Thursday, September 15
2016 IEEE High Performance
Extreme Computing Conference
(HPEC ‘16)
Twentieth Annual HPEC Conference
13 - 15 September 2016
Westin Hotel, Waltham, MA USA
Plenary Session
9:00-10:00 in Eden Vale B
Chair: Dr. Albert Reuther / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Keynote Speaker:
Machine Learning, Data Analytics, and Non-Conventional
Computer Architecture
Mr. Trung Tran (DARPA MTO - Program Manager)
Break
10:00-10:20
Eden Vale Foyer
GPU & Manycore 1
10:20-12:00 in Eden Vale A1/A2
Chair: James Lebak / Mathworks
[Best Paper Finalist]
How naive is naive SpMV on the GPU?
Markus Steinberger (Max Planck Institute), Andreas Derler (TU Graz),
Rhaleb Zayer, Hans-Peter Seidel (Max Planck Institute)
[Best Student Paper Finalist]
Towards Parallel Implementation of Associative Inference for
Cogent Confabulation
Zhe Li, Qinru Qiu (Syracuse University), Mangesh Tamhankar (Intel)
Silicon Photonic Memory Interconnect for Many-Core
Architectures
Ke Wen, Hang Guan, David M. Calhoun (Columbia University), David
Donofrio, John Shalf (Lawrence Berkeley Lab), Keren Bergman
(Columbia University)
GPU-Accelerated Charge Mapping
Ahmed Sanaullah, Kathleen Lewis, Martin C. Herbordt (Boston
University)
Unified and Lightweight Tasks and Conduits: A High Level
Parallel Programming Framework
Chao Liu, Miriam Leeser (Northeastern University)
Big Data 1
10:20-12:00 in Eden Vale A3
Chair: Tim Mattson / Intel
Invited Talk:
Challenges and Solutions to Sustaining the HDD Industries
Capacity Growth
Dr. Mark Re (Seagate Senior Vice President and Chief Technology
Officer)
Benchmarking the Graphulo Processing Framework
Timothy Weale (Department of Defense), Vijay Gadepally (MIT),
Dylan Hutchison (University of Washington), Jeremy Kepner (MIT)
BigDAWG Polystore Query Optimization Through Semantic
Equivalences
Zuohao She, Surabhi Ravishankar, Jennie Duggan (Northwestern
University)
[Best Student Paper Finalist]
From NoSQL Accumulo to NewSQL Graphulo: Design and Utility
of Graph Algorithms inside a BigTable Database
Dylan Hutchison (University of Washington), Jeremy Kepner, Vijay
Gadepally (MIT), Bill Howe (University of Washington)
The BigDAWG Polystore System and Architecture
Vijay Gadepally, Peinan Chen (MIT), Jennie Duggan (Northwestern
University), Aaron Elmore (University of Chicago), Brandon Haynes
(University of Washington), Jeremy Kepner, Samuel Madden (MIT),
Tim Mattson (Intel), Michael Stonebraker (MIT)
Resilient & IoT Computing 1
10:20 - 12:00 in Eden Vale C1/C2
Chair: David Cousins / BBN
Invited Talk:
End-to-End Security in the Cloud
Dr. Robert Cunningham (Chair IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative; MIT
Lincoln Laboratory Group Leader Secure Resilient Systems &
Technology)
Invited Talk:
Cyber/Physical Resilience
Dr. Igor Linkov (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Enhancing HPC Security with a User-Based Firewall
Andrew Prout, William Arcand, David Bestor, Bill Bergeron, Chansup
Byun, Vijay Gadepally, Matthew Hubbell, Michael Houle, Michael
Jones, Peter Michaleas, Lauren Milechin, Julie Mullen, Antonio Rosa,
Siddharth Samsi, Albert Reuther, Jeremy Kepner (MIT)
Adding Scalability to Internet of Things Gateways using Parallel
Computation of Edge Device Data
Janice Canedo, Anthony Skjellum (Auburn University)
I-Vector Speaker and Language Recognition System on Android
Christian Vazquez-Machado, Pedro Colon-Hernandez (University of
Puerto Rico), Pedro A. Torres-Carrasquillo (MIT)
Lunch; View Posters and Demos
12:00-1:00 in Eden Vale Foyer
Optimization of RAID Erasure Coding Algorithms for Intel Xeon
Phi
Aleksei Marov, Andrey Fedorov (Raidix)
Modeling the Performance of 2.5D Blocking of 3D Stencil Code
on GPUs
Guangwei Zhang, Yinliang Zhao (Xi’an Jiaotong University)
Accelerating Clustering Algorithms Using GPUs
Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Qussai Yaseen, Moahmmed Shehab, Yaser
Jararweh, Firas Albalas (Jordan University of Science and
Technology)
Accelerating FCM-Based Text Classification Algorithm Using
GPUs
Moahmmed Shehab, Qussai Yaseen, Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Firas
Albalas, Yaser Jararweh (Jordan University of Science and
Technology)
GPU Accelerated Semantic Search Using Latent Semantic
Analysis
Alexandru Iacob, Lucian Itu, Lucian Sasu (Siemens), Florin
Moldoveanu (Transilvania University), Constantin Suciu (Siemens)
LDPC Performance over the 802.11n Protocol
Octavio Salcedo Parra, Brayan Reyes Daza (Universidad Distrital
FJC)
Parallel Gauss-Seidel Iterative Solution of Laplace's Equation in
Clustered1D
Hussam Hussein Abu Azab, Adel Omar Dahmane (Université du
Québec à Trois- Rivières), Habib Hamam (University de Moncton)
Embedded Domain Specific Language for GPU- accelerated
Graph Operations with Automatic Transformation and Fusion
Stephen Kozacik, Aaron Paolini, Paul Fox, James Bonnett, Eric
Kelmelis (EM Photonics), Dennis Prather (University of Delaware)
Robust Benchmarking in Noisy Environments
Jiahao Chen and Jarret Revels, Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
GPU & Manycore 2
1:00-2:40 in Eden Vale A1/A2
Chair: Miriam Leeser / NEU
[Best Paper Finalist]
A CUDA Implementation of the PageRank Pipeline Benchmark
Mauro Bisson, Everett Phillips and Massimiliano Fatica (Nvidia)
LU, QR, and Cholesky Factorizations: Programming Model,
Performance Analysis and Optimization Techniques for the Intel
Knights Landing Xeon Phi
Azzam Haidar, Stanimire Tomov (University of Tennessee),
Konstantin Arturovm, Murat Guney, Shane Story (Intel), Jack
Dongarra (University of Tennessee)
Polyhedral Compilation for Energy Efficiency
Benoit Pradelle, Muthu Baskaran, Tom Henretty, Benoit Meister,
Athanasios Konstantinidis, Richard Lethin (Reservoir Labs)
Implementing Hilbert Transform for Digital Signal Processing on
Epiphany Many-Core Coprocessor
Kyle L. Labowski, James A. Ross, Patrick W. Jungwirth (Army
Research Lab), David A. Richie (Brown Deer Technology)
Distributed and Configurable Architecture for Neuromorphic
Applications on Heterogeneous Cluster
Khadeer Ahmed, Qinru Qiu (Syracuse University), Mangesh
Tamhankar (Intel)
Resilient & IoT Computing 2
1:00-2:40 in Eden Vale C1/C2
Chair: David Cousins / BBN
Invited Talk:
Future DoD Computing and the Emergence of Autonomous
Systems
Mr. Robert Bond (MIT Lincoln Laboratory Associate Head, ISR
Systems & Technology Division)
Invited Talk:
OpenVMS: 40 Years of Mission Critical Computing
Mr. Clair Grant (Director of R&D VMS Software, Inc)
Systems Design of Cybersecurity in Embedded Systems
M. Vai, D. Whelihan (MIT), N. Evancich, K.J. Kwak, J. Li (Intelligent
Automation), M. Britton, J. Foley, M. Lynch (Alion Science and
Technology), D. Schafer, J. DeMatteis (Air Force Research
Laboratory)
Analyzing Heterogeneous Computing Architectures for ADAS
and Mobile Imaging Applications
Rafal Malewski (NXP), Markus Levy (EEMBC)
High-throughput Ingest of Data Provenance Records into
Accumulo
