CSE294 Largescale Systems Seminar

 

Winter 2005

Instructor: Prof. Scott Baden

Time and Location: Monday 1:00-2:30 PM, CSE(EBU3) 1202

 

Date

Speaker

Topic/Paper(s) Presented

Paper Links

Presentation Slides

1/9

Dr. Jeremy Kepner (MIT Lincoln Lab)

DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems Program

[Abstract]

 

1/16   Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, No meeting    
1/23 Barton P. Miller (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

A Framework for Binary Code Analysis and Static and Dynamic Patching

[It will be held in Room 4140 (one time only)]

[Abstract]  
1/30
Richard Lowasser (CSE) 
Chris Schroeder (Physics)
Parallel Particle Packing - A parallel approach to densely pack discs in a square. [Abstract]  
2/6 Jon Weinberg When Jobs Play Nice: The Case For Symbiotic Space-Sharing [Abstract]  
2/13 Jacob Sorensen Transformations to Parallel Codes for Communication-Computation Overlap" [link]  
2/20   President's Day    
2/27 Cynthia Bailey Lee Investigating Inaccuracy in User Runtime Estimates and "The Padding Hypothesis" [Abstract]  
3/6 Pietro Cicotti and Jacob Sorensen

Data Driven Model for Tolerating Communication Delay (Jake)

Asynchronous Cellular Microphysiology Simulation (Pietro)

   
3/13 Wayne Pfeiffer, SDSC Blue Gene: What it can and can't do  [Abstrct]  

 

Last updated: 3/5/05
Maintained by Ryan X. Wu (xwu AT ucsd.edu)

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Fall 2005

Time and Location: Monday 1:00-2:30 PM, CSE(EBU3) 1202

 

Date

Speaker

Topic/Paper(s) Presented

Paper Links

Presentation Slides

10/3

Jiahua He

The Case of the Missing Supercomputer Performance: Achieving Optimal Performance on the 8,192 Processors of ASCI Q . ( Fabrizio Petrini (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Darren J. Kerbyson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Scott Pakin (Los Alamos National Laboratory) , SC2003)

[PDF]

[PDF]

10/10

Pietro Cicotti

1. An Overview of the BlueGene/L Supercomputer.

2. Enabling Dual-Core Mode in BlueGene/L: Chanllenges and Solutions

3. Unlocking Performance of the BlueGene/L Supercomputer (The BlueGene/L Team, IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

[PDF1]

[PDF2]

[PDF3]

[PPT]

10/17

Michael McCracken

An Application-Based Performance Characterization of the Columbia Supercluster ( Rupak Biswas, M. Jahed Djomehri, Robert Hood, Haoqiang Jin, Cetin Kiris, and Subhash Saini, SC2005)

[PDF]

[PDF]

10/24

Gary Sevitsky (IBM)

The Diary of a Datum: Modeling Runtime Complexity in Framework-Based Applications

[Abstract]

 

10/31

Hansuk Kim

 Massive High Performance Global File Systems for Grid Computing (Phil Andrews, Patricia Kovatch, Christopher Jordan)

[PDF] 

[PPT]

11/7

Yves Robert (ENS, Lyon)

Centralized  versus distributed schedulers for multiple bag-of-task applications

[Abstract]

    

11/14

 

SC2005, no meeting

 

 

11/21

Omid Khalili

The Google File System (Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung, 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 2003)

[PDF]

[PPT]

11/28

Jon Weinberg

Cancelled.

 

 

 

Last updated: 11/21/05
Maintained by Ryan X. Wu (xwu AT ucsd.edu)

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Summer 2005

Time and Location: Monday 1:00-2:30 PM, AP&M4882

 

Date

Speaker

Topic/Paper(s) Presented

Paper Links

Presentation Slides

6/20

Michael McCracken

PerfMiner: Cluster-wide Collection, Storage and Presentation of Application Level Hardware Performance Data. (Philip J. Mucci, Daniel Ahlin, Johan Danielsson, Per Ekman, and Lars
Malinowski, Europar 2005)

[PDF]

[PDF]

6/27

Yang-suk Kee

A Dynamically Adaptive Hybrid Algorithm for Scheduling Lightpaths in Lambda-Grids. (Neena R. Kaushik and Silvia M. Figueira, CCGrid/GAN05)

[PDF]

[PPT]

7/4

 

Independence Day, no meeting

 

 

7/11

John Feo (Cray Research)

ELDORADO (John Feo, David Harper, Simon Kahan, Petr Konecny, Cray Inc.)

