High Performance Computing, GRIDS and clouds
An International Advanced Workshop
Cetraro
Italy June 21 25, 2010
Main Aim
High Performance
Computing (HPC) and distributed systems (Grids, Clouds) are increasingly
central to information infrastructure globally, including developing countries.
The underlying technologies and services enabled by HPC, Grids, and Clouds have
become fundamental tools for scientific research, industrial production and
both government and industry decision-making. Whereas the Internet and the
World Wide Web dominated the technical strategy landscape in the 1990s and
early part of the 21st century, today HPC, Grids, and Clouds are being
integrated into both commercial and government strategies.
Significant energy and
financial resources have been invested by governments and the private sector to
build appropriate infrastructure, policy, and human skills to harness the
benefits of these technologies. Yet, despite many spectacular accomplishments
and demonstrations, these tools are still underutilized by many academic schools,
industrial companies and government entities.
There have been
successful examples, particularly in research, of globally connecting
individual computers into large distributed virtual systems to solve compute-
and data-intensive problems in physics, chemistry, life sciences, astronomy,
engineering, etc. Cloud services have similarly proven ideal for organizations
without sufficient economy of scale to operate in-house systems
cost-effectively, or for problems with highly variable workload. Among the
challenges to more widespread adoption of Cloud services in academia and
government, especially associated with HPC, are a mix of both perceived and
actual issues of security, privacy, accountability and control, and cost given
very large and continuous compute and transfer workloads.
Concurrent to Grid and
Cloud issues is the challenge of achieving Petascale
computing through the use of highly parallel Multicore
architectures. Following successful transition from vector to massively
parallel software architectures in the 1990s is need to adapt algorithms and
strategies to move from thousands to hundreds of thousands of cores.
Increasingly, energy costs are factoring into HPC strategies to the degree that
universities and government organizations are examining dedicated Cloud
services purely as an economic strategy.
Finally, HPC systems
including those integrated with Grid and Cloud technologies are ushering in
an era of massive data sets and strategies for management and analysis.
The aim of the Workshop
is to discuss the future developments in the HPC technologies, and to
contribute to assess the main aspects of Grids and Clouds, with special
emphasis on solutions to grid and cloud
computing deployment.
The HPC Advanced
Workshops in Cetraro have brought together
international leaders from academia, government, and industry continuously on a
biennial basis since 1992, with two of the initial workshops sponsored by NATO.
Workshop Topics
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General Issues in High Performance Computing
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Advanced Technologies for Petaflops and Exaflops Computing
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Emerging Computer Architectures and their Performance
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Programming Models
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HPC and Green Computing
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Languages and Compilers for Parallel and multi-core systems
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Parallel Software Tools and Environments
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Distributed Systems and Algorithms
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Parallel Multimedia Computing Technologies
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Hybrid CPU + GPU Computing
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Innovative Applications in Science and Industry
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High Performance Computing for Commercial Applications
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General Issues in Grid and Cloud Computing
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Grid and Cloud Scheduling, Service Level Agreements, and Policy
Management
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Grid and Cloud Computing for the
Programme
Over forty invited
papers will be presented at the workshop. Keynote overview talks will be given
together with research presentations.
Despite
significant investments in HPC science and technology there are many technical
and economic challenges that limit the use of HPC computers. Examples of such
challenges are:
(a)
limited parallel software portability;
(b)
unclear cost performance metric for parallel computing;
(c)
expensive reengineering of the sequential legacy software for HPC, Grids
and Clouds;
(d)
difficult parallel programming;
(e)
scaling application performance to thousands of processors or cores.
If we
consider the TOP500 supercomputers currently in use we will see that the
predominant architecture of these machines is a cluster system. In comparison
to clusters MPPs and vector computers are a minority.
This trend may or may not continue.
It will be
interesting to see the development of software tools in scientific and
commercial HPC environments and how they will continue to be able to support
efficient application operation on more and more complex systems.
Several
sessions on Grids and Clouds will play an important role in the workshop programme; invited speakers from different sectors, public
and private, will debate the most critical issues related to the grid and cloud
development strategies for Research and
International
Programme Committee
Frank Baetke
Global HPC Technology
Hewlett Packard
Charlie Catlett
and
Jack Dongarra
Innovative Computing
Laboratory
Computer Science Dept.
Iain Duff
Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory
and
CERFACS
Ian Foster
Math & Computer Science
Div.
and
Dept of Computer Science
The
Geoffrey Fox
Community Grid Computing
Laboratory
Wolfgang Gentzsch
The DEISA Project
and
Open Grid Forum
Lucio Grandinetti
Dept. of Electronics,
Informatics and Systems
Chris Jesshope
Faculty of Science
Informatics Institute
NETHERLANDS
Gerhard Joubert
Carl Kesselman
Information Sciences Institute
Marina del Rey
Los Angeles, CA
Janusz Kowalik
formerly
The Boeing Company
Thomas Lippert
Institute for Advanced
Simulation
Juelich Supercomputing Centre
Juelich
Miron Livny
Computer Sciences Dept.
