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8.30 - 08.50 Registration

08.50 - 09.00 Welcome

09.00 - 09.30 Opening Talk: Complex HPC Challenges: Some Compiler, Library and Application Issues, Anne C. Elster
Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway

• Parallelization aspects of multiphase flow simulations, Maya Neytcheva, Scientific Computing Department of Information Technology Uppsala University - Sweden

• Parallelization of MPDATA algorithm on heterogeneous CPU-GPU architectures, Lukasz Szustak, Krzysztof Rojek, and Roman Wyrzykowski, Czestochowa University of Technology - Poland

• The Life and Work of Andre Cholesky, Fred G. Gustavson (1) & Jerzy Wasniewski (2), 1: Umea University (Sweden) and Emeritus at IBM Research (USA), 2: Informatics & Mathematical Modeling of The Danish Technical University (Denmark)

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

• CLAW toolkit supporting OpenCL programming on GPUs, Jan Kwiatkowski Wrocław University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Institute of Informatics - Poland

• Towards Automated Management in Sky Computing Environments, Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara and Institute e-Austria Timisoara - Romania

• Job allocation strategies for energy-aware and efficient Grid, Alfonso Quarati, Antonella Galizia, IMATI CNR - Italy

• Discovering resources in large-scale distributed environments, Konstantinos Karaoglanoglou, Department of Informatics Aristotle University, Thessaloniki - Greece

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch Break

• Cost Models for Combinator Parallelism in GPGPUs, Stuart Monroe, University of Glasgow - UK

• Programming models for the execution of modular parallel applications on clusters and GPUs, Jörg Dümmler, Chemnitz University of Technology Faculty of Computer Science - Germany

• Real-Time Implementation of Remotely Sensed Hyperspectral Image Unmixing on GPUs , S. Sanchez (1), R. Ramalho (2), L. Sousa (2) and A. Plaza (1), 1 Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory - Dept. Technology of Computers and Communications University of Extremadura, Escuela Politecnica de Caceres - Spain, 2 INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa - Portugal

• Optimal Matrix-Matrix Partitioning on Heterogeneous Processors, Ashley DeFlumere, Heterogeneous Computing Laboratory, UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics - Ireland

• Power saving mechanisms in order to maximize performance and efficiency of large scale distributed systems, George Terzopoulos, PhD Student, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki - Greece

• Improving response time in dynamic and concurrent workflow scheduling, Hamid Arabnejad, Jorge Barbosa, Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade do Porto - Portugal

• Autotuned adaptation of MPDATA algorithm to GPU accelerators, Krzysztof Rojek, Roman Wyrzykowski, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland

• Applying OOC Techniques in the Reduction to Condensed Form for Very Large Symmetric Eigenproblems on GPUs, Davor Davidović and Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí, Centre for Informatics and Computing , Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb - Croatia

16.00 – 16.15 Coffee Break

• Hierarchical Partitioning Algorithm for Scientific Computing on Highly Heterogeneous CPU + GPU Clusters, David Clarke, Heterogeneous Computing Laboratory, UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics - Ireland

• Towards Realistic Divisible Load Scheduling on Highly Heterogeneous Systems with Limited Memory, Aleksandar Ilic, Technical University of Lisbon - Portugal

• Investigating an Open Source Cloud Storage Infrastructure for CERN-Specific Data Analysis, Salman Zubair Thoor, Uppsala University - Sweden

• GPU Implementation of JPEG2000 for Hyperspectral Image Compression, Milosz Ciznicki, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center - Poland

• Parallel global optimization, Julius Žilinskas, Vilnius University - Institute of Mathematics and Informatics - Lithuania

• Grid Based Parallel and Distributed Processing of Satellite Images, Vlad Doru Colceriu, Danut Mihon, Dorian Gorgan, Computer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca - Romania

• Parallel and Distributed Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Lennard-Jones Systems, Vlad Baja (1)(2), Titus Beu (2), Dorian Gorgan (1), 1 Computer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania; 2 Faculty of Physics, University Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

• Parallel Real Time Simulation of Mass-Spring Models on Graphic Cluster Architectures, Adrian Sabou, Dorian Gorgan, Computer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca - Romania

• A Parallel Isosurface Extraction Component for Visualization Pipelines Executing on GPU Clusters, Daniele D’Agostino, IMATI, CNR - Italy

