2018 IEEE High Performance
Extreme Computing Conference
(HPEC ‘18)
Twenty-second Annual HPEC Conference
25 - 27 September 2018
Westin Hotel, Waltham, MA USA
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Plenary Session
Chair: Dr. Eric Evans / Director / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Keynote Speaker
Exascale Computing
Ms. Barbara Helland (Associate Director - DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Research)
New Frontiers & Quantum Computing
Chair: J.Cortese / MIT
Invited Talk: Accelerating Commercial Innovation
Dr. Bernadette Johnson (Chief Venture Technologist - MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Invited Talk: Comprehensive EDA Tools Addressing the Intersection of Classical and Quantum Computing
Mr. Jamil Kawa (Fellow - Synopsys)
A Parallel Implementation of FANO using OpenMP and MPI
Plamen Krastev, Albert Reuther, Chansup Byun, Michael Chrisp (MIT)
Towards Energy-Proportional Anomaly Detection in the Smart Grid
Spencer Drakontaidis, Michael Stanchi, Gabriel Glazer, Jason Hussey, Aaron St. Leger, Suzanne J. Matthews (USMA)
Soft-Core, Multiple-Lane, FPGA-based ADCs for a Liquid Helium Environment
Zikun Xiang, Tianqi Wang (University of Science and Technology of China), Tong Geng (Boston University), Tian Xiang (Suzhou
graphichina), Xi Jin (University of Science and Technology of China), Martin Herbordt (Boston University)
Parallel Real-Time Computing
Chair: David Cousins / BBN
[Best Paper Finalist] Stripmap SAR Pulse Interleaved Scheduling
John Terragnoli, Miriam Leeser (Northeastern University), Paul Monticciolo (MIT)
Tangram: Colocating HPC Applications with Oversubscription
Qingqing Xiong, Emre Ates, Martin C. Herbordt, Ayse K. Coskun (Boston University)
Experiments on Data Center Participation in Demand Response Programs
Yijia Zhang, Ozan Tuncer, Athanasios Tsiligkaridis, Michael Caramanis, Ioannis Paschalidis, Ayse Coskun (Boston University)
Server-class devices for Space Time Adaptive Processing
Jonas Larsson (Mercury Systems)
Dynamic Deployment of Communication Applications to Different Hardware Platforms using Ontological Representations
Yanji Chen, Mehmet Gungor, Shweta Singh, Alex Tazin, Mieczyslaw M. Kokar, Miriam Leeser (Northeastern University)
High Performance Data Analysis 1
Chair: Vijay Gadepally / MIT
[Best Paper Finalist] Computationally Efficient CP Tensor Decomposition Update Framework for Emerging Component
Discovery in Streaming Data
Pierre-David Letourneau, Muthu Baskaran, Tom Henretty, James Ezick, Richard Lethin (Reservoir Labs)
Interactive Supercomputing on 40,000 Cores for Machine Learning and Data Analysis
Albert Reuther, Jeremy Kepner, Chansup Byun, Siddharth Samsi, William Arcand, David Bestor, Bill Bergeron, Vijay Gadepally, Michael
Houle, Matthew Hubbell, Michael Jones, Anna Klein, Lauren Milechin, Julia Mullen, Andrew Prout, Antonio Rosa, Charles Yee, Peter
Michaleas (MIT)
[Best Student Paper Finalist] Sparse Dual of the Density Peaks Algorithm for Cluster Analysis of High-dimensional Data
Dimitris Floros (Aristotle University), Tiancheng Liu (Duke University), Nikos Pitsianis (Aristotle University), Xiaobai Sun (Duke
University)
AC922 Data Movement for CORAL
Steve Roberts, Pradeep Ramanna, John Walthour (IBM)
Invited Talk: Leadership Computing for Converged High Performance Computing, Data Analysis, and Machine Learning
Dr. Chris Hill (MIT)
Posters
[Student Innovation Award] PageRank Acceleration for Large Graphs with Scalable Hardware and Two-Step SpMV
Fazle Sadi, Joe Sweeney, Scott McMillan, Tze Meng Low, James C. Hoe, Larry Pileggi, Franz Franchetti (CMU)
