35th SPEEDUP Workshop on High-Performance Computing
ETH Zürich, Switzerland,
September 4-5 2006
Sponsored by:
Scope
The main theme of the workshop is to present and discuss the state-of-the-art in high-performance and parallel scientific computing. Presentations will focus on:
- Overview of application areas that need high-performance computing;
- Physical modeling of large-scale problems;
- Development of scalable algorithms for the solution of linear and non-linear systems of equations;
- Massively parallel distributed memory computers;
- Development of software tools for high-performance computing.
The workshop will cover the following themes:
- Where is HPC going?
- Astrophysics:
- Biomechanics;
- Software issues;
- Numerical Linear Algebra;
Organization
The workshop is divided into 7 sessions, each with two presentations of 40 minutes plus 5 minutes of questions. The 14 speakers come from well-recognized European and US institutions. A vendor session, organized by Cray and IBM, will take place on Monday evening, from 15:30 to 17:30.
Registration and Social Events
NO conference fee is required; however you have to register to participate to the conference dinner. The conference dinner will take place at the ETH Faculty club, located at the top of the main building.
Statistics
There are about 95 registered participants (on 29-Aug-06). Below you have two charts, representing the affiliations and the countries of the participants.
Directions
The conference will take place in the CAB building of the ETH, located at the following address:
Room G61, Building CAB, Universitätstrasse 6, 8092, Zürich.
Building CAB is located close to the main ETH building. Here you have more information and links:
- Directions for the main ETH building
- Location of the CAB building
- Orientation Support Page for ETH Zurich
- This is a picture of the CAB building:
- This is the location (where HG = main building):
- ...and this is central Zurich from the sky:
Program
You can download all the abstract as a single PDF file.
Monday, September 4
- 08:30-08:45
- Welcome
- 08:45-10:15
- Where is HPC going?
- Where is HPC headed?
- Anton Gunzinger (Supercomputing Systems AG and ETHZ)
- Efficient Fully-coupled Newton-Krylov Solution of Transport/Reaction Systems*
- John N. Shadid (Sandia National Laboratories)
- 10:15-10:45
- Coffee break
- 10:45-12:15
- Astrophysics
- Parallel Computing Problems in Cosmological N-body Simulations
- Joachim Stadel (University of Zurich)
- Precision Cosmology and High Performance Computing
- Salman Habib (Los Alamos National Laboratories)
- 12:15-13:30
- Lunch break
- 13:30-15:00
- Biomechanics
- High-performance Computing of Bone Structure and its Strength
- Harry van Lenthe (ETH Zurich)
- On a Finite Element based Grid-enabled HPC Toolchain for Patient Specific Surgery Simulations.
- Jens Georg Schmidt (C&C Research Laboratories, NEC Europe Ltd.)
- 15:00-15:30
- Coffee break
- 15:30-17:30
- Vendor session
- Cray Update
- Roberto Ansaloni, Cray Italy
- Unfolding Blue Gene (slides)
- Michael Hennecke, HPC Technical Architect, IBM Germany
- 19:00
- Conference Dinner at the Faculty club in ETH main building
Tuesday, September 5
- 08:45-10:15
- Software issues
- Software Strategies for Flexible High-performance Libraries
- Roscoe A. Bartlett (Sandia National Laboratories)
- Advanced Expression Template Concepts
- Christoph Pflaum, Universitat Erlangen
- 10:15-10:45
- Coffee break
- 10:45-12:15
- Numerical Linear Algebra
- Generalizing Smoothed Aggregation Algebraic Multigrid
- Raymond S. Tuminaro (Sandia National Laboratories)
- An Algebraic Multilevel Approach for Highly Indefinite Systems of Equations
- Matthias Bollhöfer (TU Braunschweig)
- 12:15-13:30
- Lunch break
- 13:30-15:00
- Chemistry
- Scalable Parallel Performance of Molecular Dynamics Codes on Large Scale Cray Systems (slides)
- Roberto Ansaloni (Cray Italy)
- New scalability frontiers in ab-initio Molecular Dynamics using the IBM BlueGene Supercomputer
- Alessandro Curioni (IBM Research Lab Zürich)
- 15:00-15:30
- Coffee break
- 15:30-17:00
- Electromagnetics
- Numerical solution of scattering and resonance problems by the pole condition method (slides)
- Frank Schmidt(ZIB Berlin)
- Particle Accelerator Science Development as a Driver for Large Scale Electromagnetic Simulations
- Andreas Adelmann (PSI/AMAS)
- 17:00-17:15
- Closing
NOTE: Jens Georg Schmidt's presentation replaces Mark Adams' presentation, and Roscoe A. Bartlett's presentation replaces Mike Heroux's presentation.
Organization and program committee
- Prof. Peter Arbenz (ETHZ), e-mail arbenz _AT_ inf.ethz.ch;
- Marzio Sala (ETHZ), e-mail marzio _AT_ inf.ethz.ch;
- Andreas Adelmann (PSI), e-mail andreas.adelmann _AT_ psi.ch;
- Olaf Schenk (UNI Basel), e-mail olaf.schenk _AT_ unibas.ch.