SC 1995: San Diego, CA, USA

Keynote Address

• William A. Wulf:
  And Now for Some *Really* Super Computing.
  

Invited Speakers

• Cherri M. Pancake:
  The Emperor Has No Clothes: What HPC Users Need to Say and HPC Vendors Need to Hear.
  
• Pavel Curtis:
  Network Places: Concepts, Experiences, and Plans.
  
• Samuel Milosevich:
  Thriving on Information Anxiety: A Survival Guide to the Knowledge-Value Revolution.
  
• John Schill:
  Joint Task Force Advanced Technology Demonstration (JTF ATD).
  
• Richard M. Hodur:
  Numerical Weather Prediction and the America's Cup.
  
• Shuichi Iwata:
  Virtual Engineering: Challenges into Handy Engineering from Advanced and Super Technologies.
  
• Jack Donegan:
  How Many Miles per Gallon Does Your Computer Get?
  
• Seymour E. Goodman:
  An Examination of High-Performance Computing Export Control Policy in the 1990s.
  

ATM in High Performance Networks

• Yih Huang, Chengchang Huang, Philip K. McKinley:
  Multicast Virtual Topologies for Collective Communication in MPCs and ATM Clusters.
  
• Jose Roberto Fernandez, Matt W. Mutka:
  Model and Call Admission Control for Distributed Applications with Correlated Bursty Traffic.
  

Applied Algorithms

• Alan Williams, Kevin Burrage:
  Surface Fitting Using GCV Smoothing Splines on Supercomputers.
  
• Hassan Fallah-Adl, Joseph JáJá, Shunlin Liang, Yoram J. Kaufman, John Townshend:
  Efficient Algorithms for Atmospheric Correction of Remotely Sensed Data.
  

Education Papers

• Kim Mills, Geoffrey Fox, Paul D. Coddington, Barbara Mihalas, Marek Podgorny, Barbara Shelly, Steven Bossert:
  The Living Textbook and the K-12 Classroom of the Future.
  
• Casey Porto:
  Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center High School Initiative in Computational Science Report on Findings School Years: 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94.
  
• Ralph K. Coppola, Eva Erdosne Toth:
  Developing Computational Science Curricula: The EarthVision Experience.
  
• H. Albert Lilly:
  The Use of Cellular Automata in the Classroom.
  

Innovative Educational Issues

• Patricia J. Teller, Ted Dunning:
  Mobile Robots Teach Machine-Level Programming.
  
• Juan E. Villacis, Dennis Gannon:
  A Web Interface to Parallel Program Source Code Archetypes.
  
• Kris Stewart:
  HPC Undergraduate Curriculum Development at SDSU using SDSC Resources.
  

Data Mining

• Michael W. Berry, Susan T. Dumais, Todd A. Letsche:
  Computational Methods for Intelligent Information Access.
  
• B. Nassersharif, Richard Marciano, Sui-ky Ling, Eugene Ho, Curt Edmonds:
  High-Performance Computing Approaches for Using the WWW to Access a Large-Scale Environmental Dataset Repository.
  
• Shirley Browne, Jack Dongarra, Geoffrey Fox, Kenneth A. Hawick, Ken Kennedy, Rick Stevens, Robert Olson, Tom Rowan:
  Distributed Information Management in the National HPCC Software Exchange.
  

Applications: Biochemistry

• Ming-Hong Hao, Harold A. Scheraga:
  Computational Approach to the Statistical Mechanics of Protein Folding.
  
• Lynn F. Ten Eyck, Jeffrey Mandell, Victoria A. Roberts, Michael E. Pique:
  Surveying Molecular Interactions with DOT.
  
• Terry W. Clark, L. Ridgway Scott, Stanislaw Wloked, James Andrew McCammon:
  I/O Limitations in Parallel Molecular Dynamics.
  

Applications: Biology

• Bowen Alpern, Larry Carter, Kang Su Gatlin:
  Microparallelism and High-Performance Protein Matching.
  
• Jeff A. Jones, Katherine A. Yelick:
  Parallelizing the Phylogeny Problem.
  
• Nigel Snoad, Terry Bossomaier:
  MONSTER - the Ghost in the Connection Machine: Modularity of Neural Systems in Theoretical Evolutionary Research.
  

Partitioning Algorithms

• Stephen T. Barnard:
  PMRSB: Parallel Multilevel Recursive Spectral Bisection.
  
• Bruce Hendrickson, Robert W. Leland:
  A Multi-Level Algorithm For Partitioning Graphs.
  
• George Karypis, Vipin Kumar:
  Analysis of Multilevel Graph Partitioning.
  

Performance I

• Abdul Waheed, Diane T. Rover:
  A Structured Approach to Instrumentation System Development and Evaluation.
  
• Robert J. Block, Sekhar R. Sarukkai, Pankaj Mehra:
  Automated Performance Prediction of Message-Passing Parallel Programs.
  
• Steven Lumetta, Arvind Krishnamurthy, David E. Culler:
  Towards Modeling the Performance of a Fast Connected Components Algorithm on Parallel Machines.
  

