Speakers—Gelato ICE | Singapore | October 2006
Arif Anwar, Synamatix
Dr. Arif Anwar received a Bachelor of Science in Genetics and a PhD in Molecular Virology and Biochemistry from the University of London. After graduation, he worked as an Account Manager for Becton-Dickinson in California, National Manager for Anachem in London, Regional Director for DoubleTwist in California, Regional Director for Scimagix in California, VP of Synamatix, and CEO of Synamatix. He is currently responsible for strategic operational planning and transitioning R&D to commercial launches.
SynaBASE: Next-Generation Bioinformatics Database Platform
Arutyun I. Avetisyan, Institute for System Programming, Russian Academy of Science
Arutyun Avetisyan is the Deputy Director of the Institute for System Programming (ISP) at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) in Moscow, Russia. His research focuses include parallel and distributed programming, cluster and grid technologies, and compiler technologies. Dr. Avetisyan leads a project on a model based parallel program performance tuning system.
The ISP RAS Activities for Improving GCC for Itanium
Ryuzo Azuma, RIKEN
Ryuzo Azuma is a Research Scientist at RIKEN, an independent administrative institution for researches in science and technology. Azuma investigates biological topics such as systems biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, and biophysics, mostly from the standpoint of a computational scientist. Prior to his current position, Azuma received a PhD from the Physics Department at the Tokyo University.
Particle Simulation for Subcellular Dynamics and Localization of Biological Molecules
Soumitra Chatterjee, HP
Soumitra Chatterjee has been working for HP as a Senior Software Engineer in the compiler team based in Bangalore, India, for the last 4 years. He works primarily on HP C/C++ compiler front-end technology.
64-Bit Migration to Linux on Itanium: Challenges, Advantages, and Tools
Peter Chubb, University of New South Wales
Peter Chubb is a Senior Research Engineer at National ICT Australia and a Research Officer at UNSW. He completed his PhD under Associate Professor John Lions in 1989. Peter worked at Softway Pty Ltd as a consultant and software engineer doing UNIX kernel, security, and embedded work. He joined Gelato@UNSW at its inception in 2002.
Peter started using UNIX in 1979 and has never used Microsoft operating systems for more than a few moments. His home life includes wife Lucy, who also works at Gelato@UNSW, and two small daughters. Peter's hobbies include music (he runs a recorder concert), aquaria (3 tanks at present, no room for more), and fine wines.
Virtualization and User-Level Drivers
Shin Yee Chung, Institute for High Performance Computing
Shin Yee Chung is currently a Senior Research Officer in the Advanced Computing program at the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC). He received a BEng Degree (Computer Engineering) from Nanyang Technological University in 2003. His research interests include parallel computing for multi-core systems, parallel compression, adaptive scheduling and cache-efficient algorithms & data structures. He has been working on application parallelization & performance optimization for shared memory and cluster platforms. At IHPC, he also regularly conducts an "Introduction to Parallel Computing Workshop" for researchers from universities, research labs, and industry. The workshop includes the use of various tools such as OpenMP, MPICH, Jumpshot, Totalview, and Intel's Trace Analyzer. During his spare time, he writes software such as board games and utilities.
ClustalW Optimization: Adaptive Scheduling
César De Rose, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
César De Rose is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. His primary research interests are parallel and distributed computing and parallel architectures. He is currently conducting research on a variety of topics applied to clusters and grids, including resource management, resource monitoring, and virtualization.
Dr. De Rose received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1998. He currently leads the Research Center in High Performance Computing (CPAD-PUCRS/HP) at PUCRS.
Evaluating Xen IA-64 Security and Performance
Yaozu Dong, Intel
Yaozu Dong joined Intel in 1998. He had been involved in various embedded system projects for XScale and virtualization projects for Itanium. His recent contribution is to design and implement a full virtualization mechanism to enable Xen on the Itanium Processor Family (IPF) with hardware assistance which is known as Intel Virtualization Technology.
Xen and Intel Virtualization Technology for IA-64
Stéphane Eranian, HP
Stéphane Eranian is a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs, where he has been working on the porting of Linux to the IA-64 platform since 1998. He has made numerous contributions to the Linux/IA-64 kernel and related user-level programs. He is the main architect of the Linux/IA-64 kernel performance monitoring subsystem (perfmon). He is also the creator of the pfmon tool, which uses this subsystem to collect performance information.
