Program
Wednesday, April 19
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Participants’ arrival, registration, and reception |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch at Research Campus |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Conference opening |
| 14:20 – 15:55 | Keynote session |
| 14:20 – 15:10 | Iain Duff (Keynote talk) “Direct solution of sparse linear equations on parallel computers“ |
| 15:10 – 15:55 | Lois Curfman McInnes (Invited talk) “Community software ecosystems for high-performance computational science: Opportunities and challenges“ |
| 15:55 – 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 – 18:10 | Scheduling and communication aspects of high performance computing |
| 16:30 – 16:50 | Imad Kissami “HPC as a service for computational fluid dynamics problems“ |
| 16:50 – 17:10 | Michael Hofmann “Transparent execution of numerical libraries on distributed HPC platforms“ |
| 17:10 – 17:30 | Michael Obersteiner “A highly scalable MPI parallelization of the Fast Multipole Method“ |
| 17:30 – 17:50 | Elias Wimmer “Is Gossip-inspired reduction competitive in high performance computing?“ |
| 17:50 – 18:10 | Roman Trobec “Impact of interconnection network topology on parallel performance – a survey“ |
| 18:30 | Discussion “Gender and minority issues in scientific computing” with invited speakers, followed by joint barbecue |
Thursday, April 20
| 07:15 – 08:30 | Breakfast |
| 08:30 – 10:35 | Advanced parallel methods for solving partial differential equations |
| 08:30 – 09:15 | Linda Stals (Invited talk) “Use of domain decomposition for the solution of the Thin Plate Spline saddle point problem“ |
| 09:15 – 09:35 | Axel Klawonn “Computing on the extreme scale in nonlinear solid mechanics“ |
| 09:35 – 09:55 | Martin Lanser “A framework for nonlinear FETI-DP and BDDC methods“ |
| 09:55 – 10:15 | Jonas Thies “Employing HPC for analyzing nonlinear PDE systems beyond simulation“ |
| 10:15 – 10:35 | Michael Rippl “Efficient transformation of the general eigenproblem with symmetric banded matrices to a banded standard eigenproblem“ |
| 10:35 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 13:00 | Matrix factorization methods and applications |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Yusaku Yamamoto “Roundoff error analysis of the CholeskyQR2 and related algorithms“ |
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Miroslav Rozložník “The factors in the SR decomposition and their conditioning“ |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Gabriel Okša “Convergence of the parallel Block-Jacobi EVD algorithm for Hermitian matrices“ |
| 12:00 – 12:20 | Rade Kutil and Markus Flatz “Convergence and parallelization of nonnegative matrix factorization with Newton iteration“ |
| 12:20 – 12:40 | Mária Lucká “Parallel multi-density based clustering“ |
| 12:40 – 13:00 | Robert Spir “Workflow for parallel processing of biomedical images“ |
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Lunch at Research Campus |
| 14:15 – 15:00 | Fluid-particle interaction simulations |
| 14:15 – 15:00 | Katarina Gustavsson (Invited talk) “Large scale simulations of fibers in Stokes flow“ |
| 15:10 | Trip to Bamberg (UNESCO World Heritage) including social event |
Friday, April 21
| 07:15 – 08:30 | Breakfast |
| 08:30 – 10:35 | Iterative solvers, preconditioners, and matrix inversion techniques |
| 08:30 – 09:15 | Selime Gürol (Invited talk) “Parallelization in the time dimension of geophysical data assimilation problems“ |
| 09:15 – 09:35 | Miroslav Tůma “Mixed sparse-dense linear least squares and preconditioned iterative methods“ |
| 09:35 – 09:55 | Thomas Huckle “Parallel solution of tridiagonal matrices“ |
| 09:55 – 10:15 | Louise Spellacy “Partial inverses of block tridiagonal non-Hermitian matrices“ |
| 10:15 – 10:35 | Zdeněk Strakoš “On the numerical stability analysis of pipelined Krylov subspace methods“ |
| 10:35 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:40 | Programming techniques for GPUs and hybrid architectures |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Tim Werner “Efficient GPU-based Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics“ |
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Stefan Rosenberger “OpenACC parallelization for the solution of the Bidomain equations“ |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Thomas Heller “Asynchronous integration of CUDA/OpenCL within HPX for utilizing full cluster capabilities“ |
| 12:00 – 12:20 | Kamil Halbiniak “Exploring programming models for accelerating scientific applications on hybrid CPU-MIC platforms“ |
| 12:20 – 12:40 | Alban Lumi “Energy aware computations on manycore systems“ |
| 12:45 – 14:15 | Lunch at Research Campus |
| 14:15 – 15:15 | Data layout and vectorization approaches for modern architectures |
| 14:15 – 14:35 | Manfred Liebmann “Explicit vectorization as a design tool for parallel algorithms on modern hardware architectures“ |
| 14:35 – 14:55 | Ivan Kotenkov “Design of cache-efficient multithreaded sparse matrix format for modern era“ |
| 14:55 – 15:15 | Jean-Matthieu Gallard “Code generation for a high order ADER-DG solver in a hyperbolic PDE engine“ |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Conference closing and participants’ departure |