8. CLUSTER 2007: Austin, Texas, USA
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, 17-20 September 2007, Austin, Texas, USA. IEEE 2007
Keynotes
Andreas Bechtolsheim: Scaling to PetaFlops.
Mark Seager: The challenges and rewards of petascale clusters.
Tutorials
Robert A. van de Geijn: The science of programming dense linear algebra libraries.
Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Pavan Balaji: Designing high-end computing systems with InfiniBand and10-Gigabit Ethernet iWARP.
Xiao Qin: Security-aware resource management for real-time applications on clusters.
Panel
Michael T. Clark, Peter Hofstee, Edward J. Barragy, Ian Buck, Stephen W. Keckler: The future of multi-core technologies.
Best Papers
Kareem S. Aggour, Robert M. Mattheyses, Joseph Shultz: Efficient quantum computing simulation through dynamic matrix restructuring and distributed evaluation. 1-10
Wei Huang, Qi Gao, Jiuxing Liu, Dhabaleswar K. Panda: High performance virtual machine migration with RDMA over modern interconnects. 11-20
Jianhui Yue, Yifeng Zhu, Zhao Cai: Evaluating memory energy efficiency in parallel I/O workloads. 21-30
Parallel I/O

Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Juan Piernas, Vinod Tipparaju, Jarek Nieplocha, P. Sadayappan: Non-collective parallel I/O for global address space programming models. 41-49
James H. Laros III, Lee Ward, Ruth Klundt, Sue Kelly, James L. Tomkins, Brian R. Kellogg: Red storm IO performance analysis. 50-57
Resource Management
Narayan Desai, Theron Voran, Ewing L. Lusk, Andrew Cherry: The computer as software component: A mechanism for developing and testing resource management software. 58-63
Adam K. L. Wong, Andrzej M. Goscinski: Evaluating the EASY-backfill job scheduling of static workloads on clusters. 64-73
Daniele Paolo Scarpazza, Patrick Mullaney, Oreste Villa, Fabrizio Petrini, Vinod Tipparaju, D. M. L. Brown, Jarek Nieplocha: Transparent system-level migration of PGAS applications using Xen on InfiniBand. 74-83
Applications & Program Paradigms I
Ernie Chan, Field G. Van Zee, Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí, Gregorio Quintana-Ortí, Robert A. van de Geijn: Satisfying your dependencies with SuperMatrix. 91-99
Vijay S. Kumar, Tahsin M. Kurç, Jun Kong, Ümit V. Çatalyürek, Metin N. Gurcan, Joel H. Saltz: Performance vs. accuracy trade-offs for large-scale image analysis applications. 100-109
Hyuck Han, Hyungsoo Jung, Heon Young Yeom, Dong-Young Lee: Taste of AOP : Blending concerns in cluster computing software. 110-117
Power/Thermal Management
Reza Zamani, Ahmad Afsahi, Ying Qian, V. Carl Hamacher: A feasibility analysis of power-awareness and energy minimization in modern interconnects for high-performance computing. 118-128
Qinghui Tang, Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Georgios Varsamopoulos: Thermal-aware task scheduling for data centers through minimizing heat recirculation. 129-138
Seung Woo Son, Mahmut T. Kandemir: Runtime system support for software-guided disk power management. 139-148
MPI
Sadaf R. Alam, Jeremy S. Meredith, Jeffrey S. Vetter: Balancing productivity and performance on the cell broadband engine. 149-158
Karthikeyan Vaidyanathan, Lei Chai, Wei Huang, Dhabaleswar K. Panda: Efficient asynchronous memory copy operations on multi-core systems and I/OAT. 159-168
José Carlos Sancho, Darren J. Kerbyson, Kevin J. Barker: Efficient offloading of collective communications in large-scale systems. 169-178
Matthew J. Koop, Sayantan Sur, Dhabaleswar K. Panda: Zero-copy protocol for MPI using infiniband unreliable datagram. 179-186
Networking
Jud Leonard, Avi Purkayastha, Matt Reilly, Tushar Mohan: The software interface for a cluster interconnect based on the Kautz digraph. 187-193
