CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Tuesday. March 23rd
08:00 Registration
09:00-09:15 Opening: Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol, Chair of MRSC 2010
09:15-10:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: David Donofrio, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Green Flash:Exascale Computing on a Petascale Power Budget "
10:00-10:30 Coffee break

Session: Tools, Methods and Programming Models

Chair: Thomas Steinke, ZIB

10:30-11:00

Offloading Parallel Code on Heterogeneous Multicores: A Case Study using Intel Threading Building Blocks on Cell

George Russell, Codeplay Software Ltd., Edinburgh, UK

11:00-11:30

A domain decomposition method for Parallel Molecular Dynamics

Mauro Bisson, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' ”La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

11:30-11:50

HLL mapping to FPGA using a dependency analysis based graphical methodology

Sunita Chandrasekaran, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

11:50-12:10

Optimizing data locality for the efficient solution of multiphysics problems on systems
with thousands of multicore processors

Lee Margetts, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

12:10-13:30 Lunch/Exhibition

Session: Numerical Applications on many-core architecture. I

Chair: Nico Sanna, CASPUR

13:30-14:00

Accelerating Publish/Subscribe Matching on Reconfigurable Supercomputing Platform

Matteo Migliavacca, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

14:00-14:30

Implementation of the K-means clustering algorithm in Mitrion-C on an RC-100

Charles J. Gillan, CSIT-ECIT, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland

14:30-15:00

Off-loading the Reed-Solomon algorithm to hardware accelerators

Thomas Steinke, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany

15:00-15:20

An unstructured 3D CFD code optimised for multicore and graphics processing units

James Sharpe, BAE Systems, Bristol, United Kingdom

15:20-15:50 Tea break

Session: Numerical Applications on many-core architecture. II.

Chair: Charles J. Gillan, Queen’s University Belfast

15:50-16:20

Fast Exhaustive Dictionary Search using CUDA - A Requirements-based Approach

Johannes Niedermaier, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Petropolis, RJ, Brazil

16:20-16:50

Accelerating SOLiD short read assembly with GPU

Peter Szanto, Dept. of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

16:50-17:20

Design-Space Exploration of Biologically-Inspired Visual Object Recognition Algorithms Using CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs

Vinay Sriram, The Rowland Institute at Harvard Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA

17:20-17:40

Modeling DNA Radiation Damage on many-core architectures:
current GP-GPU and a novel FPGA implementations

Paolo Palazzari, Ylichron Srl, Rome, Italy

17:40-18:30 Visit of CASPUR facilities
20:00 Conference Dinner
Wednesday. March 24th
09:00-09:45

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Eric Stahlberg, OpenFPGA and Wittenberg University, USA

Education: A New Direction for Standards in Reconfigurable Computing

Session: Hybrid system solutions.

Chair: Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol

09:45-10:15

Efficient OS Services for Heterogeneous and Reconfigurable Manycores

David Andrews, University of Arkansas, CSCE Department, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA

10:15-10:35

Direct Connection Of High Capacity Mass Storage To Hardware Accelerators

Gyorgy Dancsi, Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

10:35-11:00 Coffee break

Session: Vendors

Chair: Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol

11:00-11:20

ItalyDoing science on a GPU-accelerated, many-core architecture: the EPFL system

Fabrizio Magugliani, E4 Computer Engineering, Italy

11:20-11:40

Performance comparison between different compilers and mpi libraries on
linux cluster systems

Thomas Blum, MEGWARE Computer GmbH, Germany

11:40-12:00

Unified Cluster Portfolio

Alberto Galli, HP, Milano, Italy

12:00-13:30 Lunch/Exhibition

Session: Numerical Applications on many-core architecture. III

Chair: Stan Scott, Queen's University Belfast

13:30-14:00

A GPU Based Architecture for Distributing Dictionary Attacks to OpenPGP Secret Keyrings

Fabrizio Milo, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' 'La Sapienza', Rome, Italy

14:00-14:20

GPU acceleration of the Long-Wave Rapid Radiative Transfer Model in WRF using CUDA FORTRAN

Massimiliano Fatica, NVIDIA Corporation

14:20-14:40

Wavefront Reconstruction for Extremely Large Telescopes using Manycore Graphical Processors

Sofia Dimoudi, Centre for Advanced Instrumentation, Durham University, United Kingdom

14:40-15:10 Tea break

Session: Numerical Applications on many-core architecture. IV

Chair: John Brooke, University of Manchester

15:10-15:40

FPGA Based Reconfigurable Hardware Accelerator

Tamas Raikovich, Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

15:40-16:00

FPGA implementation of cheminformatics and computational chemistry algorithms and its cost/performance comparison with GPGPU, cloud computing and SIMD implementations

Attila Berces, Chemistry Logic, Hungary

16:00-16:20

BLAST acceleration via FPGA prefiltering

Peter Laczko, BUTE DMIS, Hungary

16:20 Final Remarks and MRSC 2011 Announcement