SC 2006: Tampa, FL, USA
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE SC2006 Conference on High Performance Networking and Computing, November 11-17, 2006, Tampa, FL, USA. ACM Press 2006 ISBN 0-7695-2700-0
Raymond Kurzweil: Keynote Speech: Raymond Kurzweil. 0
Birds of a feather
Robert Armstrong: Compframe - Compframe: developement of component frameworks for high performance computing. 1
Dimitra Simeonidou, Gigi Karmous-Edwards: Heterogeneuos optical - GHPN/GLIF: delivery of network services across heterogeneous optical domains. 3


Zarka Cvetanovic: Performance tools - Performance tools for large-scale clusters. 7
Garrick Staples: TORQUE - TORQUE resource manager. 8


Shawn Hansen, Ted Wilcox, Dan Stanzione: InfiniBand routing - InfiniBand routing and switching: improving fabric scalability, distance, and fault isolation. 12
Thom H. Dunning, Francine Berman, John R. Boisseau: Pathway to petascale - The pathway to petascale science. 15
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Thomas Soddemann: Science gateway - Science gateway, portal and other community interfaces to high end resources. 16
Kumaran Kalyanasundaram: SPEC HPG - SPEC HPG benchmarks. 17
Erich Strohmaier: TOP500 - TOP500 supercomputer. 18
Grant Miller: Approaching petascale - Approaching petascale computing. 19
Heidi L. Alvarez, Julio Ibarra: CyberBridges - CyberBridges: a model collaboration infrastructure for e-science. 20
Wilfried Oed: Extreme applications - Extreme application scalability. 22
Shawn Hansen, Sujal Das: Fabric-agnostic RDMA - Fabric-agnostic RDMA with OpenFabrics enterprise distribution: promises, challenges, and future direction. 23
Allen D. Malony, Wolfgang E. Nagel: Open trace - The open trace format (OTF) and open tracing for HPC. 24
Mark I. Parsons, Francis W. Wray: Programming FPGAs - Programming FPGAs: challenges and successes. 25

Michael Humphrey: Altair's PBS - Altair's PBS professional update. 28
Rick Friedman: Best practices - Best practices in cluster management. 29
Robert J. Fowler, Allan Snavely, Daniel A. Reed: Evaluating petascale - Evaluating petascale infrastructure systems: benchmarks, models, and applications. 31
Christopher D. Maestas: Monitoring trix - Monitoring trix. 32
Gilad Shainer: Multi-core usage - Multi-core clusters usage model. 33

Glenn Lupton: Visualization - Visualization using Linux clusters. 36
Ronald W. Green: Beyond MPI - Beyond MPI: community experience with emerging parallel languages. 38
Arthur B. Maccabe: FAST-OS - FAST-OS: forum to address scalable technology for runtime and operating systems. 39
Hakon O. Bugge: High availability MPIs - Exploring the importance of high availability MPIs. 40
Troy Benjegerdes: InfiniBand & OpenFabrics - InfiniBand and OpenFabrics at SC06. 41
Laura F. McGinnis: Internships & mentoring - Internships and mentoring in high performance computing environments. 42

Gordon Bell
François Gygi, Erik W. Draeger, Martin Schulz, Bronis R. de Supinski, John A. Gunnels, Vernon Austel, James C. Sexton, Franz Franchetti, Stefan Kral, Christoph W. Ueberhuber, Juergen Lorenz: Gordon Bell finalists I - Large-scale electronic structure calculations of high-Z metals on the BlueGene/L platform. 45
Hiroshi Akiba, Tomonobu Ohyama, Yoshinoir Shibata, Kiyoshi Yuyama, Yoshikazu Katai, Ryuichi Takeuchi, Takeshi Hoshino, Shinobu Yoshimura, Hirohisa Noguchi, Manish Gupta, John A. Gunnels, Vernon Austel, Yogish Sabharwal, Rahul Garg, Shoji Kato, Takashi Kawakami, Satoru Todokoro, Junko Ikeda: Gordon Bell finalists I - Large scale drop impact analysis of mobile phone using ADVC on Blue Gene/L. 46
Susumu Yamada, Toshiyuki Imamura, Takuma Kano, Masahiko Machida: Gordon Bell finalists I - High-performance computing for exact numerical approaches to quantum many-body problems on the earth simulator. 47
Atsushi Kawai, Toshiyuki Fukushige: Gordon Bell finalists II - $158/GFLOPS astrophysical N-body simulation with reconfigurable add-in card and hierarchical tree algorithm. 48
Tetsu Narumi, Yousuke Ohno, Noriaki Okimoto, Takahiro Koishi, Atsushi Suenaga, Noriyuki Futatsugi, Ryoko Yanai, Ryutaro Himeno, Shigenori Fujikawa, Makoto Taiji, Mitsuru Ikei: Gordon Bell finalists II - A 55 TFLOPS simulation of amyloid-forming peptides from yeast prion Sup35 with the special-purpose computer system MDGRAPE-3. 49
Pavlos Vranas, Gyan Bhanot, Matthias A. Blumrich, Dong Chen, Alan Gara, Philip Heidelberger, Valentina Salapura, James C. Sexton: Gordon Bell finalists II - The BlueGene/L supercomputer and quantum ChromoDynamics. 50
Masterworks
Michael L. Norman: Astrophysics - The cosmic simulator. 51
Anthony Mezzacappa: Astrophysics - Understanding our cosmic origin through petascale computing. 52
Henry Markram: Biology - The blue brain project. 53
Neo D. Martinez: Biology - Elucidating laws of the unruly jungle with computational approaches to complex ecological networks. 54
Jacqueline Chen: Combustion - Terascale direct numerical simulations of turbulent combustion. 55
Gabriel Staffelbach: Combustion - High performance computing for combustion applications. 56
W. W. Lee: Fusion - Kinetic simulation of fusion plasmas. 57
Donald B. Batchelor: Fusion - High performance computing in magnetic fusion energy research. 58
Harvey Newman: High energy physics - Search for higgs boson diphoton decay with CMS at LHC. 59
Robert D. Ryne: High energy physics - 25 years of accelerator modeling. 60
