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Thursday, November 20th

TIME	TYPE	SESSION	PRESENTATION	SPEAKER	LOCATION	PLANNER
8:30AM - 9:15AM	Keynote & Plenary Talks, Invited Speakers	Plenary Invited Talks	Meeting the Computational Challenges Associated with Human Health	Philip Bourne	New Orleans Theater
8:30AM - 5:00PM	ACM Student Research Competition	Exhibition of ACM Student Research Competition Posters	Continued Exhibition of ACM Student Research Competition Posters		New Orleans Theater Lobby
8:30AM - 5:00PM	Posters	Exhibition of Posters	Continued Exhibition of Posters		New Orleans Theater Lobby
9:15AM - 10:00AM	Keynote & Plenary Talks, Invited Speakers	Plenary Invited Talks	The Transformative Impact of Parallel Computing for Real-Time Animation	Lincoln Wallen	New Orleans Theater
10:00AM - 10:30AM	Other Events and Receptions	Technical Program Morning Refreshment Break	Technical Program Morning Refreshment Break		Hallway outside of rooms 383 - 399
10:00AM - 3:00PM	HPC Impact Showcase & Emerging Technologies	Emerging Technologies Exhibits	Emerging Technologies Exhibits		Show Floor - 233 Exhibits
10:20AM - 11:00AM	HPC Impact Showcase & Emerging Technologies	Thursday HPC Impact Showcase Presentations	Is Healthcare Ready for HPC (and Is HPC Ready for Healthcare)?	Patricia Kovatch	Show Floor - 233 Theater
10:30AM - 10:45AM	Doctoral Showcase	Doctoral Showcase - Dissertation Research I	Fast Storage for File System Metadata	Kai Ren	386-87
10:30AM - 11:00AM	Exhibitor Forums	Effective Application of HPC	HPC Without A Data Center	Devarajan Subramanian	291
10:30AM - 11:00AM	Papers	Machine Learning and Data Analytics	NUMARCK: Machine Learning Algorithm for Resiliency and Checkpointing	Zhengzhang Chen, Seung Woo Son, William Hendrix, Ankit Agrawal, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary	388-89-90
10:30AM - 11:00AM	Exhibitor Forums	Moving, Managing, and Storing Data	Building High Availability Storage in HPC Environment	Sergei Platonov	292
10:30AM - 11:00AM	Papers	Numerical Kernels	Efficient Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication on GPUs using the CSR Storage Format	Joseph L. Greathouse, Mayank Daga	391-92
10:30AM - 11:00AM	Papers	Power and Energy Efficiency	Maximizing Throughput of Overprovisioned HPC Data Centers Under a Strict Power Budget	Osman Sarood, Akhil Langer, Abhishek Gupta, Laxmikant V. Kale	393-94-95
10:30AM - 11:15AM	Invited Speakers	Invited Talks 5	Life at the Leading Edge: Supercomputing @ Lawrence Livermore	Dona Crawford	New Orleans Theater
10:30AM - 12:00PM	HPC Interconnections (BE, Undergraduates, Cluster)	Experiencing HPC For Undergraduates: Careers in HPC	Experiencing HPC For Undergraduates: Careers in HPC	David Bernholdt, Brad Chamberlain, Elizabeth R. Jessup, Rob Schreiber, Michela Taufer	295
10:30AM - 12:00PM	Panels	Multi-System Supercomputer Procurements – Is It a Good Idea?	Multi-System Supercomputer Procurements – Is It a Good Idea?	Arthur S. Bland, Bronis R. de Supinski, Manuel Vigil, Katie Antypas, Susan Coghlan, James H. Rogers, Larry Hoelzeman, Jay Pecce	383-84-85
10:45AM - 11:00AM	Doctoral Showcase	Doctoral Showcase - Dissertation Research I	Designing Scalable and Efficient I/O Middleware for Fault-Resilient High-Performance Computing Clusters	Raghunath Raja Chandrasekar	386-87
