2012 Technical Program

Time Title/Speaker
7:15 AM Registration, breakfast & networking
8:15 AM Welcome remarks
Jan E. Odegard, Rice University
8:30 AM Opening Keynote
The Next Generation of HPC: A Seismic Shift
Peter Ungaro, President and CEO, Cray Inc.

Morning Plenary
Session chair: David Judson, HPC Architect, WesternGeco

Time Title/Speaker
9:20 AM IWAVE: a framework for regular grid finite difference modeling
William Symes, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
10:00 AM Networking break
10:45 AM Data Center environmental monitoring – efficiencies and future challenges
Farhad Banisadr and Richard Rivera, LANL
11:25 AM Lunch and networking break

Parallel Sessions

Time Title/Speaker
12:30 PM Parallel session A: Benchmarking, Optimization & Performance
12:30 PM Parallel session B: Programming Models, Languages & Tools
12:30 PM Parallel session C: Facilities & Infrastructure
3:00 PM Networking break

Afternoon Plenary
Session chair: David Judson, HPC Architect, WesternGeco

Time Title/Speaker
3:30 PM Parallel sessions reporting to plenary, panel discussion format
4:30 PM Afternoon Keynote
coming soon …

Student and Postdoctoral Poster and Networking Session
Session chair: Jan E. Odegard, Executive Director, Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology, Rice University

Time Title/Speaker
5:15 PM Student and Postdoctoral Poster and Networking Session
7:00 PM Adjourn

Parallel session A: Benchmarking, optimization & performance
Session chairs: Jan E. Odegard, Executive Director, Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology, Rice University and Chap Wong, Chevron Fellow, Chevron

Time Title/Speaker
12:30 PM Performance Model for 3D Stencil Computation
Mauricio Araya-Polo1 and Raul de la Cruz2
1Repsol USA and 2Barcelona Supercomputing Center
12:55 PM Characterization and modeling of finite difference stencil performance
Philippe Thierry, Leo Borges and Jamel Tayeb
Intel Corp
1:20 PM Advances in HPC for Oil and Gas: The Intel MIC Architecture
Lars Koesterke and Yaakoub El-Khamra
The University of Texas at Austin
1:45 PM Early Experiences In Porting IWAVE to OpenCL on the Fusion APU
Ted Barragy1 and William Symes2
1AMD and 2Rice University
2:10 PM High Performance Compute Platform based on multi-core DSP for Seismic modeling and imaging
Murtaza Ali1, William Symes2, Xiaohui Li1, Eric Stotzer1 and Jan E. Odegard2
2Texas Instruments and 2Rice University
2:35 PM Moderated group discussion and Q&A

Parallel session B: Programming models, languages and tools
Session chairs: Scott Morton, Manager, Geophysical Technology, Hess Corporation and Henri Calandra, Technical Advisor in Depth Imaging and High Performance Computing, Total

Time Title/Speaker
12:30 PM Loo.py: A Loop Generation Tool for CPUs and GPUs
Andreas Kloeckner1 and Tim Warburton2
1New York Universityand 2Rice University
12:55 PM ASIODS: An Application and I/O Collaboration System
Maxime Hugues1, Mike Moretti2, and Serge Petiton3
1INRIA, France, 2DataDirect Networks and 3LIFL, France
1:20 PM Implementation and Evaluation of Coarray Fortran
Deepak Eachempati1, Debjyote Majumder1, Barbara Chapman1, Terrence Liao2 and Henri Calandra2
1University of Houston and 2Total
1:45 PM Challenges in application of HPC for reservoir simulation
Bret Beckner, Vadim Dyadechko and Serguei Maliassov
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
2:10 PM title coming soon
John Mellor-Crummey
Rice University
2:35 PM Moderated group discussion and Q&A

Parallel session C: Facilities and infrastructure
Session chairs: Keith Gray, Manager, High Performance Computing, BP and Bill Menger, HPC Manager, Weinman Geoscience

Time Title/Speaker
12:30 PM Data Center Efficiency – turning up the heat
David Baldwin
Petroleum Geo-Services
12:55 PM Design and Implementation of Technical Computing facilities in Hess Tower
Jeff Davis, Gary Whittle, Jim Breef and Vic Forsyth
Hess Corporation
1:20 PM Pushing the Envelope with Very Large Scale HPC Oil and Gas Ethernet Clusters – Challenges, Risks and Business Benefits
Dave Twinam1 and Kent Blancett2
1Arista Networks and 2BP
1:45 PM Tentative title: Distributed visualization and remote collaboration
Kelly Gaither1 and Erik Engquist2
1The University of Texas at Austin and 2Rice University
2:10 PM Designing a Flexible, Energy Efficient High Performance Computing Facility
Frank Hersom, Saad Dimachkieh and Gary Kuzma
HOK Architects
2:35 PM Moderated group discussion and Q&A

Student and Postdoctoral Poster and Networking Session
Session chairs: David Judson, HPC Architect, WesternGeco and Jan E. Odegard, Executive Director, Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology, Rice University

Poster Session (5:15 PM – 7:00 PM)
The Effect of Oil Prices on the Economy
Benjamin Tang, Graduate Student, Statistics, Rice University
Shape-Specific FePt Nanocrystals for Spin-Transfer Torque in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
Kai He, Undergrad student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
Stochastic Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Single Phase Flow
Kun Liu, Graduate Student, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
Methane Hydrate Distribution in Heterogeneous Marine Sediments
Sayantan Chatterjee, Graduate Student, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University
Chracterizing the pore structrue of vuggy carbonates
Neeraj Rohilla, Graduate Student, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University
2D Harmonic Coordinate Finite Element Method for Acoustic Waves
Xin Wang, Graduate Student, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
Hybrid finite volume and discontinuous Galerkin method for convection-diffusion problems
Xin Yang, Graduate Student, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
Acceleration of the Front Propagation Segmentation Algorithm: Towards Tumor Volumetrics
Yunming Zhang, Undergrad student, Computer Science, Rice University
1D Acoustic Transparency Property
Yin Huang, Graduate Student, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
The formation and evolution of triangle zones in fold-and-thrust-belts: Insights from DEM simulations
Sarah Dean , Graduate Student, Earth Science, Rice University
Coarray Fortran 2.0: A productive language for scalable scientific computing
Chaoran Yang, Graduate Student, Computer Science, Rice University
Coarray Fortran 2.0 on petascale architectures
Karthik Murthy, Graduate Student, Computer Science, Rice University
Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of mineral dissolution at different scales
Inna Kurganskaya, Graduate Student, Earth Science, Rice University

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