15. PVM/MPI 2008: Dublin, Ireland

Invited Talks

• George Bosilca:
  The Next Frontier. 1
  
• Franck Cappello:
  Fault Tolerance for PetaScale Systems: Current Knowledge, Challenges and Opportunities. 2
  
• Barbara M. Chapman:
  Managing Multicore with OpenMP (Extended Abstract). 3-4
  
• Al Geist:
  MPI Must Evolve or Die. 5
  
• William D. Gropp:
  MPI and Hybrid Programming Models for Petascale Computing. 6-7
  
• Rolf Rabenseifner:
  Some Aspects of Message-Passing on Future Hybrid Systems (Extended Abstract). 8-10
  
• Vaidy S. Sunderam:
  From Parallel Virtual Machine to Virtual Parallel Machine: The Unibus System. 11
  

Tutorial

• William Gropp, Ewing L. Lusk:
  EuroPVM/MPI Full-Day Tutorial. Using MPI-2: A Problem-Based Approach. 12
  

Outstanding Papers

• Pavan Balaji, Anthony Chan, William Gropp, Rajeev Thakur, Ewing L. Lusk:
  Non-data-communication Overheads in MPI: Analysis on Blue Gene/P. 13-22
  
• Sameer Kumar, Gábor Dózsa, Jeremy Berg, Bob Cernohous, Douglas Miller, Joe Ratterman, Brian E. Smith, Philip Heidelberger:
  Architecture of the Component Collective Messaging Interface. 23-32
  
• Galen M. Shipman, Stephen Poole, Pavel Shamis, Ishai Rabinovitz:
  X-SRQ- Improving Scalability and Performance of Multi-core InfiniBand Clusters. 33-42
  
• Alexey L. Lastovetsky, Vladimir Rychkov, Maureen O'Flynn:
  A Software Tool for Accurate Estimation of Parameters of Heterogeneous Communication Models. 43-54
  

Applications

• Torsten Hoefler, Florian Lorenzen, Andrew Lumsdaine:
  Sparse Non-blocking Collectives in Quantum Mechanical Calculations. 55-63
  
• Ismael Galindo, Francisco Almeida, José Manuel Badía-Contelles:
  Dynamic Load Balancing on Dedicated Heterogeneous Systems. 64-74
  
• Torsten Hoefler, Maraike Schellmann, Sergei Gorlatch, Andrew Lumsdaine:
  Communication Optimization for Medical Image Reconstruction Algorithms. 75-83
  

Collective Operations

• Jesper Larsson Träff, Andreas Ripke, Christian Siebert, Pavan Balaji, Rajeev Thakur, William Gropp:
  A Simple, Pipelined Algorithm for Large, Irregular All-gather Problems. 84-93
  
• Michael Hofmann, Gudula Rünger:
  MPI Reduction Operations for Sparse Floating-point Data. 94-101
  

Library Internals

• Ron Brightwell:
  A Prototype Implementation of MPI for SMARTMAP. 102-110
  
• Anthony Danalis, Aaron Brown, Lori L. Pollock, D. Martin Swany, John Cavazos:
  Gravel: A Communication Library to Fast Path MPI. 111-119
  

Message Passing for Multi-core and Mutlithreaded Architectures

• Pavan Balaji, Darius Buntinas, David Goodell, William Gropp, Rajeev Thakur:
  Toward Efficient Support for Multithreaded MPI Communication. 120-129
  
• Richard L. Graham, Galen M. Shipman:
  MPI Support for Multi-core Architectures: Optimized Shared Memory Collectives. 130-140
  

MPI Datatypes

• Faisal Ghias Mir, Jesper Larsson Träff:
  Constructing MPI Input-output Datatypes for Efficient Transpacking. 141-150
  
• Patrick Heckeler, Marcus Ritt, Jörg Behrend, Wolfgang Rosenstiel:
  Object-Oriented Message-Passing in Heterogeneous Environments. 151-158
  

MPI I/O

• Francisco Javier García Blas, Florin Isaila, Jesús Carretero, Thomas Großmann:
  Implementation and Evaluation of an MPI-IO Interface for GPFS in ROMIO. 159-166
  
• William D. Gropp, Dries Kimpe, Robert B. Ross, Rajeev Thakur, Jesper Larsson Träff:
  Self-consistent MPI-IO Performance Requirements and Expectations. 167-176
  

Synchronisation Issues in Point-to-Point and One-Sided Communications

• Lars Schneidenbach, David Böhme, Bettina Schnor:
  Performance Issues of Synchronisation in the MPI-2 One-Sided Communication API. 177-184
  