11:00AM - 11:15AM	Doctoral Showcase	Doctoral Showcase - Dissertation Research I	Storage Support for Data-Intensive Applications on Extreme-Scale HPC Systems	Dongfang Zhao	386-87
11:00AM - 11:30AM	Exhibitor Forums	Effective Application of HPC	SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 - Innovations for HPC	David Byte	291
11:00AM - 11:30AM	Papers	Machine Learning and Data Analytics	Parallel Deep Neural Network Training for Big Data on Blue Gene/Q	I-Hsin Chung, Tara Sainath, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Michael Picheny, John Gunnels, Vernon Austel, Upendra Chauhari, Brain Kingsbury	388-89-90
11:00AM - 11:30AM	Exhibitor Forums	Moving, Managing, and Storing Data	Building High Capacity Networks that Support Traffic Pattern Elasticity	Daniel Tardent	292
11:00AM - 11:30AM	Papers	Numerical Kernels	Fast Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication on GPUs for Graph Applications	Arash Ashari, Naser Sedaghati, John Eisenlohr, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, P. Sadayappan	391-92
11:00AM - 11:30AM	Papers	Power and Energy Efficiency	Application Centric Energy-Efficiency Study of Distributed Multi-Core and Hybrid CPU-GPU Systems	Ben Cumming, Gilles Fourestey, Oliver Fuhrer, Tobias Gysi, Massimiliano Fatica, Thomas C. Schulthess	393-94-95
11:00AM - 11:40AM	HPC Impact Showcase & Emerging Technologies	Thursday HPC Impact Showcase Presentations	High Performance Computing: An Essential Resource for O&G Exploration Production	Henri Calandra	Show Floor - 233 Theater
11:15AM - 11:30AM	Doctoral Showcase	Doctoral Showcase - Dissertation Research I	High Performance Computing over Geo-Spatial data: A Summary of Results	Satish Puri	386-87
11:15AM - 12:00PM	Invited Speakers	Invited Talks 5	Runtime Aware Architectures	Mateo Valero	New Orleans Theater
11:30AM - 11:45AM	Doctoral Showcase	Doctoral Showcase - Dissertation Research I	Enabling Scalable Data Analysis of Computational Structural Biology Datasets on Distributed Memory Systems Supported by the MapReduce Paradigm	Boyu Zhang	386-87
11:30AM - 12:00PM	Exhibitor Forums	Effective Application of HPC	An Introduction to the Center for Automata Processing	Kevin Skadron	291
11:30AM - 12:00PM	Papers	Machine Learning and Data Analytics	FAST: Near Real-time Searchable Data Analytics for the Cloud	Yu Hua, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng	388-89-90
11:30AM - 12:00PM	Exhibitor Forums	Moving, Managing, and Storing Data	Scalability Matters: Why Big Data Storage, Computing, and Analytical Tools Need Scalable Performance and Capacity	Joseph Landman	292
11:30AM - 12:00PM	Papers	Numerical Kernels	A Study on Balancing Parallelism and Data Locality in Stencil Calculations	Catherine Olschanowsky, Stephen Guzik, John Loffeld, Jeffrey Hittinger, Michelle Strout	391-92
11:30AM - 12:00PM	Papers	Power and Energy Efficiency	Scaling the Power Wall: A Path to Exascale	Oreste Villa, Daniel R. Johnson, Mike O'Connor, Evgeny Bolotin, David W. Nellans, Justin Luitjens, Nikolai Sakharnykh, Peng Wang, Paulius Micikevicius, Anthony Scudiero, Stephen W. Keckler, William J. Dally	393-94-95
