harryw@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (05/02/90)
1990 ACM International Conference on Supercomputing
June 11-15, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Vrije Universiteit and Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
Sponsored by ACM SIGARCH
in association with ACM-SIGNUM, AICA, BCS-PPG, CTI, CSRD,
CWI, GI, INRIA, IPSJ, SBMAC, and SIAM-SIAG
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRMEN
Ahmed Sameh, University of Illinois, USA
and
Henk van der Vorst, Delft University of Technology CWI, the Netherlands
Program Director
John R. Sopka, Digital Equipment Corporation, USA
Program Committees
AMERICA: E. Gallopoulos (Chair), F. Darema, E. Davidson, G. Fox,
D. Gannon, M. Heath, J. Hennessy, E. Houstis, J. McGraw, Y. Patt,
C. Polychronopoulos, J. Rice, Y. Saad, J. E. Smith, H. Wijshoff.
EUROPE-AFRICA J. R. Gurd (Chair), I. S. Duff, W. K. Giloi, F. Hossfeld,
W. Jalby, P. Leca, T. S. Papatheodorou, R. H. Perrot, P. Sguazerro,
H. v. d. Vorst, J. v. Leeuwen, M. Vanneschi.
JAPAN-FAR EAST Y. Muraoka (Chair), K. Asai, S. Ono, M. Ishii,
T. Kamimura, M. Koike, S. Nagashima, T. Shimada, H. Tanaka, H. Terada.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE D. DeGroot, H. te Riele,
M. Louter-Nool, F. Snijders, L. Verdonk.
INVITED LECTURES:
Burton Smith, "The Tera Computer System"
Tony Chan, "Parallel Multilevel Algorithms for PDE's"
William Wulf, "The Collaboratory: A Larger Context for Support
of Computational Science"
Wolfgang Fichtner, "Iterative Methods and Supercomputers for
VLSI Device Simulation"
Toshitsugu Yuba, "Dataflow Computer Development in Japan"
Ahmed Noor, "Strategies for Large-Scale Structural Problems on
High Performance Computers"
Piet van der Houwen, "Parallel ODE Solvers"
Anthony Hey, "Supercomputing with transputers-past, present and future"
This is the fourth year of the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing.
The conference will be held at Vrije Universiteit. Conference Proceedings
will be published by ACM. In addition to the invited and contributed papers,
there will also be demonstrations of projects on Software Environments
for Scientific Computing, accompanied by panel discussions, and vendor exhibits.
The conference will also host the award of the first annual
Bell-Perfect Prize for high performance scientific computing.
SOCIAL EVENTS:
Sunday, 10 June: Reception and informal get together. Admission
free for participants.
Tuesday, 12 June: Conference banquet, to be served during a
boat trip through the Amsterdam canals and on the river Zaan to the
Zaanse Schans. Costs: Dfl. 80.-- per person.
Wednesday, 13 June: Excursion to either the Kroller-Muller Museum,
where part (i.e. the drawings) of the great Van Gogh 1990 exhibition
can be admired or to the Delta works.
Costs: Dfl. 60.-- per person.
Thursday, 14 June: Reception in a typically Dutch museum. Admission
free for participants.
Friday, 15 June: (A limited number of) Tickets are available for the
other part of the great Van Gogh 1990 exhibition (the Van Gogh
paintings) in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Price per ticket:
Dfl. 20.--.
PROGRAM
SUNDAY, JUNE 10
Evening
18.00 - 20.00 Registration in Altea Hotel/Euromotel
19.00 - 20.00 Reception and informal get together in Altea Hotel/Euromotel
MONDAY, JUNE 11
Morning
9.00 - 18.00 Registration
10.00 - 10.15 Welcome: Conference Chairmen
10.15 - 11.00 Opening:
W. C. Nieuwpoort (Chairman of the Working Committee on
Supercomputers, Ministry of Education and Science,
The Netherlands)
Universities and Supercomputers: Do they need each other?
11.00 - 11.30 Break
11.30 - 12.15 Invited Lecture:
William Wulf (U. S. National Science Foundation)
The Collaboratory: A Larger Context for Support of
Computational Science
12.15 - 13.00 Invited Lecture:
Wolfgang Fichtner (ETH, Zurich)
Iterative Methods and Supercomputers for VLSI Device Simulation
MONDAY, JUNE 11
afternoon
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 - 14.45 Invited Lecture:
Burton Smith (TERA Computer Company)
The Tera Computer System
14.45 - 15.00 Break
15.00 - 17.45 SESSION: HARDWARE AND ARCHITECTURE
15.00 - 15.30 Kai Hwang, Hemraj Nair, D. K. Panda and Santosh Rao
(Dept. of Electrical Engineering-Systems, Univ. Southern
California)
Architectural Design of The USC Orthogonal Multiprocessor
15.30 - 16.00 K. Dai and W. K. Giloi (GMD-FIRST, Berlin, W. Germany)
A basic architecture supporting the LGDG computation
16.00 - 16.15 Break
16.15 - 16.45 Sang Lyul Min (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Jean-Loup Baer
(Dept. Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. of Washington,
Seattle) and Hyoung-Joo Kim (School of Information and Computer
Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta)
An efficient caching support for critical sections in
large-scale shared-memory multi-processors
16.45 - 17.15 H. Itoh (Hitachi Ltd.), U. Nagashima and F. Nishimoto
(Institute for Molecular Science)
An improvement of I/O function for auxiliary storage:
Parallel I/O for large-scale supercomputing
17.15 - 17.45 Nian-Feng Tzeng (The Center for Advanced Computer Studies,
Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana)
Analysis of a Variant Hypercube Technology
15.00 - 17.45 DEMONSTRATION SESSION:
PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS FOR SUPERCOMPUTING AND PARALLEL COMPUTING
TUESDAY, JUNE 12
Morning
9.00 - 9.45 Invited Lecture:
Piet van der Houwen (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science
- CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Parallel Ordinary Differential Equation Solvers
9.45 - 10.00 Break
10.00 - 13.00 SESSION: ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS 1
10.00 - 10.30 M. J. Dayde and Iain Duff (CERFACS, Toulouse)
Use of level 3 BLAS in LU factorization in a multiprocessor
environment on three vector multiprocessors, the Alliant FX/80,
the Cray-2 and the IBM 3090 VF
10.30 - 11.00 Elias N. Houstis, J.R. Rice, N.P. Chrisochoides,
H.C. Karathanasis, P.N. Papachiou, M.K. Samartzis,
E.A. Vavalis and Ko Yang Wang
(Dept. of Computer Science, Purdue Univ.)
//ELLPACK: a numerical simulation programming environment
for parallel MIMD machines
11.00 - 11.30 Christina Christara (Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto)
Schur complement preconditioned conjugate gradient methods
for spline collocation equations
11.30 - 12.00 Break
12.00 - 12.30 K.-L. Chung, F.-L. Lin and W.-C. Chen
(Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National
Taiwan Univ.)
Cost-optimal parallel B-spline interpolations
12.30 - 13.00 Z. Zlatev (National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark)
and Ahmed Sameh (Center for Supercomputing Research and
Development)
Solving general sparse linear systems using CG-type methods
10.00 - 13.00 DEMONSTRATION SESSION:
PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS FOR SUPERCOMPUTING AND PARALLEL COMPUTING
10.00 - 13.00 SESSION: TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS BY MANUFACTURERS
TUESDAY, JUNE 12
afternoon
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 - 14.45 Invited Lecture:
Toshitsugu Yuba, (Electrotechnical Laboratory - ETL,
Tsukuba, Japan)
Dataflow Supercomputer Development in Japan
14.45 - 15.00 Break
15.00 - 17.45 SESSION: COMPILERS AND SYSTEMS 1
15.00 - 15.30 Vivek Sarkar and David Cann (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
POSC - a partitioning and optimizing SISAL compiler
15.30 - 16.00 Francois Bodin and Francois Charot (Univ. of Rennes/IRISA)
Machine modeling and loop optimization for horizontal
microcoded machines
16.00 - 16.15 Break
16.15 - 16.45 Pen-Chung Yew, Peiyi Tang and Chuan-Qi Zhu
(Center for Supercomputing Research and Development)
Compiler techniques for data synchronization in nested
parallel loops
16.45 - 17.15 Santosh G. Abraham and David E. Hudak
(Dept. of EE/CS, Univ. of Michigan)
Compiler techniques for data partitioning of sequentially
iterated parallel loops
17.15 - 17.45 David Klappholz, Kleanthis Psarris and Xiangyun Kong
(Dept. of EE/CS, Stevens Institute of Technology)
On the perfect accuracy of an approximate subscript analysis test
15.00 - 17.45 DEMONSTRATION SESSION:
PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS FOR SUPERCOMPUTING AND PARALLEL COMPUTING
