HPEC 2010 Proceedings

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15 September

Welcome
Dr. Marc Bernstein / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Keynote Address
Dr. Peter Lee / DARPA TCTO
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Opening Remarks
Mr. Robert Bond / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Session 1: GPU
Chair : Miriam Leeser / Northeastern University
Auditorium
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Focus 1: Novel Technologies
Chair : Michael Vai / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Room S2-180
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Invited: Accelerating MCAE with GPUs
Robert Lucas / USC ISI
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Bio-Inspired Vision Processor for Ultra-Fast Object Categorization
Clément Farabet / New York University and Yale University
Berin Martini and Polina Akselrod / Yale University
Benoit Corda / New York University
Selçuk Talay / Yale University
Yann LeCun / New York University
Eugenio Culurciello / Yale University
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Invited: Thinking outside the Tera-Scale box
Piotr Luszczek / University of Tennessee at Knoxville
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Hardware Acceleration of Electromagnetic Field Profile Computation: A Case Study Using the PO-SBR Method
Eric Dunn and Nathan Smith / SAIC
Ray Hoare / Concurrent EDA
Huan-Ting Meng and Jianming Jin / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Sparse Matrix Algorithms on GPUs and their Integration into SCIRun
Devon Yablonski, Miriam Leeser and Dana Brooks /
Northeastern University
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Scalable Image Graph Matching and Analysis: (SIGMA)
Karl Ni, Zachary Sun and Nadya Bliss / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Benchmark Evaluation of Radar Processing Algorithms on Graphics Processor Units (GPUs)
Scott Sawyer, Rick Pancoast, Mike Iaquinto, Rathin Putatunda, Rex Bennett, John Broadbent, Scott Harrington and Edward Dunne / Lockheed Martin
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Flexible Filters for High-Performance Embedded Computing
Rebecca Collins and Luca Carloni / Columbia University
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Failing In Place for Low-Serviceability Infrastructure Using High-Parity GPU-Based RAID
Matthew Curry / University of Alabama at Birmingham and Sandia National Laboratories
Lee Ward / Sandia National Laboratories
Anthony Skjellum / University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Poster / Demo A: GPU Technologies and Applications
Chair: Miriam Leeser / Northeastern University
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Poster / Demo A Précis
Poster A.1 VSI/Pro®-GPU: Commercial VSIPL Support for Single and Multikernel GP-GPU Accelerated Signal and Image Processing based on CUDA and Fermi
Anthony Skjellum and Jennifer Skjellum / RunTime Computing Solutions, LLC
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Poster A.2 An FPGA Implementation of Incremental Clustering for Radar Pulse Deinterleaving
Scott Bailie / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Miriam Leeser / Northeastern University
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Poster A.3 Particle Filter Speed Up Using a GPU
John Sacha and Andrew Shaffer / Applied Research Laboratory
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Poster A.4 Sidecar Network Adapters: Open Architectures for ISR Data Sources
Craig McNally, Chuck Yee and Larry Barbieri / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Poster A.5 Fast Extraction of Feature Salience Maps for Rapid Video Data Analysis
Nikos Pitsianis and Xiaobai Sun / Duke University
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Poster A.6 A 25 GFLOPS/Watt Software Programmable Floating Point Accelerator
Andreas Olofsson, Roman Trogan and Oleg Raikhman / Adapteva Inc.
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Poster A.7 Large Matrix-Matrix Multiply on PS3 clusters
Dennis Fitzgerald / ITT
Mark Barnell / AFRL
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Poster A.8 GeAccKL: Toward a GPU numerical kernels library for geosciences
Alan Richardson and Chris Hill / MIT
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Poster A.9 Motion Saliency Map Generations for Video Data Analysis: Spatio-temporal Signatures in the Array Operations
Jun Hu, Nikos Pitsianis and Xiaobai Sun / Duke University
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Poster A.10 Queuing Theory Modeling of a CPU-GPU System
Lindsay May and Robert Voigt / Northrop Grumman Corporation
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Poster A.11 Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexed Interconnects for High Performance Embedded Computing Architectures
Aaron Cordes and Rick Stevens / Lockheed Martin
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Poster A.12 A Prototype FPGA Tile for Subthreshold-Optimized CMOS
Peter Grossmann and Miriam Leeser / Northeastern University
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Session 2: Many Core Processors
Chair: Sharon Sacco / The MITRE Corporation
Auditorium
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Focus 2: Networked Computing
Chair: William Song / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Room S2-180
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Invited: The Processor: Many-Core for Embedded and Cloud Computing
Richard Schooler / Tilera
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DR&E LLGrid Portal: Interactive Supercomputing for DoD
Albert Reuther, William Arcand, Chansup Byun, Bill Bergeron, Matthew Hubbell, Jeremy Kepner, Andrew McCabe, Peter Michaleas, Julie Mullen and Andrew Prout / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Micro-op Fission: Hyper-threading Without the Hyper-headache
Robert Koutsoyannis, Anthony Cartolano and
Daniel McFarlin / Carnegie Mellon University
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Performance Migration to Open Solutions: OFED for Embedded Fabrics
Kenneth Cain / Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
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Automatic Parallelization and Locality Optimization of Beamforming Algorithms
Albert Hartono, Nicolas Vasilache, Cédric Bastoul, Allen Leung, Benoît Meister and Richard Lethin / Reservoir Labs, Inc.
Peter Vouras / Naval Research Laboratory
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Large Scale Complex Network Analysis Using the Hybrid Combination of a MapReduce Cluster and a Highly Multithreaded System
Seunghwa Kang and David Bader / Georgia Institute of Technology
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Performance Scalability on Embedded Many-Core Processors
Michael Champigny / Mercury Computer Systems
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CRBLASTER: Benchmarking a Cosmic-Ray Rejection Application on the Tilera 64-core TILE64 Processor
Kenneth Mighell / National Optical Astronomy Observatory
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Toward Mega-Scale Computing with pMatlab
Chansup Byun and Jeremy Kepner / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Vipin Sachdeva and Kirk Jordan / IBM
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Closing Remarks / Adjourn
Jeremy Kepner / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Banquet Speaker:
Rahul Sarpeshkar / MIT
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Banquet  
16 September

