Thursday, September 17
2015 IEEE High Performance
Extreme Computing Conference
(HPEC ‘15)
Nineteenth Annual HPEC Conference
15 - 17 September 2015
Westin Hotel, Waltham, MA USA
Plenary Session
9:00-10:00 in Eden Vale B
Chair: Dr. Albert Reuther / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Keynote Speaker:
The Emerging Field of Performance Engineering
Prof. Charles Leiserson (ACM/AAAS/SIAM Fellow - MIT CSAIL)
Break (10:00-10:20)
Resilient/Secure/Parallel Computing 1
10:20-12:00 in Eden Vale A1 - A2
Chair: Franz Franchetti / CMU
Enabling Application Resilience through Programming Model based Fault Amelioration
Saurabh Hukerikar, Pedro C. Diniz, Robert F. Lucas, University of Southern California
Secure Architecture for Embedded Systems
Michael Vai, Ben Nahill, Josh Kramer, Michael Geis, Dan Utin, David Whelihan, Roger Khazan, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
DDR Memory Errors caused by Row Hammer
Barbara Aichinger, FuturePlus Systems Corporation
Invited Talk: Kickstarting Parallel Computing for the Masses
Mr. Andreas Olofsson, CEO Adapteva
Bioinformatics & Big Data 1
10:20-12:00 in Eden Vale C1 - C2
Chairs: Prof. John Quackenbush / Harvard Dept of Biostatistics &
Prof. Wei Ding / Director - Knowledge Discovery Lab U.Mass Boston
Invited Talk
Apache Spark - In Memory Big Data Analytics
Prof. Matei Zaharia. MIT CSAIL - Founder DataBricks
Invited Talk
Pfizer’s Computing Infrastructure for Molecular Design: use of HPC, the Cloud, and Service-Oriented Architecture
Dr. Enoch Huang, Head of Computational Sciences Pfizer
DAWN: Rapid Larse-Scale Protein Multiple Sequence Alignment and Conservation Analysis
Darrell O. Ricke, Anna Shcherbina, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Invited Talk
Discovering Disease Subtypes from Data
Prof. Jennifer Dy, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Northeastern
Invited Talk
High Performance Computing in RNA Bioinformatics
Prof. Peter Clote, Dept of Biology - Boston College
Lunch; View Posters and Demos
12:00-1:00 in Emerson
GPU 1
1:00-2:40 in Eden Vale A3
Chair: Dan Campbell / GTRI
Sorting Sixteen Numbers
Ming Ouyang, University of Massachusetts Boston
GPU Acceleration of Iterative Physical Optics-based Electromagnetic Simulations
Vivek Venugopalan, Cagatay Tokgoz, UTRC
An Energy-Efficient Abstraction for Simultaneous Breadth-First Searches
Adam McLaughlin Jason Riedy David A. Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology
Accelerating K-Means Clustering with Parallel Implementations and GPU computing
Janki Bhimani, Miriam Leeser, Ningfang Mi, Northeastern University
Resilient/Secure/Parallel Computing 2
1:00-2:40 in Eden Vale A1 - A2
Chair: David Cousins / BBN
Atomic-Delayed Execution: A Concurrent Programming Model for Incomplete Graph-based Computations
Pedro C. Diniz, University of Southern California
Leakage Evaluation on Power Balance Countermeasure Against Side-Channel Attack on FPGAs
Xin Fang, Pei Luo, Yunsi Fei, and Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University
Parallel Vectorized Algebraic AES in MATLAB for Rapid Prototyping of Encrypted Sensor Processing Algorithms and
Database Analytics
Jeremy Kepner, Vijay Gadepally, Braden Hancock, Peter Michaleas, Elizabeth Michel, Mayank Varia, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Big Data Strategies for Data Center Infrastructure Management Using a 3D Gaming Platform
Matthew Hubbell, Andrew Moran, William Arcand, David Bestor, Bill Bergeron, Chansup Byun, Vijay Gadepally, Peter Michaleas, Julie Mullen,
Andrew Prout, Albert Reuther, Antonio Rosa, Charles Yee, Jeremy Kepner, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Bioinformatics & Big Data 2
1:00-2:40 in Eden Vale C1 - C2
Chair: Don Peck / General Electric
D4M: Bringing Associative Arrays to Database Engines
Vijay Gadepally, Jeremy Kepner, William Arcand, David Bestor, Bill Bergeron, Chansup Byun, Lauren Edwards, Matthew Hubbell, Peter
Michaleas, Julie Mullen, Andrew Prout, Antonio Rosa, Charles Yee, Albert Reuther, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
[Best Student Paper Finalist]
Improving Big Data Visual Analytics with Interactive Virtual Reality