Robert J. Harrison: Quantum mechanics - Science at the petascale: tools in the toolbox. 61
David J. Dean: Quantum mechanics - Ab initio nuclear structure determination. 62
Thomas C. Schulthess: Materials and nano-science - Toward material-specific simulations of high temperature superconductivity. 63
Jerry Bernholc: Materials and nano-science - Atomic scale design of nanostructures. 64
Rich Oehler: Computer science - architecture - Re-inventing the x86 architecture: quad-core and beyond. 65
Thomas L. Sterling: Computer science - architecture - Beyond the beyond and the extremes of computing. 66
Panels
Jeremy Kepner, Bob Lucas, Mootaz Elnozahy, Jim Mitchell, Steve Scott: High productivity - High productivity computing and usable petascale systems. 67
Garth A. Gibson, Steve Kleiman, Spencer Shepler, Harriet Covertson, Peter Honeyman, David Black, Roger L. Haskin, Rob Kelley, Michael Callahan, Sujal Patel, Shmuel Shottan: High performance NFS - High performance NFS: facts and fictions. 68
Leslie S. Perkins, Phil Andrews, Dhabaleswar Panda, Dave Morton, Ron Bonica, Nick Henry Werstiuk, Randy Kreiser: Data intensive computing - Data intensive computing. 69
Gary Tyreman, Mark Linesch, Stephen Wheat, Andre Hill: Grid standards - What's inside the grid? a discussion of standards and the future of computing. 70
Tarek A. El-Ghazawi, Dave Bennett, Daniel S. Poznanovic, Allan Cantle, Keith D. Underwood, Rob Pennington, Duncan A. Buell, Alan George, Volodymyr V. Kindratenko: Reconfigurable supercomputing - Is high-performance reconfigurable computing the next supercomputing paradigm? 71
Francine Berman, Robert Chadduck, William G. LeFurgy, Daniel E. Atkins, Tony Hey: Long term storage - 100 years of digital data. 72
Thomas L. Sterling, Peter M. Kogge, William J. Dally, Steve Scott, William Gropp, David E. Keyes, Peter H. Beckman: Multi-core issues - Multi-Core for HPC: breakthrough or breakdown? 73
Technical papers
Adolfy Hoisie, Greg Johnson, Darren J. Kerbyson, Michael Lang, Scott Pakin: Architecture - A performance comparison through benchmarking and modeling of three leading supercomputers: blue Gene/L, Red Storm, and Purple. 74
Xizhou Feng, Kirk W. Cameron, Duncan A. Buell: Biology - PBPI: a high performance implementation of Bayesian phylogenetic inference. 75
Nikos Chrisochoides, Andriy Fedorov, Andriy Kot, Neculai Archip, Peter M. Black, Olivier Clatz, Alexandra Golby, Ron Kikinis, Simon K. Warfield: Imaging and visual analysis - Toward real-time image guided neurosurgery using distributed and grid computing. 76
Christophe Lemuet, Jack Sampson, Jean-Francois Collard, Norman P. Jouppi: Architecture - The potential energy efficiency of vector acceleration. 77
Guangming Tan, Shengzhong Feng, Ninghui Sun: Biology - Locality and parallelism optimization for dynamic programming algorithm in bioinformatics. 78
Vijay S. Kumar, Benjamin Rutt, Tahsin M. Kurç, Ümit V. Çatalyürek, Joel H. Saltz, Sunny K. Chow, Stephan Lamont, Maryann E. Martone: Imaging and visual analysis - Large image correction and warping in a cluster environment. 79
Jung Ho Ahn, Mattan Erez, William J. Dally: Architecture - The design space of data-parallel memory systems. 80
Emre H. Brookes, Rajendra V. Boppana, Borries Demeler: Biology - Computing large sparse multivariate optimization problems with an application in biophysics. 81
Kurt Stockinger, E. Wes Bethel, Scott Campbell, Eli Dart, Kesheng Wu: Imaging and visual analysis - Detecting distributed scans using high-performance query-driven visualization. 82
Kayvon Fatahalian, Daniel Reiter Horn, Timothy J. Knight, Larkhoon Leem, Mike Houston, Ji Young Park, Mattan Erez, Manman Ren, Alex Aiken, William J. Dally, Pat Hanrahan: Memory - Sequoia: programming the memory hierarchy. 83
Kevin J. Bowers, Edmond Chow, Huafeng Xu, Ron O. Dror, Michael P. Eastwood, Brent A. Gregersen, John L. Klepeis, István Kolossváry, Mark A. Moraes, Federico D. Sacerdoti, John K. Salmon, Yibing Shan, David E. Shaw: Molecular dynamics - Scalable algorithms for molecular dynamics simulations on commodity clusters. 84
Abhinav Vishnu, Prachi Gupta, Amith R. Mamidala, Dhabaleswar K. Panda: Scalable systems software - A software based approach for providing network fault tolerance in clusters with uDAPL interface: MPI level design and performance evaluation. 85
Pieter Bellens, Josep M. Pérez, Rosa M. Badia, Jesús Labarta: Memory - CellSs: a programming model for the cell BE architecture. 86
Blake G. Fitch, Aleksandr Rayshubskiy, Maria Eleftheriou, T. J. Christopher Ward, Mark Giampapa, Michael Pitman, Robert S. Germain: Molecular dynamics - Blue matter: approaching the limits of concurrency for classical molecular dynamics. 87
Alexander V. Mirgorodskiy, Naoya Maruyama, Barton P. Miller: Scalable systems software - Problem diagnosis in large-scale computing environments. 88
Naga K. Govindaraju, Scott Larsen, Jim Gray, Dinesh Manocha: Memory - A memory model for scientific algorithms on graphics processors. 89
Ronald Scrofano, Viktor K. Prasanna: Molecular dynamics - Preliminary investigation of advanced electrostatics in molecular dynamics on reconfigurable computers. 90
Tiankai Tu, Hongfeng Yu, Leonardo Ramírez-Guzmán, Jacobo Bielak, Omar Ghattas, Kwan-Liu Ma, David R. O'Hallaron: Scalable systems software - From mesh generation to scientific visualization: an end-to-end approach to parallel supercomputing. 91