Before joining HP, Stéphane worked on his PhD at Chorus Systems (now Jaluna) in France. He holds a DEA (BSc) in Operating systems from Universite PARIS 6, France, and a Doctorate (PhD) in Computer Science from Universite PARIS 7, France. He is a member of USENIX and co-author of "IA-64 Linux Kernel: Design and Implementation."
Update on the Perfmon2 Interface
Steve Geary, HP
Steve is responsible for overseeing HP's Open Source and Linux technical strategy as well as development of open-source and Linux technologies and solutions. Steve is also responsible for centralized open-source and Linux functions such as technical support, HP's Open Source Program Office which hosts internal and external development efforts and HP's Open Source Review Board, as well as HP's R&D relationship with commercial distributions. Steve is active in various capacities in open source. He is presently HP's Board member for the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), recently resigning his 3 year tenure as OSDL's Data Center Linux Steering Chair. Steve is also an elected board member for the Free Standards Group.
Keynote—Gelato: A Call to Arms
Jini Susan George, HP
Jini Susan George is a Senior Software Engineer at HP Bangalore. Jini has been working on Caliper, a performance analysis tool on Itanium systems. Jini joined HP in 2000 and has been working on Caliper and the HP debugger tool since then.
Performance Monitoring on Itanium: the PMU Counter Advantage
Mike Gigante, SGI
Mike Gigante has worked at SGI for six years. Currently, he is the Director of a software team of approximately 30 engineers focusing on filesystems and fileserving technologies. In particular, he works on XFS, NFS, Samba, and engineering for SGI's NAS Appliances. His team has also worked on other Linux/IA-64 issues, such as: network performance and scaling and VM issues as they impact filesystems. This group, located in Melbourne Australia, is also responsible for Performance Co-Pilot and kdb.
In a previous professional life, Gigante was a computational structures engineer specializing in composite materials, a computer graphics researcher, a principal lecturer at an Australian university, a full-time vigneron, a share trader, and a kernel software engineer. His personal interests include cars, wine (both kinds—drinking and making), and science fiction.
High-Performance Storage Solutions on IA-64 Linux
Feilong Huang, Intel
Feilong Huang is a Senior Technical Consulting Engineer at the Intel Asia Pacific R&D Center. He works closely with local customers and helps them improve performance of their applications with Intel compilers. He has been working with Red Flag Linux, one of the Linux distributors in China, for a couple of years and has compiled their Linux kernel with the Intel C++ Compiler. In the Red Flag OS Data Center edition and Workstation edition, you can see Intel compiler-optimized kernels and applications.
Feilong received his Bachelor Degree of Computer Science at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 2000. He received his Master's of Engineering in Computer Science at Fudan University in 2005.
Compiling the Linux Kernel with the Intel Compiler
Multi-Core Programming Seminar and Lab: Parallel Programming Concepts
Multi-Core Programming Seminar and Lab: OpenMP
Terence Hung, Institute for High Performance Computing
Dr. Terence Hung is a Program Manager at the Institute of High Performance Computing (Singapore) for the Advanced Computing Program. In this capacity, he is responsible for manpower/intellectual/industrial capital development and leads initiatives in the areas of large-scale collaborative computing, computational intelligence, and visualization. He also holds an adjunct Associate Professor position with the School of Computer Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore.
Terence's research interests include high-performance computing techniques, algorithm performance optimization, grid middleware cum end-to-end framework, and remote collaboration technology. In 2005, Terence and his team produced a vision for a grid-enabled future of computing to explore the use of grid/utility computing technology in computational science and engineering. The resulting software platform will be trialed at Fusionopolis, IHPC's new home in 2007.
Terence graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993 with a PhD in Electrical Engineering, specializing in supercomputing techniques for performing circuit level simulation on the CEDAR supercomputer. He received his BSc Degree at the same university with a scholarship from the Singapore government and subsequently took up a research assistantship for his graduate studies. Terence was awarded the Bronze Tablet award for his undergraduate academic achievement.
