Conference Program

Wednesday, July 9
Invited Talk: 8:30 - 9:30, Room A Chair: Ralf Hofestädt Computers in the Drug Discovery Cycle Hwa Lim, Pangea Systems Inc., Oakland, CA, USA
Session 3: 9:30 - 10:30, Room A Parallel Architectures Chair: Mateo Valero
pSNOW: A Tool to Evaluate Architectural Issues for NOW Environments Mangesh Kasbekar, Shailabh Nagar, Anand Sivasubramaniam Pennsylvania State Univ., PA, USA
CP-PACS: A Massively Parallel Processor For Large Scale Scientific Calculations T. Boku, K. Itakura, H. Nakamura and K. Nakazawa Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan
Coffee Break: 10:30 - 11:00
Session 4a: 11:00 - 12:00, Room A Object-Oriented Programming Chair: Piyush Mehrotra	Session 4b: 11:00 - 12:00, Room B Routing Chair: Alok Choudhary
A Methodology for Specifying Data Distribution Using Only Standard Object-Oriented Features Naohito Sato, Satoshi Matsuoka, Jean-Marc Jezequel, Akinori Yonezawa Univ. of Tokyo, Japan	Impact of Selection Functions on Routing Algorithm Performance in Multicomputer Networks Wu-chang Feng, Kang G. Shin Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
HPC++: Experiments with the Parallel Standard Template Library Elizabeth Johnson, Dennis Gannon, and Peter Beckman* Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN, USA; *Los Alamos National Lab., NM, USA	Performance Benefits of Virtual Channels And Adaptive Routing: An Application-Driven Study Aniruddba S. Vaidya, Anand Sivasubramaniam, and Chita R. Das Pennsylvania State Univ., PA, USA
Lunch Break: 12:00 - 14:00
Session 5a: 14:00 - 15:30, Room A Synchronization Chair: Michael Gerndt	Session 5b: 14:00 - 15:30, Room B Performance Chair: Thomas Fahringer
A Graph Based Approach to Barrier Synchronisation Minimisation E.A. Stöhr and Michael F. P. O'Boyle Univ. of Manchester, UK	Performance Evaluation of Message-Driven Parallel VLSI CAD Applications on General Purpose Multiprocessors John G. Holm, John A. Chandy*, Steven Parkes*, Sumit Roy, Venkatram Krishnaswamy, Gagan Hasteer, and Prithviraj Banerjee** University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA; *Sierra Vista Research, Los Gatos, CA, USA; **Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
The Importance of Synchronization Structure in Parallel Program Optimization Arjan J.C. van Gemund Delft Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands	Incorporating Application Dependent Information In An Automatic Code Generating Environment R. van Engelen, I. Heitlager, L. Wolters, and G. Cats* Leiden University, The Netherlands; *Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Ae de Bilt, The Netherlands
	Sparse Code Generation for Imperfectly Nested Loops With Dependencies Vladimir Kotlyar and Keshav Pingali Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Coffee Break: 15:30 - 16:00
Panel Session: 16:00 - 18:00, Room A Debate: On The Implementation Aspects of a Single-Address-Space Model Versus a Message-Passing Model As Seen From Independent Software Providers Chair: Frank Baetke, Hewlett Packard, Munich, Germany
Conference Dinner (Palais Pallavicini): 20:00