• Rahul Kumar, Amith R. Mamidala, Matthew J. Koop, Gopalakrishnan Santhanaraman, Dhabaleswar K. Panda:
  Lock-Free Asynchronous Rendezvous Design for MPI Point-to-Point Communication. 185-193
  

Tools

• Martin Schulz, Greg Bronevetsky, Bronis R. de Supinski:
  On the Performance of Transparent MPI Piggyback Messages. 194-201
  
• Jens Doleschal, Andreas Knüpfer, Matthias S. Müller, Wolfgang E. Nagel:
  Internal Timer Synchronization for Parallel Event Tracing. 202-209
  
• Mohamad Chaarawi, Jeffrey M. Squyres, Edgar Gabriel, Saber Feki:
  A Tool for Optimizing Runtime Parameters of Open MPI. 210-217
  
• Stephen F. Siegel, Andrew R. Siegel:
  MADRE: The Memory-Aware Data Redistribution Engine. 218-226
  
• Alexey L. Lastovetsky, Vladimir Rychkov, Maureen O'Flynn:
  MPIBlib: Benchmarking MPI Communications for Parallel Computing on Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Clusters. 227-238
  

Verification of Message Passing Programs

• Basile Schaeli, Ali Al-Shabibi, Roger D. Hersch:
  Visual Debugging of MPI Applications. 239-247
  
• Sarvani S. Vakkalanka, Michael Delisi, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Robert M. Kirby, Rajeev Thakur, William Gropp:
  Implementing Efficient Dynamic Formal Verification Methods for MPI Programs. 248-256
  
• Paulo Sergio Lopes de Souza, Eduardo T. Sawabe, Adenilso da Silva Simão, Silvia Regina Vergilio, Simone do Rocio Senger de Souza:
  ValiPVM - A Graphical Tool for Structural Testing of PVM Programs. 257-264
  
• Subodh Sharma, Sarvani S. Vakkalanka, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Robert M. Kirby, Rajeev Thakur, William Gropp:
  A Formal Approach to Detect Functionally Irrelevant Barriers in MPI Programs. 265-273
  
• Stephen F. Siegel, Louis F. Rossi:
  Analyzing BlobFlow: A Case Study Using Model Checking to Verify Parallel Scientific Software. 274-282
  

ParSim

• Carsten Trinitis, Martin Schulz:
  7th. 283-284
  
• Andreas Schäfer, Dietmar Fey:
  LibGeoDecomp: A Grid-Enabled Library for Geometric Decomposition Codes. 285-294
  
• Ana Balevic, Lars Rockstroh, Marek Wróblewski, Sven Simon:
  Using Arithmetic Coding for Reduction of Resulting Simulation Data Size on Massively Parallel GPGPUs. 295-302
  
• Mario Chavez, Eduardo Cabrera, Raúl Madariaga, Narciso Perea, Charles Moulinec, David Emerson, Mike Ashworth, Alejandro Salazar:
  Benchmark Study of a 3d Parallel Code for the Propagation of Large Subduction Earthquakes. 303-310
  

Poster Abstracts

• Chantana Phongpensri, Thanarat Rungthong:
  Vis-OOMPI: Visual Tool for Automatic Code Generation Based on C++/OOMPI. 311-312
  
• Carsten Clauss, Boris Bierbaum, Stefan Lankes, Thomas Bemmerl:
  A Framework for Deploying Self-predefined MPI Communicators and Attributes. 313-315
  
• Uwe Naumann, Laurent Hascoët, Chris Hill, Paul D. Hovland, Jan Riehme, Jean Utke:
  A Framework for Proving Correctness of Adjoint Message-Passing Programs. 316-321
  
• Yuichi Tsujita, Takuya Maruyama, Yuhei Onishi:
  A Compact Computing Environment for a Windows Cluster: Giving Hints and Assisting Job Execution. 322-323
  
• Noboru Tanabe, Hironori Nakajo:
  Introduction to Acceleration for MPI Derived Datatypes Using an Enhancer of Memory and Network. 324-325
  
• David Valencia, Antonio Plaza, Vladimir Rychkov, Alexey L. Lastovetsky:
  Efficient Collective Communication Paradigms for Hyperspectral Imaging Algorithms Using HeteroMPI. 326-331
  
• Alexey N. Salnikov, Dmitry Y. Andreev:
  An MPI-Based System for Testing Multiprocessor and Cluster Communications. 332-333
  
• Yannis Mazzer, Bernard Tourancheau:
  MPI in Wireless Sensor Networks. 334-339