Welcome to Pittsburgh, and P2S PavanBalaji Yong Chen Abhinav Vishnu

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

P2S Statistics P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/10/2012)  25 paper submissions  Each paper received at least 4 reviews  PC Meeting in Mid May for paper decisions  15 papers were accepted (60% acceptance rate)  23 PC Members  Many thanks for their hard work and diligent reviews!  Thanks to Qichang for undertaking the publicity/web chair role!  Thanks to Bill and Vijay for guiding us through the process of coordinating the workshop

P2S 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 P2S accepted papers  All 15 accepted papers were invited  12 papers were submitted  Reviews are in progress  Journal requirements on acceptance:  Needs to have 30% additional material (cannot be the exact same as the workshop submission)  New results, more analysis, etc., are OK for the additional material  No strict plan for the number of accepted papers  Initial negotiation with the journal gave us 8-10 slots, but can renegotiated depending on the number of papers that meet the journal requirements  We are internally planning to notify authors by Nov. 20th, 2012  But journal reviews are often delayed, so bear with us if we are late  Target date for special issue publication Mar. 20th, 2013

P2S Logistics P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/10/2012)  Four sessions:  Three sessions for regular technical paper presentations  One session for invited panel discussion – “Battle of the Accelerator Stars”  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 and we will post slides on program page  Wireless Connectivity

P2S Sessions P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/10/2012)  Session 1: Programming Models and Performance  Time: 8:20am - 10:00am  Session Chair: Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba  "When and how VOTM can improve performance in contention situations", Kai-Cheung Leung, Yawen Chen and Zhiyi Huang  "Enhancing MapReduce using MPI and an optimized data exchange policy", Hisham Mohamed and StéphaneMarchand-Maillet  "ALCF MPI Benchmarks: Understanding Machine-Specific Communication Behavior", VitaliMorozov, JiayuanMeng, VenkatramVishwanath, Jeff Hammond, KalyanKumaran and Michael Papka  "On-the-Fly Synchronization Checking for Interactive Programming in XcalableMP", Tatsuya Abe and Mitsuhisa Sato

P2S Sessions (cont.) P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/10/2012)  Session 2: Runtime and Storage Systems  Time: 10:20am - 12:30pm  Session Chair: Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago  "Chunked Extendible Dense Arrays for Scientific Data Storage", Gideon Nimako, EkowOtoo and Daniel Ohene-Kwofie  "An Analysis of SMP Memory Allocators: MapReduce on Large Shared-Memory Systems", Robert Döbbelin, Thorsten Schuett and Alexander Reinefeld  "A peer-to-peer architecture for supporting dynamic shared libraries in large-scale systems", Matthew G. F. Dosanjh, Patrick G. Bridges, Suzanne M. Kelly and James H. Laros III  "SWAMP+: Enhanced Smith-Waterman Search for Parallel Models", Shannon Steinfadt  "An Out-Of-Core Dataflow Middleware to Reduce the Cost of Large Scale Iterative Solvers", Zheng Zhou, Erik Saule, HasanMetinAktulga, Chao Yang, Esmond G. Ng, Pieter Maris, James P. Vary and Umit V. Catalyurek

P2S Sessions (cont.) P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/10/2012)  Session 3: Panel: Battle of the Accelerator Stars  Time: 1:30pm - 3:00pm  Panel Moderator: Yong Chen, Texas Tech University  Panelists:  Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory  Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba, Japan  Volodymyr Kindratenko, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  Xipeng Shen, College of William and Mary and MIT  Kyle Spafford, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

P2S Sessions (cont.) P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/10/2012)  Session 4: Accelerated Computing and Scheduling  Time: 3:20pm - 5:50pm  Session Chair: Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory  "Effective Kernel Mapping for OpenCL Applications in Heterogeneous Platforms", Omer ErdilAlbayrak, Ismail Akturk and OzcanOzturk  "Lost in Translation: Challenges in Automating CUDA-to-OpenCL Translation", Paul Sathre, Wu-Chun Feng and Mark Gardner  "GPU/CPU Work Sharing with Parallel Language XcalableMP-dev for Accelerated Computing", Tetsuya Odajima, TaisukeBoku, Toshihiro Hanawa, Jinpil Lee and Mitsuhisa Sato  "Adaptive Metric-Aware Job Scheduling for Production Supercomputers", Wei Tang, DongxuRen, ZhilingLan and Narayan Desai  "A Comprehensive Performance Comparison of OpenCL and OpenMP for Multi-core CPUs", JieShen, Jianbin Fang, Henk Sips and Ana Lucia Varbanescu  "Cross-Platform OpenCL Code and Performance Portability for CPU and GPU Architectures Investigated with a Climate and Weather Physics Model", Han Dong, DibyajyotiGhosh, FahadZafar and Shujia Zhou

Plans for P2S P2S2 Opening Remarks (09/10/2012)  Approved for continuing to be associated with ICPP 2013, Lyon, France  Like this year, we again plan to have special issue with a journal  We are working with Journal of Supercomputing (JoS) – confirmation awaited Please Get Involved ! Paper submissions Workshop attendance Advertising Please Get Involved ! Paper submissions Workshop attendance Advertising