Host Presentation—HPC and Grid R&D Activities at IHPC
Doug Johnson, Ohio Supercomputer Center
Doug Johnson is the Technical Lead for the Cluster Ohio project and production Linux clusters at OSC. He has worked on many projects to address usability and manageability of clusters of commodity systems. His current areas of interest include: grid meta-scheduling, storage for clusters, and high-availability services for clusters.
Storage Layout Optimizations to Improve Parallel Distributed Filesystem Performance
Lennart Johnsson, University of Houston
S. Lennart Johnsson represents both the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, and the University of Houston in Texas, USA.
At the KTH in Stockholm, Sweden, Dr. Johnsson is a Professor of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science and the Director of the Center for Parallel Computers (PDC) at KTH. At the University of Houston, he is a Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and is the Director of the Texas Learning and Computation Center (TLC2). Dr. Johnsson is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Rice University.
Dr. Johnsson's research interests include computational and data grids; high-performance scientific computation; parallel algorithms; adaptive, grid-aware, high-performance software and tools for the creation thereof; and middleware for grids and parallel computers, especially communications-related middleware, performance modeling, and problem-solving environments. He actively contributes to establishing the European Grid Forum that now has merged with the US Grid Forum to form the Global Grid Forum. Recently, he led the formation of the Nordic Grid Consortium and the European Grid Support Center.
Experiences with Itanium Clusters in Grids
Ryszard Erazm Jurga, CERN
I work in openlab in the IT Department. Currently I am involved in the performance monitoring of CPUs, the profiling of Atlas and LHCb simulations as well as Atlas reconstruction jobs and Geant4 libraries. I am also responsible for the maintenance of openlab web pages and other activities related to openlab. OS experience : Linux(RedHat,FreeBSD),Windows 9x/2k/XP. Programming lang: C/C++, Java, Delphi, PHP, SQL, BASH, VHDL, Assembler, Matlab.
Practical Experience with Performance Monitors on Xeon and Itanium
Akihiko Konagaya, RIKEN
Prof. Akihiko Konagaya is the Project Director of the Advanced Genome Information Research Group in the Genomic Sciences Center at RIKEN; a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Tokyo Institute of Technology; the President for the non profit organization of the Initiative for Parallel Bioinformatics (IPAB); and an Area Editor for the Journal of New Generation Computing.
Prof. Konagaya's research fields include bioinformatics and grid computing. He is a leader of the Open Bioinformatics Grid (OBIGrid) for sharing computer resources, biological data and tools, and knowledge for bioinformatics. He is also interested in integrating ontology and simulation systems for modeling drug-metabolism pathways.
Konagaya received a BS and MS in Information Science for the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He received a PhD in Engineering from the Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Particle Simulation for Subcellular Dynamics and Localization of Biological Molecules
Pankaj Kulkarni, S7 Software Solutions
Pankaj Kulkarni is the Director of Engineering at S7 Software Solutions, a Bangalore-based software company, providing cross-platform porting and migration products and services. Pankaj holds a B.Tech degree in Computer Science from IIT Madras, India, and an MS degree in Computer Science from Columbia University, New York. Before joining S7, Pankaj was the Manager for the Purify Plus suite of products for IBM Rational's India office. Pankaj has over 11 years of experience and is interested in porting and migration toolkits, cross-compilers, and software development tools.
S7 Case Study: Porting 2 million lines of C++ code to HPUX Itanium
Jon Lau, National Grid Office
Jon Lau is the Assistant Head (Technical) at the National Grid Office as well as the Technical Manager of the National Grid Pilot Platform (NGPP). He coordinates the technical issues of the NGPP and virtual grid communities, which span from network and security to middleware software. He developed the first Access Grid (AG) node in Singapore and has since seen the deployment of several sites in Singapore. He is currently involved in several other initiatives such as the Global Operational Grid, the Digital Media Grid Rendering Service, and the SG@Schools PC-Grid.
Prior to joining the NGO, he was the Director of Engineering at eXage Private Limited, a high-tech spin-off from the Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL), where he led the development team in designing a scalable architecture ready to evolve to meet customer needs. Jon's technological experience is driven from both hardware interests and software R&D work at both the Information Technology Institute and KRDL. The many projects that Jon has been involved with include WinViz, a data visualization tool, as well as the Expert Advisory System on the Internet (a national project), where he performed the role of a Technical Manager. Jon holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computing and a Master of Technology from the National University of Singapore.
