Program

The slides for some of the Presentations are now available online here.

SUNDAY, June 14^th

2:00pm      Exhibit area available for setup and on-site registration opens

2:00pm      TECC Meetings (Private)

6:00pm      Welcome Reception - Sponsored by Microsoft (Atrium)

MONDAY, June 15^th

7:30am      Exhibition setup

8:00am      Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:30am      Welcome Address

Mayor Harvey Rosen, John Gerretsen, M.P.P. Kingston and The Islands, and Principal Tom Williams

8:45am     Keynote: Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun Microsystems and Arista, The Road from PetaFLop To ExaFLop: Exploring how technology roadmaps over the next ten years will enable to build a sustained ExaFlop computer by 2020.

9:30am      Sessions

10:30am     Break

10:50am     Keynote: Russ Boyd, Alexander McLeod Professor of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Computational Chemistry: History, Grand Challenges and Opportunities

11:30am     Sessions

12:40pm      Sponsored Lunch by Sun Microsystems (Wallace Hall), Speaker: Giri Chukkapalli

2:00pm      Keynote: André Bandrauck, Canada Research Chair, Computational Chemistry & Molecular Photonics, University of Sherbrooke, "MAST - Molecular Attosecond Simulations and Theory"

2:45pm      Sessions

4:20pm      Poster sessions, (See Poster Session Here.)

5:30pm      Day ends

7:00pm      1000 Islands Boat Cruise & Reception, sponsored by Sun Microsystems

Session 1: Room 1101

9:30am      Xiaojing Liu, Ian Hamilton, Robert Krawczyk, Peter Schwerdtfeger, “Quantum Calculations for Gold Nanoclusters”, Wilfrid Laurier University

10:00pm     Shihao Wang, Natalie M. Cann, “Application of high performance computing to the implementation of a polarizable and flexible ethanol model in molecular dynamics simulations”, Queen’s University

11:30am     Nicholas Mosey, “Extending the Time-Scales Accessible Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Reactions”, Queen’s University

12:00pm     Xiaogang Wang and Tucker Carrington Jr., “A parallel algorithm for computing the spectrum of CH5+”, Queen’s University

2:45pm      Anita Chan, Michael Groves, Cecile Malardier-Jugroot, “Conformational Analysis of Alternating Copolymers: The Association of Poly (Isobutylene-Alt-Maleic Anhydride) into Nanoarchitectures”, Royal Military College of Canada

3:15pm      Emmanuel Penka Fowe, André Dieter Bandrauk, “Imaging Molecular Orbitals by Time Dependent Density Functional Theory for Intense Laser Pulses”, Université de Sherbrooke

3:45pm      Tony Whitehead, “Classical Mechanical Methods for calculating Molecular Structure and Quantum Mechanical methods for calculating Molecular Electronic Properties”, McGill University

Session 2: Room 1102

9:30am      Clinton Groth, “A Terascale-Class Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement Computational Framework for Predicting Multi-Scale Physically-complex flows”, University of Toronto

10:00am      Jonathan Sievers, ACT Collaboration, “Mapping the Birth of the Universe with ACT and SciNet”, Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics

11:30am     Dustin Bespalko, Andrew Pollard, Mesbah Uddin, “Direct Numerical Simulation of Fully-Developed Turbulent Channel Flow Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method”, Queen's University

12:00pm     Xiaohua Wu, Lu Ting Li, Matthew St.Hilaire, “Migration of a turbulent patch through a high-pressure turbine cascade”, Royal Military College of Canada

2:45pm      M.G. Doyle, S. Tavoularis, Y. Bourgault, “Application of parallel processing to the simulation of heart mechanics”, University of Ottawa

3:15pm      Waad Subber, Abhijit Sarkar, “Domain Decomposition Of Stochastic PDEs: A Novel Preconditioner and Its Parallel Performance”, Carleton University

3:45pm      Christian Iwainsky, Samuel Sarholz, Dieter an Mey, Dirk Schmiedl, Ralph Altenfeld, “Leveraging Multicore Cluster Nodes by adding OpenMP to Flow Solvers parallelized with MPI”, RWTH Aachen University

Session 3: Room 1103

9:30am      Douglas D. J. de Macedo, Thiago Coelho, Eros Comunello, M.A.R. Dantas, Michael A Bauer, “A Study Comparison of Store and Retrieve of DICOM Images using High Performance Data Format”, Federal University of Santa Catarina

10:00am     Chengxiang Si, Xingyu Shi, Xiaoxuan Meng, Jingliang Zhang, Junwei Zhang, Lu Xu, “An Inexpensive, Effective and Reliable cache solution in a SAN File System”, Chinese Academy of Science

11:30am      Nithin Nakka, Alok Choudhary, “Failure data-driven selective node-level duplication to improve MTTF in High Performance Computing Systems”, Northwestern University

12:00pm     Cristiano C. Rocha, Denise Ferreira, Matheus A. Viera, M.A.R. Dantas, Michael A Bauer, “GRID-GMS: An Architecture for Dynamic Resource Selection”, Federal University of Santa Catarina

2:45pm      Chen Zhang, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Hans De Sterck, Haig Djambazian, Rob Sladek, “Case Study of Scientific Data Processing on a Cloud Using Hadoop”, University of Waterloo

TUESDAY, June 16^th

8:00am      Continental Breakfast (Atrium)

8:45am      Keynote: Wolfgang Gentzsch, DEISA Project: "The European e-Infrastructure DEISA for e-Science Grand Challenges"

9:30am      Sessions

10:30am     Break

10:50am     Keynote: Cynthia McIntyre, Sr. V.P. USA Council on Competitiveness

11:30am      Sessions

12:40pm     Sponsored Lunch by IBM (Wallace Hall), Speaker: Dave Turek

2:00pm      CPAC-Compute Canada Community Forum (Public)

2:45pm      Sessions

2:45pm      Compute Canada NIC/Consortia Management Meeting (Private)

4:20pm      Poster sessions, (See Poster Session Here.)

5:30pm      Day ends

7:00pm      Fort Henry Banquet, sponsored by IBM

Session 1: Room 1101

9:30am      Edward Sykes, “Visualization of the Interruptible Moment”, Sheridan College

10:00am     Denise Ferreira, Mario Dantas, Jinhui Quin, Michael A. Bauer, “Dynamic Resource Matching for Multi-Clusters Based on an Ontology-Fuzzy

11:30am     Ashok Agarwal, Patrick Armstrong, Andre Charbonneau, Hao Chen, Ronald J. Desmarais, Ian Gable, David Goodenough, Aimin Guan, Roger Impey, Belaid Moa, Wayne Podaima, Randall Sobie, “Service Oriented Scientific Computing Grid For SAFORAH”, NRC

12:00pm     Hossein Pourreza, Ani Gole, Shaahin Filizadeh, Peter Graham, “Parallelizing Power Systems Simulation for Multi-Core Clusters”, University of Manitoba

2:45pm      Marc Moreno Maza and Yuzhen Xie, “FFT-based Multivariate Polynomial Multiplication on Multi-cores”, MIT

3:15pm      Alexander Reinefeld, Thorsten Schuett, “Out-of-Core Parallel Heuristic Search with MapReduce”, Zuse Institute Berlin

3:45pm      Oliver Fortmeier, H. Martin Bücker, “A Hybrid Parallel Algorithm for Transforming Finite Element Functions from Adaptive to Cartesian Grids”, RWTH Aachen University

Session 2: Room 1102

9:30am      Daniel Garden, Boris S. Zhorov, “In-silico High-Throughput Drug Docking”, McMaster University

10:00am     Timothy Lillicrap, Stephen Scott, “Computing network based control solutions to understand neuron preference in primary motor cortex”, Queen's University

11:30am     Paulo A S Nuin, Ken E Edgecombe, Kenneth R Evans, Terrence L Sills, Moyez Dharsee, "A High Performance Bioinformatics Platform for Proteomics, Genomics, and Clinical Research", Ontario Cancer Biomark Network

12:00pm     Brent Wathen, Zongchao Jia, Virginia Walker, “Modeling the interactions between poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone) and gas hydrates: factors involved in suppressing and accelerating hydrate growth”, Queen’s University

2:45pm      David Williamson, “Galaxy Formation – a detailed examination of cloud-cloud interactions”, St Mary's University

3:15pm      Dongil Chang, Stavros Tavoularis, “Parallel Computations of Unsteady Three-Dimensional Flows in High Pressure Turbines, University of Ottawa

