PVM'95 Tentative Schedule
Sunday May 7th, 1995
- 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
- Registration - Foyer A, Hyatt Regency Hotel
- 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
- Welcoming Reception - Foyer A, Hyatt Regency Hotel
Tutorials:
- 7:00 - 7:45 a.m.
- Continental Breakfast - Foyer A, Hyatt Regency Hotel
- 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- *Introduction to PVM - Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
- 12:30 - 1:00 p.m.
- Lunch (provided)
- 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
- *Advanced PVM Tutorial - Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
*The tutorials are being held at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing
Center (PSC), located in the Mellon Institute Building at 4400 Fifth Avenue,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Transportation will be provided to/from PSC. Due to a city-wide event which is also being held
on Sunday, The Pittsburgh Marathon, it is important that all
registrants be in the hotel lobby no later than the following
designated times. No exceptions or refunds will be made.
Transportation Schedule
- 7:45 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.
- Bus departs Hyatt Regency for Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
- 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
- Bus departs Mellon Institute for Hyatt Regency
Monday May 8th, 1995
- 7:30 - 9:00 am
- Continental Breakfast and Registration
- 9:00 - 10:15 am
- Welcoming remarks and Invited speaker
- Professor Miron Livny, University of Wisconsin
- 10:15 - 10:30 am
- Break
- 10:30 - 12:00 User Presentations
- Visualization and Tracing
- Visualization in Cluster Environments with PGPVM,
Brad Topol, Vaidy Sunderam, John T. Stasko, Emory University.
- Visualizing PVM Executions,
Thomas H. Kunz and David J. Taylor,
University of Waterloo.
- Parallel Runtime Visualization,
Stephany Bouchier and Richard Barrett,
Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- A New Tracing Facility for PVM 3.4,
James Arthur Kohl and G. A. Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
- Lunch (on your own)
- 1:30 - 3:30 pm User Presentations
- Systems Issues
- Interoperability and multi-threading for PVM,
L. V. Kale, University of Illinois.
- Experience with Resource Management Services on an Opportunistic Cluster,
Jim Pruyne and Miron Livny, University of Wisconsin.
- A Load Balancing Scheduler for PVM Tasks,
Jose Nagib Cotrim Arabe and Virgilio Augusto Fernandes Almeida,
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
- PVM Implementations of Fx and Archimedes,
Peter Dinda,
Carnegie Mellon University.
- Parallelizing the GENESIS neural systems simulator,
Nigel Goddard,
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
- Providing Resource Management and Consistent Checkpointing for PVM,
Georg Stellner and Jim Pruyne,
University of Wisconsin.
- 3:30 - 3:45 pm
- Break
- 3:45 - 5:05 pm User Presentations
- Applications
- A WAN Surgical Monitoring Application Built on PVM
Don Krieger, Bob Simon, Terry Chay, Robert Sclabassi,
University of Pittsburgh.
- A Distributed Parallel Computing Model of Blood Oxygenation
S. A. Williams, G. E. Fagg, P. C. H. Mitchell and K. P. Williams,
University of Reading.
- Parallel Image Registration in Functional Brain Imaging
Thomas Nichols and Robert Orr,
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- Three-Dimensional Monte Carlo Semiconductor Device Simulation,
Henry Sheng and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli,
UC Berkeley.
- 6:00 - 9:00 pm
- Banquet dinner (transportation provided)
- The Carnegie Music Hall Foyer
- Raj Reddy, Dean CMU School of Computer Science
Tuesday May 8th, 1995
- 7:30 - 9:00 am
- Continental Breakfast
- 9:00 - 10:20 am, User presentations
- Applications
- Distributed Algorithm for Three-dimensional Semiconductor Device Simulations,
Mei-Kei Ieong and Ting-wei Tang,
University of Massachusetts.
- Group Services
- Context, Name Service and Static Groups for PVM,
Philip Papadopoulos, Robert Manchek, and Al Geist,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee.
- Improved Group Services for PVM,
G. E. Fagg, R.J. Loader, P. R. Minchinton and S. A. Williams,
University of Reading.
- An interface compiler to enhance PVM for group communications,
G.A.Fagg and R.J.Loader,
University of Reading.
- 10:20 - 10:30 am
- Break
- 10:30 - 12:00 User Presentations
- Systems and Language Interfaces
- MIST: PVM with Transparent Migration and Checkpointing,
Jeremy Casas, Dan Clark, Phil Galbiati, Ravi Konuru,
Steve Otto, Robert Prouty and Jonathan Walpole.
- An Extended Linda System using PVM,
George Wells and Alan Chalmers,
University of Bristol.
- PVM-Prolog: Parallel Logic Programming in the PVM System,
Rui F. Marques, Jose' C. Cunha,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
- CL-PVM: A Common Lisp Interface to PVM,
Liwei Li and Paul S. Wang,
Kent State University.
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
- Lunch (on your own)
- 1:30 - 3:30 pm, User Presentations
- Applications
- PVM for Advanced Distributed Interactive Simulation,
Terry Purnell and Thomas Kendall,
U.S. Army Research Laboratory.
- Reconfigurability and Heterogeneity in Parallel Air Quality Modeling,
Edward J. Segall,
Carnegie Mellon University.
- Using PVM to facilitate Biomedical Research,
Alexander J. Ropelewski, Joseph Lappa and Michael Crowley,
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
- Optimizing Molecular Dynamics Calculations on Parallel Computers,
William Young,
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
- PVM based Applications at LANL,
Richard Barrett, John Baumgardner, Jeff Brown, Peter Bunge,
John Cerutti, Kathy Holian, Jean Marshall, Gregg McKinney,
James Painter, Joseph Rieken, and Mark Zander,
Los Alamos National Lab.
- Parallel CFD at Lewis Research Center: what worked and what didn't,
Kim Ciula,
Sterling Software / NASA Lewis Research Center.
- 3:30 - 3:45 pm
- Break
- 3:45 - 4:25 pm User Presentations
- Systems
- A Strategy for Programming in a Heterogeneous/Homogeneous
Parallel Computer Environment,
Thomas Eidson,
High Technology Corp.
- PADE - The Parallel Applications Development Environment,
Judy Devaney, Robert Lipman, Minwen Lo, William Mitchell, Mark Edwards,
and Charles Clark,
National Institute of Standards and Technology.
- 4:25 - 5:00 pm
- Q & A for PVM Team
Email: pvm95@cs.cmu.edu
Web: http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/Groups/pvmug95.html