Conference Programme

  Wed, March 25
08:00 Registration
09:00 Opening Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institute Berlin
09:15 KEYNOTE
Achieving High Performance with FPGA Acceleration: Case Studies in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Martin Herbordt, Boston University
10:00 Break
Session: Tools & Methods
Chair: Jan-Philipp Weiß, KIT
10:30 A Design Methodology for Reconfigurable Heterogeneous Architectures
Philipp Mahr, Benjamin Andres, Harold Ishebabi and Christophe Bobda, University of Potsdam
11:00 HMPP: A Directives-Based Compiler for Manycore Applications
Stephane Bihan, CAPS enterprise
11:30 The Future of FPGA Acceleration and Hybrid Systems
Stefan Möhl, Mitrionics
12:00 Simulation in the Many-Core Era
Paolo Faraboschi, HP Labs
12:30 Lunch / Exhibition
Session: Scalability for Many-Core Systems
Chair: Thomas Steinke, ZIB
13:30 From Nano-Scale to Peta-Scale
Ulrich Becker-Lemgau, Intel
14:00 Scaling Applications on Cray Supercomputers
Wilfried Oed, Cray
14:30 Microsoft Parallel Computing Initiative
Matej Ciesko, Microsoft
15:00 SiCortex Cluster System Architecture
Stephan Ebelt, MEGWARE Computer GmbH
15:20 Break
Session: Towards Interoperability and Reliability
Chair: John Brooke, Univ. of Manchester
15:50 A Modular Approach to Parallel Applications
Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow, Sven Wagner, Jens Remus, IBM
16:20 Advancing the Open Accelerator Ecosystem - Enhancing Open Standards in Interoperability, Portability and Reliability
Eric A. Stahlberg, Wittenberg University / OpenFPGA / OpenAccelerator
16:50 Short Break
Panel Discussion
17:00 Programmability and Acceptance Requirements
Moderator: Eric A. Stahlberg, Wittenberg University / OpenFPGA / OpenAccelerator
18:30 Guided Tour through ZIB's HPC compute and storage facilities
Hinnerk Stüben, ZIB
20:00 RECEPTION
  Thu, March 26
8:00 Registration
Session: Numerical Applications on Accelerators
Chair: Stan Scott, Queen's University Belfast
08:30 Invited Talk
Emerging Hardware and Numerical Simulation: a Walk of Seven Bridges over the Gap
Vincent Heuveline, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
09:15 An FPGA-Based Floating Point Solver for Band Structured Linear Equations
Antonio Roldao Lopes, George Constantinides, and Eric Kerrigan, Imperial College London
09:45 Leveraging the Synergy of Mitrion-C and the SGI RC-100 to Study Evaluation of Two Dimensional Numerical Integrals
Charles J. Gillan, Thomas Steinke, Johannes Bock, Ivor Spence, Stan Scott, The Queen's University of Belfast and Zuse Institute Berlin
10:15 Comparing NVIDIA and AMD GPU Computing: Performance, Flexibility, and Usability
Michael Wagner and Guido Juckeland, Technische Universitäat Dresden
10:45 Modeling DNA Radiation Damage on Many-core Architectures: Current GP-GPU and Prototype Clearspeed Implementation
N. Sanna, I. Baccarelli and G. Morelli, CASPUR
11:15 Break
Chair: Thomas Steinke, ZIB
11:45 KEYNOTE
UCHPC - UnConventional High Performance Computing for FEM Simulations
Stefan Turek, Technische Universität Dortmund
12:30 Lunch / Exhibition
Session: Hybrid Systems Challenges
Chair: Vincent Heuveline, KIT
13:30 SGI's Accelerator Enabling Program: Experiences in Running a Hybrid Cluster using NVDIA TESLA, ClearSpeed CATS and XDi FPGAs
Matthias Fouquet-Lapar, SGI
14:00 Application Acceleration with FPGAs and GPUs - Challenges and Opportunities
Magnus Peterson, Synective Labs
14:30 Sun Chip Multi Threading (CMT) and Accelerator Usage
Roland Rambau, Sun
15:00 Break
Session: FPGAs in Life Science Applications
Chair: Bogdan Olech, West Pomeranian Univ. of Technology
15:30 Outlook Towards MRSC 2010
John Brooke, Manchester University
15:45 Applying FPGA to the Molecular Docking Problem
Imre Pechan, Bela Feher, Attila Berces, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Chemistry Logic Ltd.
16:15 Accelerating Virtual Screening of Compund Libraries
Peter Szanto, Bela Feher, Attila Berces, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Chemistry Logic Ltd.
16:45 Synthesis of a Parallel Smith-Waterman Sequence Alignment Kernel into FPGA Hardware
David Greaves, Satnam Singh, Sutirtha Sanyal; Microsoft Res. Cambridge, University Cambridge and Barcelona Supercomputer Center
17:15 Tandem Mass Spectrometry Acceleration using FPGA
Janos Lazanyi, Bela Feher, Istvan Palinkas, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Evopro Informatics and Automation Ltd.
17:45 Final Remarks MRSC 2009
Thomas Steinke, ZIB
18:00 Wrap Up