The 8th Workshop on High Performance Scientific and
Engineering Computing (HPSEC-06)
in conjunction with The 2006 International Conference on
Parallel Processing (ICPP-06)
Columbus, Ohio, USA
(http://www.ehpclab.org/icpp06-hpsec/)

General Co-Chairs:
Ming Zhu, Oracle, USA
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Program Co-Chairs:
Juan Tourino, University of A Coruna, Spain
Lei Pan, JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA


Advance Program:

Friday, August 18th, 2006

8:50-9:00 Introduction to HPSEC-06 Workshop

9:00-9:50 Keynote Speech. Surgery needs HPC, Really!
Vipin Chaudhary

Session 1: Grid Computing

9:50-10:10 Framework for Interactive Parallel Dataset Analysis on the Grid.
David A. Alexander, Balamurali Ananthan, Tony Johnson, Victor Serbo

10:10-10:30 A Generic Task-Farming Framework for Reservoir Analysis in a
Grid Environment.
Santiago Pena, Dayong Huang, Xin Li, Zhou Lei, Gabrielle Allen, Chris White

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

Session 2: Scheduling and Load Balancing

11:00-11:20 Multiple Flows of Control in Migratable Parallel Programs
Gengbin Zheng, Orion Lawlor, Laxmikant Kale

11:20-11:40 Robust Resource Allocation in Weather Data Processing Systems
Mohana Oltikar, Jeff Brateman, Joe White, Jon Martin, Keith Knapp,
Anthony Maciejewski, Howard Siegel

11:40-12:00 A FLOPs based Model for Performance Analysis and Scheduling
of Applications for Single and Multiple CPUs
Nilesh Padhariya, Kolin Paul, Dheeraj Bhardwaj

12:00-13:30 Lunch Break

Session 3: Applications

13:30-13:50 Parallel Hyperspectral Image Processing on Commodity
Graphics Hardware
Javier Setoain, Christian Tenllado, Manuel Prieto, David Valencia,
Antonio Plaza, Javier Plaza

13:50-14:10 High performance multiscale simulation for crack propagation
Guillaume Anciaux, Olivier Coulaud, Jean Roman

14:10-14:30 Parallel Implementation of the Polyhedral Homotopy Method
Jan Verschelde, Yan Zhuang

14:30-14:50 Dynamic Algorithm Selection in parallel GAMESS calculations
Nurzhan Ustemirov, Masha Sosonkina, Mark Gordon, Mike Schmidt

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

Session 4: Data Structures and Algorithms

15:30-15:50 Tetrahedral Mesh Refinement in Distributed Environments
Mehmet Balman

15:50-16:10 Efficient FEM Parallel Iterative Solvers with Polynomial
Preconditioning
Yu Liang, Ramdev Kanapady, Kumar Tamma

Session 5: System Architecture

16:10-16:30 Building Cost Effective High Performance Computing
Environment via PCI Express
Akira Nishida

16:30-16:50 Remote iSCSI Cache on InfiniBand: An Approach to Optimize
iSCSI System
Xuhui Liu, Nan Wang, Jizhong Han, Lisheng Zhang, Chengde Han