John Kim, William J. Dally, Dennis Abts: Interconnect routing and scheduling - Adaptive routing in high-radix clos network. 92
Andreas Gerndt, Samuel Sarholz, Marc Wolter, Dieter an Mey, Christian H. Bischof, Torsten Kuhlen: Particles and contiuum - Nested OpenMP for efficient computation of 3D critical points in multi-block CFD datasets. 93
Raymond R. Hoare, Zhu Ding, Alex K. Jones: Interconnect routing and scheduling - A near-optimal real-time hardware scheduler for large cardinality crossbar switches. 94
Robert Rosenberg, Guy Norton, Jorge C. Novarini, Wendell Anderson, Marco Lanzagorta: Particles and contiuum - Modeling pulse propagation and scattering in a dispersive medium: performance of MPI/OpenMP hybrid code. 95
Zhu Ding, Raymond R. Hoare, Alex K. Jones, Rami G. Melhem: Interconnect routing and scheduling - Level-wise scheduling algorithm for fat tree interconnection networks. 96
Hongzhang Shan, Erich Strohmaier, Ji Qiang, David H. Bailey, Katherine A. Yelick: Particles and contiuum - Performance modeling and optimization of a high energy colliding beam simulation code. 97
Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Ümit V. Çatalyürek, Jarek Nieplocha, Atanas Rountev, P. Sadayappan: Data management and query - Hypergraph partitioning for automatic memory hierarchy management. 98
Yang-Suk Kee, Ken Yocum, Andrew A. Chien, Henri Casanova: Grid allocation and reservation - Improving grid resource allocation via integrated selection and binding. 99
Beomseok Nam, Henrique Andrade, Alan Sussman: Data management and query - Multiple range query optimization with distributed cache indexing. 100
Lavanya Ramakrishnan, David E. Irwin, Laura E. Grit, Aydan R. Yumerefendi, Adriana Iamnitchi, Jeffrey S. Chase: Grid allocation and reservation - Toward a doctrine of containment: grid hosting with adaptive resource control. 101
Tanu Malik, Randal C. Burns, Nitesh V. Chawla, Alexander S. Szalay: Data management and query - Estimating query result sizes for proxy caching in scientific database federations. 102
Mumtaz Siddiqui, Alex Villazón, Thomas Fahringer: Grid allocation and reservation - Grid capacity planning with negotiation-based advance reservation for optimized QoS. 103
Mark K. Gardner, Wu-chun Feng, Jeremy S. Archuleta, Heshan Lin, Xiaosong Ma: Grid applications - Parallel genomic sequence-searching on an ad-hoc grid: experiences, lessons learned, and implications. 104
Sayantan Sur, Matthew J. Koop, Dhabaleswar K. Panda: MPI and communication - High-performance and scalable MPI over InfiniBand with reduced memory usage: an in-depth performance analysis. 105
Hiroshi Takemiya, Yoshio Tanaka, Satoshi Sekiguchi, Shuji Ogata, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Priya Vashishta: Grid applications - Sustainable adaptive grid supercomputing: multiscale simulation of semiconductor processing across the pacific. 106
Min Yeol Lim, Vincent W. Freeh, David K. Lowenthal: MPI and communication - Adaptive, transparent frequency and voltage scaling of communication phases in MPI programs. 107
Byungil Jeong, Luc Renambot, Ratko Jagodic, Rajvikram Singh, Julieta Aguilera, Andrew E. Johnson, Jason Leigh: Grid applications - High-performance dynamic graphics streaming for scalable adaptive graphics environment. 108
Rahul Garg, Yogish Sabharwal: MPI and communication - Software routing and aggregation of messages to optimize the performance of HPCC randomaccess benchmark. 109
Anne M. Faber, Minaxi Gupta, Camilo H. Viecco: Grid networks and portals - Revisiting web server workload invariants in the context of scientific web sites. 110
Keith D. Underwood, K. Scott Hemmert, Craig Ulmer: Tools and techniques for performance - Architectures and APIs: assessing requirements for delivering FPGA performance to applications. 111
Pallab Datta, Wu-chun Feng, Sushant Sharma: Grid networks and portals - End-system aware, rate-adaptive protocol for network transport in LambdaGrid environments. 112
Julie Langou, Julien Langou, Piotr Luszczek, Jakub Kurzak, Alfredo Buttari, Jack Dongarra: Tools and techniques for performance - Exploiting the performance of 32 bit floating point arithmetic in obtaining 64 bit accuracy (revisiting iterative refinement for linear systems). 113
David Del Vecchio, Victor Hazlewood, Marty Humphrey: Grid networks and portals - Evaluating grid portal security. 114
Franz Franchetti, Yevgen Voronenko, Markus Püschel: Tools and techniques for performance - FFT program generation for shared memory: SMP and multicore. 115
Hao Yu, I-Hsin Chung, José E. Moreira: Blue Gene system software - Topology mapping for Blue Gene/L supercomputer. 116
Liang Chen, Qian Zhu, Gagan Agrawal: Grid scheduling and protocols - Supporting dynamic migration in tightly coupled grid applications. 117
José E. Moreira, Michael Brutman, José G. Castaños, Thomas Engelsiepen, Mark Giampapa, Tom Gooding, Roger L. Haskin, Todd Inglett, Derek Lieber, Patrick McCarthy, Michael Mundy, Jeff Parker, Brian P. Wallenfelt: Blue Gene system software - Designing a highly-scalable operating system: the Blue Gene/L story. 118
Daniel Nurmi, Anirban Mandal, John Brevik, Chuck Koelbel, Richard Wolski, Ken Kennedy: Grid scheduling and protocols - Evaluation of a workflow scheduler using integrated performance modelling and batch queue wait time prediction. 119