[Student Innovation Award] Scalable Community Detection Using Vite
Sayan Ghosh (Wash St), Mahantesh Halappanavar, Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), Ananth Kalyanaraman, Assefaw H. Gebremedhin (Wash
St)
[Student Innovation Award] Triangle Counting and Truss Decomposition using FPGA
Sitao Huang, Mohamed El-Hadedy, Cong Hao, Qin Li, Vikram S. Mailthody, Ketan Date (UIUC), Jinjun Xiong (IBM), Deming Chen,
Rakesh Nagi, Wen-mei Hwu (UIUC)
[Student Innovation Award] Fast Stochastic Block Partition for Streaming Graphs
Ahsen J. Uppal, H. Howie Huang (GWU)
[Honorable Mention] Estimating Edge-Local Triangle Count Heavy Hitters in Edge-Linear Time and Almost-Vertex-Linear Space
Benjamin W. Priest (Dartmouth), Roger Pearce, Geoffrey Sanders (LLNL)
[Honorable Mention] Triangle Counting with A Multi-Core Computer
Evan Donato, Ming Ouyang, Cristian Peguero-Isalguez (UMass Boston)
[Honorable Mention] Parallel Counting of Triangles in Large Graphs: Pruning and Hierarchical Clustering Algorithms
Chun-Yen Kuo, Ching Nam Hang, Pei-Duo Yu, Chee Wei Tan (CU Hong Kong)
Characterizing I/O optimization opportunities for array-centric applications on HDFS
Donghe Kang, Vedang Patel, Kalyan Khandrika, Spyros Blanas, Yang Wang, Srinivasan Parthasarathy (Ohio State University)
A SoPC based Fixed Point System for Spaceborne SAR Real-Time Imaging Processing
Bingyi Li, Yizhuang Xie, Shankang Hu, Liang Chen (Beijing Institute of Technology), Yi Deng (Virginia Polytechnic)
An Ensemble Classifier Based on Feature Selection Using Ant Colony Optimization
Jianjun Cao (NUDT - China), Guojun Lv, Yuling Shang, Nianfeng Weng, Chen Chang, Yi Liu (Army Engineering University - China)
Efficient and Flexible 2-D Data Controller for SAR Imaging System
Tianyun Sun, Bingyi Li, Yizhuang Xie, He Chen, Liang Chen (Beijing Institute of Technology)
Classical Simulation of noisy quantum circuits for simulating Hamiltonian dynamics
Rich Rines (MIT)
[Student Poster] Multi-Player Generative Adversarial Networks
Samarth Gupta (MIT)
[Student Poster] Evaluating Mode Collapse in Generative Adversarial Networks
Sayeri Lala, Anastasiya Belyaeva, Maha Shady (MIT), Molei Liu (Harvard)
[Student Poster] Alternative Algorithms to Remove Ringing Artifacts in Bio-image with Big Data Using Numerical and
Computational Analysis
Andrew Kyung (Norther Valley Regional), Eun Suh Kim (Seoul International School), Nahyun Kim (Bergen County Academies)
[Student Poster] Enhanced Iterative Method Solving Computational Quantum Mechanics with a Large Number of Equations
Andrew Kyung (Norther Valley Regional), Daniel Lee (Charterhouse)
Machine Learning 2
Chair: Sadasivan Shankar / Harvard
Invited Talk: Julia: The New Language of AI
Prof. Alan Edelman (MIT)
Too many secants: a hierarchical approach to secant-based dimensionality reduction on large data sets
Henry Kvinge, Elin Farnell, Michael Kirby, Chris Peterson (Colorado State University)
Regression Based WCET Analysis For Sampling Based Motion Planning
Hao Wen, Wei Zhang (Virginia Commonwealth University)
A Novel 1D-Convolution Accelerator for Low-Power Real-time CNN processing on the Edge
Justin Sanchez, Ramachandra Chamarthi, Nasim Soltani, Adarsh Sawant, Hamed Tabkhi (UNC Charlotte)
Energy-Efficient DNN Computing on GPUs Through Register File Management
Xin Wang, Wei Zhang (Virginia Commonwealth University)
ASIC & FPGA 2
Chair: Paul Monticiollo / MIT
Exploiting GPU with 3D Stacked Memory to Boost Performance for Data-Intensive Applications
Hao Wen, Wei Zhang (Virginia Commonwealth University)
