PDPTA'07: June 26, 2007 Schedule

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6:45am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


SESSION 3-PDPTA:  PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND ANALYSIS
                  Chair: Prof. Roger Eggen, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, USA
                  June 26, 2007 (Tuesday); 08:00am - 09:40am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 2)

08:00 - 08:20am:  Ruby versus PHP: A Comparative Study of Performance for
                  Distributed Processing
                  Roger Eggen and Maurice Eggen
                  University of North Florida, USA;
                  Trinity University, USA

08:20 - 08:40am:  Design and Performance Evaluation of Parallel Data
                  Clustering Algorithms for Distributed Memory Computers
                  Steve C. Chiu
                  Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA

08:40 - 09:00am:  Storage Performance over Fast Ethernet, Giga Ethernet,
                  Giga Ethernet Toe and InfiniBand
                  Omar Aldaoud, Houssain Kettani, Krishnapriya Guduru, and
                  Qutaibah Malluhi
                  Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, USA

09:00 - 09:20am:  Data Reordering and Padding Analysis for Distributed Computing
                  Aaron Wilkin, Hai Jiang, and Jeff Jenness
                  Arkansas State University, USA

09:20 - 09:40am:  Performance Evaluation of ICE - A New Object-Oriented Middleware
                  Sanjay P. Ahuja and Anitha Narayanan
                  University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, USA


SESSION 4-PDPTA:  DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING FOR NETWORKS - DCN
                  Chair: Prof. Ping-Tsai Chung, Long Island University, New York, USA
                  June 26, 2007 (Tuesday); 09:40am - 10:20am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 2)

09:40 - 10:00am:  Distributed Data Structures and Algorithms for Disjoint Sets
                  in Computing Connected Components of Huge Network
                  Wing Ning Li
                  University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA

10:00 - 10:20am:  A Study of Processor Distribution in Parallel Computing of
                  Matrix-Vector Products
                  Huiqing H. Yang, Zizhong J. Wang, and Kuiyuan Li
                  Virginia State University, Petersberg, Virginia, USA;
                  Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, Virginia, USA;
                  University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, USA

10:20 - 10:40am:  BREAK


SESSION 5-PDPTA:  (CONCURRENT SESSION with one of 7-PDPTA or 8-PDPTA)
                  PARALLEL ALGORITHMS + SUPPORTING SYSTEMS
                  Chair: Prof. Wing Ning Li, University of Arkansas, USA
                  June 26, 2007 (Tuesday); 10:40am - 11:40am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 2)

10:40 - 11:00am:  Generic Parallel Processing Techniques for Nanoscale
                  Spin-Wave Architectures
                  Mary M. Eshaghian-Wilner and Shiva Navab
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

11:00 - 11:20am:  Moving Threads: A Non-conventional Approach for Mapping
                  Computation to MP-SOC
                  Martti Forsell and Ville Leppanen
                  VTT,  Finland; University of Turku, Finland

11:20 - 11:40am:  Parallelizing Swiftvis with PLPP (Pattern Language for
                  Parallel Programming)
                  Glenn D. Kavanagh, Mark C. Lewis, and Berna L. Massingill
                  Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA


SESSION 6-PDPTA:  (CONCURRENT SESSION with 8-PDPTA)
                  COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND RELATED ISSUES
                  Chair: Dr. Eng Keong Lua
                  Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Tokyo, Japan and
                  University of Cambridge,  Computer Laboratory, UK
                  June 26, 2007 (Tuesday); 11:40am - 12:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 2)

11:40 - 12:00pm:  LEGS: A WSRF Service to Estimate Latency Between Arbitrary
                  Hosts on the Internet
                  R. Vijayprasanth, R. Kavithaa, and Rajkumar Kettimuthu
                  Coimbatore Institute of Technology, India;
                  University of Chicago, Illinois, USA;
                  Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA

12:00 - 12:20pm:  An Efficient Mutual Exclusion Protocol in a Mobile Computing
                  Environment
                  Sung-hoon Park and Chun-sik Cho
                  Chung-Buk National University, Korea

12:20 - 01:20pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


SESSION 7-PDPTA:  (CONCURRENT SESSION with 5-PDPTA)
                  SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AND PARALLELISM + RELATED ISSUES
                  Chairs: Dr. Evgeny Ivanov* and Dr. John Wang**
                  *Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics, Germany
                  **Virginia Wesleyan College, USA
                  June 26, 2007 (Tuesday); 10:40am - 11:40am
                  (LOCATION: Platinum Room)

