PARA 2008 Confirmed SpeakersWorkshop on State-of-the-Art in Scientific and Parallel ComputingMay 13-16, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway |
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List of Confirmed Speakers:
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Note: Links to abstracts of the presentatins will generally not be until after May 6.
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José L. Abellán (University of Murcia, Spain)- MS Speaker
- "Basic Schemes to Exploit Loop-level Parallelism on the Cell Broadband Engine"
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Benjamin Allan (Sandia National Lab, USA)- Tutorial Speaker
- MS Tools/Libraries Organizer and Speaker
- Wael Elwasif and Benjamin Allan: Incorporating Legacy Libraries in Modern HPC Component Environments
- Benjamin Allan and Boyana Norris: Automating Multilanguage Development for the High-Performance Software Lifecycle
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Pedro Alonso (Spain)- Speaker
- "Cauchy-like system solution on multicore platforms" with Antonio M. Vidal.
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Otto Anshus (University of Tromsø, Norway)- MS Multicore Organizer and Speaker
- Tor-Magne Stien Hagen, Phuong Ha and Otto Anshus:
A Performance Evaluation of the Mandelbrot Computation on
a Single Computer, a Cluster of Computers, and a Graphics Card
- Tor-Magne Stien Hagen, Phuong Ha and Otto Anshus: Experimental Fault-Tolerant Synchronization for Reliable Computation on Graphics Processors
- John Markus Bjørndalen, Brian Vinter and Otto Anshus: PyCSP - Communicating Sequential Processes for Python
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David A. Bader (Georgia Tech, USA)- MS Organizer and Remote Speaker
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Michael Bader ( TU München, Germany)- MS speaker
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Valerio Bellini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy )- MS NanoMag speaker
- Valerio Bellini, Daria Tomecka, Filippo Troiani, Franca Manghi, Grzegorz Kamieniarz and Marco Affronte: Ab-initio study on a chain model system of Cr8 molecular magnet
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Alessandro Bencini (University of Florence, Italy)- MS Organizer and Speaker
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Stephen Bique (Navy Research Lab, USA)- MS Speaker
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Hendryk Bockelmann (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)- MS Industry & Engin Speaker
- Hendryk Bockelmann and Vincent Heuveline: Parallel I/O and Checkpointing Strategies for PDE-constrained Optimization
Erik G. Boman (Sandia, USA)- MS Speaker
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R. Phillip Bording (Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, Canada)- MS Speaker
- R. Phillip Bording : Past the Barriers in High Performance Computing for Seismic Modeling
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Janusz Borkowski (PJIIT, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)- General and MS Workflow for eScience Speaker Janusz Borkowski and Marek Tudruj. Distributed Programs Control Based on Monitoring of Application Global States
- Damian Kopanski, Marek Tudruj and Janusz Borkowski : Dynamic Control in Workflows of Scientific Computations Through Monitoring of Activities Global States
André R. Brodtkorb (SINTEF ICT, Oslo, Norway)- MS Multicore Speaker
- André R Brodtkorb and Trond Runar Hagen: Some Properties of Selected Parallel Architectures
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Manuel Caiero ()- MS Workflow eScience Speaker
- Manuel Caeiro, Thierry Priol and Zsolt Nemeth: A Proposal to Support the Execution of Scientific Workflows based on a Higher Order Chemical Language
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Xing Cai (Simula Resarch Laboratory/Univ. of Oslo, Norway)- MS Geosciences Organizer and Speaker
- Xing Cai: Use of Advanced Computing in Tomographic Surveys
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Stefano Carretta (INFM Unità di Parma, Italy)- MS Nanomagnets Speaker
- Stefano Carretta, Paolo Santini and Giuseppe Amoretti: S mixing effects in the coherent and incoherent spin dynamics of molecular nanomagnets
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Jose Manuel Chaves-Gonzales (Spain)- MS Ind & Engineering Speaker
- Jose Manuel Chaves-Gonzalez, Miguel Angel Vega-Rodriguez, Roque Sali nas-Escribano, Juan Antonio Gomez-Pulido and Juan Manuel Sanchez-Perez: Grid Computing for Solving a Real-World FAP problem
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Srinivas Chellappa (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)- MS Speaker
- "FFT Program Generation for the Cell Broadband Engine"
Raimondas Ciegis (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania)- MS Industry & Engin Organizer and Speaker
- Raimondas Ciegis, Gerda Jankeviciute and Mecislovas Meilunas: Parallel numerical solver for the optimization of electrical cables
Neil Costigan (Dublin City University, Ireland)- MS Speaker
- "SSL using IBM's multi-precision math library on the Cell"
- "Utilising the Cell's SPU for Elliptic Curve Cryptography"