Applications: Engineering

• Ramesh Natarajan, Dilip Krishnaswamy:
  A Case Study in Parallel Scientific Computing: The Boundary Element Method on a Distributed-Memory Multicomputer.
  
• Monika ten Bruggencate, Suresh Chalasani:
  Parallel Implementations of the Power System Transient Stability Problem on Clusters of Workstations.
  
• Craig Miller, David G. Payne, Thanh N. Phung, Herb Siegel, Roy Williams:
  Parallel Processing of Spaceborne Imaging Radar Data.
  

Parallel Software

• Scott R. Kohn, Scott B. Baden:
  A Parallel Software Infrastructure for Structured Adaptive Mesh Methods.
  
• Honghui Lu, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel:
  Message Passing Versus Distributed Shared Memory on Networks of Workstations.
  
• Trishul M. Chilimbi, Thomas Ball, Stephen G. Eick, James R. Larus:
  Storm Watch: A Tool for Visualizing Memory System Protocols.
  

Novel Execution Models

• WooYoung Kim, Gul Agha:
  Efficient Support of Location Transparency in Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming Languages.
  
• Nigel P. Topham, Alasdair Rawsthorne, Callum McLean, Muriel Mewissen, Peter L. Bird:
  Compiling and Optimizing for Decoupled Architectures.
  
• John Plevyak, Vijay Karamcheti, Xingbin Zhang, Andrew A. Chien:
  A Hybrid Execution Model for Fine-Grained Languages on Distributed Memory Multicomputers.
  

Applications: Physics

• Paul Bode, Edmund Bertschinger:
  Parallel Linear General Relativity and CMB Anisotropies.
  
• Ioana Banicescu, Susan Flynn Hummel:
  Balancing Processor Loads and Exploiting Data Locality in N-Body Simulations.
  
• Claude Bernard, Carleton DeTar, Steven Gottlieb, Urs M. Heller, James E. Hetrick, Naruhito Ishizuka, Leo Karkkainen, Steven R. Lantz, Kari Rummukainen, Robert L. Sugar, Doug Toussaint, Matthew Wingate:
  Lattice QCD on the IBM Scalable POWERParallel Systems SP2.
  

Gigabit Testbed Experiences

• Robert L. Clay, Peter Steenkiste:
  Distributing a Chemical Process Optimization Application Over a Gigabit Network.
  
• Wallace B. St. John, David H. DuBois:
  Wide-Area Gigabit Networking: Los Alamos HIPPI-SONET Gateway.
  

Compilers I

• Junjie Gu, Zhiyuan Li, Gyungho Lee:
  Symbolic Array Dataflow Analysis for Array Privatization and Program Parallelization.
  
• Gagan Agrawal, Joel H. Saltz:
  Interprocedural Compilation of Irregular Applications for Distributed Memory Machines.
  
• Mary W. Hall, Saman P. Amarasinghe, Brian R. Murphy, Shih-Wei Liao, Monica S. Lam:
  Detecting Coarse - Grain Parallelism Using an Interprocedural Parallelizing Compiler.
  

Parallel Tools

• Vikram S. Adve, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Mark Anderson, Ken Kennedy, Jhy-Chun Wang, Daniel A. Reed:
  An Integrated Compilation and Performance Analysis Environment for Data Parallel Programs.
  
• David Abramson, Ian T. Foster, John Michalakes, Rok Sosic:
  Relative Debugging and its Application to the Development of Large Numerical Models.
  
• Steven G. Parker, Christopher R. Johnson:
  SCIRun: A Scientific Programming Environment for Computational Steering.
  

Performance II

• Thomas L. Sterling, Daniel Savarese, Peter MacNeice, Kevin Olson, Clark Mobarry, Bruce Fryxell, Phillip Merkey:
  A Performance Evaluation of the Convex SPP-1000 Scalable Shared Memory Parallel Computer.
  
• Karim Harzallah, Kenneth C. Sevcik:
  Predicting Application Behavior in Large Scale Shared-memory Multiprocessors.
  

Issues in Scheduling, Networking, and Computer Misuse Detection

• Min-You Wu, Wei Shu:
  High-Performance Incremental Scheduling on Massively Parallel Computers - A Global Approach.
  
• Scott Pakin, Mario Lauria, Andrew A. Chien:
  High Performance Messaging on Workstations: Illinois Fast Messages (FM) for Myrinet.
  
• Gary G. Christoph, Kathleen A. Jackson, Michael C. Neuman, Christine L. B. Siciliano, Dennis D. Simmonds, Cathy A. Stallings, Joseph L. Thompson:
  UNICORN: Misuse Detection for UNICOS(TM).
  

Input/Output for High Performance Systems

• Kent E. Seamons, Ying Chen, P. Jones, J. Jozwiak, Marianne Winslett:
  Server-Directed Collective I/O in Panda.
  
• Michael Hemy, Peter Steenkiste:
  Gigabit I/O for Distributed-Memory Machines: Architecture and Applications.
  
• Phyllis Crandall, Ruth A. Aydt, Andrew A. Chien, Daniel A. Reed:
  Input/Output Characteristics of Scalable Parallel Applications.
  