10:40 - 11:00am:  Quasi-Monte Carlo Schemes in the Parallel Computation of
                  Invariant Measures for Multidimensional Dynamical Systems
                  Zizhong J. Wang, Huiqing H. Yang, Jiu Ding, and Kuiyuan Li
                  Virginia Wesleyan College, USA; Virginia State University, USA;
                  University of S. Mississippi, USA; University of W. Florida, USA

11:00 - 11:20am:  Computational Platform For The Execution Of Scientific
                  Experiments
                  David Cedres and Eric Gamess
                  Simon Rodriguez University, Caracas, Venezuela

11:20 - 11:40am:  A Parallel Multigrid Solver Based on Processor Virtualization
                  Kai Wang
                  University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, USA


SESSION 8-PDPTA:  (CONCURRENT SESSION with one of 6-PDPTA or 9-PDPTA)
                  PARALLEL SIMULATION AND MODELING + APPLICATIONS
                  Chair: Prof. David Cedres Becerra
                  Simon Rodriguez University, Caracas, Venezuela
                  June 26, 2007 (Tuesday); 11:40am - 02:40pm
                  (LOCATION: Platinum Room)

11:40 - 12:00pm:  A Parallel Simulation Framework for Integrated Regional
                  Ecosystem Modeling
                  Dali Wang, Michael W. Berry, Eric A. Carr, E. Jane Comiskey,
                  and Louis J. Gross
                  University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

12:00 - 12:20pm:  DistMe: A Java Based Toolbox for the Distribution of Parallel
                  Monte Carlo Simulations - Application to Nuclear Medicine
                  Using the GATE Simulation Package
                  R. Reuillon, D. Hill, Z. El Bitar, and V. Breton
                  Universite Blaise Pascal, France

12:20 - 12:40pm:  On the Design of Parallel Finite Element Approximate Inverses
                  Konstantinos M. Giannoutakis and George A. Gravvanis
                  Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

12:40 - 01:20pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  Speculative Parallelization of Many-Particle Collision
                  Simulations
                  Ruipeng Li, Hai Jiang, Hung-chi Su, Jeff Jenness, and Bin Zhang
                  Arkansas State University, USA

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Markov Reliability Modeling of Star Networks
                  Xiaolong Wu, Shahram Latifi, and Yingtao Jiang
                  University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm:  An Analytical Model for Computer Systems with Non-Exponential
                  Service Times and Memory Thrashing Overhead
                  Feng Zhang and Lester Lipsky
                  University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Parallel Tree Based Gravity for Network Limited Clusters
                  Mark Lewis, Glenn Kavanagh, and Glen Stewart
                  Trinity University, USA; University of Colorado at Boulder, USA


SESSION 9-PDPTA:  (CONCURRENT SESSION with 7-PDPTA)
                  AD HOC AND UBIQUITOUS COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT - I
                  Chair: Dr. Hiroaki Nishikawa, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
                  June 26, 2007 (Tuesday); 01:20pm - 04:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 2)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  A Proposal on Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Communication Environment
                  Supported by Data-Driven Networking Processor
                  Hiroshi Ishii, Osamu Mizuno, and Hiroaki Nishikawa
                  Tokai University, Japan

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Concepts of Autonomous Contents Discovery Methods Based on
                  Social Communities of Ad-Hoc Network Nodes Users
                  Osamu Mizuno, Yoshiko Sueda, Naoyuki Hirata, Hiroaki Nishikawa,
                  Kazumasa Takami, and Hiroshi Ishii
                  NTT Information Platform Labs., Tokyo, Japan

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Evaluations of Autonomous Contents Discovery Methods Based
                  on Social Communities of Ad-Hoc Network Nodes Users
                  Naoyuki Hirata, Yoshiko Sueda, Osamu Mizuno, Yoshimasa Sajima,
                  and Hiroshi Ishii
                  Tokai University, Japan

02:20 - 02:40pm:  On Supporting Multipoint-to-point Video Transmission over
                  Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
                  Chee Onn Chow, H. Nishikawa, and Hiroshi Ishii
                  Tokai University, Japan


02:40 - 03:20pm:  DISCUSSION SESSION B-PDPTA (Refreshments will be available)
                  June 26 (Tuesday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Ballrooms 1-5)
                  List of papers appears at the end of PDPTA's schedule.