José C. Cunha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)- MS Workflow eScience Organizer and Speaker
- Jose Cunha, Cecília Gomes and Omer Rana: Scientific Workflows Abstractions for Parallel and Distributed Computing
Natalia Currle-Linde (University of Stuttgart, Germany)- MS Workflow eScience Speaker
- Natalia Currle-Linde and Michael Resch: An Abstract Language and Environment for the Creation of Efficient Grid Applications
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Andreas Dofen (Research Centre Juelich, Germany)- MS Speaker
- "Applications on Juelich's Cell-based Cluster JUICE"
Jack Dongarra (Univ. of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), USA)- PARA'08 Organizer and Program Committee Member
- PARA Honorary Steering Committee Chair
- Invited Speaker
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Tony Drummond (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), USA)- Tutorial Speaker
- MS Organizer and Speaker
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Andrzej Drzewinski (Institute of Physics, University of Zielona Góra, Poland)- MS Speaker
- "Efficient transfer matrix simulations for quantum molecular-based chains"
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Jospeh Elbe (Univ. of Illinois, USA)- MS Speaker
Anne C. Elster (NTNU, Norway)- PARA'08 General Chair
- PARA'08 Organizer and Program Committee Member
- PARA Steering Committee Member
- MS Organizer and Speaker
Christian Engwer (Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany)- MS Geosciences Speaker
- Christian Engwer: An Unfitted Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method for Pore Scale Simulations
Filippo Esposito (Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy)- MS Speaker
- Filippo Esposito, Grzegorz Kamieniarz, Piotr Kozlowski, Grzegorz Musial, W. Florek, M. Antkowiak , K. Jasniewicz-Pacer, M. Haglauer, A. Caramico D'Auria, Dante Gatteschi and A. Cornia: Trends in phenomenological modelling of molecular nanomagnets
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Mathieu Faverge (LABRI, France)- Speaker
- "Dynamic scheduling for sparse direct solver on NUMA architectures" with Pierre Ramet
Lars Fischer (Nordic Data Grid Facility, The Nordic Countries)- MS Organizer and Speaker
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Serban Georgescu (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)- MS Speaker
Nima Ghaemian (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran)- MS Speaker
Galen Gisler (Univ. of Oslo, Norway)- MS Geosciences Speaker
- Galen Gisler, Robert Weaver and Michael Gittings: Oblique Impacts into Volatile Sediments: Ejection Distribution Patterns
Sylfest Glimsdal (Univ. of Oslo, Norway)- MS Geosciences Speaker
- Sylfest Glimsdal , Carl Harbitz, Geir Pedersen, Peter Gauer, Ulrik Domaas and Finn Løvholt: Numerical Simulations of the Tsunami from the Potential Åkneset Rock Slide, Western Norway
Cecilia Gomes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)- MS Workflow eScience Organizer and Speaker
- Cecília Gomes, Omer Rana and Jose Cunha: Abstractions based on Patterns and Operators for Grid Computing Environments
Frédéric Goualard (Univ. of Nantes, France)- MS Interval Methods Speaker
- "Fast and Correct SIMD Algorithms for Interval Arithmetic"
Lutz Gross (Univ. of Queensland, Australia)- MS Speaker
- Lutz Gross, Hans-Bernd Muehlhaus and Ken Steube: Solving PDEs in Geosciences Using Python
Michael Grønager (Nordic Data Grid Facility, The Nordic Countries)- MS Organizer and Speaker
Fred Gustavson (IBM Research, USA and Univ. of Umeå, Sweden (Adjunct))- Tutorial Speaker
- MS Organizer and Speaker
Inge Gutheil (Research Centre Juelich, Germany)- MS co-author and participant with Andreas Dolfen:
- "Applications on Juelich's Cell-based Cluster JUICE"
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Stuart Hardy (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)- MS Geosciences Speaker
- Stuart Hardy : Discrete Element Modeling of Geological Structures in 2 and 3 Dimensions: Approaches, Parallelization and Visualization
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Alex Heinecke (Germany)- MS Nove Data Structures Speaker
- Michael Bader and Alexander Heinecke: Cache Oblivious Dense and Sparse Matrix Multiplication Based on Peano Curves
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Francisco Hernandez ()- MS Workflow eScience Speaker
- Ann-Charlotte Berglund, Erik Elmroth, Francisco Hernandez, Björn Sandman and Johan Tordsson: Combining Local and Grid Resources in Scientific Workflows (for Bioinformatics)
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Rene Heinzl (TU Wien, Austria)- Speaker
José R. Herrero (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)- MS Organizer and Speaker
- Josef Herrero: Exposing Inner Kernels and Packed Storage for Fast Dense Linear Algebra Codes
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Ondrej Jakl (Institue of Geonics AS CR, Czech Republic)- MS Speaker
- Radim Blaheta, Ondrej Jakl and Jiri Stary: GEM - a Platform for Advanced Mathematical Geosimulations
Malgorzata A. Jankowska (Poznan University of Technology, Poland )- MS Interval Methods Speaker
- "An Interval Finite Difference Method for Solving the One-Dimensional Heat Equation" with Andrzej Marciniak.