Michael Blocksome, Charles Archer, Todd Inglett, Patrick McCarthy, Michael Mundy, Joe Ratterman, A. Sidelnik, Brian E. Smith, George Almási, José G. Castaños, Derek Lieber, José E. Moreira, Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Vinod Tipparaju, Jarek Nieplocha: Blue Gene system software - Design and implementation of a one-sided communication interface for the IBM eServer Blue Gene® supercomputer. 120
Michael R. Head, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Robert van Engelen, Wei Zhang: Grid scheduling and protocols - Benchmarking XML processors for applications in grid web services. 121
Sage A. Weil, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Carlos Maltzahn: Grid resource management - CRUSH: controlled, scalable, decentralized placement of replicated data. 122
I-Hsin Chung, Robert Walkup, Hui-Fang Wen, Hao Yu: MPI tools and performance studies - MPI performance analysis tools on Blue Gene/L. 123
Zheng Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, Samuel P. Midkiff: Grid resource management - CycleMeter: detecting fraudulent peers in internet cycle sharing. 124
José Carlos Sancho, Kevin J. Barker, Darren J. Kerbyson, Kei Davis: MPI tools and performance studies - Quantifying the potential benefit of overlapping communication and computation in large-scale scientific applications. 125
David P. Anderson, Carl Christensen, Bruce Allen: Grid resource management - Designing a runtime system for volunteer computing. 126
Camille Coti, Thomas Hérault, Pierre Lemarinier, Laurence Pilard, Ala Rezmerita, Eric Rodriguez, Franck Cappello: MPI tools and performance studies - Blocking vs. non-blocking coordinated checkpointing for large-scale fault tolerant MPI. 127
Posters
Taiga Nakamura: ACM student research competition reception - HPCBugBase: an experience base for HPC defects. 128
Jik-Soo Kim: ACM student research competition reception - Employing peer-to-peer services for robust grid computing. 129
Benjamin C. Lee: ACM student research competition reception - Statistical inference for efficient microarchitectural and application analysis. 130
Fang Liu: ACM student research competition reception - CCA-LISI: on designing a common component architecture parallel sparse linear solver interface. 131
Christopher R. Schroeder: ACM student research competition reception - Adaptive coarsening: simple, effective floating-point compression. 132
Long Tang: ACM student research competition reception - A middleware approach in facilitating Web-Mobile-Desktop (WMD) application communication in distributed systems. 133
Magdalena Slawiñska, Dawid Kurzyniec, Jaroslaw Slawinski, Vaidy S. Sunderam: Poster reception - Zero-Force MPI: toward tractable toolkits for high performance computing. 134
David M. Kunzman, Gengbin Zheng, Eric J. Bohm, James C. Phillips, Laxmikant V. Kalé: Poster reception - Charm++ simplifies coding for the cell processor. 135
Nithya N. Vijayakumar, Beth Plale: Poster reception - A meta-provenance service to infer context from provenance data of distributed entities. 136
Joseph P. Kenny, Curtis L. Janssen, Ida M. B. Nielsen, Manojkumar Krishnan, Vidhya Gurumoorthi, Edward F. Valeev, Theresa L. Windus: Poster reception - Component architectures for quantum chemistry: forging new capabilities and insights. 137
S. Conner, Greg M. Link, S. Tobita, Mary Jane Irwin, Padma Raghavan: Poster reception - Energy/performance modeling for collective communication in 3-D torus cluster networks. 138
Akira Nishida, Hisashi Kotakemori, Tamito Kajiyama, Akira Nukada: Poster reception - Scalable software infrastructure project. 140
Eric Petit, François Bodin, Guillaume Papaure, Florence Dru: Poster reception - ASTEX: a hot path based thread extractor for distributed memory system on a chip. 141
Ahmad Faraj, Pitch Patarasuk, Xin Yuan: Poster reception - A study of process arrival patterns for MPI collective operations. 142
Dan Bonachea, Paul Hargrove, Rajesh Nishtala, Michael L. Welcome, Katherine A. Yelick: Poster reception - Optimized collectives for PGAS languages with one-sided communication. 143
Michael Noeth, Jaydeep Marathe, Frank Mueller, Martin Schulz, Bronis R. de Supinski: Poster reception - Scalable compression and replay of communication traces in massively parallel environments. 144
Aleksandr Rayshubskiy, Blake G. Fitch: Poster reception - Collective operations using low level interfaces on BG/L. 145
Konrad Malkowski, Padma Raghavan, Mary Jane Irwin: Poster reception - Toward a power efficient computer architecture for Barnes-Hut N-body simulations. 146
Tharaka Devadithya, Kenneth Chiu: Poster reception - Fast binary serialization for grid systems with XBS. 147
Lei Ji, Yanan Yu, Namas Chandra, Hugh Nymeyer, Ashok Srinivasan: Poster reception - Data-driven time parallelization. 148
Ben Cordes, Miriam Leeser, Eric L. Miller, Richard W. Linderman: Poster reception - Improving the performance of parallel backprojection on a reconfigurable supercomputer. 149
Ioan Raicu, Ian T. Foster, Alexander S. Szalay: Poster reception - Harnessing grid resources to enable the dynamic analysis of large astronomy datasets. 150
Zhou Lei, Gabrielle Allen, Dayong Huang, Hartmut Kaiser, Xin Li, Christopher D. White: Poster reception - Utilizing grid computing technologies for advanced reservoir studies. 151
Leopold Grinberg, Suchuan Dong, James Noble, Alexander Yakhot, George E. Karniadakis, Nicholas T. Karonis: Poster reception - Human arterial tree simulation on TeraGrid. 152