03:20 - 03:40pm:  A Study on QoS of Multipoint-to-Point Packet Streaming over the
                  Wireless Ad Hoc Network Testbed
                  Keisuke Utsu, Yoshimasa Sajima, CheeOnn Chow, Kazumasa Takami,
                  and Hiroshi Ishii
                  Tokai University, Japan

03:40 - 04:00pm:  A Self-Timed Pipeline Circuit for Low-Power Surrounding LSI Chips
                  Shuji Sannomiya, Kazuhiro Komatsu, and Makoto Iwata
                  Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, Japan


SESSION 10-PDPTA: AD HOC AND UBIQUITOUS COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT - II
                  Chair: Dr. Hiroshi Ishii, Tokai University, Japan
                  June 26, 2007 (Tuesday); 04:00pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 2)

04:00 - 04:20pm:  CUE-v3: Data-Driven Chip Multi-Processor for Ad hoc and
                  Ubiquitous Networking Environment
                  Hiroaki Nishikawa, Hiroshi Tomiyasu, Masanobu Okamoto,
                  Masayoshi Sugiyama, Hiroyuki Uchida, Osamu Mizuno, Hiroshi Ishii,
                  and Makoto Iwata
                  University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Data-Driven Implementation of Protocol Handling for Supporting
                  Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Networking Environment
                  Kazuhiro Aoki, Hiroshi Ishii, and Hiroaki Nishikawa
                  Information Infrastructure Laboratory, Inc., Ibaraki, Japan

04:40 - 05:00pm:  A Load Control Scheme on Data-Driven Networking Processor; CUE-v2
                  Mitsuru Iwaoka and Hiroaki Nishikawa
                  tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan

05:00 - 05:20pm:  A Personal Agent that Supports Communication in the Ubiquitous
                  Communication Environment
                  Hajime Kusu, Hiroshi Ishii, Hiroaki Nishikawa, and Kazumasa Takami
                  Takami-Lab., Soka University, Tokyo, Japan

05:20 - 05:40pm:  A Personal Web Service Based on a User-Friendly Personal
                  Identification Method in a Ubiquitous Environment
                  Shinichi Nose, Michiko Nishiyama, Kazuhiro Watanabe, and
                  Kazumasa Takami
                  Takami-Lab., Soka University, Tokyo, Japan

05:40 - 06:00pm:  Self-Timed Stream Processor for Surrounding Computing Environment
                  Makoto Iwata, Hiroshi Shima, Shuji Sannomiya, and
                  Hiroaki Nishikawa
                  Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, Japan


06:00 - 09:00pm:  FIVE TUTORIALS  (planned)

                  Real-Time Image and Video Processing: From Research to Reality
                  Prof. Nasser Kehtarnavaz
                  University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 1

                  Moving On, Moving Online That Is: An Introduction to Teaching Online
                  Dr. Michael L. Nelson
                  School of Technology Graduate Program Director, International College,
                  Ft. Myers, Florida, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 2

                  Computational Challenges in RNAi Gene Silencing
                  Amanda Birmingham
                  Dharmacon, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bioinformatics Manager, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 3

                  Introduction to Game Programming
                  Lakshmi Prayaga
                  University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 4

                  The Integrated Microbial Genomes system (IMG)
                  Dr. Konstantinos Mavrommatis
                  Genome Biology Program, DOE Joint Genome Institute, California, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 5

                   DISCUSSION SESSION B-PDPTA
                     June 26 (Tuesday), 2007
                       RRR/SRP/PST Papers
                        02:40pm - 03:20pm
         (LOCATION: Hallways/Lobby - Ballrooms 1-5)

LIST OF PAPERS IN DISCUSSION SESSION B-PDPTA:

O. A New Recovery Algorithm for Distributed Computing Environment
   B. Gupta, S. Rahimi, and N. Mogharreban
   Southern Illinois University, USA
O. A Heuristic Scheduling Algorithm for Parallelism of Massive
   Iterative Jobs Using Heterogeneous Multiple Processors System for
   High Resource Utilization
   JaeSuk Cho, Min-Sik Chu, Yong Ho Song, and Dong-Hoon Choi
   Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
O. A Bilingual Theorem Prover for Evaluating HPC Systems
   Ralph Butler and Chrisila C. Pettey
   Middle Tennessee State University, USA
O. Energy Efficient Data-Centric Routing Protocol over Wireless Sensor
   Network
   Chang-yong Lee, Hyun-sung Kim, and Sung-woon Lee
   Kyungil University, Korea; Tongmyung University, Korea

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