Think before coding: static strategies (and dynamic
execution) for clusters and grids.

Yves Robert

Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Tuesday June 12,2007 - 2:00 p.m.
5317 Sennott Square

Refreshments at 1:45 p.m

Hosted by Rami Melhem

Abstractact

In this talk we provide several examples to
illustrate key algorithmic concepts required to efficiently
execute applications on clusters and grids.

The idea is to give a lively exposition of the necessity to
inject whatever static knowledge is available into the design
of typical applications, such as master-slave tasking,
numerical kernels, and job workflows. We claim that this is the
key to an efficient deployment of these applications onto
large-scale distributed computational platforms.

The talk will proceed through examples to explain how to cope
with resource selection, memory constraints, platform
heterogeneity, etc.

Biography of Speaker

Yves Robert received the PhD degree from Institut National
Polytechnique de Grenoble in 1986. He is currently a full professor in the
Computer Science Laboratory LIP at ENS Lyon. He is the author of four
books, 95 papers published in international journals, and
120 papers published in international conferences. His main research
interests are scheduling techniques and parallel algorithms for
clusters and grids. Yves Robert served on many editorial boards,
including IEEE TPDS. He was the program chair of HiPC'2006 in Bangalore
and will be the program chair of IPDPS'2008 in Miami.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He has been elected as a
Senior Member of Institut Universitaire de France in 2007.