3:45pm      Edward Sykes, Wesley Skoczen, “A Parallel Implementation of Rainbowcrack Using MPI”, Sheridan College

Session 3: Room 1103

9:30am      Graham Mowbray, Greg Lukeman, “Can HPC and Administrative Computing Co-exist”, Memorial University

11:30am     Geoffroy Vallee, Thomas Naughton, Anand Tikotekar, Stephen L. Scott, Christine Morin, Jerome Gallard, “Architecture for the Next Generation System Management Tools for High Performance Computing Platforms”, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

2:45pm      Mark Staveley, Raymond Poirier, Sharene Bungay, “An Evaluation of Parallel Numerical Hessian Calculations”, Memorial University

3:15pm      Diogo Viegas, R.P. Mendonça, Mario Dantas, Michael Bauer, “SCTP, XTP and TCP as Transport Protocols for High Performance Computing on Multi-Cluster Grid Environments”, UFSC

3:45pm      Christian Terboven, Dieter an Mey, Paul Kapinos, Christopher Schleiden, Igor Merkulow, “Object-Oriented OpenMP Programming with C++ and Fortran”, RWTH Aachen University

WEDNESDAY, June 17^th

8:00am      Continental Breakfast (Atrium)
8:45am      Keynote: Tony Noble, Director of SNOlab

9:30am      Sessions

10:30am     Break

10:50am     Keynote: Suzanne Fortier, President, National Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada

11:30am     Compute Canada National Platform updates (Room 1101)

12:40pm     Sponsored Lunch by Dell (Wallace Hall), Speaker: Jeff Layton

Symposium Closing remarks (Wallace Hall)

2:00pm      Workshops from 2:00pm to 5:00pm:

A: Ruud van der Pas, Sun Microsystems; Dieter an Mey and Christian Terboven, RWTH Aachen University. Using OpenMP 3.0 for Parallel Programming on Multicore Systems

B: Thomas Nau, University of Ulm. HPC Meets Dtrace: A Getting Started Tutorial for Dtrace Newbies

2:00pm CFI Update Meeting (Private), Room 1102

Session 1: Room 1101

9:30am      Leslie Groer, “High Energy Physics Computing on the Grid: Atlas Computing and the Consortia”, University of Toronto/SciNet

10:00am     G. Demand, J. Cheung, Kevin Robbie, “Modeling fractal materials fabricated through atomic vapour condensation”, Queen's University

Session 2: Room 1102

9:30am      Jeffery Layton, “IO Pattern Characterization of HPC Applications”, Dell

Session 3: Room 1103

9:30am      Nasim Muhammad, Hermann Eberl, “OpenMP Parallelization of a Mickens Time-Integration Scheme For a Mixed-Culture Biofilm Model and its Performance on Multi-core and Multi-processor Computers”, University of Guelph

10:00am     Scott Rostrup, Hans De Sterck, “Hyperbolic Equations on the Cell BE Processor and Nvidia GPUs”, University of Waterloo

THURSDAY, June 18^th

9:00am Workshops from 9:00am to 12:00pm:

A: Ruud van der Pas, Sun Microsystems; Dieter an Mey and Christian Terboven, RWTH Aachen University. Using OpenMP 3.0 for Parallel Programming on Multicore Systems

C: William Gardner, John Carter and Gary Grewal, University of Guelph. Using the Pilot Library: A Fresh Alternative to MPI for HPC Clusters

D: Jeremy Walton, Numerical Algorithms Group. Using the NAG Numerical Libraries on Multicore Sytems

12:00pm     Lunch

1:00 pm Workshops from 1:00pm to 4:00pm:

A: Ruud van der Pas, Sun Microsystems; Dieter an Mey and Christian Terboven, RWTH Aachen University. Using OpenMP 3.0 for Parallel Programming on Multicore Systems

D: Jeremy Walton, Numerical Algorithms Group. Using the NAG Numerical Libraries on Multicore Sytems

6:00pm      Reception

FRIDAY, June 19^th

9:00am Workshops from 9:00am to 12:00pm

F: Christian Terboven, RWTH Aachen University. Parallel Programming in Visual Studio 2008 on Windows HPC Server 2008

G: Sarah Zaranek, Mathworks Inc. Solving Larger Problems with MATLAB: A parallel computing with MATLAB Hands-on Workshop