• Efficient Exploitation of Heterogeneous Platforms for Images and Videos Processing, Sidi Ahmed Mahmoudi (1), Pierre Manneback (1), Michal Kierzynka (2), 1 University of Mons. UMONS - Belgium, 2 Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center - Poland

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break

• COST catalog of applications - implementation proposal , Roman Trobec, Matjaž Depolli and Gregor Kosec, Jozef Institute Stefan, Ljubljana - Slovenia

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch Break

14.00 – 16.30 Management Committee Meeting

16.30 – 17.00 Closing and Wrap up

08:30-09:30 Registration

09:30-10:00 Introduction

• Dana Petcu (Romania): Welcome from the local organizers

• Emmanuel Jeannot (France): Status of the COST Action IC0805

10:00-11:00 WG3- Algorithms and tools for mapping and executing applications onto distributed and heterogeneous systems (Part I)

• Helen Karatza (Greece): Performance of Scheduling Policies in Grids and Clouds – Challenges and Research Directions

• Thomas Rauber (Germany): Load balancing with task queues

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00 WG3- Algorithms and tools for mapping and executing applications onto distributed and heterogeneous systems (Part II)

• Emmanuel Jeannot (France): Process placement in heterogeneous environment

• Suleyman Tosun (Turkey): Topology Generation and Application Mapping for Network-on-Chips

• Marc Eduard Frincu, Flavia Micota, Daniela Zaharie, Dana Petcu (Romania): Metaheuristic and agent-based scheduling in heterogeneous environments

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 WG2 - Efficient use of complex systems with an emphasis of computational library and communication library

• Michel Steuwer (Germany), Towards A High-Level Approach for Programming Distributed Systems with GPUs

• Harald Gjermundrod (Cyprus), GridStat: A Wide-Area Communication Framework for Critical Infrastructures

• Gudula Rünger (Germany) Programming for multilevel parallelism

• Georgiana Macariu, Dana Petcu, Ciprian Craciun, Silviu Panica, Marian Neagul (Romania) Open source API and platform for heterogeneous Cloud computing environments

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 WG1 - Numerical analysis for hierarchical and heterogeneous and multicore systems

• Jerzy Wasniewsky (Denmark): Cholesky Algorithms using Block Packed Format and Level 3 BLAS Factorization Kernals

• Krsztof Rojek, Lukasz Szutak and Roman Wyrzykowski (Poland): Parallelization of the EULAG Numerical Model for Geophysical Flows on Multicore Architectures with GPU Accelerators

• Anne C. Elster (Norway): From Many-Cores to Multi-Scale: Some Challenges and Opportunities for Numerical Analysis in Complex HPC Environments

18:00-20:00 Welcome party

09:00-10:30 WG4 - Applications of hierarchical-heterogeneous systems (Part I)

• Domingo Giménez (Spain), Modelling the execution time of scientific codes with hybrid parallelism

• Sidi Ahmed Mahmoudi and Pierre Manneback (Belgium), Image and video processing on parallel (GPU) and heterogeneous architectures

• Dorian Gorgan (Romania), Earth science oriented tools and applications over HPC architectures

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 WG4 - Applications of hierarchical-heterogeneous systems (Part II)

• Frank J. Seinstra, Niels Drost, Jason Maasen, Maarten A. J. Van Meerbbergen, Henri E. Bal, F. Inty Pelupessy, Simon P. Zwart, Michael Kliphuis and Henk A. Dijkstra (Netherland), High-performance distributed multi-model / multi-kernel simulations: A case study in jungle computing using Ibis

• Sergio Sanchez (Spain), Rui Ramalho (Portugal), Leonel Sousa (Portugal) and Antonio Plaza (Spain), Real-time implementation of remotely sensed hyperspectral image unmixing on GPUs

• Silviu Panica, Marian Neagul, Daniela Zaharie and Dana Petcu (Romania), Services for Earth observations: from cluster and cloud to HPC and Grid services

12:30-13:00 STMS Results

• A. Lančinskas (Lithuania), On Approaches to Parallelize Pareto Ranking in Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Visit to the HPC center

14:30-17:00 MC meeting (Part I)

17:00-21:00 Visit to wine-yard

09:00-10:30 MC meeting (Part II)

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 WG meetings

12:30-13:00 Closing

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Town tour