10. CLUSTER 2008: Tsukuba, Japan
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, 29 September - 1 October 2008, Tsukuba, Japan. IEEE 2008 ISBN 978-1-4244-2640-9
Keynote
Daniel A. Reed: Clouds, clusters and ManyCore: The revolution ahead. 1
System Tools and "Green" Computing

Liting Hu, Hai Jin, Xiaofei Liao, Xianjie Xiong, Haikun Liu: Magnet: A novel scheduling policy for power reduction in cluster with virtual machines. 13-22
Mukil Kesavan, Adit Ranadive, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan: Active CoordinaTion (ACT) - toward effectively managing virtualized multicore clouds. 23-32
Application Algorithms and Scheduling
Paraskevas Yiapanis, David J. Haglin, Anna M. Manning, Ken Mayes, John A. Keane: Variable-grain and dynamic work generation for Minimal Unique Itemset mining. 33-41
Takeshi Amako, Yusaku Yamamoto, Shao-Liang Zhang: A large-grained parallel algorithm for nonlinear eigenvalue problems and its implementation using OmniRPC. 42-49
Sascha Hunold, Thomas Rauber, Frédéric Suter: Redistribution aware two-step scheduling for mixed-parallel applications. 50-58
Profiling and Tuning
Daniel Becker, Rolf Rabenseifner, Felix Wolf: Implications of non-constant clock drifts for the timestamps of concurrent events. 59-68
Aroon Nataraj, Allen D. Malony, Allen Morris, Dorian C. Arnold, Barton P. Miller: In search of sweet-spots in parallel performance monitoring. 69-78
Jeffrey L. Tilson, Mark S. C. Reed, Robert J. Fowler: Workflows for performance evaluation and tuning. 79-88
Virtualization Technology
Tal Maoz, Amnon Barak, Lior Amar: Combining Virtual Machine migration with process migration for HPC on multi-clusters and Grids. 89-98
Yingwei Luo, Binbin Zhang, Xiaolin Wang, Zhenlin Wang, Yifeng Sun, Haogang Chen: Live and incremental whole-system migration of virtual machines using block-bitmap. 99-106
Wei Huang, Matthew J. Koop, Dhabaleswar K. Panda: Efficient one-copy MPI shared memory communication in Virtual Machines. 107-115
Cluster Networking
Torsten Hoefler, Timo Schneider, Andrew Lumsdaine: Multistage switches are not crossbars: Effects of static routing in high-performance networks. 116-125
Xiaojun Yang, Fei Chen, Hailiang Cheng, Ninghui Sun: A HyperTransport-based personal parallel computer. 126-132
Keith D. Underwood, Michael Levenhagen, K. Scott Hemmert, Ron Brightwell: High message rate, NIC-based atomics: Design and performance considerations. 133-141
Adaptation to Multi-Core
Josep M. Pérez, Rosa M. Badia, Jesús Labarta: A dependency-aware task-based programming environment for multi-core architectures. 142-151
Narayan Desai, Pavan Balaji, P. Sadayappan, Mohammad Islam: Are nonblocking networks really needed for high-end-computing workloads? 152-159
Parallel File Systems and I/O Libraries
Qingsong Wei, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Lingfang Zeng: DWC2: A dynamic weight-based cooperative caching scheme for object-based storage cluster. 167-174
Nawab Ali, Ananth Devulapalli, Dennis Dalessandro, Pete Wyckoff, P. Sadayappan: An OSD-based approach to managing directory operations in parallel file systems. 175-184
Qingsong Wei, Zhixiang Li: DifferStore: A differentiated storage service in object-based storage system. 185-193
Huan Chen, Jin Xiong, Ninghui Sun: A novel hint-based I/O mechanism for centralized file server of cluster. 194-201
Invited Talk
Dhabaleswar K. Panda: Designing next generation clusters with InfiniBand and 10GE/iWARP: Opportunities and challenges. 202
High Performance Message Passing Libraries
Matthew J. Koop, Jaidev K. Sridhar, Dhabaleswar K. Panda: Scalable MPI design over InfiniBand using eXtended Reliable Connection. 203-212
Torsten Hoefler, Andrew Lumsdaine: Message progression in parallel computing - to thread or not to thread? 213-222
Brice Goglin: Improving message passing over Ethernet with I/OAT copy offload in Open-MX. 223-231
Performance Prediction & Modeling
Pradipta De, Ravi Kothari, Vijay Mann: A trace-driven emulation framework to predict scalability of large clusters in presence of OS Jitter. 232-241
Dan Feng, Qiang Zou, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu: A novel model for synthesizing parallel I/O workloads in scientific applications. 252-261
Posters
Reiji Suda: Divisible load scheduling with improved asymptotic optimality. 262-267