Andrew Moran, MIT Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vijay Gadepally, Matthew Hubbell, Jeremy Kepner, MIT Lincoln
Laboratory
Biomedical Relation Extraction Using Stochastic Difference Equations
Carl Tony Fakhry, Kourosh Zarringhalam, Ping Chen, University of Massachusetts Boston
High Performance Computing of Gene Regulatory Networks using a Message-Passing Model
Kimberly Glass, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, John Quackenbush, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard
School of Public Health, Jeremy Kepner, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Lustre, Hadoop, Accumulo
Jeremy Kepner, William Arcand, David Bestor, Bill Bergeron, Chansup Byun, Lauren Edwards, Vijay Gadepally, Matthew Hubbell, Peter
Michaleas, Julie Mullen, Andrew Prout, Antonio Rosa, Charles Yee, Albert Reuther, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Break (2:40-3:00)
GPU 2
3:00-4:40 in Eden Vale A3
Chair: Hahn Kim / Lockheed Martin
Algorithm Flattening: Complete branch elimination for GPU requires a paradigm shift from CPU thinking
Lucas Vespa, Alexander Bauman, Jenny Wells, University of Illinois Springfield
GPU Implementation of Reverse Coordinate Conversion for Proteins
Mahsa Bayati, Jaydeep P. Bardhan, Miriam Leeser, Northeastern Univ.
Bisection and Twisted SVD on GPU
Lu He, Yan Luo, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Rui Liu, Wake Forest University, Hengyong Yu, Yu Cao, University of Massachusetts
Lowell, Xuzhou Chen, Fitchburg State University, Seung Woo Son, University of Massachusetts Lowell
GPU Accelerated Geometric Multigrid Method: Comparison with Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient
Iulian Stroia, Siemens SRL / Transilvania University of Braşov, Romania ; Lucian Itu*, Siemens SRL / Transilvania University of Braşov,
Romania; Cosmin Niţă, Siemens SRL / Transilvania University of Braşov, Romania; Laszlo Lazăr, Siemens SRL, Romania; Constantin Suciu,
Transilvania University of Braşov / Siemens SRL, Romania
Full-Chain Benchmarking for Open Architecture Airborne ISR Systems: A Case Study for GMTI Radar Applications
Matthias Beebe, Matthew Alexander, Paul Foley, Denise Galejs, Stephen Mooney, Iulian Popescu, Kevin Rottman, Meryl Stav
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Resilient/Secure/Parallel Computing 3
3:00-4:40 in Eden Vale A1 - A2
Chair: Patrick Dreher / MIT
Automatic Cluster Parallelization and Minimizing Communication via Selective Data Replication
Sanket Tavarageri, Benoit Meister, Muthu Baskaran, Benoit Pradelle, Tom Henretty, Athanasios Konstantinidis, Ann Johnson, Richard Lethin
Reservoir Labs
Enabling On-Demand Database Computing with MIT SuperCloud Database Management System
Andrew Prout, Jeremy Kepner, Peter Michaleas, William Arcand, David Bestor, Bill Bergeron, Chansup Byun, Lauren Edwards, Vijay Gadepally,
Matthew Hubbell, Julie Mullen, Antonio Rosa, Charles Yee, Albert Reuther, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
FIDES: Enhancing Trust in Reconfigurable Based Hardware Systems Effective Parallelization Strategies for Scalable,
High Performance Radio Frequency Ray Tracing
Devu Manikantan Shila, UTRC, USA; Vivek Venugopalan*, UTRC, USA; Cameron Patterson, Virginia Tech, USA
Effective Parallelization Strategies for Scalable, High Performance Radio Frequency Ray Tracing
Christiaan Gribble*, SURVICE Engineering Company, USA; Jefferson Amstutz, SURVICE Engineering Company, USA
Bioinformatics & Big Data 3
3:00-4:40 in Eden Vale C1 - C2
Chair: Chansup Byun / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Hierarchical Clustering and K-means Analysis of HPC Application Kernels Performance Characteristics
M.L. Grodowitz, Sarat Sreepathi, Oak Ridge National Lab
Multi-modal Sensor Registration for Vehicle Perception via Deep Neural Networks
Michael Giering, Vivek Venugopalan, Kishore Reddy, UTRC
A Signals Processing and Big Data Framework for Monte Carlo Aircraft Encounters
Andrew Weinert, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
A Cloud-based approach to Big Graphs
Paul Burkhardt, Chris Waring, DoD