HCW 2010 Program - MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2010

8:45-9:00: WELCOME

• Steering Committee Chair: H. J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA
• General Chair: David A. Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Program Chair: Anne Benoit, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France [introduction slides]
• Vice Program Chair for "Robust Scheduling and Fault-Tolerant Techniques": Qin Zheng, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore

9:00-10:00: KEYNOTE TALK
Session Chair: H. J. Siegel

• Architectural Considerations for a 500 TFLOPS Heterogeneous HPC
  Richard Linderman, US Air Force Research Laboratory

10:00-10:30: BREAK

10:30-12:00: SESSION 1: Evaluation of Heterogeneous Environments
Session Chair: Anne Benoit

• Characterizing Heterogeneous Computing Environments using Singular Value Decomposition
  Abdulla Al-Qawasmeh and Tony Maciejewski and H. J. Siegel
• Statistical Predictors of Computing Power in Heterogeneous Clusters [slides]
  Ron Chi-Lung Chiang and Tony Maciejewski and Arnold L. Rosenberg and H. J. Siegel
• A First Step to the Evaluation of SimGrid in the Context of a Real Application [slides]
  Abdou Guermouche and Hélène Renard

12:00-1:30: LUNCH (on your own)

1:30-3:00: SESSION 2: Robust Scheduling and Fault-Tolerant Techniques
Session Chair: Ioana Banicescu

• Runtime Adaptation for DAGs with Uncertainties in Heterogeneous Computing Systems [slides]
  Qin Zheng
• Unibus: Aspects of Heterogeneity and Fault Tolerance in Cloud Computing [slides]
  Magdalena Slawinska and Jaroslaw Slawinski and Vaidy Sunderam
• Robust Resource Allocation of DAGs in a Heterogeneous Multicore System [slides]
  Luis D Briceno and Jay Smith and H. J. Siegel and Tony Maciejewski and Paul Maxwell and Abdulla Al-Qawasmeh and Ron Chi-Lung Chiang and Jiayin Li and Russ Wakerfield

3:00-3:30: BREAK

3:30-5:30: SESSION 3: From Heterogeneous Multi-Cores to Applications
Session Chair: Qin Zheng

• Decentralized Dynamic Scheduling across Heterogeneous Multi-core Desktop Grids [slides]
  Jaehwan Lee and Pete Keleher and Alan Sussman
• Custom Built Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architectures: Breaking the conventions [slides]
  Nagarajan Venkateswaran and Karthikeyan Saravanan and Nachiappan CN and Aravind Vasudevan and Balaji Subramaniam and Ravindhiran Mukundarajan
• Improving MapReduce Performance via Data Placement in Heterogeneous Hadoop Clusters
  Jiong Xie and Shu Yin and Xiaojun Ruan and Zhiyang Ding and James Majors and Xiao Qin
• An Empirical Study of a Scalable Byzantine Agreement Algorithm [slides]
  Olumuyiwa Oluwasanmi and Jared Saia and Valerie King
  

5:30: END OF WORKSHOP