1994 PVM Users' Group Meeting Oak Ridge, Tennessee May 19-20, 1994, Garden Plaza Hotel, Oak Ridge, TN Sponsored by Department of Energy University of Tennessee with support from Cray Research, Convex, and Intel The second PVM Users' Group Meeting will be held May 19th and 20th, 1994, at the Garden Plaza Hotel, Oak Ridge, TN. The meeting will provide an opportunity for users of PVM to meet each other, share ideas and experiences, and meet the members of the PVM Team. AGENDA ================================================================================ WEDNESDAY (May 18) ================================================================================ 6:00-9:00 Conference Registration/Reception (Lobby/Poolside) ================================================================================ THURSDAY (May 19) ================================================================================ 7:30-8:30 Coffee and muffins 8:00-5:00 Conference Registration ================================================================================ 8:30-8:40 OPENING SESSION and WELCOME Session Chair: G. A. Geist ================================================================================ 8:40-9:20 (Invited talk) Vaidy Sunderam "PVM: Recent Developments and New Initiatives" 9:20-10:00 (Invited talk) Marco Annaratone "Client/Server Paradigm and Programming Models in Technical Computing" 10:00-10:30 Break ================================================================================ 10:30-12:00 PARALLEL SESSION 1A Contributed Papers ________________________________________________________________________________ Application - Room A Material 1 Chair: Steven Lee, ORNL ________________________________________________________________________________ 10:30-10:50 Andreas Stathopoulos, Vanderbilt University "PVM Implementations of Atomic Structure Programs" 10:50-11:10 Lalla Mantovani, Universita di Modena, Italy "Highly Parallel SCF Calculation: The SYSMO Program" 11:10-11:30 Victor S. Batista "Short-Range Molecular Dynamics" 11:30-11:50 ================================================================================ 10:30-12:00 PARALLEL SESSION 1B Contributed Papers ________________________________________________________________________________ Making Room B Programs Chair: Peter Newton, UTK ________________________________________________________________________________ 10:30-10:50 R. Jesse Chaney, Oregon State University "Translating An Existing Scientific Program to Use PVM" 10:50-11:10 Judith Devaney, Nat'l Inst. of Standards & Technology "PVM_MAKE: A Utility for Remote Transfer and Compilation of PVM Programs Using PVM" 11:10-11:30 Ahmed Hafeez, University of Massachusetts "A User Transparent "Parallel Virtual Machine" (PVM)" 11:30-11:50 Anthony Drummond, CERFACS "Parallel Block Iterative Solvers for Heterogeneous Computing Environments" ================================================================================ 10:30-12:00 PARALLEL SESSION 1C Contributed Papers ________________________________________________________________________________ Resource Room C Managers Chair: Philip Papadopoulos, ORNL ________________________________________________________________________________ 10:30-10:50 J. Pruyne and M. Livny,, University of Wisconsin "Providing Resource Management Services for PVM Applications" 10:50-11:10 Juan Leon "Fail-Safe PVM (3.2)" 11:10-11:30 Heng Kek Choo, National Supercomputing Research Centre "Development of A Process Migration Facility on Top of PVM" 11:30-11:50 ================================================================================ 12:00-1:30 Lunch (on your own) ================================================================================ 1:30-3:00 PARALLEL SESSION 2A Contributed Papers ________________________________________________________________________________ Application - Room A Seismic Chair: Nancy Grady, ORNL ________________________________________________________________________________ 1:30-1:50 J. H. Higginbotham, Texaco, Inc. "Automatic Parallelism in Seismic Data Processing Using PVM" 1:50-2:10 Faruq E. Akbar, University of Texas, Austin "Rapid 2-D Plane Wave Kirchoff Migration Using PVM" 2:10-2:30 Vikramaditya Sen, University of Texas, Austin "Seismic Processing Using PVM: Prestack 3D Kirchoff Migration and Modeling" 2:30-2:50 Kishore Bhamidipati, University of Texas, El Paso "PVM Estimates Errors Caused by Imprecise Data" ================================================================================ 1:30-3:00 PARALLEL SESSION 2B Contributed Papers ________________________________________________________________________________ System 1 Room B Chair: Adam Beguelin, CMU ________________________________________________________________________________ 1:30-1:50 Vladimir V. Vlasov, Royal Institute of Technology "Implementation of A Multithreaded Parallel Computation Model Using the PVM System" 1:50-2:10 Libero Nigro, Universita della Calabria "DRTA - A Distributed Architecture for Real-Time" 2:10-2:30 Giuseppe Bruno, Bank of Italy "Making Parallel Computing Available for End-Users: The Speakeasy Example" 2:30-2:50 R. Clint