Robin J. Bruce, Richard Chamberlain, Malachy Devlin, Stephen Marshall: Poster reception - Implementing algorithms on FPGAs using high-level languages and low-level libraries. 153
Bianca Schroeder, Garth A. Gibson: Poster reception - The Computer Failure Data Repository (CFDR): collecting, sharing and analyzing failure data. 154
Yawei Li, Zhiling Lan: Poster reception - Improving fault resilience of high performance applications. 155
Ronald C. Price, Victor E. Bazterra, Wayne B. Bradford, Julio C. Facelli: Poster reception - Digital Sherpa. 156
Arun Rodrigues, Richard C. Murphy, Peter M. Kogge, Keith D. Underwood: Poster reception - The structural simulation toolkit: exploring novel architectures. 157
Joseph F. Ruscio, Michael A. Heffner, Srinidhi Varadarajan: Poster reception - DejaVu: transparent user-level checkpointing, migration and recovery for distributed systems. 158

Barbara S. Minsker, Jim Myers, Mark Marikos, Tim Wentling, Steve Downey, Yong Liu, Peter Bajcsy, Rob Kooper, Luigi Marini, Noshir S. Contractor, Harold D. Green, Joe Futrelle: Poster reception - NCSA environmental cyberinfrastructure demonstration project: creating cyberenvironments for environmental engineering and hydrological science communities. 161
Alfredo Buttari, Jakub Kurzak, Jack Dongarra: Poster reception - Targeting multi-core architectures for linear algebra applications. 162
D. Scott McCaulay, Matthew R. Link, George W. Turner, David Y. Hancock, Maria Morris, Craig A. Stewart: Poster reception - Powerful new research computing system available via the TeraGrid. 163
Eric A. Perlman, Randal C. Burns: Poster reception - Engineering the 100 terabyte turbulence database (or how to track particles at home). 164
Ross C. Walker, Srivatsan Raman, David Baker: Poster reception - High resolution, high throughput protein structure prediction using IBM Blue Gene supercomputers: predicting CASP targets in record time. 165
Stijn Eeckhaut, Michiel Mertens, Stijn De Smet, Brecht Vermeulen, Luc Andries, Mira Peltomaki: Poster reception - Optimized large file access in storage clusters using common TCP/IP-based file transfer protocols. 166
Elizeu Santos-Neto, Kate Keahey: Poster reception - To bid or not to bid: a hybrid market-based resource allocation framework. 167
David A. Flores, Trilce Estrada, Michela Taufer, Patricia J. Teller, Andre Kerstens: Poster reception - SimBA: a discrete event simulator for performance prediction of volunteer computing projects. 168
Yu Bi, Gregory D. Peterson, G. Lee Warren, Robert J. Harrison: Poster reception - A reconfigurable supercomputing library for accelerated parallel lagged-Fibonacci pseudorandom number generation. 169
Todd Kordenbrock, Ron Oldfield, Jeffrey Young: Poster reception - Parallel I/O advancements in air quality modeling systems. 170
Vipin Sachdeva, Michael Kistler, Evan Speight: Poster reception - Pairwise alignments on the cell processor. 171
Filippo Mantovani: Poster reception - IANUS: scientific computing on an FPGA-based architecture. 172
William Putman: Poster reception - The finite-volume dynamical core on the cubed-sphere. 173
Yuan-Ping Pang, Brent A. Swartz, Brian E. Smith, Timothy J. Mullins, Amanda E. Peters, Roy G. Musselman: Poster reception - Optimizing EUDOC for the IBM eServer Blue Gene supercomputer. 174
Trammell Hudson, Ron Brightwell: Poster reception - Network performance impact of a lightweight Linux for Cray XT3 compute nodes. 175
Bernhard Aichinger, Martin Schulz, Dieter Kranzlmüller, Thomas Köckerbauer, Bronis R. de Supinski: Poster reception - Patterns in parallel programs: toward high-level understanding of large-scale traces. 176
Akila Gothandaraman, G. Lee Warren, Gregory D. Peterson, Robert J. Harrison: Poster reception - Reconfigurable accelerator for quantum Monte Carlo simulations in N-body systems. 177
Shujia Zhou, Amidu Oloso, Megan Damon, Tom Clune: Poster reception - Application controlled parallel asynchronous IO. 178
James R. Ezick, Samuel B. Luckenbill, Donald Nguyen, Péter Szilágyi, John Starks, Richard A. Lethin: Poster reception - Alef parallel SAT solver for HPC hardware. 179
Francesco Lelli: Poster reception - Bringing instruments into the grid. 180
Michael D. McCool, Kevin Wadleigh, Brent Henderson, Hsin-Ying Lin: Poster reception - Performance evaluation of GPUs using the RapidMind development platform. 181
Jeroen van der Ham, Paola Grosso, Freek Dijkstra, Cees T. A. M. de Laat: Poster reception - Semantics for hybrid networks using the network description language. 182
Filippo Gioachin, Celso L. Mendes, Laxmikant V. Kalé, Thomas R. Quinn: Poster reception - Cosmological simulations on supercomputers. 183
Hartmut Kaiser, André Merzky, Stephan Hirmer, Gabrielle Allen, Edward Seidel: Poster reception - The SAGA C++ reference implementation: a milestone toward new high-level grid applications. 184
Philip Bogden, Gabrielle Allen, Gerry Creager, Sara J. Graves, Rick A. Luettich, Lavanya Ramakrishnan: Poster reception - Designing a collaborative cyberinfrastructure for event-driven coastal modeling. 185
Adam Leko, Hung-Hsun Su, Dan Bonachea, Bryan Golden, Max Billingsley, Alan D. George: Poster reception - Parallel performance wizard: a performance analysis tool for partitioned global-address-space programming models. 186
Amit P. Sawant, Matti Vanninen: Poster reception - Visualization of storage controller performance data. 187
Erich Elsen, Mike Houston, Vaidyanathan Vishal, Eric Darve, Pat Hanrahan, Vijay S. Pande: Poster reception - N-Body simulation on GPUs. 188
