1. Sixth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing (P2S2) PavanBalaji Yong Chen Abhinav Vishnu P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013)

2. Organizing Committee Steering Committee: William Gropp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research Program Co-chairs Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Web/Cyber and Publicity Chair Qichang Liang, University of Otago, New Zealand P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013)

3. P2S2 2013 Statistics P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013) 20 paper submissions P2S2 prides itself with a thorough review process Each paper received at least 4 reviews, most had 5 reviews, some had 6 reviews PC Meeting in Mid May for paper decisions; lots of discussion for each paper. We had to make some tough choices. 11 papers were accepted (55% acceptance rate) 22 PC Members Many thanks for their hard work and diligent reviews! Thanks to Qichang for undertaking the publicity/web chair role!

4. P2S2 2013 Logistics P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013) Four sessions: We will start with a keynote talk by Prof. Yves Robert Three sessions for regular technical paper presentations For Presenters: Please meet session chair beforethesession starts Please provide a short bio Presentations may need to be copied to a common presentation laptop before the session (please check with your session chair!) Please send your slides to p2s2-chairs@mcs.anl.gov and we will post slides on program page Wireless Connectivity

5. P2S2 2013 Sessions P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013) Session 1: Keynote Time: 9:15am – 10:30am An Overview of Fault-Tolerant Techniques for High Performance Computing Prof. Yves Robert, ENS Lyon Institut Universitaire de France

6. P2S2 2013 Sessions (contd.) P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013) Session 2: Programming Models and Performance Time: 11:00am - 13:00pm Session Chair: Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Flexible Approach to Staged Events, Tiago Salmito, Ana Lucia de Moura, and Noemi Rodriguez ConMR: Concurrent MapReduce Programming Model for Large Scale Shared- Data Applications, Fan Zhang, Qutaibah Malluhi, and Tamer Elsayed Read-Write Lock Allocation in Software Transactional Memory, Amir Ghanbari Bavarsad, and Ehsan Atoofian A Heterogeneous Computing Framework for Computational Finance, Gordon Inggs, David Thomas and Wayne Luk

7. P2S2 2013 Sessions (contd.) P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013) Session 3: Multi-core and Manycore Architectures Time: 14:00pm - 16:00pm Session Chair: Xiaoyi Lu, Ohio State University A Framework for Performance-aware Composition of Applications for GPU- based System, Usman Dastgeer, and Christoph Kessler Exploiting Execution Order and Parallelism from Processing Flow Applying Pipeline-based Programming Method on Manycore Accelerators, Shinichi Yamagiwa, Ryo Jozaki, Shixun Shang, Ryo Zaizen, and Dewen Xu Performance Tuning is Demanding on Multicore and Manycore Architectures: A Case Study on Large-scale Feature Matching with Image Collections, Xiaoxin Tang, Steven Mills, David Eyers, Zhiyi Huang, Kai-Cheung Leung, and Minyi Guo X-KAAPI: A Multi Paradigm Runtime for Multicore Architectures, Thierry Gautier, Fabien Lementec, Vincent Faucher, and Bruno Raffin

8. P2S2 2013 Sessions (contd.) P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013) Session 4: Parallel Applications Time: 16:30pm - 18:00pm Session Chair: Laxmikant Kale, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign Performance Evaluation of NAS Parallel Benchmarks on Intel Xeon Phi, Arunmoezhi Ramachandran, Jerome Vienna, Rob Van Der Wijngaart, Lars Koesterke, and Ilya Sharapov Tiled QR Decomposition and Its Optimization on CPU and GPU Coupled System, Dongjin Kim, and Kyu-ho Park Hierarchical Parallel Matrix Multiplication on Large-Scale Distributed Memory Platform, Jean-Noel Quintin, Khalid Hasanov, and Alexey Lastovetsky

9. P2S2 2012 Journal Special Issue (with Journal of Parallel Computing: ParCo) Special Issue on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software Editors: Yong Chen, Pavan Balaji, and Abhinav Vishnu By-invitation only special issue for P2S2 2012 accepted papers All 15 accepted papers were invited 12 papers were submitted, 9 were accepted Paper notifications are out; still waiting for the special issue to be published Will be published in the issue 12 of this year, volume 39 Expected publishing date: Dec. 2013 (online) and ?? (printed) P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013)

10. P2S2 2013 Journal Special Issue (with Journal of Supercomputing: JoS) Special Issue: Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software Editors: Abhinav Vishnu, Pavan Balaji, and Yong Chen By-invitation only for P2S2 2013 accepted papers All 11 accepted papers were invited; 6 papers were submitted Review process is ongoing Journal requirements on acceptance: Needs to have 30% additional material New results, more analysis, etc., are OK for the additional material No strict plan for the number of accepted papers We have 6 slots for journal papers, so we could accept all papers We are internally planning to notify authors by Dec., 2013 But journal reviews are often delayed, so bear with us if we are late Target date for special issue publication Mar., 2014 P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013)

11. Plans for the Seventh P2S2 Workshop, 2014 P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013) Approved for continuing to be associated with ICPP 2014, Minneapolis, MN Special issue with the Journal of Parallel Computing (PARCO) Please Get Involved ! Paper submissions Workshop attendance Advertising Please Get Involved ! Paper submissions Workshop attendance Advertising

12. P2S2 2013 Keynote P2S2 Opening Remarks (10/01/2013) An Overview of Fault- Tolerant Techniques for High Performance Computing Prof. Yves Robert ENS Lyon Institut Universitaire de France