Program (Draft)




Sunday, September 19

17:00-21:00 Check-in & Reception (``Seminario'' - Via Frangipane, 4)
19:00-21:00 Welcome Buffet (``Center Canteen'' - Via Frangipane, 2)


Monday, September 20

07:30-08:45 Breakfast (``Center Canteen'')
08:30-09:00 Registration (``Frangipane Room'' - La Rocca, Via Frangipane, 6)
09:00-09:15 Welcome
09:15-09:50 Information Technology in the Age of Smarter Planet
  Pratap Pattnaik (IBM Research)
09:50-10:25 Maintaining Indexes on Streams of Complex Data
  Bradley Kuszmaul (MIT)
10:25-10:55 Coffee
10:55-11:30 UpSizeR: Synthetically Scaling Up a Given Database State
  Y.C. Tay (National University of Singapore)
11:30-12:30 Discussion Session I: Classes of Applications that need Scalable Performance and Research Challenges to Deliver it – Focus on Single Chip Systems (Part A: Target Questions)
  Coordinators: P. Kelly and P. Pattnaik
13:00-14:00 Lunch (``Center Canteen'')
15:00-15:35 Expanding the Parallel Code Synthesis Design Space in Finite-Element CFD
  Paul Kelly (Imperial College London)
15:35-16:10 Oblivious Algorithms for Multicores and Network of Processors
  Francesco Silvestri (University of Padova)
16:10-16:40 Coffee
16:40-17:15 Scalability of Gossip-Based Solutions to Dynamic Network Problems
  Ozalp Babaoglu (University of Bologna)
17:15-17:50 Application Scaling through Improved Single-Thread Performance
  Jose Moreira (IBM Research)
17:50-18:25 TBA
  Manish Gupta (IBM Research)
20:00-21:30 Dinner, Ristorante Antica Porta Chiara, Via Mazzini 76, 47032 Bertinoro (0543 444411)


Tuesday, September 21

07:30-08:45 Breakfast (``Center Canteen'')
09:15-09:50 Compilers are from Mars, Dynamic Scripting Languages are from Venus
  Jose Castanos (IBM Research)
09:50-10:25 Asynchronous computing of irregular applications using the SVPN model and S-Net coordination
  Alex Shafarenko (University of Hertfordshire)
10:25-10:55 Coffee
10:55-12:45 Discussion Session I: Classes of Applications that need Scalable Performance and Research Challenges to Deliver it – Focus on Single Chip Systems (Part B: Answers and Directions for Further Research)
  Coordinators: P. Kelly and P. Pattnaik
13:00-14:00 Lunch (``Center Canteen'')
14:30-22:30 Excursion to Pesaro
  Social Dinner at Ristorante Bristolino, Piazzale della Libertà, 7, 61121 Pesaro (PU) (0721 31609)


Wednesday, September 22

07:30-08:45 Breakfast (``Center Canteen'')
09:15-09:50 The HPX Runtime System for Exascale Computing
  Thomas Sterling (Louisiana State University)
09:50-10:25 Jülich on the way to Exascale
  Bernd Mohr (Jülich Supercomputing Centre)
10:25-11:00 Exploring Power Consumption in Extreme Scale Systems
  Kevin Barker (PNNL)
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:05 Programming Large-Scale Systems with Heterogeneous Multicore Nodes
  Barbara Chapman (University of Texas, Houston)
12:05-12:40 Large-Scale HPC systems: How to get Correct and Optimized Programs on Millions of Cores?
  Wolfgang Nagel (Technische Universität Dresden)
13:00-14:00 Lunch (``Center Canteen'')
15:00-16:00 Discussion Session II: Classes of Applications that need Scalable Performance and Research Challenges to Deliver it – Focus on Very Large Systems (Part A: Target Questions)
  Coordinators: J. Moreira and T. Sterling
16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30-17:05 Large-Scale Graph Computations
  Keshav Pingali (University of Texas, Austin)
17:05-17:40 Performance Modeling and Optimization on the Example of Stencil Algorithms
  Jan Treibig (University of Erlangen)
18:00-18:30 Visit to Bertinoro Inter-Faith Museum (La Rocca, Via Frangipane, 6)
20:00-21:30 Dinner, Bistrot Colonna, Via Mainardi 10, 47032 Bertinoro (0543 444333)


Thursday, September 23

07:30-08:45 Breakfast (``Center Canteen'')
09:15-09:50 The Hardware Compiling Environment (HCE): current status and future developments
  Paolo Palazzari (ENEA and Ylichron Srl)
09:50-10:25 Architecture-Independent Metrics for Characterizing Parallelism and Locality
  Milind Kulkarni (Purdue University)
10:25-10:55 Coffee
10:55-11:30 Chasing High Performances for Scientific Applications: the AuroraScience Project
  Francesco Di Renzo (University of Parma)
11:30-12:05 A Stochastically Optimal, Quasi-Competitive, Stack Replacement Policy for the Memory Hierarchy
  Gianfranco Bilardi (University of Padova)
13:00-14:00 Lunch (``Center Canteen'')
14:30-16:30 Discussion Session II: Classes of Applications that need Scalable Performance and Research Challenges to Deliver it – Focus on Very Large Systems (Part B: Answers and Directions for Further Research)
  Coordinators: J. Moreira and T. Sterling
  Adjourn
20:00-21:30 Dinner, Locanda della Fortuna, Via Frangipane 1, 47032 Bertinoro (0543 444456)