Whaley, University of Tennessee, Knoxville "ScaLAPACK, Its Building Blocks, and PVM" ================================================================================ 1:30-3:00 PARALLEL SESSION 2C Contributed Papers ________________________________________________________________________________ Visualization 1 Room C Chair: Caroline Papadopoulos, ApoCom, Inc. ________________________________________________________________________________ 1:30-1:50 Gary J. Nutt, University of Colorado "A Facility for Creating Parallel Program Performance Visualizations" 1:50-2:10 Serge Chaumette, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, France "Neutral Observation of Logical Interprocess Communication Links in PVM Applications" 2:10-2:30 Kalyan Perumalla, Georgia Institute of Technology "DBPVM: A Graphical Interface to PVM, with Debugging Facilities" 2:30-2:50 James A. Kohl and G. A. Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory "XPVM: A Graphical Console and Monitor for PVM" ================================================================================ 3:00-3:30 Break ================================================================================ 3:30-5:00 PARALLEL SESSION 3A Contributed Papers ________________________________________________________________________________ Imaging Room 3A Chair: Jennifer Finger, ORNL ________________________________________________________________________________ 3:30-3:50 Xavier-Francois Vigouroux, Universit 'e Jean-Monnet, France "Parallel Color Quantization on A Lan of Workstation with Distributed Storage" 3:50-4:10 S. Frank, University of Wurzburg, Germany "Parallel Image Compression by Weighted Finite Automata" 4:10-4:30 Blaise Chamaret, Universiti Jean-Monnet, France "Parallel Filter Estimation Maximization Algorithm for Segmentation on A Lan of Workstation" 4:30-4:50 Jose Luis Roda Garcia, Universidad de La Leguna, Spain "Parallel Evolutive Heuristics for Discrete Location Problems" 4:50-5:10 Bradley L. Noble, Washington University "Performance of A Synchronous Parallel Simulator" ================================================================================ 3:30-5:00 PARALLEL SESSION 3B Contributed Papers ________________________________________________________________________________ Application - CFD Room B Chair: June Donato, ORNL ________________________________________________________________________________ 3:30-3:50 Luc Giraud, CERFACS, France "Recent Developments Using PVM at CERFACS" 3:50-4:10 Anjuli Bamzai, George Mason University "Studying Global Changes Using PVM 3.2" 4:10-4:30 Juan Raul Cebral, George Mason University "Solving the Fluid-Solid Heat Interaction Problem Using PVM" 4:30-4:50 P. F. Hoffman, AEDC Operations "A Domain Decomposition Approach for Applying PVM to Navier-Stokes and Other Time-Dependent Problems" 4:50-5:10 V. E. Lynch, Oak Ridge National Laboratory "Using PVM for Fusion Energy Turbulence Calculations" ================================================================================ 3:30-5:00 PARALLEL SESSION 3C Contributed Papers ________________________________________________________________________________ File Systems Room C Chair: Juan Leon, CMU ________________________________________________________________________________ 3:30-3:50 Aric D. Blumer, Clemson University "The Parallel Virtual File System: Implementation, Performance, and Experience" 3:50-4:10 Stephen Fleischman, Convex Computer Corporation "Automatic Handling of Sequential I/O in SPMD Parallel Programs" 4:10-4:30 Jinsheng He, National Research Center for Marine Environmental Forecasts, China "Providing Network File Services in PVM" 4:30-4:50 Rajini Balay and Virgil Wall, North Carolina State University "Use of File Transport Wrappers for a HeNCE/PVM Implementation of the Urban Airshed Model" 4:50-5:10 ================================================================================ 6:00-7:00 Reception (Poolside) ================================================================================ 7:00-9:00 CONFERENCE BANQUET (Ballroom) (After Dinner Speaker) Norris Parker Smith "Clustering in 1997" ================================================================================ FRIDAY (May 20) ================================================================================ 7:30-8:30 Coffee and muffins ================================================================================ 8:30-8:40 INVITED TALKS Session Chair: Jack J. Dongarra ================================================================================ 8:40-9:20 (Invited talk) Giorgio Richelli, European Center for Scientific and Engineering Computing "PVMe - For the IBM SP1" 9:10-9:50 (Invited talk) W. A. Shelton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory "Using PVM3.3 to Develop Portable Large Scale Local Density Approximation Based Material Science Applications" 9:50-10:20 Break ================================================================================ 10:20-12:10 PARALLEL SESSION 4A Contributed Papers ________________________________________________________________________________ Application - Room A Material 2 Chair: William A. Shelton, ORNL ________________________________________________________________________________ 10:20-10:40 Koji Ando, University of Tokyo, Japan "CDS Model Computation with PVM on S-3800/480 and CM-5 for the Phase Separation Problem in Material Design" 10:40-11:00 M. Bubak, Institute of Computer Science, Poland "Molecular Simulation of Macroscopic Phenomena Using PVM" 11:00-11:20 Mark A. Cusack, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom "Determining the Nonlinear Optical Properties of Semiconductor Superlattices Using Highly Parallel Algorithms in A Distributed Computing Environment" 11:20-11:40 Jyun-Hwei Tsai, National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan "A Parallel Monte Carlo/Fluid Hybrid Model of Two-Dimensional Nonequilibrium RF Glow Discharges" 11:40-12:00 ================================================================================ 10:20-12:10 PARALLEL SESSION 4B Contributed Papers ________________________________________________________________________________ Visualization 2 Room B Chair: James Kohl, ORNL ________________________________________________________________________________ 10:20-10:40 Xavier-Francois.Vigouroux, Universit 'e Jean-Monnet, France "Parallel Trace File Management on Top of PVM" 10:40-11:00 Pankaj Mehra, Recom Technologies "Automated Instrumentation, Monitoring and Visualization of PVM Programs Using AIMS" 11:00-11:20 J. E. Lumpp, Jr., University of Kentucky "Critical Path Analysis of PVM Programs" 11:20-11:40 Loic Prylli, University of Tennessee, Knoxville "Parameterized Simulation of MIMD Parallel Computers with Target Machine Timings" 11:40-12:00 ================================================================================ 10:20-12:00 PARALLEL SESSION 4C Contributed Papers ________________________________________________________________________________ Porting Room C Chair: Weicheng Jiang, UTK ________________________________________________________________________________ 10:20-10:40 Peter Rigsbee, Cray Research, Inc. "PVM on the Cray T3D" 10:40-11:00 Robert L. Pennington, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center "PVM, the Alpha Cluster, and the Cray T3D at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center" 11:00-11:20 C. W. Johnson, Australian National University, Australia "Porting PVM3 to the Fujitsu AP1000 Multicomputer" 11:20-11:40 Cesare Stefanelli, Universita' di Bologna, Italy "PVM Heterogeneous Computing: Experiences in Integrating A Transputer Architecture" 11:40-12:00 ================================================================================ 12:00-1:30 LUNCH (on your own) ================================================================================ 1:30-3:00 PARALLEL SESSION 5A Contributed Papers ________________________________________________________________________________ System 3 Room A Chair: Vaidy Sunderam, Emory University ________________________________________________________________________________ 1:30-1:50 Nicole A. Nemer-Preece "Load Balancing the Heat Equation in A Heterogeneous Environment with PVM" 1:50-2:15 Michel Riviere, IMAG, France "Athapascan-Oa: A Control Parallelism Approach on Top of PVM" 2:15-2:35 Crispin Cowan "Optimistic Programming in PVM" 2:35-3:00 Shubhangi Kelkar, Old Dominion University "A Framework for Parallel Networking of PVM" ================================================================================ 1:30-3:00 PARALLEL SESSION 5B Contributed Papers ________________________________________________________________________________ Benchmarks Room B Chair: Honbo Zhou, ORNL ________________________________________________________________________________ 1:30-1:50 Christophe Calvin, IMAG, France "Scientific Applications and Benchmarks with PVM" 1:50-2:15 J. E. Lumpp, Jr., University of Kentucky "Synthetic Perturbation Tuning of PVM Programs" 2:15-2:35 Gregory D. Peterson, Washington University "Predicting the Performance of Applications on Networked Workstations" 2:35-3:00 ================================================================================ 1:30-3:00 PARALLEL SESSION 5C Contributed Papers ________________________________________________________________________________ System 2 Room C Chair: Bob Manchek, UTK ________________________________________________________________________________ 1:30-1:50 William Saphir, NASA Ames Research Center "Devil's Advocate: Reasons NOT to Use PVM" 1:50-2:15 Philip M. Papadopoulos, Oak Ridge National Laboratory "Enhancing PVM Group Performance - Milestones and Speed Bumps" 2:15-2:35 Xiaodong Zhang, University of Texas at San Antonio "Asynchronous PVM Computing Across Networks" 2:35-3:00 Uwe Glaesser, Universitat-GH Paderborn, Germany "A Formal Specification of the Parallel Virtual Machine" ================================================================================ 3:00-3:30 Break ================================================================================ 3:30-4:10 PVM Development Team "Future Directions of PVM" INTERACTIVE SESSION - Audience feedback invited ================================================================================