Synergistic Environments for Experimental Computing

Workshop Introduction, Opening Comments and Discussion

• SEEC Workshop Overview
  Dr. Wuchun Feng, (Prof., Dept. of CS, ECE)

Session 1: Systems Modeling and Provisioning for Performance and Power

• Runtime Power Modeling to Enable Energy Optimizations in General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units
  Vignesh Adhinarayanan, Ph.D. Student
• Energy-Efficient Scientific Visualization Pipelines
  Vignesh Adhinarayanan, Ph.D. Student
• Cognizant Networks: A Model for Session-based Communication and Adaptive Networking
  Umar Kalim, Ph.D. Student

Session 2: Libraries and Frameworks

• CU2CL: Automated Source-to-Source Translation from CUDA to OpenCL
  Paul Sathre, Research Staff Member
• Aeromancer: A Workflow Manager for Large-Scale MapReduce-Based Scientific Workflows
  Sarunya (Kwang) Pumma, Ph.D. Student
• MetaMorph: A Modular Library of Malleable Accelerator Primitives for Heterogeneous Parallel Computing
  Ahmed Helal, Ph.D. Student

Session 3: Dwarfs to Applications: Parallelization and Optimization, Part I

• Automatic SIMDization of Parallel Sorting on x86­-based Manycore Processors
  Kaixi Hou, Ph.D. Student
• GPU­based Acceleration for CT Image Reconstruction
  Xiaodong Yu, Ph.D. Student
• Optimizing the "Be the Data" Application in ICAT Cube
  Sajal Dash, Ph.D. Student

Session 4: Unstructured/Irregular Computation

• Eliminating Irregular Patterns for Compressed Sparse Matrix Primitives on Manycore Processing
  Hao Wang, Research Associate
• Transforming Irregular Algorithms for Heterogeneous Computing: Case Studies in Bioinformatics
  Jing Zhang, Ph.D. Student
• Building A General Search Engine For Unstructured Data
  Harold Trease, Senior Research Scientist

Session 5: Dwarfs to Applications: Parallelization and Optimization, Part II

• Accelerating InDel Detection on Modern Multi­Core CPU Architecture
  Da Zhang, Ph.D. Student
• Directed Optimization of Stencil-based Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications
  Islam Harb, Ph.D. Student
• 10x10 Heterogeneous Architecture with OpenDwarfs on FPGAs
  Anshuman Verma, M.S. Student
• GLAF: A Visual Programming and Auto-Tuning Framework for Parallel Computing
  Konstantinos Krommydas, Ph.D. Student & ICTAS Fellow