Final Program

Message from the Chairs

Information for presenters

Conference venue

SUNDAY, June 8th

  1. 4:00 pmConference Registration Desk Opens

  2. 5:00 pmExhibit Floor Available for Setups

  3. 6:00 pmWelcome Cocktail  (Le Pub, 1st floor)

  4. 7:30 pmHerzberg public lecture  (Théâtre de la Cité Universitaire, Palasis-Prince building, #6)

MONDAY, June 9th

  1. 8:00 amRegistration & Continental Breakfast

  2. 8:30 amWelcome Address  (Hydro-Québec auditorium, 2nd floor)

  3. 9:00 amInvited Speaker : Greg Wilson,  University of Toronto  (Hydro-Québec auditorium, 2nd floor)
    High-Performance Computing Considered Harmful

  4. 9:40 amCoffee break

  5. 10:00 amSession 1 : Applications to Physics and Chemistry  (Hydro-Québec auditorium, 2nd floor)
    - E. Lorin et al.,  Efficient Parallel Computing for Laser-Gas Quantum Interaction and Propagation
    -     D. Sénéchal,  The Variational Cluster Approximation for Hubbard Models :  Practical Implementation
    -     Z. Ning et al.,  MATDCAL: a first principles package for nanoelectronics modeling
    -     D.M. Koch et al.,  Computational Investigation of Protein Chemistry: S-Nitrosohemoglobin,
    -     G. Lamoureux,  Computational Enzymology: Promises and Challenges,

    Session 2 : OSCAR  (room 2320)
    - S. Scott, Introduction / Welcome
    - A. Gazendam,      Building and Refining General Purpose Computing Clusters in an Emerging HPC Oriented Research Environment
    -     A. Kulkarni et al.,  Stateless clustering using OSCAR and PERCEUS
    -     D. Buntinas et al.,  A Scalable Tools Communication Infrastructure
    -     G. Vallée et al.,  Proposal for Modifications to the OSCAR Architecture to Address Challenges in Distributed System Management
    -     P. Greidanus et al.,  Using OSCAR to win the Cluster Challenge

  6. 12:10 pmHP Sponsored Lunch  (Le Cercle restaurant, 4th floor)
    Keynote (12:50 pm) : Scott Misage, HP Director for Advanced Technologies
    What's Up in the Clouds ?

  7. 1:30 pmSession 3 : Grid Computing  (Hydro-Québec auditorium, 2nd floor)
    - T. Elahi et al.,  Models for Grid Applications and Jobs
    -     N. Dubé et al.,  Utility Computing and Market-based Scheduling: Shortcomings for Grid Resources Sharing and the Next Steps
    -     N. Markatchev et al.,  A Framework for Executing Long Running Jobs in Grid Environments
    -     A. Charbonneau et al.,  SpectroGrid: Providing Simple Secure Remote Access to Scientific Instruments

  8. 3:10 pmCoffee break

  9. 3:30 pmVendor Session 1A  (room 2320)
    - D. Quintero (IBM), A Broad Based Approach to High Performance Computing
    - G. Bontje (HP),     Building Balanced Scalable Solutions
    - J. Lim (Cisco),     Scalable Fabrics for Compute and Storage Clusters

    Vendor Session 1B  (room 2326)
    - L. Maroun (APC), Cooling Solutions for High Density Datacenters
    - M. Corcoran (Sicortex), High Density 'Green' Supercomputing
    - SGI,     Green Computing

  10. 5:10 pmEnd of Day 1

  11. 8:00 pmPublic lecture on the History of Science in Québec (in French)
    (Théâtre de la Cité Universitaire, Palasis-Prince building, #6)

TUESDAY, June 10th

  1. 8:00 amMicrosoft Sponsored Breakfast  (Le Cercle restaurant, 4th floor)
    Keynote (8:30 am) : Frank Chism, Microsoft HPC Technology Specialist
    Measured Performance of CIFS (SMB) as a Global File System for a Moderate Sized Cluster

  2. 9:10 amInvited Speaker : Mark Potse, Université de Montréal  (Hydro-Québec auditorium, 2nd floor)
    Large-scale integrative modeling of the human heart

  3. 9:50 amCoffee Break

  4. 10:00 amSession 4 : Computational Physics  (Hydro-Québec auditorium, 2nd floor)
    (this is a joint session with the     CAP congress)
    - H. Couchman,  Computational Astrophysics
    -     M. Vetterli,  ATLAS Computing: Dealing with PetaBytes of Data per Year
    -     H. Trottier,  Quantum Chromodynamics on a space-time lattice
    -     M. Troyer,  Simulating exotic quantum states of matter
    -     N. Mousseau,  Simuler la dynamique des protéines : Simulating Protein Dynamics

