International Workshop on
Scalable Tools for High-End Computing
STHEC 2008
To be held in conjunction with the
International Conference on
Supercomputing (ICS 2008) at the Greek Island Kos
Saturday, June 7th 2008
Current and future high-end parallel systems will consist of hundreds of thousands of compute cores arranged in a complex hierarchical structure. Current systems, such as the Altix 4700, Blue Gene, Roadrunner, and Cray XT4, deploy multiple compute cores (homogeneous or heterogeneous) with multiple levels of shared and private caches within a processor, clustered into SMP nodes and coupled via a communication network to large scale distributed systems. The development of efficient programs is extremely complex since all the architectural details are exposed to the programmer. Productive use of such machines requires highly scalable programming tools for debugging, performance analysis, and fault tolerance. In addition, new programming models might significantly facilitate the task of the programmer.
Publication of Special Issue
Authors of accepted papers are invited to submit extended versions for inclusion in the Special Issue of Concurrency&Computation: Practice and Experience on Scalable Tools for High-End Computing.
Instruction for authors
We accept for the special issue original contributions of up to 15 pages in C&C format. You can find latex templates at the journal web page. Please submit your paper via the submission system of Whiley. At the end of the submission process you specify the special issue "Scalable Tools for High-End Computing".
| July 31st | Submission of final version for C&C special issue |
Program
| Session 1: 10:00-11:30 |
CPPC: A compiler–assisted tool for portable checkpointing of message-passing applicationGabriel Rodriguez, Maria J. Martin, Patricia Gonzalez, Juan Tourino, Ramon Doallo CORDAGE: Towards Transparent Management of Interactions Between Applications and ResourcesLoic Cudennec, Gabriel Antoniu |
| Lunch break | |
| Session 2: 14:00-15:30 |
A Framework for Scalable, Parallel Performance Monitoring using TAU and MRNetAroon Nataraj, Allen D. Malony, Alan Morris An Open Infrastructure for Scalable, Reconfigurable AnalysisBronis R. de Supinski, Rob Fowler, Todd Gamblin, Frank Mueller, Prasun Ratn, Martin Schulz |
| Coffee Break | |
| Session 3: 16:00 - 18:15 |
The SCALASCA performance toolset architectureMarkus Geimer, Felix Wolf, Brian J.N. Wylie, Erika Abraham, Daniel Becker. Bernd Mohr A Framework for Automatic Performance AnalysisLuiz DeRose, Heidi Proxon, Hans Zima Automatic Performance Analysis with PeriscopeMichael Gerndt, Michael Ott |
Topics of Interest
The workshop focuses on the following topics but also submissions for other topics fitting into the overall workshop topic are welcome:
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Performance analysis tools |
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Debuggers |
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Fault tolerance |
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Programming models and interfaces |
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Compilers |
We encourage groups to submit papers giving an overview of tool projects, presenting results and experiences with using tools on High-End Systems, as well as new techniques for improving tool scalability.
Organizers
| Michael Gerndt, TU München |
| Jesus Labarta, Barcelona Supercomputing Center |
| Barton Miller, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Program Committee
| Jeff Hollingsworth, University of Maryland |
| David Klepacki, IBM |
| Chuck Koelbel, Rice University |
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Bernd Mohr, Jülich Supercomputing Centre |
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Luiz De Rose, Cray Inc. |
| Phil Roth, Oak Ridge national Laboratory |
| John DelSignore, Totalview |
| Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Lab |
| Jeff Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |