Presentations

Monday, June 15th
Session 1: Room 1101

Xiaojing Liu, Ian Hamilton, Robert Krawczyk, Peter Schwerdtfeger, "Quantum Calculations for Gold Nanoclusters", Wilfrid Laurier University. See presentation here.

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. See presentation here.

Nicholas Mosey, "Extending the Time-Scales Accessible Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Reactions", Queen"s University

Xiaogang Wang and Tucker Carrington Jr., "A parallel algorithm for computing the spectrum of CH5+", Queen"s University. See presentation here.

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

Emmanuel Penka Fowe, André Dieter Bandrauk, "Imaging Molecular Orbitals by Time Dependent Density Functional Theory for Intense Laser Pulses", Université de Sherbrooke

Tony Whitehead, "Classical Mechanical Methods for calculating Molecular Structure and Quantum Mechanical methods for calculating Molecular Electronic Properties", McGill University

Session 2: Room 1102

Clinton Groth, "A Terascale-Class Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement Computational Framework for Predicting Multi-Scale Physically-complex flows", University of Toronto

Jonathan Sievers, ACT Collaboration, "Mapping the Birth of the Universe with ACT and SciNet", Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics

Dustin Bespalko, Andrew Pollard, Mesbah Uddin, "Direct Numerical Simulation of Fully-Developed Turbulent Channel Flow Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method", Queen's University. See presentation here.

Xiaohua Wu, Lu Ting Li, Matthew St.Hilaire, "Migration of a turbulent patch through a high-pressure turbine cascade", Royal Military College of Canada

M.G. Doyle, S. Tavoularis, Y. Bourgault, "Application of parallel processing to the simulation of heart mechanics", University of Ottawa

Waad Subber, Abhijit Sarkar, "Domain Decomposition Of Stochastic PDEs: A Novel Preconditioner and Its Parallel Performance", Carleton University

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

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. See presentation here.

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

Nithin Nakka, Alok Choudhary, "Failure data-driven selective node-level duplication to improve MTTF in High Performance Computing Systems", Northwestern University. See presentation here.

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. See presentation here.

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 16th
Session 1: Room 1101

Edward Sykes, "Visualization of the Interruptible Moment", Sheridan College

Denise Ferreira, Mario Dantas, Jinhui Quin, Michael A. Bauer, "Dynamic Resource Matching for Multi-Clusters Based on an Ontology-Fuzzy. See presentation here.

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

Hossein Pourreza, Ani Gole, Shaahin Filizadeh, Peter Graham, "Parallelizing Power Systems Simulation for Multi-Core Clusters", University of Manitoba

Marc Moreno Maza and Yuzhen Xie, "FFT-based Multivariate Polynomial Multiplication on Multi-cores", MIT

Alexander Reinefeld, Thorsten Schuett, "Out-of-Core Parallel Heuristic Search with MapReduce", Zuse Institute Berlin

Oliver Fortmeier, H. Martin Bücker, "A Hybrid Parallel Algorithm for Transforming Finite Element Functions from Adaptive to Cartesian Grids", RWTH Aachen University. See presentation here.

Session 2: Room 1102 <>Daniel Garden, Boris S. Zhorov, "In-silico High-Throughput Drug Docking", McMaster University

Timothy Lillicrap, Stephen Scott, "Computing network based control solutions to understand neuron preference in primary motor cortex", Queen's University

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

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

David Williamson, "Galaxy Formation " a detailed examination of cloud-cloud interactions", St Mary's University. See presentation here.

Dongil Chang, Stavros Tavoularis, "Parallel Computations of Unsteady Three-Dimensional Flows in High Pressure Turbines, University of Ottawa

Edward Sykes, Wesley Skoczen, "A Parallel Implementation of Rainbowcrack Using MPI", Sheridan College

Session 3: Room 1103

Graham Mowbray, Greg Lukeman, "Can HPC and Administrative Computing Co-exist", Memorial University. See presentation here.

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

Mark Staveley, Raymond Poirier, Sharene Bungay, "An Evaluation of Parallel Numerical Hessian Calculations", Memorial University See presentation here.

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. See presentation here.

Christian Terboven, Dieter an Mey, Paul Kapinos, Christopher Schleiden, Igor Merkulow, "Object-Oriented OpenMP Programming with C++ and Fortran", RWTH Aachen UniversitySee presentation here.

Wednesday, June 17th
Session 1: Room 1101

Leslie Groer, "High Energy Physics Computing on the Grid: Atlas Computing and the Consortia", University of Toronto/SciNet

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

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

Scott Rostrup, Hans De Sterck, "Hyperbolic Equations on the Cell BE Processor and Nvidia GPUs", University of Waterloo