Scaling to New Heights Workshop
The NSF PACI leading-edge centers (NCSA, PSC, SDSC) together with the Center for Computational Sciences (ORNL) and NERSC, conducted a workshop examining the issues involved in scaling applications to thousands of processors in May 2002.
The workshop included a poster session, invited and contributed talks, and a panel session. Participants examined the issues involved in developing and adapting research software to effectively exploit systems comprised of thousands of processors.
Subsequently, a Birds-of-a-Feather talk was presented at SC2002 in November 2002 which collected the ideas gathered at the workshop.
BOF Presentation
- BOF presentation [PPT]
Invited papers
- An Object Based Approach to Developing Scalable Applications: Challenges and Techniques [PDF]
Laxmikant Kale, University of Illinois - Scaling of First Principles Electronic Structure Methods on Future Architectures [PPT]
William Shelton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Scaling in Numerical Linear Algebra [PDF]
Jim Demmel, UC Berkeley - Scaling to the TeraGrid by Latency Tolerant Application Design [PDF]
Paul Woodward, University of Minnesota - Challenges in Developing Scalable Software for BlueGene/L [PDF]
Manish Gupta, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center - Understanding the Parallel Scalability of An Implicit Unstructured Mesh CFD Code [PDF]
David E. Keyes, Old Dominion University
Contributed papers
- A New Approach to Parallel Debugger Architecture [PDF]
Susanne M. Balle, Compaq Computer Corporation - A Framework for Application Performance Prediction to Enable Scalability Understanding [DOC]
Laura C. Carrington, San Diego Supercomputer Center - Scalability in Large-Data Scientific Visualization [DOC]
Alan Heirich, Compaq Computer Corporation - Scaling to Thousands of Processors with Buffered Coscheduling [PDF]
Fabrizio Petrini, Los Alamos National Laboratory - NAMD: Biomolecular Simulation on Thousands of Processors [PDF]
James C. Phillips, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - High Performance Spectral Element Methods for Simulation of Transition in Vascular Flows [PDF]
Henry Tufo, Argonne National Laboratory - NWChem: Computational Chemistry for Large Numbers of Processors [PDF]
Theresa Windus, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