Mark R. Fahey: Poster reception - Portable performance optimizations based on a performance history of the fusion microturbulence code GYRO. 189
Jik-Soo Kim: ACM student research competition finalists - Employing peer-to-peer services for robust grid computing. 190
Benjamin C. Lee: ACM student research competition finalists - Statistical inference for efficient microarchitectural and application analysis. 191
Taiga Nakamura: ACM student research competition finalists - HPCBugBase: an experience base for HPC defects. 192
Scatter gather
Scatter/gather I - Scatter/gather. 193
Scatter/gather II - Scatter/gather. 194
Invited speakers
Raymond Kurzweil: Keynote - The coming merger of biological and non biological intelligence. 195
Edward Seidel: Cray and Fernbach awards lectures - Sidney Fernbach award lecture: solving Einstein's equations through computational science. 196
Delores M. Etter: Invited speakers I - Navy and Marine Corps high performance computing. 197
Matthew J. Szulik: Invited speakers I - Open source software: a powerful model for inspiring imagination. 198
H. Peter Hofstee: Invited speakers II - Real-time supercomputing and technology for games and entertainment. 199
Tsugio Makimoto: Invited speakers II - Chip innovations and computer revolution. 200
Tadashi Watanabe: Cray and Fernbach awards lectures - Seymour Cray award lecture. 201
Tutorials
William Gropp, Ewing L. Lusk, Rajeev Thakur, Robert B. Ross: S01 - Advanced MPI: I/O and one-sided communication. 202
Greg Watson, Craig Rasmussen, Beth Tibbitts: S03 - Application development using eclipse and the parallel tools platform. 204
Ilkay Altintas, Bertram Ludäscher, Scott Klasky, Mladen A. Vouk: S04 - Introduction to scientific workflow management and the Kepler system. 205
Darren J. Kerbyson, Adolfy Hoisie: S05 - A practical approach to performance analysis and modeling of large-scale systems. 206
Stephen Lau, Scott Campbell, William T. Kramer, Brian Tierney: S06 - Computing protection in open HPC environments. 207
David P. Luebke, Mark Harris, Naga K. Govindaraju, Aaron E. Lefohn, Mike Houston, John D. Owens, Mark Segal, Matthew Papakipos, Ian Buck: S07 - GPGPU: general-purpose computation on graphics hardware. 208
Tim Mattson: S08 - Introduction to OpenMP. 209
Christopher Gottbrath: S09 - Eliminating parallel application memory bugs with TotalView. 210
Luiz De Rose, Bernd Mohr: S11 - Principles and practice of experimental performance measurement and analysis of parallel applications. 212
Piotr Luszczek, David H. Bailey, Jack Dongarra, Jeremy Kepner, Robert F. Lucas, Rolf Rabenseifner, Daisuke Takahashi: S12 - The HPC Challenge (HPCC) benchmark suite. 213
Alice E. Koniges, William Gropp, Ewing L. Lusk, David C. Eder: M01 - Application supercomputing and multiscale simulation techniques. 215
Tarek A. El-Ghazawi, Duncan A. Buell, Volodymyr V. Kindratenko, Kris Gaj: M03 - Reconfigurable supercomputing. 217
David Gehrig, D. Michael Freemon, Jaime Frey: M04 - Introduction to grid computing: the first steps. 218
Lorna Smith, Mark Bull, Alan Gray, Joachim Hein: M05 - Application performance on the Blue Gene architecture. 219
Erik DeBenedictis, David E. Keyes, Peter M. Kogge: M06 - Issues for the future of supercomputing: impact of Moore's law and architecture on application performance. 220
Phillip Dykstra: M07 - High performance data transfer. 221
Andreas Knüpfer, Dieter Kranzlmüller, Bernd Mohr, Wolfgang E. Nagel: M09 - Program analysis tools for massively parallel applications: how to achieve highest performance. 223
Voicu Popescu, Christoph M. Hoffmann: M10 - Realistic visualization for large-scale simulations. 224
Srinivas Aluru, David A. Bader, Anantharaman Kalyanaraman: M11 - High-performance computing methods for computational genomics. 225
Jarek Nieplocha, Bruce Palmer, Manojkumar Krishnan, P. Sadayappan: M12 - Overview of the global arrays parallel software development toolkit. 226
Sharan Kalwani: M13 - HPC meets IT. 227
Workshops
Gregor von Laszewski: GCE06 (day 1) - GCE06 - Grid computing environments 2006. 228
Xian-He Sun: Performance analysis and optimization - International workshop on performance analysis and optimization of high-end computing systems. 229
William T. C. Kramer: Procurement - Best practice in HPC procurements. 230
Scott Lathrop: TeraGrid institute - TeraGrid Institute. 231
Gregor von Laszewski: GCE06 (day 2) - GCE06 - Grid computing environments 2006. 232
Bartlett S. H. (Scott) Michel: GPU computing - General-purpose GPU computing: practice and experience. 233
Jun Ni: HPC for nano-science and technology - 2nd IEEE/ACM international workshop on high performance computing for nano-science and technology. 234
James P. Ahrens, Hank Childs, John Clyne, Wes Bethel, Jian Huang, Scott Klasky, Kwan-Liu Ma, Kenneth Moreland, Michael E. Papka, Valerio Pascucci, Han-Wei Shen, Deborah Silver: Ultra-scale visualization - Workshop on ultra-scale visualization. 235
Garth A. Gibson: Petascale data storage - Petascale data storage. 236
Katarzyna Keahey: Virtualization technologies - 1st IEEE/ACM international workshop on virtualization technologies in distributed computing. 237
Awards
Daniel A. Reed, Bill Gropp, Allan Sussman, Jeffrey J. Evans, Paul Fussell, Debbie Montano, Raymond L. Paden: Awards & video - Awards session. 238
Wilfred Pinfold: Awards & video - SC06 video: powerful beyond imagination. 239
