Abstracts of Invited Talks |
Analyzing Massive Social Networks using Multicore and Multithreaded Architectures Short Bio of David A. Bader: David A. Bader is a Full Professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing, at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Bader has also served as Director of the Sony-Toshiba-IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Broadband Engine Processor. He received his Ph.D. in 1996 from The University of Maryland, was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Research Associateship in Experimental Computer Science. He is an NSF CAREER Award recipient, an investigator on several NSF and NIH awards, was a distinguished speaker in the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitors Program, and a member of the IBM PERCS team for the DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems program. Dr. Bader serves on the Research Advisory Council for Internet2, the Steering Committees of the IPDPS and HiPC conferences, and is the General Chair of IPDPS 2010 and Chair of SIAM PP12. He is an associate editor for several high impact publications including the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (JEA), IEEE DSOnline, and Parallel Computing, has been an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), is an IEEE Fellow and a Member of the ACM. Dr. Bader's interests are at the intersection of high-performance computing and computational biology and genomics. He has co-chaired a series of meetings, the IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB), co-organized the NSF Workshop on Petascale Computing in the Biological Sciences, written several book chapters, and co-edited special issues of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) and IEEE TPDS on high-performance computational biology. He has co-authored over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and his main areas of research are in parallel algorithms, combinatorial optimization, and computational biology and genomics. |
MareIncognito: A Perspective Towards Exascale MareIncognito is a cooperative project between IBM and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) targeting the design of relevant technologies on the way towards exascale. The initial challenge of the project was to study the potential design of a system based on a next generation of Cell processors. Even so, the approaches pursued are general purpose, applicable to a wide range of accelerator and homogeneous multicores and holistically addressing a large number of components relevant in the design of such systems. |
The Natural Parallelism Sequential processing is a long outdated illusionary software concept and we will expose its artificiality and absurdity with appropriate analogies of everyday life. Multi-core appears as a challenge only when looking at it from the crooked illusion of sequential processing. There are other important aspects such as specialization or data movement, and admittedly large scale parallelism has also some issues which we will discuss. But the main problem is changing our mindset and helping others to do so with better education so that parallelism comes to us as a friend and not enemy. Short Bio of Robert Strzodka: Robert Strzodka is the head of the research group Integrative Scientific Computing at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken since 2007. His research focuses on efficient interactions of mathematic, algorithmic and architectural aspects in heterogeneous high performance computing. Previously, Robert was a visiting assistant professor in computer science at the Stanford University and until 2005 a postdoc at the Center of Advanced European Studies and Research in Bonn. He received his doctorate in numerical mathematics from the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2004. |