusters,” Yanfei Guo, Wesley Bland, Pavan Balaji, Xiaobo Zhou
  • An Elegant Sufficiency: Load-Aware Differentiated Scheduling of Data Transfers,” Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Gayane Vardoyan, Gagan Agrawal, P. Sadayappan, Ian Foster
  • Large-Scale Compute-Intensive Analysis via a Combined In-Situ and Co-Scheduling Workflow Approach,” Christopher Sewell, Katrin Heitmann, Hal Finkel, George Zagaris, Suzanne T. Parete-Koon, Patricia K. Fasel, Adrian Pope, Nicholas Frontiere, Li-ta Lo, Bronson Messer, Salman Habib, James Ahrens
  • Smart: A MapReduce-Like Framework for In-Situ Scientific Analytics, Yi Wang, Gagan Agrawal, Tekin Bicer, Wei Jiang
  • Optimal Scheduling of In-Situ Analysis for Large-Scale Scientific Simulations,” Preeti Malakar, Venkatram Vishwanath, Todd Munson, Christopher Knight, Mark Hereld, Sven Leyffer, Michael E. Papka
  • VOCL-FT: Introducing Techniques for Efficient Soft Error Coprocessor Recovery,” Antonio J. Peña, Wesley Bland, Pavan Balaji

Posters

  • Consistent Hashing Distance Metrics for Large-Scale Object Storage,” Philip Carns, Kevin Harms, John Jenkins, Misbah Mubarak, Robert B. Ross, Christopher Carothers
  • Heuristic Dynamic Load Balancing Algorithm Applied to the Fragment Molecular Orbital Method,” Yuri Alexeev, Prasanna Balaprakash
  • Improving Throughput by Dynamically Adapting Concurrency of Data Transfer,” Prasanna Balaprakash, Vitali Morozov, Rajkumar Kettimuthu
  • Argo: An Exascale Operating System and Runtime,” Swann Perarnau, Rinku Gupta, Pete Beckman
  • Scalable Mesh Generation for HPC Applications,” Rajeev Jain, Navamita Ray, Iulian Grindeanu, Danqing Wu, Vijay Mahadevan
  • Utility-Based Data Transfers Scheduling between Distributed Computing Facilities,” Xin Wang, Wei Tang, Rajkumar Kettimuttu, Zhiling Lan
  • Scaling Smart Appliances for Spatial Data Synthesis,” Luis Pineda-Morales, Balaji Subramaniam, Kate Keahey, Gabriel Antoniu, Alexandru Costan, Shaowen Wang, Anand Padmanabhan, Aiman Soliman
  • Comparison of Virtualization and Containerization Techniques for High-Performance Computing,” Yuyu Zhou, Balaji Subramaniam, Kate Keahey, John Lange

Panels

  • Supercomputing and Big Data: From Collision to Convergence,” George O. Strawn, David Bader, Ian Foster, Bruce Hendrickson, Randy Bryant, George Biros, Andrew W. Moore
  • Towards an Open Software Stack for Exascale Computing,” Nicolás Erdödy, Pete Beckman, Chris Broekema, Jack Dongarra, John Gustafson, Thomas Sterling, Robert Wisniewski

Workshop Papers

  • ISAV 2015: In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-scale Analysis and Visualization
    Paper: Lessons Learned from Building In Situ Coupling Frameworks
    Matthieu Dorier, Matthieu Dreher, Tom Peterka, Justin M. Wozniak, Gabriel Antoniu, and Bruno Raffin
  • PMBS2015: Sixth International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation of High Performance Computing Systems
    Paper: Techniques for Modeling Large-Scale HPC I/O Workloads
    Shane Snyder, Philip Carns, Robert Latham, Misbah Mubarak, Robert Ross, Christopher Carothers, Babak Behzad, Huong Vu Thanh Luu, Surendra Byna, Prabhat
  • 8th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputer (MTAGS) 2015
    Paper: Many Resident Task Computing in Support of Dynamic Ensemble Computations
    Jonathan Ozik, Nicholson T. Collier, Justin M. Wozniak
  • 4th Workshop on Extreme-Scale Programming Tools (ESPT2015)
    Paper: HPC I/O Trace Extrapolation
    Xiaoqing Luo, Frank Mueller, Philip Carns, John Jenkins, Robert Latham, Robert Ross, Shane Snyder
  • WORKS2015: 10th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
    Paper: Interlanguage Parallel Scripting for Distributed-Memory Scientific Computing
    Justin M. Wozniak, Timothy G. Armstrong, Ketan C. Maheshwari, Daniel S. Katz, Michael Wilde, Ian T. Foster
  • ISTech Workshop 2015: Visualization Infrastructure & Systems Technology.
    Paper: Streaming Ultra High Resolution Images to Large Tiled Display at Nearly Interactive Frame Rates with vl3
    Jie Jiang, Mark Hereld, Joseph A. Insley, Michael E. Papka, Silvio Rizzi, Thomas Uram, Venkatram Vishwanath

Workshop Keynote Presentations

  • ExaMPI15: Workshop on Exascale MPI
    Keynote: Investigating MPI’s Suitability for Highly Dynamic and Irregular Communication
    Pavan Balaji
  • ExaMPI15: Workshop on Exascale MPI
    Keynote: Programming models for Exascale: MPI+OpenMP and beyond
    Marc Snir
  • 6th SC Workshop on Big Data Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities (BDAC-15)
    Keynote: Networking Materials Data
    Ian Foster

Workshop Talks

  • Women in HPC: Changing the Face of HPC
    Talk: Using Parallel Simulation in the Co-Design of HPC Networks and Distributed Data-Intensive Science Facilities
    Misbah Mubarak

Tutorials

  • Advanced MPI Programming,” Pavan Balaji, William Gropp, Torsten Hoefler, Rajeev Thakur
  • Parallel I/O in Practice,” Robert Latham, Robert Ross, Brent Welch, Katie Antypas

Birds of a Feather

  • Operating System and Run-Time for Exascale,” Marc Snir, Arthur B. Maccabe, John Kubiatowicz
  • Characterizing Extreme-Scale Computational and Data-Intensive Workflows,” Edward Seidel, Franck Cappello, Tom Peterka
  • MPICH: A High-Performance Open-Source MPI Implementation,” Ken Raffenetti, Pavan Balaji, Rajeev Thakur
  • Big Data and Exascale Computing (BDEC) Community Report,” Jack Dongarra, Pete Beckman, Daniel Reed
  • Analyzing Parallel I/O,” Julian M. Kunkel, Philip Carns
  • Towards Standardized, Portable and Lightweight User-Level Threads and Tasks,” Pavan Balaji, Sangmin Seo