11:40AM - 12:20PM	HPC Impact Showcase & Emerging Technologies	Thursday HPC Impact Showcase Presentations	HPC - Accelerating Science through HPC	Dee Dickerson	Show Floor - 233 Theater
11:45AM - 12:00PM	Doctoral Showcase	Doctoral Showcase - Dissertation Research I	Accelerating MPI Collective Communications through Hierarchical Algorithms with Flexible Inter-Node Communication and Imbalance Awareness	Benjamin Parsons	386-87
12:00PM - 12:45PM	HPC Interconnections (BE, Undergraduates, Cluster)	HPCI Scavenger Hunt Awards	HPCI Scavenger Hunt Awards	Mary Ann Leung	274
12:15PM - 1:15PM	Birds of a Feather	Analyzing Parallel I/O	Analyzing Parallel I/O	Julian Kunkel, Philip Carns, Alvaro Aguilera	286-87
12:15PM - 1:15PM	Birds of a Feather	Charm++: Adaptive and Asynchronous Parallel Programming	Charm++: Adaptive and Asynchronous Parallel Programming	Laxmikant V. Kale, Eric J. Bohm	291
12:15PM - 1:15PM	Birds of a Feather	Computational and Data Challenges in Genomic Sequencing	Computational and Data Challenges in Genomic Sequencing	Patricia Kovatch, Dan Stanzione, Shane Canon	273
12:15PM - 1:15PM	Birds of a Feather	Configuration Management Tools for Large Scale HPC Clusters	Configuration Management Tools for Large Scale HPC Clusters	Sharan Kalwani, Amitoj G. Singh	388-89-90
12:15PM - 1:15PM	Birds of a Feather	Defining Interfaces for Interoperable Simulation and Modeling Tools	Defining Interfaces for Interoperable Simulation and Modeling Tools	Bruce Childers, Noel Wheeler, Daniel Mosse	295
12:15PM - 1:15PM	Birds of a Feather	Drilling Down: Understanding User-Level Activity on Today's Supercomputers with XALT	Drilling Down: Understanding User-Level Activity on Today's Supercomputers with XALT	Mark Fahey, Robert McLay	386-87
12:15PM - 1:15PM	Birds of a Feather	HPC Centers for Global Health	HPC Centers for Global Health	Ian Brooks	398-99
12:15PM - 1:15PM	Birds of a Feather	Managing High-Performance Computing Centers: Communicating the Value of HPC	Managing High-Performance Computing Centers: Communicating the Value of HPC	Nicholas Berente, John L. King, Daniel Reed	393-94-95
12:15PM - 1:15PM	Birds of a Feather	OpenStack Technology and HPC Cloud Solutions	OpenStack Technology and HPC Cloud Solutions	Thomas Goepel, Glenn Luft	297
12:15PM - 1:15PM	Birds of a Feather	Propose and Define an Abstracted Interface for General Usage	Propose and Define an Abstracted Interface for General Usage	Dave Resnick, Mike Ignatowski	396
12:15PM - 1:15PM	Birds of a Feather	Slurm User Group	Slurm User Group	Morris Jette, David Wallace, Eric Monchalin	283-84-85
12:15PM - 1:15PM	Birds of a Feather	System Testing and Resiliency in High Performance Computing	System Testing and Resiliency in High Performance Computing	Ashley D. Barker, Tim Robinson, Frank Indiviglio	391-92
12:15PM - 1:15PM	Birds of a Feather	The Future of Fortran	The Future of Fortran	Steven B. Lionel	293
12:15PM - 1:15PM	Birds of a Feather	The Green500 List and its Continuing Evolution	The Green500 List and its Continuing Evolution	Wu-chun Feng, Erich Strohmaier, Natalie Bates	275-76-77
12:15PM - 1:15PM	Birds of a Feather	The Open Community Runtime (OCR) Framework for Extreme Scale Systems	The Open Community Runtime (OCR) Framework for Extreme Scale Systems	Vivek Sarkar, Barbara Chapman, William Gropp	294