Klaus Johannsen (Univ. of Bergen, Norway)- MS Speaker
- Klaus Johannsen, Csaba Anderlik, Olli Tourunen, Philip Binning and Andreas Kopp: The CO2- Community Grid - A Virtual Research Environment for the Simulation of CO2-Sequestration
Chris R. Johnson (Univ. of Utah, USA)- Keynote Speaker
Jeremy Johnson (Drexel University, USA)- MS Speaker
- Jeremy Johnson and Michael Andrews: Statistical Evaluation of a Self-Tuning Vectorized Library for the Walsh-Hadamard Transform
Tomas Johnson (Uppsala University, Sweden)- MS Interval Methods Speaker
- "On a Fast and Accurate Method to Enclose All Zeros of an Analytic Function on a Triangulated Domain" with Warwick Tucker.
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and Grzegorz Kamieniarz (A. Mickiewicz Universisity, Poland)- MS Organizer and Speaker/Participating Co-author:
- Piotr Kozlowski, Grzegorz Musial, Michal Antkowiak, Grzegorz Kamieniarz and Dante Gatteschi: High efficiency parallel quantum transfer matrix simulations of chromium-based molecular rings beyond the giant spin approximation
- Artur Barasinski, Andrzej Drzewinski, Grzegorz Kamieniarz, Ryszard Matysiak and Pawel Sobczak: Efficient transfer matrix simulations for quantum molecular-based chains*
- Filippo Esposito, Grzegorz Kamieniarz, Piotr Kozlowski, Grzegorz Musial, W. Florek, M. Antkowiak , K. Jasniewicz-Pacer, M. Haglauer, A. Caramico D'Auria, Dante Gatteschi and A. Cornia: Trends in phenomenological modelling of molecular nanomagnets
Andrzej Karbowski (NASK, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)- MS HPC Tools Speaker
- Andrzej Karbowski, Marek Majchrowski and Piotr Trojanek: jParalize - A Simple, Free and Lightweight Tool for Parallelizing Matlab Calculations on Multicores and on Clusters
Lars Karlsson (Univ. of Umeå, Sweden)- MS Novel Datastructures speaker
- "A Framework for Dynamic Node-Scheduling of Two-Sided Blocked Matrix Computations" with Bo Kågström.
Jon Kleppe (NTNU, Norway)- MS Organizer and Speaker
Mariana Kolberg (Pontifica Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)- MS Speaker
- "A Multithreaded Verified Method for Solving Linear Systems in Dual-Core Processors"
Kimmo Koski (CSC, Finland)- Invited/Panel Speaker
Jacko Koster (Uninett Sigma AS, Norway),- Panel Speaker
- MS Organizer and Speaker
Mathias J. Krause (Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany)- MS Industry & Engin. Speaker
- Vincent Heuveline and Mathias J. Krause: OpenLB: towards an efficient parallel open source library for lattice Boltzmann fluid flow simulations
Bartlomiej Jacek Kubica (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)- MS Organizer and Speaker
Lukasz Kuczynski (Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland)- MS co-author & participant with Roman Wyrzykowski:
- "Mapping AES Cryptography and Whirlpool Hashing onto the Cell BE architecture"
(Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland)- MS co-author & participant with Roman Wyrzykowski:
- "Mapping AES Cryptography and Whirlpool Hashing onto the Cell BE architecture"
Jan Kwiatkowski (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)- MS Speaker
- "Automatic Program Parallelization for Multicore Processors"
Bo Kågström (Umeå University Sweden)- Invited Speaker:
- "New Parallel Variants of Dense Eigenvalue Solvers and Reordered Real Schur Forms"
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Germán Larrazábal (University of Carabobo, Venezuela)- MS Industry & Eng Speaker
- German Larrazabal and Jorge Rodriguez: A parallel seismic imaging and volume rendering in oil exploration
Mark Lichtner ( WIAS Berlin , Germany)- MS Industry & Eng. Speaker
- Mark Lichtner: Modeling and parallel simulation of high power semiconductor lasers
Michael Lunglmayr (Germany)- MS Indudtry & Engieering Speaker
- Michael Lunglmayr, Jens Berkmann and Mario Huemer: Parallelized Optimization of LDPC Decoding Algorithms
Andriy Lutsyk ()- MS Novel Datastructures Speaker
- Andriy Lutsyk, Bohdan Rusyn, Petro Soprunjuk and Oleksiy Lutsyk: Application of the Pulsyr Architecture for Parallel Inversion of Triangular Matrices
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Jim Maltby (Mitrionics, USA)- Tutorial Speaker