Bandwidth challenge finalist

Julian J. Bunn, Harvey B. Newman, Shawn McKee, David G. Foster, Richard Cavanaugh, Richard Hughes-Jones: Bandwidth challenge - High speed data gathering, distribution and analysis for physics discoveries at the large Hadron collider. 241
Robert L. Grossman, Yunhong Gu, Michal Sabala, Shirley Connelly, David Hanley, Joe Mambretti, Alexander S. Szalay, Ani Thakar, Jan vandenBerg, Alainna Wonders: Bandwidth challenge - Transporting sloan digital sky survey data using SECTOR. 242
Christopher S. Oehmen, Douglas J. Baxter, Ryan W. Mooney, Shaun O'Leary, Tim Carlson: Bandwidth challenge - High throughput feature-matching analysis of biological spectral data. 243
Stephen C. Simms, Matt Davy, Bret Hammond, Matthew R. Link, Craig A. Stewart, Randall Bramley, Beth A. Plale, Dennis Gannon, Mu-Hyun Baik, Scott Teige, John C. Huffman, Rick McMullen, Doug Balog, Greg Pike: Bandwidth challenge - All in a day's work: advancing data-intensive research with the data capacitor. 244
Laura L. Arns, Ryan Pedela, Michael Shuey, Preston Smith, Jenett Tillotson: Bandwidth challenge - Streaming uncompressed 4K scientific media. 245
Stanislav Shalunov, Ivan Beschastnikh: Bandwidth challenge - VFER: high-performance transport in user space. 246
Exhibitor forum
Stephen Wheat, Bob Jones: Grids and network applications - Addressing high performance and grid challenges: Intel and CERN. 248
Matthew Papakipos: Innovative technologies I - Unleash the power of stream processors with a new software platform for commodity hardware. 249
Ian Baird: Grids and network applications - Grid for business information: extracting maximum value from information. 250
Stefan Mohl: Innovative technologies I - Using FPGAs in supercomputers: breaking with reconfigurable computing. 251
Roman Maeder: Grids and network applications - gridMathematica: overview and new developments. 252
Gail A. Walters: Innovative technologies I - Applying scalable acalis field programmable multi-cores to HPC. 253
Jeff Verrant: Ethernet interconnects - Dynamic ethernet lightpaths: on-demand 10GbE and GbE connections for research networks. 254
Garth A. Gibson: Storage solutions I - Advances in RAID and HPC storage reliability. 255
Uri Cummings: Ethernet interconnects - Low-latency ethernet: the ubiquitous datacenter interconnect. 256
Sujal M. Patel: Storage solutions I - Paradigm shift in the data storage industry. 257
Charles R. (Rick) Maule: Ethernet interconnects - iWARP ethernet: key to driving ethernet into high performance environments. 258
Dave Fellinger: Storage solutions I - Future of storage and commodity clusters. 259
Duncan Roweth, Moray McLaren: High performance interconnects - High performance networks for the future. 260
Wayne Karpoff: Storage solutions II - Global data sharing: addressing the challenge of data locality. 261
Nikhil Kelshikar: High performance interconnects - Network topologies for high performance computing: ethernet, InfiniBand and storage. 262
Benoit Marchand: Storage solutions II - Accelerating data for compute clusters and grids. 263
Michael Vrazel: High performance interconnects - Enabling next generation supercomputing clusters. 264
Bill Blake: Storage solutions II - Analyzing all the data all the time. 265
Yaron Haviv: InfiniBand interconnects - The road to PetaFLOP clusters. 266
Satomi Hasegawa: Roadmaps and visions I - Hitachi's approach to high perfomance computing. 267
Michael Kagan: InfiniBand interconnects - Application acceleration through MPI overlap. 268
Steve Scott: Roadmaps and visions I - Cray: creating a path to adaptive supercomputing. 269
Lloyd Dickman: InfiniBand interconnects - Building highly scalable and reliable InfiniBand clusters. 270
Jörg Stadler: Roadmaps and visions I - NEC High performance computing solutions. 271
Anthony O. Befi: Roadmaps and visions II - Innovation beyond imagination: the road to PetaFLOPS computing. 272
Walter S. Brainerd: Software tools I - Fortran tools. 273
Motoi Okuda: Roadmaps and visions II - Fujitsu's vision for high performance computing. 274
Michael Wolfe: Software tools I - AMD versus Intel: the compiler as referee. 275
Björn Andersson: Roadmaps and visions II - Getting ahead, staying ahead: modular sun x64 servers for HPC. 276
Edward Stewart: Software tools I - Distributed IMSL with 3rd Party Solutions in C, Java and .NET. 277
Alan Edelman: Innovative technologies II - So What's innovative and exotic about star-P for MATLAB and other clients? 278
Frank Chism, Jeremy Enos: Software tools II - Running a Top-500 benchmark on a windows compute cluster server cluster. 279
John L. Gustafson: Innovative technologies II - Acceleration technologies: understanding the differences and assessing what's right for you. 280
Michael Rudgyard: Software tools II - Novel techniques for debugging and optimizing parallel applications. 281
Josh Harr: Innovative technologies II - Multi-paradigm computing. 282
Christopher Gottbrath: Software tools II - Debugging code written for Multi-Core chip architectures. 283
Jonathan Wells: Advanced networks - WiFiber: new spectrum links for wireless gigabit transmission. 284
Mike Jones: Innovative technologies III - Advanced memory devices to enhance cluster performance. 285
Livio Riciulli: Advanced networks - High speed firewalls: securing the 10 gigabit ethernet WAN. 286
Herb Villa: Innovative technologies III - Liquid cooling: a next generation data center strategy. 287
