Salishan 2005

Theme: Paths to Petaflops

Opening Address: Modeling Tsunamis with ASC Codes, Galen Gisler, LANL

Keynote Address: Petaflop-Scale Computing (pdf), Dimitri Kusnezov, DOE, NNSA

Session 1: Exploring Requirements for Petaflops Computing

• Summary of the Requirements to Move Beyond a 100TF ASC Computing Platform to a Petaflop Platform (pdf), James Rathkopf, LLNL
• Petascale Computing for Science (pdf) , Horst D. Simon, LBNL
• Can Computer Architecture Improve Scientific Productivity? (pdf), David Patterson, UC-Berkeley
• System Architecture Design at Extreme-Scale Using Predictive Performance Models (pdf), Adolfy Hoisie, LANL

Session 2: Architecture Models for Petaflops Systems

• Initial BlueGene/L Application Performance Results (pdf), Bronis R. deSupinski, LLNL
• Early Experience with Red Storm (pdf), Robert Ballance, SNL
• Large-Scale NASA Science Applications on the Columbia Supercluster (pdf), Walt Brooks, NASA Ames Research Center
• DarkHorse (pdf), Stephen Poole, LANL

Session 3: Other Designs for Petaflops Architectures

• FPGA-Based Petascale Computing (pdf), Dan Poznanovic, SRC Computer, Inc.
• The CELL Processor: Architecture and Issues (pdf), Doug Joseph, IBM
• Explicit-Communication Architectures for Scientific Computing (pdf), William J. Dally, Stanford University
• PIMS and CMPs for Petaflops: how many cores can/should we place on the head of a pin, and why? (pdf), Peter Kogge, University of Notre Dame

Session 4: System Software Tools for Petaflops Systems

• Operating Systems-The Code We Love To Hate (pdf), Fred Johnson, DOE
• Challenges in Scalability of Performance Tools for Petaflops Systems (pdf), Patricia J. Teller, University of Texas, El Paso
• A Semi-automatic System for Application-level Checkpoint/Recovery (CPR) (pdf), Keshav Pingali, Cornell University
• The Forthcoming Petascale Systems Era. "Got Tools?" (pdf), Leroy A. (Tony) Drummond, LBNL

Session 5: Productivity Issues for Petaflops Systems

• Colors, Conjectures, Mathematics and Productivity, Andrew B. White, LANL
• How to Program on 50,000 Processors (pdf), Karen Devine, SNL
• Getting Work Out of New, High-End Systems (pdf), Mike Levine, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
• HPC Productivity: Are We Addressing the Right Issues (pdf), Cherri Pancake, Oregon State University