Itanium Projects: From R&D to Industry
Hing-Yan Lee, National Grid Office
Dr. Hing-Yan Lee, on secondment from his Principal Scientist position at the Institute for Infocomm Research, is the Deputy Director at the Singapore National Grid Office (NGO) where he directs, plans, and coordinates the national initiative to realize a cyber-infrastructure for sharing and aggregating compute resources for R&D and industry. He is concurrently the Project Director of the National Grid Pilot Platform. Hing-Yan previously worked at the Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Japan-Singapore Artificial Intelligence Center, and Information Technology Institute. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) with PhD and MS Degrees in Computer Science. He previously studied at the Imperial College (UK) where he obtained a BSc Eng. in Computing and an MSc in Management Science.
Host Presentation—National Grid Office in Singapore
Shin-Ming Liu, HP
Shin-Ming Liu is the Project Manager for High-Level Optimization and GCC of the Itanium C/C++ Compiler Section of the Java, Compiler, and Tools Lab at HP in Cupertino, California. Liu led the development effort for the high-level optimization and code generator project in compiler targeted for the Itanium processor. In this project, he helped redesigned the high-level optimization into a highly-robust, scalable, and efficient component by rearchitecting the infrastructure, from which many new techniques were developed. Many highly-recognized programming analysis methods were adopted as well. Liu led the reinvention of compiler development methodology by focusing on modulization, memory footprint control, canonical internal representation, and automatic error detection. Before joining HP, he worked at MIPS/SGI in the area of compiler front end, middle end, back end, and linker. During that time, he co-authored several technical publications.
Update on the Osprey Project, the Alternative GCC Backend for Itanium
Rama Kishan V Malladi
Rama Malladi is an Application Engineer with the Software and Solutions Group at Intel. He works with various ISVs, enabling their applications on the latest Intel platforms by addressing architecture, platform, and performance-related issues. Rama has been working with Intel for the past 3 years supporting Intel Software Tools, tuning high-performance computing applications on Intel architecture, and resolving performance issues on client/server applications.
Multi-Core Programming Seminar and Lab: Intel Thread Checker
Multi-Core Programming Seminar and Lab: Intel Thread Profiler
Cameron McNairy, Intel
Cameron McNairy is a Principal Engineer and an Intel Architect for the Montecito program. Previous to Montecito, Cameron was a micro-architect for the Itanium 2 processor, contributing to its design and final validation. He plans to focus on performance, RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability), and system interface issues in the design of future IPF products. He came to the Itanium 2 team soon after its inception from performance work on the first Itanium processor. Cameron received a BSEE and an MSEE from Brigham Young University. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Basic Intel Itanium Architecture
Keynote—What Intel Itanium Architecture and Processors Can Do for You
Hyper-Threading on Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 Processors
Eric W. Moore, Intel
Eric Wynne Moore is a Senior Software Engineer working in the Software Products Division at Intel Corporation. In the past, he has worked at Rational, Microsoft, RealAudio, Digital, Compaq, and Keane. His specialties include operating systems, compilers, high-performance computing, and performance tuning. In the last couple of years, Moore has trained more than 500 engineers in performance optimization, including engineers at SAS, NASA, PNNL, CIA, FBI, IBM, Dell, HP, SGI, Cisco, Intel, several universities, as well as all over the world, including and around Korea, China, Brazil, and Europe.
Optimizing Software for Intel Itanium Architecture with Intel Compilers
Easily Locating Optimization Opportunities with the Intel VTune Performance Analyzer
Steve Neuner, SGI
Steve Neuner is the Linux Engineering Director at SGI and has been working on Linux and Itanium-based systems since joining SGI 7 years ago. He has been involved with Linux and UNIX kernel development for over 20 years. Prior to SGI, Steve worked at Digital Equipment Corporation, Sequent Computer Systems, and MAI Basic Four.
