PavanBalaji Yong Chen Abhinav Vishnu

1. Sixth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing (P2S2) PavanBalaji Yong Chen Abhinav Vishnu P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013)

2. Organizing Committee • Steering Committee: • William Gropp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research • Program Co-chairs • PavanBalaji, Argonne National Laboratory • Yong Chen, Texas Tech University • Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory • Web/Cyber and Publicity Chair • Qichang Liang, University of Otago, New Zealand P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013)

3. P2S2 2013 Statistics • 20 paper submissions • P2S2 prides itself with a thorough review process • Each paper received at least 4 reviews, most had 5 reviews, some had 6 reviews • PC Meeting in Mid May for paper decisions; lots of discussion for each paper. We had to make some tough choices. • 11 papers were accepted (55% acceptance rate) • 22 PC Members • Many thanks for their hard work and diligent reviews! • Thanks to Qichang for undertaking the publicity/web chair role! P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013)

4. P2S2 2013 Logistics • Four sessions: • We will start with a keynote talk by Prof. Yves Robert • Three sessions for regular technical paper presentations • For Presenters: • Please meet session chair beforethesession starts • Please provide a short bio • Presentations may need to be copied to a common presentation laptop before the session (please check with your session chair!) • Please send your slides to p2s2-chairs@mcs.anl.gov and we will post slides on program page • Wireless Connectivity P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013)

5. P2S2 2013 Sessions • Session 1: Keynote • Time: 9:15am – 10:30am • An Overview of Fault-Tolerant Techniques for High Performance Computing • Prof. Yves Robert, ENS Lyon InstitutUniversitaire de France P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013)

6. P2S2 2013 Sessions (contd.) • Session 2: Programming Models and Performance • Time: 11:00am - 13:00pm • Session Chair: Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand • “Flexible Approach to Staged Events”, Tiago Salmito, Ana Lucia de Moura, and Noemi Rodriguez • “ConMR: Concurrent MapReduce Programming Model for Large Scale Shared-Data Applications”, Fan Zhang, QutaibahMalluhi, and Tamer Elsayed • “Read-Write Lock Allocation in Software Transactional Memory”, Amir GhanbariBavarsad, and EhsanAtoofian • “A Heterogeneous Computing Framework for Computational Finance”, Gordon Inggs, David Thomas and Wayne Luk P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013)

7. P2S2 2013 Sessions (contd.) • Session 3: Multi-core and Manycore Architectures • Time: 14:00pm - 16:00pm • Session Chair: Xiaoyi Lu, Ohio State University • “A Framework for Performance-aware Composition of Applications for GPU-based System”, UsmanDastgeer, and Christoph Kessler • “Exploiting Execution Order and Parallelism from Processing Flow Applying Pipeline-based Programming Method on Manycore Accelerators”, Shinichi Yamagiwa, Ryo Jozaki, Shixun Shang, Ryo Zaizen, and DewenXu • “Performance Tuning is Demanding on Multicore and Manycore Architectures: A Case Study on Large-scale Feature Matching with Image Collections”, Xiaoxin Tang, Steven Mills, David Eyers, Zhiyi Huang, Kai-Cheung Leung, and MinyiGuo • “X-KAAPI: A Multi Paradigm Runtime for Multicore Architectures”, Thierry Gautier, Fabien Lementec, Vincent Faucher, and Bruno Raffin P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013)

8. P2S2 2013 Sessions (contd.) • Session 4: Parallel Applications • Time: 16:30pm - 18:00pm • Session Chair: Laxmikant Kale, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign • “Performance Evaluation of NAS Parallel Benchmarks on Intel Xeon Phi”, ArunmoezhiRamachandran, Jerome Vienna, Rob Van Der Wijngaart, Lars Koesterke, and IlyaSharapov • “Tiled QR Decomposition and Its Optimization on CPU and GPU Coupled System”, Dongjin Kim, and Kyu-ho Park • “Hierarchical Parallel Matrix Multiplication on Large-Scale Distributed Memory Platform”, Jean-Noel Quintin, Khalid Hasanov, and Alexey Lastovetsky P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013)

9. P2S2 2012 Journal Special Issue (with Journal of Parallel Computing: ParCo) • Special Issue on “Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software” • Editors: Yong Chen, PavanBalaji, and Abhinav Vishnu • By-invitation only special issue for P2S2 2012 accepted papers • All 15 accepted papers were invited • 12 papers were submitted, 9 were accepted • Paper notifications are out; still waiting for the special issue to be published • Will be published in the issue 12 of this year, volume 39 • Expected publishing date: Dec. 2013 (online) and ?? (printed) P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013)

10. P2S2 2013 Journal Special Issue (with Journal of Supercomputing: JoS) • Special Issue: “Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software” • Editors: Abhinav Vishnu, Pavan Balaji, and Yong Chen • By-invitation only for P2S2 2013 accepted papers • All 11 accepted papers were invited; 6papers were submitted • Review process is ongoing • Journal requirements on acceptance: • Needs to have 30% additional material • New results, more analysis, etc., are OK for the additional material • No strict plan for the number of accepted papers • We have 6 slots for journal papers, so we could accept all papers • We are internally planning to notify authors by Dec., 2013 • But journal reviews are often delayed, so bear with us if we are late • Target date for special issue publication Mar., 2014 P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013)

11. Plans for the Seventh P2S2 Workshop, 2014 • Approved for continuing to be associated with ICPP 2014, Minneapolis, MN • Special issue with the Journal of Parallel Computing (PARCO) Please Get Involved ! Paper submissions Workshop attendance Advertising P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013)

12. P2S2 2013 Keynote • An Overview of Fault-Tolerant Techniques for High Performance Computing • Prof. Yves Robert • ENS Lyon InstitutUniversitaire de France P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013)