12:15PM - 1:15PM	Birds of a Feather	The Square Kilometer Array: Next Generation Sensor Networks as a Driver for HPC	The Square Kilometer Array: Next Generation Sensor Networks as a Driver for HPC	Chris Broekema, Rob Simmonds	383-84-85
12:20PM - 1:00PM	HPC Impact Showcase & Emerging Technologies	Thursday HPC Impact Showcase Presentations	How HPC Matters to Dresser Rand	Ravichandra Srinivasan	Show Floor - 233 Theater
12:30PM - 1:30PM	Award Presentations & Award Talks	Awards Session	SC14 Conference Awards Presentations	Barbara Chapman, John Grosh	New Orleans Theater
1:30PM - 1:45PM	Doctoral Showcase	Doctoral Showcase - Dissertation Research II	Failure Avoidance Techniques for HPC Systems Based on Failure Prediction	Ana Gainaru	386-87
1:30PM - 2:00PM	Papers	Data Locality and Load Balancing	Structure Slicing: Extending Logical Regions with Fields	Michael Bauer, Sean Treichler, Elliott Slaughter, Alex Aiken	388-89-90
1:30PM - 2:00PM	Exhibitor Forums	Effective Application of HPC	The HPC Advisory Council Activities	Gilad Shainer, Brian Sparks	291
1:30PM - 2:00PM	Exhibitor Forums	Hardware and Architecture	Introducing the “Brick”, the New Modular, Accelerated, Water Cooled Aurora HPC Architecture	Giovanbattista Mattiussi, Paul Arts	292
1:30PM - 2:00PM	Papers	Optimized Checkpointing	Understanding the Effects of Communication and Coordination on Checkpointing at Scale	Kurt B. Ferreira, Scott Levy, Patrick M. Widener, Dorian C. Arnold, Torsten Hoefler	393-94-95
1:30PM - 2:00PM	Papers	Sparse Solvers	Parallelization of Reordering Algorithms for Bandwidth and Wavefront Reduction	Konstantinos I. Karantasis, Andrew Lenharth, Donald Nguyen, Maria Garzaran, Keshav Pingali	391-92
1:30PM - 3:00PM	HPC Interconnections (BE, Undergraduates, Cluster)	Get Involved in the Student Cluster Competition	Get Involved in the Student Cluster Competition		295
1:30PM - 3:00PM	Panels	InfoSymbioticSystems/DDDAS – The Power of Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems and The Next Generation of Big-Computing and Big-Data	InfoSymbioticSystems/DDDAS – The Power of Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems and The Next Generation of Big-Computing and Big-Data	Frederica Darema, Guang Gao, Abani Patra, Nurcin Celik, Vaidy Sunderam, Subhasish Mitra, Christos Kozyrakis, Aniruddha Gokhale	383-84-85
1:45PM - 2:00PM	Doctoral Showcase	Doctoral Showcase - Dissertation Research II	Introspective Resilience for Exascale High Performance Computing Systems	Saurabh Hukerikar	386-87
2:00PM - 2:15PM	Doctoral Showcase	Doctoral Showcase - Dissertation Research II	Fault Tolerant Iterative Solvers through Selective Reliability and Skeptical Programming	James Elliott	386-87
2:00PM - 2:30PM	Papers	Data Locality and Load Balancing	Optimizing Data Locality for Fork/Join Programs Using Constrained Work Stealing	Jonathan Lifflander, Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Laxmikant V. Kale	388-89-90
2:00PM - 2:30PM	Exhibitor Forums	Effective Application of HPC	HPC on Microsoft Azure	Robert Demb	291
2:00PM - 2:30PM	Exhibitor Forums	Hardware and Architecture	Using Basic Norms for Approximation of Node Associations	Bruce McCormick	292