15.00 - 17.45 SESSION: TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS BY MANUFACTURERS
TUESDAY, JUNE 12
Evening
18.00 - 19.00 PANEL SESSION:
PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS FOR SUPERCOMPUTING AND PARALLEL COMPUTING
- DESIGNER AND USER POINT OF VIEW
19.15 Bus leave for Conference Dinner
19.45 - ? Conference Banquet
The Conference Banquet will be served during a boat trip
through the Amsterdam canals and on the river Zaan to the
Zaanse Schans.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13
Morning
9.00 - 9.45 Invited Lecture:
Anthony Hey (Electronics and Computer Science Div., Southampton
University)
Supercomputing with transputers - past, present and future
9.45 - 10.00 Break
10.00 - 12.30 SESSION: PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT
10.00 - 10.30 Allen D. Malony (Center for Supercomputing Research and
Development) and Daniel A. Reed (Dept. Computer Science,
Univ. of Illinois)
A hardware-based monitor for the Intel iPSC/2 multiprocessor
10.30 - 11.00 Robert Dimpsey and R.K. Iyer (Computer Systems Group,
Univ. of Illinois)
Performance degradation due to multiprogramming and system
overheads in real workloads: case study on a shared memory
multiprocessor
11.00 - 11.30 Youcef Saad (NASA, RIACS) and Harry Wijshoff
(Center for Supercomputing Research and Development)
SPARK: a benchmark package for sparse computations
11.30 - 12.00 Break
12.00 - 12.30 George Cybenko, Lyle Kipp, Lynn Pointer and David Kuck
(Center for Supercomputing Research and Development)
Supercomputer performance evaluation and the Perfect Benchmarks
10.00 - 12.30 DEMONSTRATION SESSION:
PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS FOR SUPERCOMPUTING AND PARALLEL COMPUTING
12.30 - 12.45 BELL PERFECT AWARDS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13
Afternoon
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH (for those not attending the afternoon excursions)
13.00 Bus leave for the excursions (with packed lunch)
Excursion to either the Kroller-Muller Museum, where part
(i.e. the drawings) of the great Van Gogh 1990 exhibition
can be admired, or to the Delta works
THURSDAY, JUNE 14
Morning
9.00 - 9.45 Invited Lecture:
Ahmed Noor (JIAFS - NASA Langley Research Center)
Strategies for Large-Scale Structural Problems on High-Performance
Computers
9.45 - 10.00 Break
10.00 - 13.00 SESSION: ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS 2
10.00 - 10.30 V. Zecca and A. Kamel (IBM, Rome)
Elastodynamics on clustered vector processors
10.30 - 11.00 Roy Williams (Concurrent Supercomputing Facility,
California Institute of Technology)
Performance of a distributed unstructured-mesh code for
transonic flow
11.00 - 11.30 V. Eijkhout (Dept. of Mathematics, Catholic Univ., Nijmegen,
The Netherlands)
Implementation of 5-point/9-point multi-level methods on hypercube
architectures
11.30 - 12.00 Break
12.00 - 12.30 Philip C. Chen (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Supercomputer-based visualization systems for analyzing output
data for a numerical weather prediction model
12.30 - 13.00 Y. Takahashi and S. Sasaki (Dept. of Information Science and
Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Tokushima Univ.,
Japan)
Parallel automated wire routing with a number of competing
processors
THURSDAY, JUNE 14
Afternoon
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 - 14.45 Invited Lecture:
Tony Chan (Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of California, Los Angeles)
Parallel Multi-Level Algorithms for Partial Differential Equations
14.45 - 15.00 Break
15.00 - 17.45 SESSION: COMPILERS AND SYSTEMS 2
15.00 - 15.30 Kevin Smith, Bill Appelbe and Kurt Stirewalt
(School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Institute of
Technology)
Incremental dependence analysis for interactive parallelization
15.30 - 16.00 R. Ruehl and M. Annaratone (Institut fuer Integrierte Systeme,
ETH-Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland)
Parallelization of FORTRAN code
on distributed memory parallel processors
16.00 - 16.15 Break
16.15 - 16.45 Alexander V. Veidenbaum and Edward H. Gornish
(Center for Supercomputing Research and Development)
Compile time analysis for data prefetching in multiprocessor
memory hierarchies
16.45 - 17.15 Guang R. Gao, Herbert H.J. Hum and Yue-Bong Wong
(School of Computer Science, McGill Univ., Montreal, Canada)
Towards efficient fine-grain software pipelining
17.17 - 17.45 F. Andre, J-L. Pazat and H. Thomas,
(IRISA, Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu, France)
Pandore: A system to manage data distribution.