Ignacio Llorente
Distributed Systems
Architecture Group
Dpt. de Arquitectura de
Computadores y Automαtica
Facultad de Informαtica
Universidad Complutense de
Madrid
Alberto Masoni
INFN National Institute of
Nuclear Physics -
EU-IndiaGrid2
Satoshi Matsuoka
Department of Mathematical
and Computing Sciences
Tokyo Institute of
Technology
Paul Messina
Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne, IL
Silvio Migliori
ENEA - Italian National
Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment
Roma
Daniel Reed
Microsoft Research
Gilad Shainer
Mellanox Technologies
and
HPC Advisory Council
Peter Sloot
THE
Domenico Talia
Dept. of Electronics,
Informatics and Systems
ITALY
Organizing Committee
Ψ J. DONGARRA (USA)
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L. GRANDINETTI (
Ψ M. ALBAALI (SULTANATE OF OMAN)
Ψ M.C. INCUTTI (ITALY)
Ψ M. SHEIKHALISHAHI (IRAN)
Ψ M. DEVARE (INDIA)
Ψ V. TURCHENKO (UKRAINE)
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Paolo Anedda CRS4 Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Cagliari ITALY |
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Piotr Arlukowicz University of Gdansk POLAND |
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Marcos Athanasoulis |
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Frank Baetke Global HPC Technology Hewlett Packard |
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Bruce Becker South African National
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Gianfranco Bilardi Dept. of Electronics and Informatics Faculty of Engineering Padova |
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George Bosilca Innovative Computing Lab |
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Marian Bubak and Informatics Institute, University of
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Charlie Catlett Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, IL USA |
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Mathias Dalheimer Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial
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Tim David Centre for Bioengineering |
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Manoj Devare Dept. of Electronics, Informatics
and Systems Rende, CS |
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Sudip S. Dosanjh SANDIA National Labs |
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Skevos Evripidou Department of Computer Science |
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Jose Fortes Advanced Computing and Information
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Ian Foster and Dept. of Computer Science The |
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Guang Gao Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering |
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Alfred Geiger T-Systems Solutions for Research
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Wolfgang Gentzsch DEISA Distributed European
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Vladimir Getov UNITED KINGDOM |
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Dror Goldenberg Mellanox Technologies |
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Jean Gonnord CEA - The French Nuclear Agency Choisel FRANCE |
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Sergei Gorlatch Universitδt Mόnster Institut fόr Informatik Mόnster |
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Lucio Grandinetti Dept. of Electronics, Informatics
and Systems Rende, CS |
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Weiwu Hu Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing CHINA |
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Christopher Huggins ClusterVision THE |
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Chris Jesshope Informatic Institute, Faculty of Science THE NETHERLANDS |
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Peter Kacsuk MTA SZTAKI |
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Carl Kesselman Information Sciences Institute Marina del Rey, Los Angeles, CA USA |
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Janusz Kowalik |
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Valeria Krzhizhanovskaya St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University and THE |
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Marcel Kunze Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Steinbuch Centre for Computing |
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Tim Lanfear NVIDIA Ltd |
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Simon Lin Academia Sinica
Grid Computing (ASGC) |
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Thomas Lippert Juelich Supercomputing Centre Juelich |
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Miron Livny Computer Sciences Dept. |
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Ignacio Llorente Dpt. de Arquitectura de Computadores y
Automαtica Facultad de Informαtica Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
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Satoshi Matsuoka Dept. of Mathematical and
Computing Sciences Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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Timothy G. Mattson Intel Computational Software
Laboratory |
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Paul Messina Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, IL U.S.A. |
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Ken Miura Center for Grid Research and Development National |
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Leif Nordlund AMD |
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Jean-Pierre
Panziera Extreme Computing Division Bull |
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Christian Perez INRIA |
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Raoul Ramos Pollan CCETA-CIEMAT Computing Center |
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B. B. Prahlada
Rao Programme SSDG |
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Ulrich Rόde Lehrstuhl fuer Simulation Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg Erlangen GERMANY |
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Bernhard Schott Platform Computing Frankfurt |
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Satoshi Sekiguchi Information Technology Research
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Alex Shafarenko Dept. of Computer Science Hatfield |
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Mark Silberstein Technion-Israel Institute of Technology |
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Leonel Sousa INESC and TU Lisbon, Lisbon |
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Domenico Talia Dept. of Electronics, Informatics
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Dmitry Tkachev T-Platforms |
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Amy Wang Institute for Theoretical Computer
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Robert Wisniewski |
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Matt Wood Amazon Web Services Amazon |
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Hongsuk Yi Supercomputing Center KISTI Korea Institute of Science
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