George Salemie: Advanced networks - The weakest link: the impact of wide area networking on networked application performance. 288
Stephen Fried: Innovative technologies III - Topologies for improved InfiniBand latency. 289
Franco Travostino: Other networks - Seamless live migration of virtual machines over the MAN/WAN. 290
Waël Noureddine: Other networks - The unified wire adapter. 291
Jean-Louis Lahaie: Clusters and blades - The tera-10 system: implementing the number 1 supercomputer in Europe. 292
Steve Langdon: Clusters and blades - Blades: innovations and viability for HPC. 293
Mike Kemp: Clusters and blades - Introducing LiquidIQ: a next generation system for high performance computing. 294
Exotic technologies
Erik DeBenedict, Fernand (Doc) Bedard, Thomas L. Sterling: Exotic technologies I - HPC computational systems of 2020. 295
Garth A. Gibson, Mark H. Kryder, Richard F. Freitas: Exotic technologies II - HPC storage systems of 2020. 296
HPC analytics challenge
Tiankai Tu, Hongfeng Yu, Jacobo Bielak, Omar Ghattas, Julio C. López, Kwan-Liu Ma, David R. O'Hallaron, Leonardo Ramírez-Guzmán, Nathan Stone, Ricardo Taborda-Rios, John Urbanic: Analytics challenge - Remote runtime steering of integrated terascale simulation and visualization. 297
Kazunori Nozaki, Masaaki Noro, Masashi Nakagawa, Susumu Date, Ken-ichi Baba, Steven Peltier, Toshihiro Kawaguchi, Toyokazu Akiyama, Hiroo Tamagawa, Yohsuke Tanaka, Shinji Shimojo: Analytics challenge - Computational oral and speech science on e-science infrastructures. 298
Christopher S. Oehmen, Lee Ann McCue, Joshua N. Adkins, Katrina M. Waters, Tim Carlson, William R. Cannon, Bobbie-Jo M. Webb-Robertson, Douglas J. Baxter, Elena S. Peterson, Mudita Singhal, Anuj R. Shah, Kyle R. Klicker: Analytics challenge - High-throughput visual analytics biological sciences: turning data into knowledge. 299
SC global
SCGlobal - parade of nations - Opening address. 300
Peter Pennefather, Ian Crandall, West Suhanic: Advanced medical collaborative technologies - Laboratory for collaborative diagnostics: Malaria TV. 301
Stephen Small: Advanced medical collaborative technologies - Patient safety training using advanced medical and network technology. 302
Kai Zhang, Wei-Li Liu: Advanced medical collaborative technologies - Extending interactivity in grid collaboration tools for long distance biomedical training and research. 303
Uwe Woessner: Technological frontiers in global collaboration - ARCTIS: augmented reality collaborative tangible interactive simulation. 304
Michael Murphy, Thomas Fischer: Technological frontiers in global collaboration - Semantically-enhanced collaborative engineering and design services. 305
JongWon Kim: Technological frontiers in global collaboration - Sharing interactive high-resolution media for advanced collaboration. 306
Brian Corrie: Building communities on the grid - AccessGrid in the Canadian HPC scene. 307
Rollin W. I. Guyden, Stephenie McLean, Graig A. Gilham, Garrett Love: Building communities on the grid - Broadening participation on the grid. 308
Glenn Bresnahan, Arthur B. Maccabe, Maria Williams, Arlan Sando, Erik Brisson, Jennifer Teig von Hoffman: Building communities on the grid - New voices and new visions for engaging Native American students in computer science. 309
Derek Piper: Training: archive and retrieval of collaborative productions - AGVCR - AccessGrid Video 'Cassette' Recorder. 310
Andrew Rowley: Training: archive and retrieval of collaborative productions - Memetic: an AG integrated meeting recorder. 311
Jimmy Miklavcic: Collaborative performing arts - InterPlay: dancing on the banks of Packet Creek. 312
Beth Miklavcic, Jimmy Miklavcic: Collaborative performing arts - Performance and presentation production elements. 313
Doc Lap Nguyen: Training: distributed desktop applications - TigerboardAG. 314
Adam C. Carter: Training: distributed desktop applications - The meeting list tool - a shared application for sharing dynamic information in meetings. 315
John W. Langkals: Future prototypes in collaboration - Remote inferface control within an access grid environment. 316
John W. Danahy, West Suhanic: Future prototypes in collaboration - The Canadian design research network's prototype design grid. 317
Lila Pine: Future prototypes in collaboration - Evolving stories project: beautiful instants. 318
Ron Rankine: SCGlobal closing remarks - Closing comments. 319
Social
Exhibitor party - Exhibitor party. 320
Opening gala - Opening gala. 321
Conference reception - Conference reception. 322
Storage challenge
Troy Benjegerdes, Brett Bode, Kyle Schochenmaier: Storage challenge - Trading memory for disk: using parallel access to fast InfiniBand disk arrays for large computational chemistry applications. 323
Dov Cohen, Jeff Decker, Noah Fischer, Helen Y. Chen, Jackie H. Chen: Storage challenge - Scaling NFS through RDMA for cluster computing. 324
Lingfang Zeng, Ke Zhou, Zhan Shi, Dan Feng, Fang Wang, Changsheng Xie, Zhitang Li, Zhanwu Yu, Jianya Gong, Qiang Cao, Zhongying Niu, Lingjun Qin, Qun Liu, Yao Li: Storage challenge - HUSt: a heterogeneous unified storage system for GIS grid. 325
Nobuhiko Katayama, Mitsuhisa Sato, Taisuke Boku, Akira Ukawa, Shohei Nishida, Ichiro Adachi, Osamu Tatebe: Storage challenge - High performance data analysis for particle physics using the Gfarm file system. 326



