2012 Technical Program

 

7:15 AM Name badge pickup, breakfast & networking

Welcome and Keynote (McMurtry Auditorium)
Session chair: Jan E. Odegard, Executive Director, Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology, Rice University

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

Morning Plenary (McMurtry Auditorium)
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
McMurtry Auditorium
12:30 PM Parallel session B: Programming Models, Languages & Tools
Duncan Hall 1070
12:30 PM Parallel session C: Facilities & Infrastructure
Duncan Hall 1064
3:00 PM Networking break

Afternoon Plenary
McMurtry Auditorium
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
Towards Exascale Computing for Oil and Gas—Directions, Challenges and Strategies
Rajeeb Hazra, General Manager, High Performance Computing, Intel

Student and Postdoctoral Poster and Networking Session (Martel Hall)
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
McMurtry Auditorium
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
Duncan Hall 1070
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 University and 2Rice University
12:55 PM ASIODS: An Application and I/O Collaboration System
Maxime Hugues1, Henri Calandra2, Mike Moretti3, and Serge Petiton4
1INRIA, France, 2Total, 3DataDirect Networks and 4LIFL, 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 Analyzing the Performance of IWAVE on a Cluster using HPCToolkit
John Mellor-Crummey
Rice University
2:35 PM Moderated group discussion and Q&A

Parallel session C: Facilities and infrastructure
Duncan Hall 1064
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 Large Scale HPC Oil and Gas Clusters – Challenges, Risks, and Business Benefits
Kent Blancett1 and Darrin Machay2
1BP and 2Arista Networks
1:45 PM Large-Scale Visualization in HPC—Issues and Trends
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
Martel Hall
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
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
Gas Hydrate Distribution and Detection
Guangsheng Gu, Graduate Student, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University
Performance Analysis on Intel’s Single-Chip Cloud Computer (SCC)
Xu Liu, Graduate Student, Computer Science, Rice University
Next Generation Performance Tools for Heterogeneous Architectures
Milind Chabbi, Graduate Student, Computer Science, Rice University

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