Akihiro Nomura, Hiroya Matsuba, Yutaka Ishikawa: Network performance model for TCP/IP based cluster computing. 194-203
Richert Wang, Enrique Cauich, Daniel S. Valencia, Isaac D. Scherson: High performance clusters using NEOS. 204-210
K. Scott Hemmert, Keith D. Underwood, Arun Rodrigues: An architecture to perform NIC based MPI matching. 211-221
Jie Hu, Raymond Klefstad: Scheduling multiple divisible and indivisible tasks on bus networks. 222-230
Applications & Program Paradigms II
H'sien J. Wong, Alistair P. Rendell: The design of MPI based distributed shared memory systems to support OpenMP on clusters. 231-240
Anthony T. Chronopoulos, Lionel M. Ni, Satish Penmatsa: Multi-dimensional dynamic loop scheduling algorithms. 241-248
Last Minute Papers
Venkata Krishnan: Towards an integrated IO and clustering solution using PCI express. 259-266
Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos, Anthony T. Chronopoulos, Lionel M. Ni: An optimal scheduling scheme for tiling in distributed systems. 267-274
File Systems & File Management
Sang-Hoon Kim, Youngjae Lee, Jin-Soo Kim: FlexRPC: A flexible Remote Procedure Call facility for modern cluster file systems. 275-284
Fábio Oliveira, Gorka Guardiola, Jay A. Patel, Eric Van Hensbergen: Blutopia: Stackable storage for cluster management. 293-302
Reliability & Fault-Tolerance
Anand Tikotekar, Geoffroy Vallée, Thomas Naughton, Stephen L. Scott, Chokchai Leangsuksun: Evaluation of fault-tolerant policies using simulation. 303-311
Narasimha Raju Gottumukkala, Chokchai Leangsuksun, Narate Taerat, Raja Nassar, Stephen L. Scott: Reliability-aware resource allocation in HPC systems. 312-321
Scaling in HPC
Pradipta De, Ravi Kothari, Vijay Mann: Identifying sources of Operating System Jitter through fine-grained kernel instrumentation. 331-340
Hasan Abbasi, Matthew Wolf, Karsten Schwan: LIVE data workspace: A flexible, dynamic and extensible platform for petascale applications. 341-348
Harshawardhan Gadgil, Geoffrey Fox, Shrideep Pallickara, Marlon E. Pierce: Scalable, fault-tolerant management of Grid Services. 349-356
Grid Computing & Grid Clusters
Jason Cope, Michael Oberg, Henry M. Tufo, Theron Voran, Matthew Woitaszek: High throughput grid computing with an IBM Blue Gene/L. 357-364
João Luís Sobral, Alberto José Proença: Enabling JaSkel skeletons for clusters and computational Grids. 365-371
Jeremy Buisson, Omer Ozan Sonmez, Hashim H. Mohamed, Wouter Lammers, Dick H. J. Epema: Scheduling malleable applications in multicluster systems. 372-381
Ryousei Takano, Motohiko Matsuda, Tomohiro Kudoh, Yuetsu Kodama, Fumihiro Okazaki, Yutaka Ishikawa: Effects of packet pacing for MPI programs in a Grid environment. 382-391
Informal Poster Presentations
Sascha Hunold, Thomas Rauber, Georg Wille: Sequential and parallel implementation of a constraint-based algorithm for searching protein structures. 392-397
Jue Wang, Changjun Hu, Jilin Zhang: Optimized scheduling for group communication in data parallelism. 398-403
Jianfeng Zhan, Lei Wang, Bibo Tu, Zhihong Zhang, Yu Wen, Yuansheng Chen, Wei Zhou, Dan Meng, Ninghui Sun: A layered design methodology of cluster system stack. 404-409
Florina M. Ciorba, Ioannis Riakiotakis, Theodore Andronikos, Anthony T. Chronopoulos, George K. Papakonstantinou: Optimal synchronization frequency for dynamic pipelined computations on heterogeneous systems. 410-415
Augustus F. Diraviam, Ritu Agrawal, Madhur Bansal, Krishna Janakiraman: CHAF - an object-oriented framework for configuring applications in a clustered environment. 416-421
Javier Cuenca, Domingo Giménez, José-Juan López, Juan-Pedro Martínez-Gallar: A proposal of metaheuristics to schedule independent tasks in heterogeneous memory-constrained systems. 422-427