2:00PM - 2:30PM	Papers	Optimized Checkpointing	Exploring Automatic, Online Failure Recovery for Scientific Applications at Extreme Scales	Marc Gamell, Daniel S. Katz, Hemanth Kolla, Jacqueline Chen, Scott Klasky, Manish Parashar	393-94-95
2:00PM - 2:30PM	Papers	Sparse Solvers	Domain Decomposition Preconditioners for Communication-Avoiding Krylov Methods on a Hybrid CPU/GPU Cluster	Ichitaro Yamazaki, Sivasankaran Rajamanickam, Erik G. Boman, Mark Hoemmen, Michael A. Heroux, Stanimire Tomov	391-92
2:00PM - 3:00PM	HPC Impact Showcase & Emerging Technologies	Thursday Emerging Technologies Presentations	Tools and Techniques for Runtime Optimization of Large Scale Systems	Martin Schulz, Abhinav Bhatale, Peer-Timo Bremer, Todd Gamblin, Kathryn Mohror, Barry Rountree	Show Floor - 233 Theater
2:15PM - 2:30PM	Doctoral Showcase	Doctoral Showcase - Dissertation Research II	Semantically Ordered, Parallel Execution of Multiprocessor Programs	Gagan Gupta	386-87
2:30PM - 2:45PM	Doctoral Showcase	Doctoral Showcase - Dissertation Research II	Reliability and Energy Data Analysis and Modeling for Extreme Scale Systems	Li Yu	386-87
2:30PM - 3:00PM	Papers	Data Locality and Load Balancing	DISC: A Domain-Interaction Based Programming Model With Support for Heterogeneous Execution	Mehmet Can Kurt, Gagan Agrawal	388-89-90
2:30PM - 3:00PM	Exhibitor Forums	Effective Application of HPC	SysFera and ROMEO Make Large-Scale CFD Simulations Only 3 Clicks Away	Benjamin Depardon, Arnaud Renard	291
2:30PM - 3:00PM	Exhibitor Forums	Hardware and Architecture	High-IQ Networks	JJ Jamison	292
2:30PM - 3:00PM	Papers	Optimized Checkpointing	Optimization of Multi-Level Checkpoint Model with Uncertain Execution Scales	Sheng Di, Leonardo Bautista-Gomez, Franck Cappello	393-94-95
2:30PM - 3:00PM	Papers	Sparse Solvers	Efficient Shared-Memory Implementation of High-Performance Conjugate Gradient Benchmark and Its Application to Unstructured Matrices	Jongsoo Park, Mikhail Smelyanskiy, Karthikeyan Vaidyanathan, Alexander Heinecke, Dhiraj D. Kalamkar, Xing Liu, Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary, Yutong Lu, Pradeep Dubey	391-92
2:45PM - 3:00PM	Doctoral Showcase	Doctoral Showcase - Dissertation Research II	Adaptive Power Efficiency: Runtime System Approach with Hardware Support	Ehsan Totoni	386-87
3:00PM - 3:30PM	Other Events and Receptions	Technical Program Afternoon Refreshment Break	Technical Program Afternoon Refreshment Break		Hallway outside of rooms 383 - 399
3:30PM - 3:45PM	Doctoral Showcase	Doctoral Showcase - Dissertation Research III	Parallel Algorithms for Two-Stage Stochastic Optimizations	Akhil Langer	386-87
3:30PM - 4:00PM	Papers	Cloud Computing II	FlexSlot: Moving Hadoop into the Cloud with Flexible Slot Management	Yanfei Guo, Jia Rao, Changjun Jiang, Xiaobo Zhou	388-89-90
3:30PM - 4:00PM	Exhibitor Forums	Effective Application of HPC	Cray Matter: Brilliance-Boosting Technologies	Barry Bolding	291
3:30PM - 4:00PM	Papers	Large-Scale Visualization	High-Performance Computation of Distributed-Memory Parallel 3D Voronoi and Delaunay Tessellation	Tom Peterka, Dmitriy Morozov, Carolyn Phillips	391-92
3:30PM - 4:00PM	Papers	Memory System Energy Efficiency	ECC Parity: A Technique for Efficient Memory Error Resilience for Multi-Channel Memory Systems	Xun Jian, Rakesh Kumar	393-94-95
