Welcome to Pittsburgh, and P2S2 2012

1. Welcome to Pittsburgh,and P2S2 2012 PavanBalaji Yong Chen Abhinav Vishnu

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

3. P2S2 2012 Statistics • 25 paper submissions • Each paper received at least 4 reviews • PC Meeting in Mid May for paper decisions • 15 papers were accepted (60% acceptance rate) • 23 PC Members • Many thanks for their hard work and diligent reviews! • Thanks to Qichang for undertaking the publicity/web chair role! • Thanks to Bill and Vijay for guiding us through the process of coordinating the workshop P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/10/2012)

4. 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 • Reviews are in progress • Journal requirements on acceptance: • Needs to have 30% additional material (cannot be the exact same as the workshop submission) • New results, more analysis, etc., are OK for the additional material • No strict plan for the number of accepted papers • Initial negotiation with the journal gave us 8-10 slots, but can renegotiated depending on the number of papers that meet the journal requirements • We are internally planning to notify authors by Nov. 20th, 2012 • But journal reviews are often delayed, so bear with us if we are late • Target date for special issue publication Mar. 20th, 2013

5. P2S2 2012 Logistics • Four sessions: • Three sessions for regular technical paper presentations • One session for invited panel discussion – “Battle of the Accelerator Stars” • 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 (09/10/2012)

6. P2S2-2012 Sessions • Session 1: Programming Models and Performance • Time: 8:20am - 10:00am • Session Chair: TaisukeBoku, University of Tsukuba • "When and how VOTM can improve performance in contention situations", Kai-Cheung Leung, Yawen Chen and Zhiyi Huang • "Enhancing MapReduce using MPI and an optimized data exchange policy", Hisham Mohamed and StéphaneMarchand-Maillet • "ALCF MPI Benchmarks: Understanding Machine-Specific Communication Behavior", VitaliMorozov, JiayuanMeng, VenkatramVishwanath, Jeff Hammond, KalyanKumaran and Michael Papka • "On-the-Fly Synchronization Checking for Interactive Programming in XcalableMP", Tatsuya Abe and Mitsuhisa Sato P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/10/2012)

7. P2S2-2012 Sessions (cont.) • Session 2: Runtime and Storage Systems • Time: 10:20am - 12:30pm • Session Chair: Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago • "Chunked Extendible Dense Arrays for Scientific Data Storage", Gideon Nimako, EkowOtoo and Daniel Ohene-Kwofie • "An Analysis of SMP Memory Allocators: MapReduce on Large Shared-Memory Systems", Robert Döbbelin, Thorsten Schuett and Alexander Reinefeld • "A peer-to-peer architecture for supporting dynamic shared libraries in large-scale systems", Matthew G. F. Dosanjh, Patrick G. Bridges, Suzanne M. Kelly and James H. Laros III • "SWAMP+: Enhanced Smith-Waterman Search for Parallel Models", Shannon Steinfadt • "An Out-Of-Core Dataflow Middleware to Reduce the Cost of Large Scale Iterative Solvers", Zheng Zhou, Erik Saule , HasanMetinAktulga, Chao Yang, Esmond G. Ng, Pieter Maris, James P. Vary and Umit V. Catalyurek P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/10/2012)

8. P2S2-2012 Sessions (cont.) • Session 3: Panel: Battle of the Accelerator Stars • Time: 1:30pm - 3:00pm • Panel Moderator: Yong Chen, Texas Tech University • Panelists: • PavanBalaji, Argonne National Laboratory • TaisukeBoku, University of Tsukuba, Japan • VolodymyrKindratenko, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • XipengShen, College of William and Mary and MIT • Kyle Spafford, Oak Ridge National Laboratory P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/10/2012)

9. P2S2-2012 Sessions (cont.) • Session 4: Accelerated Computing and Scheduling • Time: 3:20pm - 5:50pm • Session Chair: Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory • "Effective Kernel Mapping for OpenCL Applications in Heterogeneous Platforms", Omer ErdilAlbayrak, Ismail Akturk and OzcanOzturk • "Lost in Translation: Challenges in Automating CUDA-to-OpenCL Translation", Paul Sathre, Wu-Chun Feng and Mark Gardner • "GPU/CPU Work Sharing with Parallel Language XcalableMP-dev for Accelerated Computing", Tetsuya Odajima, TaisukeBoku, Toshihiro Hanawa, Jinpil Lee and Mitsuhisa Sato • "Adaptive Metric-Aware Job Scheduling for Production Supercomputers", Wei Tang, DongxuRen, ZhilingLan and Narayan Desai • "A Comprehensive Performance Comparison of OpenCL and OpenMP for Multi-core CPUs", JieShen, Jianbin Fang, Henk Sips and Ana Lucia Varbanescu • "Cross-Platform OpenCL Code and Performance Portability for CPU and GPU Architectures Investigated with a Climate and Weather Physics Model", Han Dong, DibyajyotiGhosh, FahadZafar and Shujia Zhou P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/10/2012)

10. Plans for P2S2 2013 • Approved for continuing to be associated with ICPP 2013, Lyon, France • Like this year, we again plan to have special issue with a journal • We are working with Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) – confirmation awaited Please Get Involved ! Paper submissions Workshop attendance Advertising P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/10/2012)