THURSDAY, JUNBE 14
Evening
18.00 Bus leave for Conference Reception
18.30 - 20.00 Conference Reception, to be held in the Dutch Maritime museum
FRIDAY, JUNE 15
Morning
8.30 - 10.30 SESSION: ARCHITECTURE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND MODELING
8.30 - 9.00 Rod A. Fatoohi (NASA Ames Research Center)
Vector performance analysis of the NEC SX-2
9.00 - 9.30 William Jalby, Daniel Windheiser (INRIA, Paris), Francois
Bodin (Univ. of Rennes/IRISA), Dennis Gannon, Daya Atapattu,
and Mannho Lee (Computer Science Dept., Indiana Univ.)
Performance evaluation and prediction
for parallel algorithms on the BBN GP1000
9.30 - 10.00 L. Brochard and A. Freau (IBM France, Marketing Scientifique,
Paris)
Designing algorithms on hierarchical memory multiprocessors
10.00 - 10.30 Donald A. Calahan (Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, Univ. of Michigan) and Ingrid Y. Bucher (Computer
Research Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Access contention in multiprocessor memories
10.30 - 11.00 Break
11.00 - 13.00 SESSION: RUN TIME SYSTEM SUPPORT
11.00 - 11.30 E. Luque, A. Ripoli, P. Hernandez and T. Margalef
(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Departament d'Informatica,
Spain)
Impact of task duplication on static-scheduling performance on
multiprocessor systems with variable execution time
11.30 - 12.00 Apostolos Gerasoulis, Sesh Venugopal and Tao Yang
(Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers Univ.)
Clustering task graphs for message passing architectures
12.00 - 12.30 A. J. van Gemund, E. M. Paalvast and H. J. Sips
(TNO Institute of Applied Computer Science, Delft,
The Netherlands)
To be announced
12.30 - 13.00 M. A. Tsoukarellas and T. S. Papatheodorou
(Computer Technology Institute-CTI, Patras, Greece)
A run time support system for multiprocessor machines
13.00 - 13.05 CONFERENCE ADJOURNS
FRIDAY, JUNE 15
Afternoon
14.30 Bus leave for the Van Gogh Museum
(A limited number of) Tickets are available for the
other part of the great Van Gogh 1990 exhibition (the Van Gogh
paintings) in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
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HOTEL RESERVATIONS:
Reservations can be made in the following hotels:
single room twin bedded room
Novotel Amsterdam Dfl. 195.-- Dfl. 240.--
Hotel Casa 400 Dfl. 122.-- Dfl. 180.--
Hotel Altea/Euromotel Dfl. 90.-- Dfl. 150.--
Reservation costs: Dfl. 15.--
Each reservation requires a deposit of Dfl. 250.--
REGISTRATION:
Complete the registration form below and send it to:
Frans Snijders
CWI
P.O. Box 4079
1009 AB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Registration fee's:
Advance Registration Fee (Postmarked by May 15th, 1990):
ACM Member Dfl. 650,- (approx. US $ 350)
Non-member Dfl. 750,-
Student Dfl. 300,-
Registration Fee (Postmarked after May 15th, 1990):
ACM Member Dfl. 750,-
Non-member Dfl. 850,-
Student Dfl. 400,-
PAYMENTS:
All payments are to be made in Dutch guilders and are to be
addressed to: Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam,
mentioning ICS'90. They can be made by either
a) banker's draft, or
b) money transfer to bankaccount nr. 43.60.53.705.
Personal and company cheques cannot be accepted.
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