SPAA'97
9th Annual ACM Symposium
on Parallel Algorithms
and Architectures
Newport, Rhode Island
June 22 - 25, 1997
Sponsored by
ACM SIGACT and ACM SIGARCH
In Cooperation with EATCS
New this year:
Collocation with FPCC'97
The 2nd Forum on
Parallel Computing Curricula
June 22, 1997
For more information see
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/Conferences/SPAA/
http://www.uni-paderborn/cs/SPAA/
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/FPCC/
SUNDAY,
JUNE 22, 1997
- 10:00 am - 5:00 pm FPCC'97
- 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm SPAA
registration
- 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm SPAA
and FPCC reception
MONDAY,
JUNE 23, 1997
Session
1
- 8:45 Efficient Detection
of Determinacy Races in Cilk
- Programs
- Mingdong
Feng, National U. of Singapore;
Charles
E. Leiserson, MIT
- 9:10 Space-Efficient Scheduling
of Parallelism with
Synchronization
Variables
- Guy
E. Blelloch, CMU; Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi
- Matias,
Bell Labs; Girija J. Narlikar, CMU
- 9:35 Reactive Diffracting Trees
- Giovanni
Della-Libera, Microsoft and MIT; Nir
Shavit,
Tel-Aviv U. and MIT
- 10:00 Break
- Session
2
- 10:30 Efficient Load Balancing and Data Remapping
- for
Adaptive Grid Calculations
- Leonid
Oliker, RIACS; Rupak Biswas, MRJ
- Technology
Solutions, NASA Ames
- 10:55 HARP: A New Dynamic Inertial Spectral
- Partitioner
- Horst
Simon, NERSC; Andrew Sohn, New
Jersey
Inst. of Tech.; Rupak Biswas, MRJ
Technology
Solutions, NASA Ames
- 11:20 Three-Dimensional Pattern Matching
- Kunsoo
Park, Seoul Nat. U., Korea; Zvi
- Galil,
Columbia U.; Jong Geun Park, Chonbuk Nat.
U.,
Korea
- 11:45 On the Parallel Complexity of Matrix
Factorization
Algorithms
- Giovanni
Manzini, U. di Pisa, Italy; Mauro
Leoncini, U. di
Torino, Italy; Luciano Margara,
U.
di Bologna, Italy
- 12:10 Lunch
Session
3
- 1:30 Can a Shared-Memory Model Serve
as a
Bridging
Model for Parallel Computation?
- Phillip
B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, Bell Labs;
- Vijaya
Ramachandran, U. of Texas, Austin
- 1:55 Efficient Computations on Fault-Prone
BSP
- Machines
- Spyros
Kontogiannis, Patras U., Greece;
- Grammati
Pantziou, Computer Tech. Inst.,
- Patras,
Greece; Paul Spirakis, Patras U., Greece
- 2:20 Modeling Parallel Bandwidth: Local
vs. Global
- Restrictions
- Micah
Adler, Heinz Nixdorf Inst., Paderborn,
Germany;
Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, Bell
Labs;
Vijaya Ramachandran, U. of Texas, Austin
- 2:45 Efficient External Memory Algorithms
by
Simulating
Coarse-Grained Parallel Algorithms
- Frank
Dehne, Carleton U., Canada; Wolfgang
Dittrich, U. of
Paderborn, Germany; David
Hutchinson, Carleton
U., Canada
- 3:10 Break
- Session
4
- 3:40 Automatic Network Mapping for
LANai Virtual
Networks
- Alan
Mainwaring, Brent Chun, Daniel
Wilkerson, Saul Schleimer,
UC Berkeley
- 4:05 Triplex: A Multiprotocol Routing
Algorithm
- Melanie
Fulgham, Lawrence Snyder, U. of
Washington
- 4:30 Bounds to the Throughput of an
Interconnection
Network
- Ludek
Kucera, Charles U., Prague and Ecole
Normale
Sup., Lyon
- 4:55 Deadlock-Free Deterministic Wormhole
Routing
with
Cyclic Dependencies
-
Loren Schwiebert, Wayne State U.
- 8:30 Business Meeting
TUESDAY,
JUNE 24, 1997
Session
5
- 8:45 The Performance of Simple Routing
Algorithms
that
Drop Packets
- Ramesh
Sitaraman, Suprakash Datta, U. of
- Massachusetts,
Amherst
- 9:10 Simple, efficient routing schemes
for all-optical
- networks
- Christian
Scheideler, U. of Paderborn, Germany;
- Michele
Flammini, U. of L'Aquila, Italy
- 9:35 Approximation Algorithms for Structured
- Communication
Problems
- Dominique
Barth, U. de Paris Sud, France;
Pierre Fraigniaud,
Ecole Normale Sup. de Lyon,
- France
- 10:00 Break
- Invited
Presentation
- 10:30 Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessing
and
SGI's
Origin Servers
- Dan
Lenoski, Silicon Graphics
- Session
6
- 11:15 Fine-Grain Multithreading with the
EM-X
Multiprocessor
- Andrew
Sohn, New Jersey Inst. of Tech.; Y.
Kodama, Electrotechnical
Lab. Japan; J. Ku,
New
Jersey Inst. of Tech.; M. Sato, Real World
- Comp.
Center, Tsukuba, Japan; H. Sakane, H.
- Yamana,
S. Sakai, Y. Yamaguchi,
Electrotechnical Lab. Japan
- 11:40 Using Speculative Graduation to Improve
the
- Performance
of Sequential Consistency
- Parthasarathy
Ranganathan, Vijay S. Pai, Sarita
- V.
Adve, Rice U.