Lukasz Masko (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland- MS Multicore and Speaker
- Lukasz Masko and Marek Tudruj: Task Scheduling for SoC systems with Data Communication on the Fly
Grzegorz Musial (A. Mickiewicz University, Poland)- MS NanoMag Speaker
Stefan Muszala (Tech-x, Colorado, USA)- MS Speaker
- Stefan Muszala, Tom Epperly and Nanbor Wang: Babel Fortran 2003 Binding for Structured Data Types
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Carmen B. Navarrete (UCM, Spain)- Carmen Navarrete, Carlos Castañeda, Alfonso Ortega, Manuel Alfonseca and Eloy Anguiano: Efficient parallel implementation of Potts model
Zsolt Nemeth ()- MS Workflow eScience Speaker
- Zsolt Nemeth, Christian Perez and Thierry Priol: Chemical coordination: an abstract enactment model for workflows
- Manuel Caeiro, Thierry Priol and Zsolt Nemeth: A Proposal to Support the Execution of Scientific Workflows based on a Higher Order Chemical Language
Esmond Ng (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), USA)- MS Speaker
Ruben Niederhagen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)- MS Cell BE Speaker
- "Evaluation of the Portability of UPC to the Cell" with Stefan Lankes
Syvert P. Nørsett (NTNU, Norway)- Invited Speaker
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Dag Arne Osvik (EPFL, Switzerland)- MS Speaker
- "Multi-Stream Hashing on the PlayStation 3"
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Dana Petcu (Western University of Timisoara, Romania)- Panel Speaker
- Attending co-author with MS Speaker Daniela Zaharie
- "Asynchronous master slave parallelization of evolutionary optimization in air foil shape design" by Daniela Zaharie, Mircea Dragan, Silviu Panica, Dana Petcu and Marius Stoia-Djesk
Paul Plassmann (Virginia Tech, USA)- MS Speaker
Mark Pederson (Navy Research Lab, USA)- MS Speaker
- Mark Pederson: Applications of a Massively Parallel Computational Method to Molecular Nanomagnets
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Enrique S. Quintana-Orti (Universitat Jaime I, Spain)- MS Organizer and Speaker
- Rafael Rubio and Enrique S. Quintana-Orti: An M-script API for Parallel Out-of-Core Linear Algebra Opration
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Padma Raghavan (Penn State, USA)- MS Organizer and Speaker
Omer F. Rana (Cardiff University, UK)- MS Organizer and Speaker
Jaideep Ray (Sandia, USA)- Tutorial and MS Speaker
- Johan Steensland and Jaideep Ray: Adaptive Partitioning in High-Performance Computing for Scientific Simulations using Adaptive Mesh Techniques
Damian Rouson (Sandia National Loboratories, USA)- Tutorial Speaker
Eliseo Ruiz ()- MS Nanomagnets Speaker
- Eliseo Ruiz: Exchange Interactions in large Transition Metal Polynuclear Complexes
Einar Rønquist (NTNU, Norway)
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Tetsuya Sakurai (Japan)- MS Novel Data Structures Speaker
- Tetsuya Sakurai, Masayuki Okada, Hiroto Tadano and Keita Teranishi Parallel performance of CIRR method with complete factorization preconditioner on multi-core
Philipp Slusallek (Saarland University, Germany)- GPU Tutorial and MS GPU Speaker
Felix Santos (Brazil)- MS Software/Tools Speaker
- Felix Santos, Eduardo Brito Jr., José Maria Silva and Manassés Monteiro: Parallel Hierarchical Architectures: The Automatic Building of High Performance Simulators
Suzanne Shontz (Penn State, USA)- MS Speaker
Oxana Smirnova (Lund University, Sweden)- Author/Speaker
Adam Smutnicki (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)- MS Speaker
- "Parallelization of the metaheuristics for the flow shop scheduling problem"
Adam Smyk (Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland)- MS Speaker & Poster Presenter
- MS: "Parallel FDTD Computations Based on Macro Data Flow Graphs Transformed by Genetic Algorithms"
- Poster:"CELL-based numerical computations for protection circuits of electric power stations"
Allan Snavely (Univ. of California San Diego, USA)- MS Speaker
Thomas Steinke (Zuse-Institut Berlin, Germany)- MS speaker
Olaf O. Storaasli (Oak Ridge National Lab, USA)- Tutorial Speaker
- MS Organizer and Speaker
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Daisuke Takahashi (University of Tsukuba, Japan)- Speaker
