Program (Draft)




Sunday, September 23
15:00-20:00Check-in & Reception (“Seminario” - Via Frangipane, 4)
19:00-21:00Welcome Buffet (“Center Canteen” - Via Frangipane, 2)



Monday, September 24
07:30-08:45Breakfast (“Center Canteen”)
08:30-08:45Registration (“Museum Room” - La Rocca, Via Frangipane, 6)
08:45-09:00Welcome
09:00-09:30Ieri, oggi e domani
 Keshav Pingali (University of Texas at Austin)
09:30-10:00All roads lead to parallelism
José E. Moreira (IBM Research)
10:00-10:30 On-the-fly computing
Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide (Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn)
10:30-11:00Coffee
11:00-11:30Software for scalable performance – retrospective, and news from the “messy” frontier – unstructured-mesh CFD
Paul Kelly (Imperial College London)
11:30-12:00Practical performance modeling for HPC: past and future
Adolfy Hoisie (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
12:00-12:30The Pochoir Stencil Compiler System
Bradley C. Kuszmaul (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
12:30-13:00Parametric tiling with pipelining
Alain Darte (ENS Lyon)
13:00-14:30Lunch (“Center Canteen”)
15:00-16:00Discussion Session I/A: Reflections and perspectives on the avenue to performance: SYSTEMS
 Coordinators: Adolfy Hoisie, Paul Kelly, and Jose Moreira
16:00-16:30Some hard computational problems from Soft Matter
Claudio Zannoni (Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, University of Bologna)
16:30-17:00Coffee
17:00-17:30Machine versus algorithmic performance from the perspective of Lattice QCD
Dirk Pleiter (Juelich Supercomputing Center)
17:30-18:00A look at the existing programming models for HPC and its future into the clouds
Filippo Gioachin (HP Labs Singapore)
18:30-19:00Visit to Bertinoro Inter-Faith Museum (La Rocca, Via Frangipane, 6)
20:00-21:30Dinner, Ristorante Belvedere, Via Mazzini 7, 47032 Bertinoro (0543 445127)




Tuesday, September 25
07:30-08:45Breakfast (“Center Canteen”)
08:30-09:00The major sources of performance - past, present and beyond
Carsten Trinitis (University of Munich)
09:00-09:30Thick control flow computing
 Martti Forsell (VTT Electronics)
09:30-10:00How coordination programming may be the way forward for scalable performance and high productivity
Alex Shafarenko (Compiler Technology and Computer Architecture Group, University of Hertfordshire)
10:00-10:30A new computational model and microprocessor architecture: a way to scale program performance in the next decade
Lorenzo Verdoscia (Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR)- CNR)
10:30-11:00Coffee
11:00-13:00Discussion Session I/B: Reflections and perspectives on the avenue to performance: SYSTEMS
 Coordinators: Adolfy Hoisie, Paul Kelly, and Jose Moreira
13:00-14:30Lunch (“Center Canteen”)
15:00-22:30Excursion to Dozza
 Social Dinner, Hotel Monte del Re, Via Monte del Re 4, 40060 Dozza (BO) (0542 678400)



Wednesday, September 26
07:30-08:45Breakfast (“Center Canteen”)
09:00-09:30Data storage for a data-hungry world
 Manfred E. Schabes (HGST, a Western Digital company)
09:30-10:00Analytics in the age of Smarter Planet
 Pratap Pattnaik (IBM Research)
10:00-10:30Models of parallel and hierarchical computation
Gianfranco Bilardi (University of Padova)
10:30-11:00Coffee
11:00-11:30Towards extreme scale computing in the coming decade
 Thomas Sterling (Indiana University at Bloomington)
11:30-12:00Performance, performance, wherefore art thou performance?
 Allen D. Malony (University of Oregon)
12:00-13:00Discussion Session II/A: Reflections and perspectives on the avenue to performance: SOFTWARE
 Coordinators: Bradley Kuszmaul, Bern Mohr, Keshav Pingali
13:00-14:30Lunch (“Center Canteen”)
15:00-15:30System-level energy-efficient scalable HPC
 Giampietro Tecchiolli (Eurotech)
15:30-16:00HOlistic Performance System Analysis (HOPSA)
 Bernd Mohr (Juelich Supercomputing Center)
16:00-16:30Performance on HPC systems: What have we learned, what do we have to expect!
 Wolfgang Nagel (Technical University of Dresden)
16:30-17:00Coffee
17:30-22:30Mini Excursion to Cesenatico
Dinner, at Grand Hotel Cesenatico, Piazza Andrea Costa 1, 47042, Cesenatico (0547 80012).




Thursday, September 27
07:30-08:45Breakfast (“Center Canteen”)
09:00-09:30Portability of performance: the case for runtime systems
 Olivier Aumage (INRIA)
09:30-10:00Space-round tradeoffs for MapReduce computations
 Francesco Silvestri (University of Padova)
10:00-10:30Stochastic optimization and memory management
 Francesco Versaci (Vienna University of Technology)
10:30-11:00Coffee
11:00-11:30Supporting non-regular problems in modern multicores: a software perspective
 Henk Sips (Delft University of Technology)
11:30-12:00Energy efficient multicore computing at NTNU. early results and future research
 Lasse Natvig (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
12:00-12:30The PEPPHER composition tool: performance-aware dynamic composition of applications for GPU-based systems
 Christoph Kessler (University of Linkoping)
13:00-14:00Lunch (“Center Canteen”)
14:30-15:00TBA
Sven-Bodo Scholz (University of Hertfordshire)
15:00-15:30A Note on duality of peak and application peak performance
Alexander Heinecke (University of Munich)
15:30-16:00Coffee
16:00-18:00Discussion Session II/B: Reflections and perspectives on the avenue to performance: SOFTWARE
 Coordinators: Bradley Kuszmaul, Bern Mohr, Keshav Pingali
 Adjourn
20:00-21:30Dinner, Hotel della Città, Corso della Repubblica 117, 470121 Forlì (0543 28297).