Overview Conference Program

Conference Opening

Session 1: Keynote 1 (winner IEEE Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing)

• Room: Senate

  Chair: Manish Parashar

• Programming Models for High-Performance Computing

  Marc Snir, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Break

Session 2A: Performance

• Room: Senate

  Chair: Thilo Kielmann

• Exploiting per User Information for Supercomputing Workload Prediction Requires Care

  Tuan Dinh, Lachlan Andrew and Philip Branch (Swinburne University of Technology)

• Building an Elastic Cloud out of Small Datacenters

  Indra Widjaja, Sem Borst and Iraj Saniee (Bell-Labs)

• Simulating Application Workflows and Services Deployed on the European Grid Infrastructure

  Sorina Camarasu Pop, Tristan Glatard and Hugues Benoit-Cattin (CREATIS–CNRS)

• Optimizing Large Data Transfers over 100Gbps Wide Area Networks

  Anupam Rajendran (Illinois Institute of Technology), Parag Mhashilkar (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Hyunwoo Kim (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Dave Dykstra (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Gabriele Garzoglio (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) and Ioan Raicu (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Session 2B: Clouds I

• Room: Van Hasselt room

  Chair: Marian Bubak

• Automated, Elastic Resource Provisioning for NoSQL Clusters Using TIRAMOLA

  Dimitrios Tsoumakos (Ionian University), Ioannis Konstantinou (National Technical University of Athens), Christina Boumpouka (National Technical University of Athens), Spyros Sioutas (Ionian University) and Nectarios Koziris (National Technical University of Athens)

• Autoflex: Service Agnostic Auto-scaling Framework for IaaS Deployment Models

  Fábio Morais (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande), Francisco Brasileiro (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande), Raquel Lopes (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande), Ricardo Araújo (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande), Wade Satterfield (Hewlett-Packard) and Leandro Rosa (Hewlett-Packard)

• Towards QoS-Oriented SLA Guarantees for Online Cloud Services

  Damián Serrano (INRIA Rhône-Alpes), Sara Bouchenak (University of Grenoble), Yousri Kouki (INRIA – EMN), Thomas Ledoux (INRIA – EMN), Jonathan Lejeune (LIP6 – INRIA), Julien Sopena (LIP6 – INRIA), Luciana Arantes (LIP6 – INRIA) and Pierre Sens (LIP6 – INRIA)

• Optimal Cloud Resource Auto-Scaling for Web Application

  Jing Jiang, Jie Lu, Guangquan Zhang and Guodong Long (University of Technology Sydney)

Session 2C: Doctoral Symposium: Parallel and Distributed Systems

• Room: Committee Room 3

  Chair: Ana Varbanescu

• Cost-Efficient Virtual Machine Provisioning for Multi-tier Web Applications and Video Transcoding

  Adnan Ashraf (Åbo Akademi University)

• Sesame: A User-Transparant Optimizing Framework for Many-Core Processors

  Jianbin Fang, Ana Lucia Varbanescu and Henk Sips (Delft University of Technology)

• Reproducing Network Conditions for Tests of Large-Scale Distributed Systems

  Robert Lübke, Daniel Schuster and Alexander Schill (Technische Universität Dresden)

• Fast Wide Area Live Migration with a Low Overhead through Page Cache Teleportation

  Soramichi Akiyama (University of Tokyo), Takahiro Hirofuchi (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)), Ryousei Takano (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)) and Shinichi Honiden (University of Tokyo / National Institute of Informatics (NII))

• Towards an Optimized Big Data Processing System

  Bogdan Ghit, Alexandru Iosup and Dick Epema (Delft University of Technology)

Lunch

Session 3A: Programming Models

• Room: Senate

  Chair: Daniel Katz

• Toward Asynchronous and MPI-Interoperable Active Messages

  Xin Zhao (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Darius Buntinas (Argonne National Laboratory), Judicael Zounmevo (Queen’s University), James Dinan (Argonne National Laboratory), David Goodell (Argonne National Laboratory), Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Laboratory), Rajeev Thakur (Argonne National Laboratory), Ahmad Afsahi (Queen’s University) and William Gropp (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

• Swift/T: Large-Scale Application Composition via Distributed-Memory Dataflow Processing

  Justin Wozniak (Argonne National Laboratory), Timothy Armstrong (University of Chicago), Michael Wilde (University of Chicago), Daniel Katz (University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory), Ewing Lusk (Argonne National Laboratory) and Ian Foster (University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory)

• Scalable PGAS Metadata Management on Extreme Scale Systems

  Daniel Chavarría-Miranda, Khushbu Agarwal and T.P. Straatsma (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

• SYBL: an Extensible Language for Controlling Elasticity in Cloud Applications

  Georgiana Copil, Daniel Moldovan, Hong-Linh Truong and Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology)