- Takuya Yokozawa, Daisuke Takahashi, Taisuke Boku and Mitsuhisa Sato: "Parallel Implementation of a Recursive Blocked Algorithm for Classical Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization"
Stan Tomov (Univ. of Tennessee, USA)- MS Novel Datastructures Speaker
- Marc Baboulin, Jack Dongarra and Stanimire Tomov: Some issues in dense linear algebra for multicore and special purpose architectures
Egil Tjåland (NTNU, Norway)- MS Organizer and Speaker
Marek Tudruj (Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology (PJIII), Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)- MS Novel DS, MS Multicore, MS Workfolow eScience Speaker/Attending co-author
- Marek Tudruj and Lukasz Masko: Inter-Processor Communication in SoC Systems for Intensive Fine-Grain Data Sharing
- Marek Tudruj, Slawomir Cieslik, Andrzej Jordan and Adam Smyk: CELL-based numerical computations for protection circuits of electric power stations
- Lukasz Masko and Marek Tudruj: Task Scheduling for SoC systems with Data Communication on the Fly
- Eryk Laskowski and Marek Tudruj: Look-Ahead Inter-Processor Connection Control in Programs for Modular SoC-Based Systems
- Adam Smyk and Marek Tudruj: Parallel FDTD Computations Based on Macro Data Flow Graphs Transformed by Genetic Algorithms
- Damian Kopanski, Marek Tudruj and Janusz Borkowski : Dynamic Control in Workflows of Scientific Computations Through Monitoring of Activities Global States Janusz Borkowski and Marek Tudruj. Distributed Programs Control Based on Monitoring of Application Global States
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Peer Ueberholz (Niederrhein University of Applied Science, Germany)- MS Interval Methods Speaker
- "Non-Blocking Load Balancing for Brach-and-Bound Algorithms" with Paul Willems, Mark Bull and Bruno Lang
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Stephané Vialle (Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité (SUPELEC), Metz, France)- Speaker
- "An N-dimensional Stochastic Control Algorithm for Electricity Asset Management on PC cluster and Blue Gene Supercomputer" with Xavier Warin and Patrick Mercier
Brian Vinter (Copenhagen University, Denmark)- Invited/Panel Speaker
- MS organizer and Speaker
- Martin Rehr and Brian Vinter: Application Porting and Tuning for the CELL-BE Processor
- Brian Vinter: Old Tricks for New Architectures: Teaching CSP for Multicore Programming
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Jerzy Wasniewski (Technical University of Denmark)- PARA'08 Organizer and Program Committee Member
- PARA Steering Commitee Chair
- Tutorial Speaker
- MS Organizer and Speaker
Roman Wyrzykowski (Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland)- MS Organizer and Speaker
- "Mapping AES Cryptography and Whirlpool Hashing onto the Cell BE architecture"
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Liang Yang (Xi'an Microelectronics Technology Institute, China)- MS Speaker
- "Comparison of CellSs and native programming with a Jacobi solver and triple-matrix-multiply on Cell/B.E."
Yusaku Yamamoto (Nagoya University, Japan)- MS Industry & Engin. Speaker
- Takeshi Amako, Yusaku Yamamoto and Shao-Liang Zhang: A Large-Grained Parallel Algorithm for Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems Using Complex Contour Integration
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Daniela Zaharie (West University of Timisoara, Romania)- MS Speaker
- Daniela Zaharie , Mircea Dragan, Silviu Panica, Dana Petcu and Marius Stoia-Djeska: Asynchronous master slave parallelization of evolutionary optimization in airfoil shape design
Julius Zilinskas (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius, Lithuania)- MS Industry & Engineeering Organizer and Speaker
- Sergejus Ivanikovas, Remigijus Paulavicius and Julius Zilinskas: Parallel optimization of grillage-type foundations
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Gerhard Zumbusch (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena, Germany)- MS Cell BE Speaker
- "Portable Multi-Level Parallel Programming: Cell Processor and Clusters"
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