[DOC]

[PPT]

7/18

Dionysios Logothetis

Globus and PlanetLab Resource Management Solutions Compared (Matei Ripeanu, Mic Bowman, Jeffrey Chase, Ian Foster, Milan Milenkovic, HPDC 2004)

[PDF]

[PPT]

7/25

Richard Huang

 Coscheduling in Clusters: Is it a Viable Alternative? Gyu Sang Choi, Jin-Ha Kim, Deniz Ersoz, Andy Yoo, Chita Das. In Proceedings of the SuperComputing Conference, 2004

[PDF]

       [PPT]

8/1

Ryan Zhang

Cancelled

 

 

8/8

Justin Burke

Glacier: Highly Durable, Decentralized Storage Despite Massive Correlated Failures (Andreas Haeberlen, Alan Mislove, and Peter Druschel, Rice University)

[URL]

[PDF]

8/15

Ryo Sugihara

Building up to Macroprogramming: An Intermediate Language for Sensor Networks (Ryan Newton, Arvind, and Matt Welsh. In Proc. 4th Int'l Conf on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'05))

[PDF]

[PPT]

8/22

Jonathan Weinberg

Scheduling Strategies for Mapping Application Workflows onto the Grid (Anirban Mandal, Ken Kennedy, Charles Koelbel, Gabriel Marin, John Mellor-Crummey, Bo Liu and Lennart Johnsson, HPDC05)

[PDF]

[PPT]

8/29

Jerry Chou

Scheduling in HPC Resource Management Systems: Queuing vs. Planning (Matthias Hovestadt, Odej Jao, Alex Keller, and Achim Streit)

[PDF]

[PPT]

 

 

 

Spring 2005

Time and Location: Monday 1:00-2:30 PM, AP&M4301

 

Date

Speaker

Topic/Paper(s) Presented

Paper Links

Presentation Slides

4/4

Jon Weinberg

Cross Architecture Performance Predictions for Scientific Applications Using Parameterized Models. (Gabriel Marin and John Mellor-Crummey, Sigmetrics-Performance 2004)

[PDF]

[PPT]

4/11

Jiahua He

Analysis and Performance Results of a Molecular Modeling Application on Merrimac. (Mattan Erez, Jung Ho Ahn, Ankit Garg, William J. Dally, and Eric Darve, SC2004)

 [PDF]

[PPT]

4/18

Frank Uyeda

Scalable Analysis of Distributed Workflow Traces. (Daniel K. Gunter and Brian L. Tierney, PDPTA 2005)

 [PDF]

[PPT]

4/25

Huaxia Xia

 Using Multiple Energy Gears in MPI Programs on a Power-Scalable Cluster (Vincent W. Freeh, David K. Lowenthal, Feng Pan, and Nandani Kappiah, PPoPP'05)

[PS]

[PPT]

5/2

Sagnik Nandy

 Locality Aware Dynamic Load Management for Massively Multiplayer Games (Jin Chen, Baohua Wu, Margaret Delap, Bjorn Knutsson, Honghui Lu, and Cristiana Amza EPpoPP 2005)

[PDF]

[PPT]

5/9

Nut Taesombut

Performance Impact of Resource Provisioning on Workflows (Gurmeet Singh, Carl Kesselman and Ewa Deelman)

[PDF]

[PPT]

5/16

Ryan Wu

Predicting Bounds on Queuing Delay in Space-shared Computing Environments (John Brevik, Daniel Nurmi, and Rich Wolski, UCSB Technical Report)

[PDF]

[PPT]

5/23

Ken Yocum

ACMS: The Akamai Configuration Management System (Alex Sherman, Philip Lisiecki, Andy Berkheimer, and Joel Wein)

[PDF]

 

5/30

 

 Memorial day, no meeting

 

 

6/6

 

 Finals, no meeting