Announcements
Mr. Robert Bond / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Technology Keynote: Air Force Evolution to Open Avionics
Mr. Robert Bond / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Session 3: Cloud Computing
Chair: Albert Reuther / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Auditorium
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Focus 3: GPU Frameworks
Chair: James Lebak / The MathWorks
Room S2-180
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Invited
Allan Snavely / San Diego Supercomputing Center
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Adding support for GPUs to PVTOL: The Parallel Vector Tile Optimizing Library
James Brock, Miriam Leeser and Mark Niedre / Northeastern University
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Invited: Cloud Computing, Data Handling and HPEC Environments
Patrick Dreher / Renaissance Computing Institute
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Comparison of Multicore Processors using Sourcery VSIPL++
Brooks Moses, Don McCoy, Justin Voo and Stefan Seefeld / CodeSourcery, Inc.
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Toward a Scalable Knowledge Space on the Cloud
Delsey Sherrill, Jonathan Kurz and Craig McNally /
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Using GPU VSIPL & CUDA to Accelerate RF Clutter Simulation
Daniel Campbell and Daniel Cook / Georgia Tech Research Institute
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Adaptable and Efficient Variable Size Template Matching in CUDA
Nicholas Moore and Miriam Leeser / Northeastern University
Laurie King / College of the Holy Cross
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Poster / Demo B: Cloud Technologies and Applications
Chair: Albert Reuther / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Poster / Demo B Précis
Poster B.1 Performance Characterization of the Tile Processor Architecture: Lessons Learned
Matthew Clark, Eric Grobelny, Jim Passwater and Andrew White / Honeywell
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Poster B.2 The MIST, a local, secure cloud context and 802.11s testbed
Gregory Dempsey, Ronald Feher and Lindsay Gordon / USMA
Kurt Keville / MIT
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Poster B.3 Development of a Real-Time Parallel UHF SAR Image Processor
Matthew Alexander, Michael Vai, Thomas Emberley, Stephen Mooney and Joseph Rizzari / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Poster B.4 Automated Software Cache Management
William Lundgren, Kerry Barnes and James Steed / Gedae, Inc
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Poster B.5 Dependable Multiprocessor (DM) Implementation for Nano-satellite and CubeSat Applications
Matthew Clark and John Samson, Jr. / Honeywell
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Poster B.6 Scripting Sourcery VSIPL ++
Stefan Seefeld, Brooks Moses, Don McCoy and Justin Voo / CodeSourcery, Inc.
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Poster B.7 Multicore, Multithreaded, and/or Multi-GPU-Kernel VSIPL Standardization, Implementation, and Programming Impacts: Syntax, Semantics, Models
Anthony Skjellum / RunTime Computing Solutions, LLC
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Poster B.8 Mnemosyne: A Tool for Temporal Memory Access Analysis in HPC Applications
Shahrukh Tarapore and Matthew Burkholder / Lockheed Martin
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Poster B.10 Improving FFTW Benchmark to Measure Multi-core Processor Performance
William Pilaud / Curtiss Wright Controls Embedded Computing
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Poster B.11 Evaluating the Performance of DVB-S2 Over Asymmetric Heterogeneous Optical to Radio Frequency Satellite Links Using the LLGrid
Nancy List, Tommy Royster and Ryan Shoup / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Session 4: Awards Session
Chair: Jeremy Kepner / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Auditorium
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*3-D Graph Processor
William Song, Jeremy Kepner, Huy Nguyen, Joshua Kramer, Vitaliy Gleyzer, James Mann, Albert Horst, Larry Retherford, Robert Bond, Nadya Bliss, Eric Robinson, Sanjeev Mohindra, and Julie Mullen / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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*Enabling High Performance Embedded Computing through Memory Access via Photonic Interconnects
Gilbert Hendry / Columbia University
Eric Robinson and Vitaliy Gleyzer / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Johnnie Chan and Luca Carloni / Columbia University
Nadya Bliss / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Keren Bergman / Columbia University
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Using Graphics Processors to Accelerate Synthetic Aperture Sonar Imaging via Backpropagation
Dan Campbell, Mark McCans, Mike Davis and
Mike Brinkmann / Georgia Tech Research Institute
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Panel: Embedded Clouds
Moderator: Mr. Craig Lund / Local Knowledge
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Distinguished Panelists:
Dr. Patrick Dreher / Renaissance Computing Institute
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Ms. Diane Gibson / Cray Inc.
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Dr. Jeremy Kepner / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Mr. Chris Rezendes / VDC Research
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Dr. Niraj Srivastava / Raytheon
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Closing Remarks / Adjourn
*Outstanding Submission