Jian Zhang, Jaeseok Kim, Mazin S. Yousif, Robert Carpenter, Renato J. O. Figueiredo: System-level performance phase characterization for on-demand resource provisioning. 434-439
Changjun Hu, Jilin Zhang, Jue Wang, Jianjiang Li: Parallel iteration space alternate tiling Gauss-Seidel solver. 440-445
Hyun-Wook Jin, Sayantan Sur, Lei Chai, Dhabaleswar K. Panda: Lightweight kernel-level primitives for high-performance MPI intra-node communication over multi-core systems. 446-451
Yudan Liu, Raja Nassar, Chokchai Leangsuksun, Nichamon Naksinehaboon, Mihaela Paun, Stephen L. Scott: A reliability-aware approach for an optimal checkpoint/restart model in HPC environments. 452-457
Ludovic Hablot, Olivier Glück, Jean-Christophe Mignot, Stéphane Genaud, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet: Comparison and tuning of MPI implementations in a grid context. 458-463
Venkata Krishnan, Tim Miller, Herman Paraison: Dolphin express: A transparent approach to enhancing PCI Express. 464-467
Jacob Liberman, Garima Kochhar, Arun Rajan, Munira Hussain, Onur Celebioglu: Integrating hardware management with cluster administration toolkits. 468-472
Green Workshop
Ramya Raghavendra, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Vanish Talwar, Xiaoyun Zhu, Zhikui Wang: Motivating co-ordination of power management solutions in data centers. 473
Michael Jonas, Georgios Varsamopoulos, Sandeep K. S. Gupta: On developing a fast, cost-effective and non-invasive method to derive data center thermal maps. 474-475
Tridib Mukherjee, Georgios Varsamopoulos, Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Sanjay Rungta: Measurement-based power profiling of data center equipment. 476-477
Ryan E. Grant, Ahmad Afsahi: Improving system efficiency through scheduling and power management. 478-479
Tom W. Keller: Some work in progress at IBM's Austin Research Lab. 480
Jennifer Burge, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Janet L. Wiener: Cost-aware scheduling for heterogeneous enterprise machines (CASH'EM). 481-487
Matthew Curtis-Maury, Karan Singh, Sally A. McKee, Filip Blagojevic, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Bronis R. de Supinski, Martin Schulz: Identifying energy-efficient concurrency levels using machine learning. 488-495
HeteroPar 2007
Olivier Beaumont: Message from the HeteroPar 2007 chair. 496
Anne Benoit, Yves Robert: Complexity results for throughput and latency optimization of replicated and data-parallel workflows. 497-506
Sascha Hunold, Thomas Rauber, Gudula Rünger: Dynamic scheduling of multi-processor tasks on clusters of clusters. 507-514
Anne Benoit, Veronika Rehn-Sonigo, Yves Robert: Multi-criteria scheduling of pipeline workflows. 515-524
Werner Mach, Erich Schikuta: Performance analysis of parallel database sortoperations in a heterogenous Grid Environment. 525-533
Jacques M. Bahi, Jean-Claude Charr, Raphaël Couturier, David Laiymani: A parallel algorithm to solve large stiff ODE systems on grid systems. 534-541
Francisco-Jose Martínez-Zaldívar, Antonio-Manuel Vidal-Maciá, Domingo Giménez: A pipelined parallel OSIC algorithm based on the square root Kalman Filter for heterogeneous networks. 542-549
Laurent Choy, Serge G. Petiton, Mitsuhisa Sato: Toward power-aware computing with dynamic voltage scaling for heterogeneous platforms. 550-557
Louis-Claude Canon, Emmanuel Jeannot: A Comparison of robustness metrics for scheduling DAGs on heterogeneous systems. 558-567
Alexey L. Lastovetsky, Vladimir Rychkov: Building the communication performance model of heterogeneous clusters based on a switched network. 568-575