3:30PM - 4:00PM	Exhibitor Forums	Software for HPC	Accelerate Insights and Tame Complexities with Moab	Paul Anderson	292
3:30PM - 5:00PM	HPC Interconnections (BE, Undergraduates, Cluster)	BE Wrap Up	BE Wrap Up	Mary Ann Leung	295
3:30PM - 5:00PM	Panels	Challenges with Liquid Cooling - a Look Into The Future of HPC Data Centers	Challenges with Liquid Cooling - a Look Into The Future of HPC Data Centers	Torsten Wilde, Michael Patterson, Thomas Blum, Jean-Pierre Panziera, Paul Arts, Nicolas Dubé, Ingmar Meijer, Josip Loncaric	383-84-85
3:45PM - 4:00PM	Doctoral Showcase	Doctoral Showcase - Dissertation Research III	Scalable, Adaptive Methods for Forward and Inverse Modeling of Continental-Scale Ice Sheet Flow	Tobin Isaac	386-87
4:00PM - 4:15PM	Doctoral Showcase	Doctoral Showcase - Dissertation Research III	Load Balancing Scientific Applications	Olga T. Pearce	386-87
4:00PM - 4:30PM	Papers	Cloud Computing II	Reciprocal Resource Fairness: Towards Cooperative Multiple-Resource Fair Sharing in IaaS Clouds	Haikun Liu, Bingsheng He	388-89-90
4:00PM - 4:30PM	Exhibitor Forums	Effective Application of HPC	Hybrid and Public Cloud Optimized for Technical and High Performance Computing	Louise Westoby, Chris Porter	291
4:00PM - 4:30PM	Papers	Large-Scale Visualization	Scalable Computation of Stream Surfaces on Large Scale Vector Fields	Kewei Lu, Han-Wei Shen, Tom Peterka	391-92
4:00PM - 4:30PM	Papers	Memory System Energy Efficiency	Using an Adaptive HPC Runtime System to Reconfigure the Cache Hierarchy	Ehsan Totoni, Josep Torrellas, Laxmikant V. Kale	393-94-95
4:00PM - 4:30PM	Exhibitor Forums	Software for HPC	Bright Cluster Manager: A Managed Solution for Data-Aware HPC On Premise and In The Cloud	Martijn de Vries	292
4:15PM - 4:30PM	Doctoral Showcase	Doctoral Showcase - Dissertation Research III	Hierarchical Scheduling Frameworks for Heterogeneous Clusters with GPUs	Kittisak Sajjapongse	386-87
4:30PM - 5:00PM	Papers	Cloud Computing II	Finding Constant From Change: Revisiting Network Performance Aware Optimizations on IaaS Clouds	Yifan Gong, Bingsheng He, Dan Li	388-89-90
4:30PM - 5:00PM	Doctoral Showcase	Doctoral Showcase - Dissertation Research III	Doctoral Showcase Research Poster Session		386-87
4:30PM - 5:00PM	Exhibitor Forums	Effective Application of HPC	Big Data Changes Everything: Reinventing HPC	Dave Turek, Ruud Haring	291
4:30PM - 5:00PM	Papers	Large-Scale Visualization	In-Situ Feature Extraction of Large Scale Combustion Simulations Using Segmented Merge Trees	Aaditya G. Landge, Valerio Pascucci, Attila Gyulassy, Janine C. Bennett, Hemanth Kolla, Jacqueline Chen, Peer-Timo Bremer	391-92
4:30PM - 5:00PM	Papers	Memory System Energy Efficiency	Microbank: Architecting Through-Silicon Interposer-Based Main Memory Systems	Young Hoon Son, Seongil O, Hyunggyun Yang, Daejin Jung, Jung Ho Ahn, John Kim, Jangwoo Kim, Jae W. Lee	393-94-95
4:30PM - 5:00PM	Exhibitor Forums	Software for HPC	SaltStack for Fast and Scalable Automation of HPC Distributed Systems	Jeff Porcaro	292
6:00PM - 9:00PM	Other Events and Receptions	Technical Program Conference Reception	Technical Program Conference Reception		The Sugar Mill