    Session 5 : Systems and Parallelization  (room 2320)
    - M. Xu et al.,  Exploiting Data Locality in FFT using Indirect Swap Network on Cell/B.E.
    -     M.J. Rashti et al.,  Improving Communication Progress and Overlap in MPI Rendez-vous Protocol over RDMA-enabled Interconnects
    -     A.C. Sodan et al.,  Group-Based Optimization for Parallel Job Scheduling with Scojo-PECT-O
    -     R. Singh et al.,  Performance Driven Partial Checkpoint/Migrate for LAM-MPI
    -     Y. Guan et al.,  Parallel Implementation of a Subsystem-by-Subsystem Solver,

  5. 12:30 pmIBM Sponsored Lunch (Le Cercle restaurant, 4th floor)
    Keynote (13:10 pm) : Dave Turek, IBM Vice President Deep Computing
    High Performance Computing - the Key to Innovation

  6. 1:50 pmSession 6A : Applications to Continuous Systems  (Hydro-Québec auditorium, 2nd floor)
    - A. Ben Haj Ali et al.,  Combined functional and geometrical decompositions for multiphysics problems with application to fluid-structure interaction
    -     E. Chamberland et al.,  Performance measurements of a contact searching algorithm for solving large deformation problems
    -     H.J. Eberl et al.,  Computing Intensive Simulations in Biofilm Modeling

  7. 3:05 pmCoffee Break

  8. 3:15 pmSession 6B : Applications to Continuous Systems  (Hydro-Québec auditorium, 2nd floor)
    - J. Xu et al.,  A computational study of external shear forces in biofilm clusters
    -     M.I. Daoud et al.,  Parallel Three-Dimensional Simulation of Ultrasound Imaging

  9. 4:05 pmVendor session 2A  (room 2320)
    - K.M. Smith (Dell), Unlocking your Hidden Datacenter
    - F. Chism (Microsoft),     HPC++ : Simplifying HPC with Windows Compute Clusters
    - M. Dewar (NAG),     Supporting Project HECToR in the UK
    -     C.A. Cumbaa & I. Jurisica,  Scale Changes Everything – Crystallography Image Analysis on the World Community Grid

    Vendor session 2B  (room 2326)
    - C. Paquette (Cray), Growing a “Green” HPC Future
    - R. Scott (DDN),     Reducing Human Intervention in the Maintenance of Mass Storage Systems
    - L.J. Leon (Acceleware),     Using GPU Computing to Accelerate your HPC Applications

  10. 5:45 pmEnd of Day 2

  11. 6:15 pmBus departure to banquet venue

  12. 7:00 pmConference Banquet  (“Espaces Dalhousie”, 84 rue Dalhousie)

WEDNESDAY, June 11th

  1. 8:00 amDell Sponsored Breakfast (Le Cercle restaurant, 4th floor)
    Keynote (8:30 am) : Kevin M. Smith, Enterprise Solutions Marketing Manager
    Simplifying HPCC deployments - Micro to Macro

  2. 9:10 amInvited Speaker : Tom Woo, University of Ottawa  (Hydro-Québec auditorium, 2nd floor)
    How Do We Simulate Things at the Scale of Molecules and Electrons? An Introduction to the Technology and HPC Aspects of Computational Chemistry

  3. 9:50 amCoffee Break

  4. 10:00 amSession 7 : Applications to Physics and ATLAS  (Hydro-Québec auditorium, 2nd floor)
    - H. Martel,  High-Performance Chemodynamical Simulations of Galaxy Formation
    -     I. Tamblyn et al.,  Exploring the high pressure phase diagrams of light elements using large scale ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations,
    -     C. Payne et al.,  High Performance Networks for the ATLAS Tier-1 @ TRIUMF
    -     D. Deatrich et al. Managing Petabyte-scale storage for the ATLAS Tier-1 centre at TRIUMF
    -     D. Deatrich et al.,  Grid Infrastructure and Large Scale Production for ATLAS

  5. 12:10 pmSun Sponsored Lunch (Le Cercle restaurant, 4th floor)
    Keynote (12:50 pm): Marc Tremblay, Sun Senior Vice President and CTO, Microelectronics

  6. 1:30 pmCompute Canada General Meeting  (Hydro-Québec auditorium, 2nd floor)

  7. 2:00 pmClosing remarks  (Hydro-Québec auditorium, 2nd floor)

  8. 2:15 pmTECC general Meeting  (Hydro-Québec auditorium, 2nd floor)

  9. 4:00 pmEnd of Day 3