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IA^3 2018 8th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 12 November 2018 Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center, Dallas, TX Room D172 In Conjuction with SC18 Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC
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9:00 - 9:10 Welcome and Introduction Antonino Tumeo, Vito Giovanni Castellana, John Feo
9:10 - 10:00 Keynote 1 - Chair: Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL) Photonic Interconnects for Extreme Scale Computing Madeline Glick (Columbia University)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:45 Session 1: Software optimizations for irregular applications Software prefetching for unstructured mesh applications Hadade, Jones, Wang, Di Mare
A Fast and Simple Approach to Merge and Merge Sorting using Wide Vector Instructions Watkins, Green
Impact of Traditional Sparse Optimizations on a Migratory Thread Architecture Rolinger, Krieger
11:45 - 12:35 Session 2: Graph Processing
There are Trillions of Little Forks in the Road Choose Wisely! -- Estimating the Cost and Likelihood of Success of Constrained Walks to Optimize a Graph Pruning Pipeline -- Tripoul, Halawa, Reza, Sanders, Pearce, Ripeanu
Scale-Free Graph Processing on a NUMA Machine Aasawat, Reza, Ripeanu
12:35 - 14:10 Lunch Break (on your own)
14:10 - 15:00 Keynote 2 - Chair: Marco Minutoli (PNNL) Versal: The new Xilinx Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platforms (ACAP) Kees Vissers (Xilinx)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:45 Session 3: Irregular Kernels on GPUs - Chair: TBD Mix-and-Match: A Model-driven Runtime Optimisation Strategy for BFS on GPUs Verstraaten, Varbanescu, de Laat
A Block-oriented, Parallel and Collective Approach to Sparse Indefinite Preconditioning on GPUs Thuerck, Naumov, Goesele, Garland
High-Performance GPU Implementation of PageRank with Reduced Precision based on Mantissa Segmentation Grützmacher, Anzt, Scheidegger, Quintana-Ortí
16:45 - 17:30 Debate - Moderator: John Feo (PNNL) Panelists: Sanjukta Bhowmick (University of Omaha-Nebraska), Aydin Boluç (LBNL), Howie Huang (George Washington University), Martin Schulz (University of Munich).