Thursday, July 10
Invited Talk: 8:30 - 9:30, Room A Chair: Harry Wijshoff Problem Solving Environments and Netsolve: A Network Server for Solving Computational Science Problems Jack Dongarra, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
Session 6a: 9:30 - 10:30, Room A Prefetching Chair: Yale Patt	Session 6b: 9:30 - 10:30, Room B Communication and Multicasts Chair: Kourosh Gharachorloo
Speculative Execution Via Address Prediction and Data Prefetching Jose Gonzalez and Antonio Gonzalez Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain	Performance Considerations in Software Multicasts Jörg Cordsen, H.-W. Pohl, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat* GMD-First Berlin, Germany; *Univ. of Potsdam, Germany
Adaptive Data Prefetching Using Cache Information Ando Ki, Alan Knowles Univ. of Manchester, UK	Iteration Space Slicing And Its Application To Communication Optimization William Pugh and Evan Rosser Univ. of Maryland, MD, USA
Coffee Break: 10:30 - 11:00
Session 7a: 11:00 - 12:00, Room A Tree-based and Semi-Structured Applications Chair: John Merlin	Session 7b: 11:00 - 12:00, Room B Distributed Shared Memory Chair: Jim Smith
Compiler And Run-Time Support For Semi-Structured Applications Nikos Chrisochoides, Induprakas Kodukula, and Keshav Pingali Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA	Design and Performance of the Shasta Distributed Shared Memory Protocol Daniel J. Scales and Kourosh Gharachorloo Digital Western Research. Lab., Palo Alto, CA, USA
Conflict-Free Template Access in k-ary and Binomial Trees Sajal K. Das, Falguni Sarkar, and M.Christina Pinotti* University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA; *IEI, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy	An I/O Network Architecture of the Distributed Shared-Memory Massively Parallel Computer JUMP-1 H. Nakajo, S. Ohtani, T. Matsumoto, M. Kohata, K. Hiraki and Y. Kaneda Kobe Univ., Japan
Lunch Break: 12:00 - 14:00
Session 8a: 14:00 - 15:30, Room A Compilers Dennis Gannon	Session 8b: 14:00 - 15:30, Room B Hardware Features for Performance Chair: Antonio Gonzalez
Symbolic Evaluation for Parallelizing Compilers Thomas Fahringer and Bernhard Scholz Univ. of Vienna, Austria; Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria	Implementation and Analysis of Path History in Dynamic Branch Prediction Schemes Shlomo Reches, Shlomo Weiss Tel Aviv Univ., Israel
A Compiler Algorithm for Optimizing Locality in Loop Nests Mahmut T. Kandemir, J. Ramanujam, and Alok Choudhary Syracuse Univ., NY, USA; Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, USA; Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA	A Victim Cache for Vector Registers Roger Espasa, Mateo Valero Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Compile-Time Minimisation of Load Imbalance in Loop Nests Rizos Sakellariou and John R. Gurd Univ. of Manchester, UK	The Performance Impact of Exploiting Branch ILP with Tree Representation of ILP Code Soo-Mook Moon, Kemal Ebcioglu Seoul Nat. Univ., South Korea; IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Coffee Break: 15:30 - 16:00
Industrial Session: 16:00 - 18:00, Room A Chair: Erich Schikuta
Sightseeing Tour and Heurigen Dinner: Departure 19:00 (Penta Hotel)

Friday, July 11
Invited Session: 8:30 - 10:30, Room A Chair: Jim Smith
Invited Talk: 8:30 - 9:30 The Road to a Petaflops Computer Paul Smith, Department of Energy, Washington, DC, USA (Speaker) Martin Sokoloski, Science and Technology Corp., Hampton, VA, USA
Invited Talk: 9:30 - 10:30 SPOCK: Rapid Product Development via Computer-Based Communication Stefan Rill, Daimler Benz Aerospace Airbus / Univ. of Bremen, Germany
Coffee Break: 10:30 - 11:00
Session 9a: 11:00 - 12:30, Room A Data Placement and Transformation Chair: Jörg Cordsen	Session 9b: 11:00 - 12:00, Room B Performance Prediction and Coding Chair: Jack Dongarra
Non-singular data transformations: Definition, Validity and Applications Michael F.P. O'Boyle and P.M.W Knijnenburg Univ. of Manchester, UK; Leiden Univ., The Netherlands	Developing Architecture Adaptive Algorithms using Simulation with MISS-PVM for Performance Prediction Dieter F. Kvasnicka and Christoph W. Ueberhuber Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
Cache Miss Equations: An Analytical Representation of Cache Misses Somnath Ghosh, Margaret Martonosi, and Sharad Malik Princeton Univ., NJ, USA	Optimizing Matrix Multiply using PHiPAC: a Portable, High-Performance, ANSI C Coding Methodology Jeff Bilmes, Krste Asanovic, Chee-Whye Chin, and Jim Demmel Univ. of California at Berkeley, CA, USA
Adaptive Migratory Scheme for Distributed Shared Memory Jai-Hoon Kim, Nitin H. Vaidya Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA
End of Conference: 12:30

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