HP-PAC Program, April 4, 2005

Session 0: Kickoff (8:30-9:45)
Welcome
David K. Lowenthal
Keynote: The Evolution of Power-Aware, High-Performance Clusters: From the Datacenter to the Desktop
Wu-chun Feng
Session 1: Metrics and Applications (10:00-11:30)
Towards Efficient Supercomputing: Choosing the Right Efficiency Metric
Chung-Hsing Hsu and Wu-chun Feng
Toward an Evaluation Infrastructure for Power and Energy Optimizations
Chunling Hu, Daniel Jimenez, and Ulrich Kremer
Reducing Power with Performance Contraints for Parallel Sparse Applications
Guilin Chen, Konrad Malkowski, Mahmut Kandemir, and Padma Raghavan
Session 2: Architectures (1:00-3:00)
MegaProto: A Low-Power and Compact Cluster for High-Performance Computing
Hiroshi Nakashima, Hiroshi Nakamura, Mitsuhisa Sato, Taisuke Boku, Satoshi Matsuoka, Daisuke Takahashi, and Yoshihiko Hotta
Performance Counters for Runtime Temperature Sensing in High-Performance Processors
Kyeong-Jae Lee and Kevin Skadron
Improving Energy-Efficiency by Bypassing Trivial Computations
Ehsan Atoofian and Amirali Baniasadi
Simultaneous Wire Permutation, Inversion, and Spacing with Genetic Algorithm for Energy-Efficient Bus Design
Shanq-Jang Ruan
Session 3: Voltage Scaling (3:15-4:45)
Improvement of Power-Performance Efficiency for High-End Computing
Rong Ge, Kirk Cameron, and Xizhou Feng
Exploring the Energy-Time Tradeoff in High-Performance Computing
Feng Pan, Vincent Freeh, and Daniel Smith
Scheduling Processor Voltage and Frequency in Server and Cluster Systems
Ramakrishna Kotla, Soraya Ghiasi, Tom Keller, and Freeman Rawson
Session 4: Group Discussion (4:45--5:30)