Monday, March 22

MS2
Performance and Scalability of Emerging Shared Memory Parallel Architectures

10:00 AM-12:30 PM
Room: Ballroom C

In the next few years, at least three vendors will introduce new computer systems that implement the abstraction of a shared memory parallel programming paradigm. Each of the systems will be configurable with up to thousands of nodes and capable of executing large-scale parallel scientific computations with a globally-addressable memory. However, each machine will implement the shared memory abstraction in a different way. In the details of these implementations, differences lie potential performance variations of one to two orders of magnitude, as well as significant ease of use issues for parallel program developers. It has not been demonstrated that performance on these shared memory architectures will scale to large numbers of processors. The speakers in this minisymposium will discuss system-level architecture, performance metrics, usability, and application performance.

Organizers: Adolfy Hoisie
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Patrick H. Worley
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

10:00-10:25UpdatedUpcoming Architectural Advances in DSM Machines and Their Impact on Programmability
Josep Torrellas, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
10:30-10:55UpdatedOrigin 2000: A Hardware Cache-Coherent Multiprocessing
Dongming Jiang and Jaswinder Pal Singh, Princeton University
11:00-11:25 Performance and Scalability Analysis of Multidimensional Wavefront Algorithms on Teraflop-Scale Architectures
Adolfy Hoisie, Organizer; Olaf Lubeck and Harvey Wasserman, Los Alamos National Laboratory
11:30-11:55 Performance of Large-Scale Scientific Applications on the IBM ASCI Blue-Pacific System
A. A. Mirin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
12:00-12:25 Performance and Programming Experience on the Tera MTA
UpdatedLarry Carter, University of California, San Diego; John Feo, Tera Computer Corporation; and Allan Snavely, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Cancelled 12:05-12:25 Early Evaluation of the SRC-6
Patrick H. Worley, Organizer; Arthur S. Bland, Thomas H. Dunigan, Philip F. LoCascio, G. Mahinthakumar, and Jack C. Wells, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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