Advance Program

Friday, March 30, 2007

8:15~8:30 Welcome and Workshop Introduction

8:30~9:30 Keynote Speech

From Stochastic Modelling to Performance Engineering

Prof. Peter Harrison (Imperial College London, UK)

9:30-10:15 Session 1 (Chair: Xiaolong Jin, University of Bradford, UK)

Average-Case Performance Analysis of Online Non-Clairvoyant Scheduling of Parallel Tasks with Precedence Constraints

K. Li (State University of New York at New Paltz, USA)

A Probabilistic Approach to Measuring Robustness in Computing Systems

B. Eslamnour, S. Ali (University of Missouri-Rolla, USA)

10:30-12:10 Session 2 (Chair: Nancy Tran, University of North Carolina, USA)

Dynamic Load Balancing of Unbalanced Computations using Message Passing

J. Dinan (Ohio State University, USA), S. Olivier (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA), G. Sabin (Ohio State University, USA), J. Prins (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA), P. Sadayappan (Ohio State University, USA), C.-W. Tseng (University of Maryland at College Park, USA)

Software Tools for Performance Modeling of Parallel Programs

D.R. Martinez (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), V. Blanco (La Laguna University, Spain), M. Boullon (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), J.C. Cabaleiro (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain), C. Rodriguez (La Laguna University, Spain), F.F. Rivera (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

Predicting the Effect on Performance of Container-Managed Persistence in a Distributed Enterprise Application

D.A. Bacigalupo (University of Warwick, UK), J.W.J. Xue (University of Warwick, UK), S.A. Jarvis (University of Warwick, UK), D.N. Dillenberger (IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre, USA), G.R. Nudd(University of Warwick, UK)

Experimental Evaluation of Emerging Multi-core Architectures

A. Kayi, Y. Yao, T. El-Ghazawi (George Washington University), G. Newby (Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, USA)

Optimization and Evaluation of Parallel I/O in BIPS3D Parallel Irregular Application

R. Filgueira, D. Singh, F. Isaila, J. Carretero (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain), A.J. Garcia-Loureiro (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

1:30-3:10 Session 3 (Chair: Ajay K. Katangur, Texas A&M University, USA)

Modeling of NAMD’s Network Input/Output on Large PC Clusters

N. Tran, D.A. Reed (University of North Carolina, USA)

A Model and Prototype of a Resource-Efficient Storage Server for High-Bitrate Video-on-Demand

Y.R. Choe, C. Douglas, V.S. Pai (Purdue University, USA)

Loss Probability of LRD and SRD Traffic in Generalized Processor Sharing Systems

X. Jin, G. Min (University of Bradford, UK)

An Adaptive Fault Identification Protocol for an Emergency/Rescue-Based Wireless and Mobile Ad-Hoc Network

M. Elhadef, A. Boukerche, H. Elkadiki (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Distributed Broadcast Scheduling in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Unknown Topologies

G. Tan and S.A. Jarvis (University of Warwick, UK)

3:30~ 5:25 Session 4 (Chair: Tao Xie, San Diego State University, USA)

A Design and Analysis of a Hybrid Multicast Transport Protocol for the Haptic Virtual Reality Tracheotomy Tele-Surgery Application

A. Boukerche, H. Maamar, A. Hossain (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Low-Overhead LogGP Parameter Assessment for Modern Interconnection Networks

T. Hoefler (Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany, and Indiana University, USA), A. Lichei, W. Rehm (Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany)

Performance Modelling of Necklace Hypercubes

S. Meraji, H. Sarbazi-Azad, A. Patoghy (Sharif University of Technology, and IPM School of Computer Science, Iran)

Performance Evaluation of a Load Self-Balancing Method for Heterogeneous Metadata Server Cluster Using Trace-Driven and Synthetic Workload Simulation

B. Cai, C. Xie, G. Zhu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)

Evaluating the Performance of Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Routing

F. Safaei (IPM School of Computer Science, and University of Science and Technology, Iran), A. Khonsari (University of Tehran, and IPM School of Computer Science, Iran), M. Fathy (University of Science and Technology, Iran), A. H. Shantia (IPM School of Computer Science, Iran), M. Ould-Khaoua (University of Glasgow, UK)

Message Routing and Scheduling in Optical Multistage Networks using Bayesian Inference method on AI algorithms

A.K. Katangur (Texas A&M University, USA), S. Akkaladevi (Virginia State University, USA)

5:30 Close

Please note that all presentations are scheduled for 20 minutes, including 5 minutes of Q&A time.