An Access-Pattern-Aware On-Chip Vector Memory System with Automatic Loading for SIMD Architectures
Tong Geng (Boston University), Erkan Diken (Eindhoven University of Technology), Tianqi Wang (Boston University), Lech Jozwiak
(Eindhoven University of Technology), Martin Herbordt (Boston University)
Scalable RMA-based Communication Library Featuring Node-local NVMs
Ryo Matsumiya, Toshio Endo (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
High Performance Data Analysis 2
Chair: Sid Samsi / MIT
Database Operations in D4M.jl
Lauren Milechin, Vijay Gadepally, Jeremy Kepner (MIT)
High-Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) and Machine Learning Demonstrated in Flight Using Agile Condor
Mark Barnell, Courtney Raymond (AFRL), Chris Capraro, Darrek Isereau, Chris Cicotta, Nathan Stokes (SRC)
All-at-once Decomposition of Coupled Billion-scale Tensors in Apache Spark
Aditya Gudibanda, Tom Henretty, Muthu Baskaran, James Ezick, Richard Lethin (Reservoir Labs)
Interactive Launch of 16,000 Microsoft Windows Instances on a Supercomputer
Michael Jones, Jeremy Kepner, Bradley Orchard, Albert Reuther, William Arcand, David Bestor, Bill Bergeron, Chansup Byun, Vijay
Gadepally, Michael Houle, Matthew Hubbell, Anna Klein, Lauren Milechin, Julia Mullen, Andrew Prout, Antonio Rosa, Siddharth Samsi,
Charles Yee, Peter Michaleas (MIT)
Invited Talk: Big Data and HPC Workflows
Dr. Scott Yockel (Director - Harvard Research Computing)
GPU Computing
Chair: Brian Stroka / MITRE
Utilizing GPU Parallelism to Improve Fast Spherical Harmonic Transforms
Max Carlson, Hari Sundar (University of Utah)
A Multi-GPU PCISPH Implementation with Efficient Memory Transfers
Kevin Verma, Chong Peng, Kamil Szewc (ESS Engineering Software), Robert Wille (Johannes Kepler University)
GDP: GPU accelerated Detailed Placement
Shounak Dhar, David Pan (University of Texas)
Benchmarking Scalability of GPU Accelerated SAR Image Formation
Edward Hill, Thomas Kragh, Howard Nichols (BAE Systems), Michael Minardi, Steven Scarborough, Alexander Boytim (AFRL)
WCET Analysis of GPU L1 Data Caches
Yijie Huangfu, Wei Zhang (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Big Data
Chair: Nikos Pitsianis / ELKE A.P.TH. (Office of Research Support of Aristotle University)
Performance Assessment of Hybrid Parallelism for Large-Scale Reservoir Simulation on Multi- and Many-core Architectures
Amani AlOnazi (KAUST), Marcin Rogowski, Ahmed Al-Zawawi (Aramco), David Keyes (KAUST)
Benchmarking Heterogeneous HPC Systems Including Reconfigurable Fabrics: Community Aspirations for Ideal Comparisons
Peter Jamieson (Miamu University), Ahmed Sanaullah, Martin Herbordt (Boston University)
Improving Performance and Scalability of Algebraic Multigrid through a Specialized MATVEC
Majid Rasouli, Vidhi Zala, Robert Kirby, Hari Sundar (University of Utah)
Simulation Approach to Sensor Placement Using Unity3D
Kimberlee Chestnut Chang, Nicole Lane, Andrew Uhmeyer, Michael Jones, Matthew Hubbell, Albert Reuther, Robert Seater (MIT)
A Fast and Efficient Parallel Algorithm for Pruned Landmark Labeling
Qing Dong, Kartik Lakhotia, Hanqing Zeng, Rajgopal Kannan, Viktor Prasanna (USC), Guna Seetharaman (NRL)
Closing Talk: TabulaROSA: Tabular Operating System Architecture for Massively Parallel Heterogeneous Compute Engines
Jeremy Kepner (MIT), Ron Brightwell (Sandia), Alan Edelman, Vijay Gadepally (MIT), Hayden Jananthan (Vanderbilt), Michael Jones,
Sam Madden, Peter Michaleas, Hamed Okhravi (MIT), Kevin Pedretti (Sandia), Albert Reuther (MIT), Thomas Sterling (Indiana
University), Mike Stonebraker (MIT)