PACT-SPDSEC02: The 1st International Workshop on Hardware/Software Support for Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, September 22, 2002
12:00-1:50 pm	Registration and Lunch
1:50-2:55 pm	Session 1: Keynote Speech Session Chair: Xian-he Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Laurence Tianruo Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Software and Hardware Support for Locality-Aware High Performance Computing Xiaodong Zhang, National Science Foundation and College of William and Mary , USA
2:50-3:05 pm	Break
	ROOM 1
3:05-3:45 pm	Session 2: Multithreading Session Chair: Stanislav G. Sedukhin, University of Aizu, Japan The Need for Adaptive Dynamic Thread Scheduling in Simultaneous Multithreading Chulho Shin, Seong-Won Lee and Jean-Luc Gaudiot University of Southern California and University of California at Irvine, USA Multithreaded Parallelism with OpenMP Raimi Rufai, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia
3:45-4:00 pm	Break
4:00-5:00 pm	Session 3: Performance Evaluation Session Chair: Xiaodong Zhang, National Science Foundation and College of William and Mary, USA Performance Evaluation of BLAS on the Trident Processor Mostafa I. Soliman and Stanislav G. Sedukhin, University of Aizu, Japan Use of Predictive Performance Modeling During Large-Scale System Installation Darren J. Kerbyson, Adolfy Hoisie, and Harvey J. Wasserman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Advances in Modeling and Simulation of Large Parallel/Distributed Systems Murali Nethi and James H. Aylor, University of Virginia, USA
5:00-5:15 pm	Break
5:15-6:15 pm	Session 4: Scheduling Session Chair: Kirk W. Cameron, University of South Carolina, USA Performance Analysis of Adaptive Scheduling Policies under Shared Heterogeneous Distributed Systems Jemal H. Abawajy, Carleton University, Canada Heuristic Methods for Scheduling Tasks on Multi-Processor Architecture Man Lin, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Timesharing Opportunistic Job Scheduling Policy for Clusters of Workstations Jemal H. Abawajy, Carleton University, Canada
	ROOM 2
3:05-3:45 pm	Session 5: Memory and Cache Optimization Session Chair: Jemal H. Abawajy, Carleton University, Canada Memory-Aware Communication –An Experimental Study with MPI Surendra Byna, Kirk W. Cameron and Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Locality Improvement for the Krylov Subspace Methods on Cache Memories Laurence Tianruo Yang and R. P. Brent, St Francis Xavier University, Canada and Oxford University, UK
3:45-4:00 pm	Break
4:00-5:00 pm	Session 6: Grid Computing Session Chair: Erich Schikuta, University of Vienna, Austria Towards a XML Based Data Grid Description Language Rene Felder and Erich Schikuta, University of Vienna, Austria A Schema to Backup and Restore the Stack Information of Thread Migration in Java Congpeng Ma, Ming Chen, Shuang Gao, Guangwen Yang, Meiming Shen, Weimin Zheng Tsinghua University, P. R. China Creating of Computational Grid Using Globus Toolkit and GPDKGPDK Hong Wu, Xue-bin Chi, Hai-li Xiao, Sun-gen Deng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, R. R. China
5:00-5:15 pm	Break
5:15-6:00 pm	Session 7: Distributed Systems and Applications Session Chair: Darren J. Kerbyson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Adaptive Selection of Materialized Queries in a Mediator for the Integration of Distributed Information Resources Kil Hong Joo and Won Suk Lee, Yonsei University, Korea A Distributed Simulator for Groundwater Systems Mario Donato Marino, Polytechnic School of University Sao Paulo, Brazil
6.00 pm	Workshop Closing