Session 3B: Accelerators

• Room: Van Hasselt Room

  Chair: Ioan Raicu

• GPU-TLS: An Efficient Runtime for Speculative Loop Parallelization on GPUs

  Chenggang Zhang, Guodong Han and C.L. Wang (University of Hong Kong)

• Efficient Intra-node Communication on Intel-MIC Clusters

  Sreeram Potluri, Akshay Venkatesh, Devendar Bureddy, Krishna Chaitanya Kandalla and Dhabaleswar Panda (Ohio State University)

• CUDA vs OpenACC: Performance Case Studies with Kernel Benchmarks and a Memory-Bound CFD Application

  Tetsuya Hoshino (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Naoya Maruyama (RIKEN AICS), Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology) and Ryoji Takaki (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)

• Evaluation of Inter- and Intra-node Data Transfer Efficiencies between GPU Devices and their Impact on Scalable Applications

  Antonio J. Peña (Universitat Jaume I) and Sadaf R. Alam (Swiss National Supercomputing Center)

Session 3C: Doctoral Symposium: Cloud Computing

• Room: Committee Room 3

  Chair: Alexandru Iosup

• Massivizing Multi-player Online Games on Cloud

  Siqi Shen, Alexandru Iosup and Dick Epema (Delft University of Technology)

• Data Usage Control for the Cloud

  Florian Kelbert (Technische Universität München)

• Extending the Capabilities of Mobile Devices for Online Social Applications through Cloud Offloading

  Alexandru-Corneliu Olteanu (University Politehnica of Bucharest Romania), Nicolae Tapus (University Politehnica of Bucharest Romania) and Alexandru Iosup (Delft University of Technology)

• Adapting Scientific Applications to Cloud by Using Distributed Computing Frameworks

  Pelle Jakovits and Satish Narayana Srirama (University of Tartu)

• Negotiation-based Flexible SLA Establishment with SLA-oriented Resource Allocations in Cloud Computing

  Seokho Son and Sung Chan Jun (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)

Break

Session 4: Poster Presentations

• Room: Senate

  Chair: Rob van Nieuwpoort

• See Proceedings-Published Posters and Web-Published Posters for an overview.

Session 5: Posters + Conference Reception

• Room: Foyer

• See Proceedings-Published Posters and Web-Published Posters for an overview.

Session 6: Keynote 2

• Room: Senate

  Chair: Dick Epema

• The Astronomical Multipurpose Software Environment and the Ecology of Star Clusters

  Simon Portegies Zwart, Leiden University, the Netherlands

Break

Session 7A: Scheduling

• Room: Senate

  Chair: Douglas Thain

• Multi-Objective Workflow Scheduling: An Analysis of the Energy Efficiency and Makespan Tradeoff

  Juan J. Durillo, Vlad Nae and Radu Prodan (University of Innsbruck)

• Automated SLA Negotiation Framework for Cloud Computing

  Linlin Wu (University of Melbourne), Saurabh Kumar (University of Melbourne), Raj Buyya (University of Melbourne), Chao Chen (CA Technologies) and SteveLinlin Wu (University of Melbourne), Saurabh Kumar (University of Melbourne), Raj Buyya (University of Melbourne), Chao Chen (CA Technologies) and Steve Versteeg (CA Technologies)Versteeg (CA Technologies)

• Hierarchical I/O Scheduling for Collective I/O

  Jialin Liu, Yong Chen and Yu Zhuang (Texas Tech University)

• Stretch Out and Compact: Workflow Scheduling with Resource Abundance

  Young Choon Lee and Albert Y. Zomaya (University of Sydney)

• Scheduling Transactions in Replicated Distributed Software Transactional Memory

  Junwhan Kim and Binoy Ravindran (Virginia Tech, ECE)

Session 7B: MapReduce

• Room: Van Hasselt

  Chair: Jean-Louis Pazat

• Bi-Hadoop: Extending Hadoop To Improve Support For Binary-Input Applications

  Xiao Yu and Bo Hong (Georgia Institute of Technology)

• Non-intrusive Slot Layering in Hadoop

  Peng Lu, Young Choon Lee and Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney)

• Resilin: Elastic MapReduce over Multiple Clouds

  Anca Iordache (INRIA), Christine Morin (INRIA), Nikos Parlavantzas (INSA), Eugen Feller (INRIA) and Pierre Riteau (University of Chicago)

• A Lightweight Continuous Jobs Mechanism for MapReduce Frameworks

  Trong-Tuan Vu (INRIA) and Fabrice Huet (INRIA-University of Nice-CNRS)

• A Scalable Implementation of a MapReduce-based Graph Processing Algorithm for Large-scale Heterogeneous Supercomputers

  Koichi Shirahata, Hitoshi Sato, Toyotaro Suzumura and Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Session 7C: Applications I

• Room: Committee 3

  Chair: Daniel Katz

• V-BOINC: The Virtualization of BOINC

  Gary McGilvary (University of Edinburgh), Adam Barker (University of St Andrews), Ashley Lloyd (University of Edinburgh) and Malcolm Atkinson (University of Edinburgh)