An Inside Look at Scaling Linux to 1024 Processors
Lawrence Pinsky, University of Houston
Lawrence Pinsky is the chairperson of the Physics Department at the University of Houston. He holds a BS in Physics from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MA and PhD in Physics from the University of Rochester. Professor Pinsky also holds JD and LLM degrees from the University of Houston's Law Center. He has published over 125 articles in refereed journals and he gives from 5-10 invited talks each year. He is on the organizing committees of several major international conferences each year, including the recent CHEP'06 (Computing in High Energy Physics-2006) conference in Mumbai, India.
Professor Pinsky is a member of the ALICE-USA Collaboration and has served as the Computing Coordinator for that effort. He is a member of the ALICE Computing Board and the CERN Grid Deployment Board. At the University of Houston, he is a member of the Executive Committee of the Texas Learning and Computation Center. Pinsky also has an extensive NASA-supported research effort in the development of Monte Carlo Transport codes for use in simulating the space radiation environment.
Grid Computing at CERN: An Update on Preparations for First Beam in 2007
Clemens C. J. Roothaan, Gelato Honorary Member
Clemens Roothaan is a Professor Emeritus of Physics and Chemistry at the University of Chicago. In the 1950's, he published detailed algorithms to solve quantum mechanical movements of electrons in molecules and atoms. Today, most computer programs in this area are based on his method. After his retirement from the University in 1988, Roothaan started to work for HP Labs in Palo Alto, California. He has worked on the Itanium design team since 1990. Currently, Roothaan is working on a large software suite of scientific tools for function evaluation.
Compiler Design Criteria for Modulo Scheduled Itanium Codes
Mark K. Smith, Gelato Central Operations
Mark K. Smith is the Managing Director of the Gelato Federation. He works with Federation members and sponsors around the world, fostering collaborative relationships among members, sponsors, and the general community to advance the Linux-Itanium platform. Mark leads a technical team at University of Illinois and dedicates time to educating the general community about the advantages of the platform. Prior to joining Gelato, he worked in the software industry for 10 years. Mark holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Illinois.
Shingo Takeda, Osaka University
Shingo Takeda is currently a PhD student in Information Science and Technology at Osaka University, Japan, where he received a Master's Degree in 2005. Takeda's main research field is security of grid computing.
A Security Monitoring System for Grid Computing
Lee Shermerhorn, HP
As a member of the Linux Performance and Scalability team within HP's Open Source and Linux Organization (OSLO), Lee Schermerhorn works on performance characterization and engineering for Linux on HP platforms (primarily HP's Itanium-based Integrity platforms), with emphasis on NUMA scheduling/affinity and (storage) IO performance.
HP/OSLO Linux Scalability Tracking and Investigations
Kenneth Tan, OptimaNumerics
Dr. Kenneth Tan is the CEO of OptimaNumerics. He is known internationally in the fields of computational science, supercomputing, and high-performance technical and scientific computing. Prior to founding OptimaNumerics, he held technical positions with supercomputing organizations in North America and Europe, and was a guest scientist at the Institute for High Performance Computing and Databases of the Russian Ministry of Science. His past experience includes a hardware reseller business and over 12 years in capital asset management. He is very active in the technical and scientific computing community, focusing on advanced computational methods, and serves on a number of technical and scientific review boards. He has edited 23 books in the area of computational science. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of "Transactions on Computational Science." Kenneth Tan co-founded two of the largest computational science conference series: the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS) and the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA). He is the current Chairman of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications.
Technical and Scientific Computing Performance: Today and Tomorrow
Mats D. Wichmann, Intel
Mats Wichmann is the Linux Standards Architect with Intel Corporation in the Open Source Technology Center, and a Senior Technical Lead with the Free Standards Group. He has been involved with the Linux Standard Base (LSB) project since 2001 and served as elected chair for two years. Mats has over 25 years of UNIX, and more recently Linux, development experience. His first task at Intel was to add Itanium support to the LSB and he has also worked on the Itanium psABI document. He has worked as a consultant, trainer, and courseware developer. As technical director of the MIPS ABI Group, Mats developed extensive knowledge of developing working ABI standards. His commitment to standards continues today with membership of the Austin Group, the IEEE Standards Association, and his ongoing work on the LSB with the Free Standards Group. Mats has presented at numerous open source conferences and is co-author of the book "Building Applications with the Linux Standard Base" (Prentice Hall PTR).
An Update on LSB and Open Standards