Thomas Moyer, Vijay Gadepally (MIT)
Quantum Tools & Information Theory 1
1:00-2:40 in Eden Vale C3
Chair: Steve Reinhardt / D-Wave
A Quantum Macro Assembler
Scott Pakin (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Realistic Simulation of Error in Quantum Computing Circuits
Kevin M. Obenland, Andrew J. Kerman (MIT)
ToQ.jl: A high-level programming language for D-Wave machines
based on Julia
Daniel O’Malley, Velimir V. Vesselinov (Los Alamos National
Laboratory)
Software Systems for High-performance Quantum Computing
Travis S. Humble, Keith A. Britt (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Solving large optimization problems with restricted quantum
annealers
Federico Spedalieri, Tameem Albash (University of Southern
California)
Break
2:40-3:00
Eden Vale Foyer
GPU & Manycore 3
3:00-5:00 in Eden Vale A1/A2
Chair: Brian Sroka / MITRE
GPU Accelerated, Robust Method for Voxelization of Solid
Objects
Cosmin Nita, Iulian Stroia, Lucian Itu, Constantin Suciu, Viorel
Mihalef, Manasi Datar, Saikiran Rapaka, Puneet Sharma (Siemens)
Design Space Exploration of GPU Accelerated Cluster Systems
for Optimal Data Transfer Using PCIe Bus
Janki Bhimani, Miriam Leeser, Ningfang Mi (Northeastern University)
Performance Analysis and Acceleration of Explicit Integration for
Large Kinetic Networks using Batched GPU Computations
Azzam Haidar, Benjamin Brock, Stanimire Tomov, Michael Guidry,
Jay Jay Billings, Daniel Shyles, Jack Dongarra (University of
Tennessee)
Parallel Motion Estimation and GPU-based Fast Coding Unit
Mode Decision for HEVC
Yih-Chuan Lin, Shang-Che Wu (National Formosa University)
Big Data 2
3:00-5:00 in Eden Vale A3
Chair: Vijay Gadepally / MIT
[Best Paper Finalist]
Benchmarking SciDB Data Import on HPC Systems
Siddharth Samsi, Laura Brattain, William Arcand, David Bestor, Bill
Bergeron, Chansup Byun, Vijay Gadepally, Matthew Hubbell, Anna
Klein, Peter Michaleas, Lauren Milechin, Julie Mullen, Andrew Prout,
Antonio Rosa, Charles Yee, Jeremy Kepner and Albert Reuther (MIT)
[Best Student Paper Finalist]
Cross-Engine Query Execution in Federated Database Systems
Ankush M. Gupta, Vijay Gadepally, Michael Stonebraker (MIT)
Integrating Real-Time and Batch Processing in a Polystore
John Meehan, Stan Zdonik Shaobo Tian, Yulong Tian (Brown
University), Nesime Tatbul (Intel), Adam Dziedzic, Aaron Elmore
(University of Chicago)
Data Transformation and Migration in Polystores
Adam Dziedzic, Aaron J. Elmore (University of Chicago), Michael
Stonebraker (MIT)
The BigDawg Monitoring Framework
Peinan Chen, Vijay Gadepally, Michael Stonebraker (MIT)
[Best Paper Finalist]
Julia Implementation of the Dynamic Distributed Dimensional
Data Model
Alexander Chen, Alan Edelman, Jeremy Kepner, Vijay Gadepally
(MIT), Dylan Hutchison (University of Washington)
Parameter Setting for Quantum Annealers
Kristen L. Pudenz (Lockheed Martin)
Abstractions Considered Helpful: A Tools Architecture for
Adiabatic Quantum Computers
Michael Booth, Edward Dahl, Mark Furtney, Steven P. Reinhardt (D-
Wave Systems)
An Approach to Big Data Inspired by Statistical Mechanics
John A. Cortese (MIT)
Associative Array Model of SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL
Databases
Jeremy Kepner, Vijay Gadepally (MIT), Dylan Hutchison (University of
Washington), Hayden Jananthan (MIT), Timothy Mattson (Intel),
Siddharth Samsi, Albert Reuther (MIT)
Quantum Tools & Information Theory 2
3:00-5:00 in Eden Vale C3
Chair: Steve Reinhardt / D-Wave