• Experiences Applying Data Staging Technology in Unconventional Ways

  Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Laboratories), Ron Oldfield (Sandia National Laboratories) and Todd Kordenbrock (Hewlett Packard)

• Versioned File Backup and Synchronization in Serverless Clouds

  Shuang Qiu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Jingyu Zhou (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and Tao Yang (UC Santa Babara)

• Exploring Dynamic Enactment of Scientific Workflows using Pilot-Abstractions

  Mark Santcroos (Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam), Barbera Desiree Chantal Van Schaik (Academic Medical Center of the University ofAmsterdam), Shayan Shahand (Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam), Silvia Olabarriaga (Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam), Andre Luckow (Rutgers University) and Shantenu Jha (Rutgers University)

• Evaluating Cloud Computing Techniques for Smart Power Grid Design Using Parallel Scripting

  Ketan Maheshwari (Cornell University), Kenneth Birman (Cornell University), Justin Wozniak (Argonne National Laboratory) and Devin Van Zandt (GE Energy)

Lunch

Session 8: Panel on Clouds

• Room: Senate

  Chair: Alexandru Iosup

• Members:

  Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands (slides)

  Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia (slides)

  Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA (slides)

  Richard Graham, Mellanox, Israel and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA (slides)

  Daniel Katz, University of Chicago, USA (slides)

  Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (slides)

Break

Session 9A: Data Management

• Room: Senate

  Chair: Alfredo Cuzzocrea

• Understanding Data Characteristics and Access Patterns in a Cloud Storage System

  Songbin Liu, Xiaomeng Huang, Guangwen Yang and Haohuan Fu (Tsinghua University)

• Supporting a Light-Weight Data Management Layer Over HDF5

  Yi Wang, Yu Su and Gagan Agrawal (Ohio State University)

• PARLO: PArallel Run-time Layout Optimization for Scientific Data Explorations with Heterogeneous Access Patterns

  Zhenhuan Gong (North Carolina State University), David Boyuka (North Carolina State University), Xiaocheng Zou (North Carolina State University), Qing Liu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Norbert Podhorszki (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Xiaosong Ma (North Carolina State Univerisity) and Nagiza Samatova (North Carolina State University)

• Consistency in the Cloud: When Money Does Matter!

  Houssem-Eddine Chihoub (INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique), Shadi Ibrahim (INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique), Gabriel Antoniu (INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique) and Maria S. Pérez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

Session 9B: Multicore

• Room: Van Hasselt Room

  Chair: Thomas Fahringer

• Partially Separated Page Tables for Efficient Operating System Assisted Hierarchical Memory Management on Heterogeneous Architectures

  Balazs Gerofi (RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science), Akio Shimada (RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science), Atsushi Hori (RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science) and Yutaka Ishikawa (University Of Tokyo)

• SLOAVx: Scalable LOgarithmic AlltoallV Algorithm for Hierarchical Multicore Systems

  Cong Xu (Auburn University), Manjunath Gorentla Venkata (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Richard Graham (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Yandong Wang (Auburn University), Zhuo Liu (Auburn University) and Weikuan Yu (Auburn University)

• Optimizing Burrows-Wheeler Transform-Based Sequence Alignment on Multicore Architectures

  Jing Zhang (Virginia Tech), Heshan Lin (Virginia Tech), Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Laboratory) and Wu-Chun Feng (Virginia Tech)

• SR-IOV Support for Virtualization on InfiniBand Clusters: Early Experience

  Jithin Jose, Mingzhe Li, Xiaoyi Lu, Krishna Chaitanya Kandalla, Mark Arnold and Dhabaleswar Panda (Ohio State University)

Session 9C: SCALE Challenge

• Room: Committee room 3

  Chair: Alexandru Iosup and Douglas Thain

• Scalable Complex System Modeling for Sustainable City

  Henry Kasim, Terence Hung, Erika Fille Tupas Legara, Kee Khoon Lee, Xiaorong Li, Bu-Sung Lee, Vicknesh Selvam, Sifei Lu and Long Wang

• MR-DBSCAN 2.0: A Scalable MapReduce-based DBSCAN Algorithm for Heavily Skewed Data

  Yaobin He and Haoyu Tan

• Flauncher and DVMS -- Deploying and Scheduling Thousands of Virtual Machines on Hundreds of Nodes Distributed Geographically

  Daniel Balouek, Adrien Lèbre and Flavien Quesnel

• Scalability of the Snooze Autonomic Cloud Management System

  Eugen Feller, Christine Morin, Matthieu Simonin, Anne-Cécile Orgerie and Yvon Jégou

• Exploring Scientific Discovery with Large-Scale Parallel Scripting

  Timothy Armstrong, Justin Wozniak and Michael Wilde

Conference Dinner in Restaurant De Lindenhof