Architecture

• Andrew Erlichson, Basem A. Nayfeh, Jaswinder Pal Singh, Kunle Olukotun:
  The Benefits of Clustering in Shared Address Space Multiprocessors: An Applications-Driven Investigation.
  
• Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, Michael L. Scott, Ricardo Bianchini:
  Lazy Release Consistency for Hardware-Coherent Multiprocessors.
  
• Umakishore Ramachandran, Gautam Shah, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Aman Singla, Ivan Yanasak:
  Architectural Mechanisms for Explicit Communication in Shared Memory Multiprocessors.
  

Gordon Bell Prize Finalists

• Junichiro Makino, Makoto Taiji:
  Astrophysical N-body simulations on the GRAPE-4 Special-Purpose Computer.
  
• Panayotis Skordos:
  Price and Performance of Simulating Wind Instruments.
  
• Masahiro Yoshida, Atushi Nakamura, Masahiro Fukuda, Takashi Nakamura, S. Hioki:
  Quantum Chromodynamics Simulation on NWT.
  

Applications: Fluid Dynamics

• John Z. Lou, Robert D. Ferraro:
  A Parallel Incompressible Flow Solver Package with a Parallel Multigrid Elliptic Kernel.
  
• Xiaohua Wu, Kyle D. Squires, Thomas S. Lund:
  Large Eddy Simulation of a Spatially-Developing Boundary Layer.
  
• D. N. Jayasimha, M. E. Hayder, S. K. Pillay:
  Parallelizing Navier-Stokes Computations on a Variety of Architectural Platforms.
  

Compilers II

• Martin C. Rinard:
  Communication Optimizations for Parallel Computing Using Data Access Information.
  
• Raja Das, Paul Havlak, Joel H. Saltz, Ken Kennedy:
  Index Array Flattening Through Program Transformation.
  
• Manish Gupta, Samuel P. Midkiff, Edith Schonberg, Ven Seshadri, David Shields, Ko-Yang Wang, Wai-Mee Ching, Ton Ngo:
  An HPF Compiler for the IBM SP2.
  

Performance III

• Masayuki Kuba, Constantine D. Polychronopoulos, Kyle Gallivan:
  The Synergetic Effect of Compiler, Architecture, and Manual Optimizations on the Performance of CFD On Multiprocessors.
  
• Henri E. Bal, L. Victor Allis:
  Parallel Retrograde Analysis on a Distributed System.
  

Matrix Computations

• Anshul Gupta, Vipin Kumar:
  Parallel Algorithms for Forward and Back Substitution in Direct Solution of Sparse Linear Systems.
  
• Ananth Grama, Vipin Kumar, Ahmed H. Sameh:
  Parallel Matrix-Vector Product Using Approximate Hierarchical Methods.
  

Compilers III

• Ken Kennedy, Ulrich Kremer:
  Automatic Data Layout for High Performance Fortran.
  
• Bruce S. Siegell, Peter Steenkiste:
  Controlling Application Grain Size on a Network of Workstations.
  
• Jordi Garcia, Eduard Ayguadé, Jesús Labarta:
  A Novel Approach Towards Automatic Data Distribution.
  

Applications: Ocean and Atmospheric Modeling

• Clive F. Baillie, James C. McWilliams, Jeffrey B. Weiss, Irad Yavneh:
  Implementation and Performance of a Grand Challenge 3d Quasi-Geostrophic Multi-Grid code on the Cray T3D and IBM SP2.
  
• Santhosh Kumaran, Robert N. Miller, Michael J. Quinn:
  Architecture-Adaptable Finite Element Modelling: A Case Study using an Ocean Circulation Simulation.
  
• James Demmel, Sharon Smith:
  Performance of a Parallel Global Atmospheric Chemical Tracer Model.
  

Panels

• Dennis Gannon, Larry Smarr, Vincent Schuster:
  Where is the Supercomputer Software Revolution?
  
• Jack Donegan:
  Mayors' Panel.
  
• John P. Ziebarth:
  Community Networking I - Applications.
  
• John P. Ziebarth:
  Community Networking II - Technology.
  
• Robert Borchers, Tom Anderson, Burton J. Smith, Steven Wallach:
  Goldilocks and the Three Bears Confront the Future of Supercomputing.
  
• Craig Lund, J. Muñoz:
  Embedded Applications for High Performance Computing.
  
• Becky Bace, Gary Christoph, Tsutomu Shimomura, Eugene H. Spafford:
  Information Superhighway or Road to Ruin?
  
• Norris Parker Smith, Forest Baskett, Irving Wladawski:
  Are Tereflops Commercial Flops?
  

Workshops

• Brian T. Smith:
  HPF: A User's Perspective.
  
• Francis Wray:
  EUROPORT Activities.
  
• Careers for Women in Computer Science and Engineering.
  
• Dennis Gannon:
  Object Oriented Parallel Programming.
  
• Paul Messina, James C. T. Pool, Thomas L. Sterling:
  System Software and Tools for High-Performance Computing Environments.
  
• James C. T. Pool:
  Research Issues in Scalable I/O.