- 12:05 Temporal Notions of Synchronization
- and
Consistency in Beehive
- Aman
Singla, Umakishore Ramachandran,
- Jessica
Hodgins, Georgia Inst. of Tech.
- 12:30 Afternoon Excursion
SPAA
Revue
- 4:30 Poster presentations
- An Analytical Model for the Performance of
- Multicast Banyan Networks, Yuanyuan Yang,
- U. of Vermont
- A Metric for Parallel Poly-Algorithm Design,
- Edward A. Luke, Ioana Banicescu, Jin Li,
- Mississippi State U.
- Optimal Throughput-Latency Tradeoff for a
- Parallelizable Multimedia Pipeline - How
- Relaxation Complicates Life,
- G. N. Srinivasa Prasanna, Lucent;
- A. Gerasoulis, Rutgers U.
- Sparse Hypercubes: A Class of Minimal k-Line
- Broadcast Graphs, Satoshi Fujita, Hiroshima
U.
- The UNH DyLoc Project: Dynamic Locality of
- Communication, Pilar de la Torre, Matthew D.
- Plumlee, U. of New Hampshire
- 5:00 Queueing Protocols for Minimizing
Latency in
- Message-Routing
Networks
- F.
Thomson Leighton, MIT
- 5:30 Beyond CC-NUMA, Whither Shared
Memory?
- David
A. Wood, U. of Wisconsin
- 6:00 Research announcements
- Cooperative Prefetching and Caching in a
Network of Workstations, Anna Karlin, U. of
- Washington
- Multiprocessor Out-of-Core FFTs with
- Distributed Memory and Parallel Disks, Thomas
- H. Cormen, Jake Wegmann, David M. Nicol,
- Dartmouth
- Competitive Parallel Disk Prefetching and Buffer
- Management, Rakesh Barve, Duke U.; Mahesh
- Kallahalla, Peter J. Varman, Rice U.; Jeffrey
S.
- Vitter, Duke U.
- Evaluation of Superscalar Processor
- Architectures in MCMR Queues' View, Yongxin
- Zhu, Weng Fai Wong, National U. of Singapore
- cBSP: Zero-Cost Synchronization in a Modified
- BSP Model, Richard D. Alpert, James Philbin,
- NEC Research
- Conflict-Free Parallel Access to Templates of
- Trees and Hypercubes, Sajal K. Das, U. of
North
- Texas; M. Cristina Pinotti, Consiglio Nazionale
- d. Ricerche
- 7:15 Banquet
WEDNESDAY,
JUNE 25, 1997
Session
7
- 8:45 Better Trade-offs for Parallel
List Ranking
- Jop
Sibeyn, Max Planck Inst. fur Informatik,
Germany
- 9:10 Using Tadpoles to Reduce Memory
and
- Communication
Requirements for Exhaustive,
- Breadth-First
Search Using Distributed
- Computers
- Gene
Cooperman, Michael Tselman,
- Northeastern
U.
- 9:35 A Theoretically and Empirically
Efficient
- Parallel
Delaunay Triangulation Algorithm
- Jonathan
Hardwick, CMU
- 10:00 Break
Session
8
- 10:30 Pipelining with Futures
- Guy
Blelloch, Margaret Reid-Miller, CMU
- 10:55 From Algorithm Parallelism to Instruction-Level
- Parallelism:
An Encode-Decode Chain Using
Prefix-Sum
Uzi Vishkin, U.
of Maryland
- 11:20 Thread Partition and Schedule Based
On Cost
- Model
- Xinan
Tang, J. Wang, Kevin Theobald, Guang
- R.
Gao, McGill U., Canada
- 11:45 Optimal Weighted Loop Fusion for Parallel
- Programs
- Nimrod
Megiddo, IBM; Vivek Sarkar, MIT and IBM
- 12:10 Lunch
Session
9
- 1:30 On the Analysis of Randomized
Load Balancing
- Schemes
- Michael
Mitzenmacher, Digital Systems Res. Center
- 1:55 Allocating Weighted Balls in Parallel
- Klaus
Schroeder, Petra Berenbrink, Friedhelm
Meyer auf der Heide,
Heinz Nixdorf Inst. and U.
- of
Paderborn, Germany
- 2:20 Accessing Nearby Copies of Replicated
Objects in
- a
Distributed Environment
Andrea Richa, CMU;
C. Greg Plaxton,
- Rajmohan
Rajaraman, U. of Texas, Austin
- 2:45 A Localized Algorithm for Parallel
Association
Mining
- Mohammed
Zaki, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Wei
- Li,
Rochester U.
'97 Organization
Conference Chair
Charles E. Leiserson, MIT
Program Chair
David E. Culler, UC Berkeley
Program Committee
Amotz Bar-Noy, Tel Aviv U.
Susanne E. Hambrusch, Purdue U.
Anna Karlin, U. of Washington
F. Thomson Leighton, MIT
Bruce Maggs, CMU
Bill McColl, Oxford U.
Burkhard Monien, U. of Paderborn
Greg Papadopoulos, Sun Microsystems
Satish Rao, NEC
Klaus E. Schauser, UC Santa Barbara
J.P. Singh, Princeton U.
Burton Smith, Tera Computer
Robert van de Geijn, U. of Texas
David A. Wood, U. of Wisconsin
Local Arrangements
Takis Metaxas, Wellesley
Revue Chair
Phillip B. Gibbons, Bell Labs
Conference Treasurer
Eric
Schwabe, Northwestern
Conference Secretary
Robert Cypher, Sun Microsystems
Webmaster
Reinhard Lueling, U. of Paderborn
Curricular Forum Chair
David Kotz, Dartmouth
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