Hiroko Midorikawa, Motoyoshi Kurokawa, Ryutaro Himeno, Mitsuhisa Sato: DLM: A distributed Large Memory System using remote memory swapping over cluster nodes. 268-273
Shin'ichi Miura, Takayuki Okamoto, Taisuke Boku, Toshihiro Hanawa, Mitsuhisa Sato: RI2N: High-bandwidth and fault-tolerant network with multi-link Ethernet for PC clusters. 274-279
Takafumi Watanabe, Masahiro Nakao, Tomoyuki Hiroyasu, Tomohiro Otsuka, Michihiro Koibuchi: Impact of topology and link aggregation on a PC cluster with Ethernet. 280-285
Jérôme Vienne, Maxime Martinasso, Jean-Marc Vincent, Jean-François Méhaut: Predictive models for bandwidth sharing in high performance clusters. 286-291
Moon-Sang Lee, Joonwon Lee, Seungryoul Maeng: Context-aware address translation for high performance SMP cluster system. 292-297
Kengo Nakajima: Parallel multistage preconditioners by Hierarchical Interface Decomposition on "T2K Open Super Computer (Todai Combined Cluster)" with Hybrid parallel programming models. 298-303
Carl Christian Rolf, Krzysztof Kuchcinski: Load-balancing methods for parallel and distributed constraint solving. 304-309
Bogdan Nicolae, Gabriel Antoniu, Luc Bougé: Enabling lock-free concurrent fine-grain access to massive distributed data: Application to supernovae detection. 310-315
Elisabeth Brunet, François Trahay, Alexandre Denis: A multicore-enabled multirail communication engine. 316-321
Bibo Tu, Ming Zou, Jianfeng Zhan, Xiaofang Zhao, Jianping Fan: Multi-core aware optimization for MPI collectives. 322-325
Hideyuki Jitsumoto, Toshio Endo, Satoshi Matsuoka: Environmental-aware optimization of MPI checkpointing intervals. 326-329
Jeremy Logan, Phillip M. Dickens: Towards an understanding of the performance of MPI-IO in Lustre file systems. 330-335
Kazuki Ohta, Hiroya Matsuba, Yutaka Ishikawa: Gather-arrange-scatter: Node-level request reordering for parallel file systems on multi-core clusters. 336-341
Nick Trebon, Peter H. Beckman: Empirical-based probabilistic upper bounds for urgent computing applications. 342-347
Hideaki Kimura, Mitsuhisa Sato, Takayuki Imada, Yoshihiko Hotta: Runtime DVFS control with instrumented Code in power-scalable cluster system. 354-359
iWAPT
Invited Talk 1
John Cavazos: Intelligent compilers. 360-368
Automatic Tuning for Computing System Infrastructure
Edward Walker: Continuous adaptation for high performance throughput computing across distributed clusters. 369-375
Genaro Costa, Josep Jorba, Anna Morajko, Tomàs Margalef, Emilio Luque: Performance models for dynamic tuning of parallel applications on Computational Grids. 376-385
Hiroyuki Takizawa, Katsuto Sato, Hiroaki Kobayashi: SPRAT: Runtime processor selection for energy-aware computing. 386-393
Invited Talk 2
Sylvain Guinepain, Le Gruenwald: Using cluster computing to support automatic and dynamic database clustering. 394-401
Automatic Tuning for Scientific/Matrix Computing
Takeshi Fukaya, Yusaku Yamamoto, Shao-Liang Zhang: A dynamic programming approach to optimizing the blocking strategy for the Householder QR decomposition. 402-410
Warren Armstrong, Alistair P. Rendell: Reinforcement learning for automated performance tuning: Initial evaluation for sparse matrix format selection. 411-420
Keith Seymour, Haihang You, Jack Dongarra: A comparison of search heuristics for empirical code optimization. 421-429
Da Qi Ren, Dennis Giannacopoulos, Reiji Suda: An optimized Dynamic Load Balancing method for parallel 3-D mesh refinement for finite element electromagnetics with Tetrahedra. 430-436
HiperIO'08
Fei Chen, Hailiang Cheng, Xiaojun Yang, Rui Liu: Design and implementation of an effective HyperTransport core in FPGA. 437-443
Alberto Nuñez, Javier Fernández, José Daniel García, Jesús Carretero: New techniques for simulating high performance MPI applications on large storage networks. 444-452
D. Scott Guthridge: Scalable, high performance InfiniBand-attached SAN Volume Controller. 453-458
Paulo Afonso Lopes, Pedro D. Medeiros: Enhancing write performance of a shared-disk cluster filesystem through a fine-grained locking strategy. 464-471
Tina Miriam John, Anuradharthi Thiruvenkata Ramani, John A. Chandy: Active storage using object-based devices. 472-478
Rosa Filgueira, David E. Singh, Juan Carlos Pichel, Jesús Carretero: Exploiting data compression in collective I/O techniques. 479-485



