ICS ’11

General Chair: David K. Lowenthal (Arizona)

ICS ’11 in Tucson, Arizona

PC Co-Chairs: Bronis R. de Supinski (LLNL)Sally A. McKee (Chalmers)

ICS ’11Highlights

5 Workshops and 5 Tutorials

Technical program with 35 papers

Poster session with 14 posters

ACM Student Poster Competition

Best paper award

Social events Poster reception Pima Air and Space Museum + Banquet

ICS ’11Three Keynotes

Sarita Adve, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignRethinking Shared-Memory Languages and Hardware

Steve Hammond, National Renewable Energy LaboratoryChallenges and Opportunities in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency

William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignPerformance Modeling as the Key to Extreme Scale Computing

ICS ’11The Organizational Team

Chris GniadyConf. Local

Arrangements

Barry RountreeWeb

Boyana NorrisPC Local

Arrangements

Wu FengIndustry

Xipeng ShenWorkshops/Tutorials

Vince FreehFinance

Daniele ScarpazzaPublications

Daniel FarajRegistration

ICS ’11The Organizational Team

Arun ChauhanTravel Grants

Shan LuPosters

Kirk CameronPublicity (US)

Anne BracyPosters

Bernd MohrPublicity (Europe)

Martin SchulzVice Chair

ICS ’11 Thanks!

Platinum Sponsors:

Gold Sponsors:

Silver Sponsors:

ICS ’11Conference Arrangements

Technical sessions in Salon A and B (for split sessions) Generally, single sessions before lunch and split sessions after lunch

Poster sessions ACM Student Poster Competition: today at lunch

Finalists will give talks tomorrow at 1:30PM General poster session (AMD) today at 7PM

Best paper/poster Best paper session (Nvidia) today at 10:30AM Awards presentation Friday morning

Food and Refreshments Lunch buffet each day in the Flying V (outside, across parking lot) Breakfast and coffee breaks in foyer outside Salon A

ICS ’11 Flying V (Lunch)

Lobby

Flying V

ICS ’11Things to do in Tucson

Museums Desert Museum Tucson Museum of Art

Cafes, Restaurants, Pubs

Southwestern Culture

Arts Performances (theater, music, symphony)

Outdoors: Golf, Hiking (many trails), Mt. Lemmon (9,000 feet)

Night Life Congress Street Fourth Avenue

ICS ’11Conference Outing

Pima Air and Space Museum + Banquet Sponsored by Intel

ICS ’11Program

Outstanding pool of submissions (161)

Accepted 22% (35 papers) At least four reviews for all papers Reviews by 70 PC members Plus over 135 external reviewers Two stage review process Rebuttals overlapped with second review phase

Three “Best Paper Finalists” (next session)

ICS ’11Program Committee

PC Meeting Arrangements by Boyana Norris Held in Chicago on February 26, 2011 47 attendees, several others by telephone Discussed all papers with an average of weak accept or above First round review average determined discussion threshold Also discussed selected other papers

Finished on time, including best paper candidate selection

Special thanks to ICS11 Web Chair, Barry Rountree, for invaluable support in general and at the PC meeting in particular

ICS ’11Program Committee

Tor Aamodt University of British ColumbiaNancy M. Amato Texas A&M UniversityDorian C. Arnold University of New MexicoSandro Bartolini Universita degli Studi di SienaTaisuke Boku University of TsukubaDavid Brooks Harvard UniversityAlfredo Buttari Institut de Recherche e

Informatique de ToulouseGregory T. Byrd North Carolina State UniversityJohn Carter IBMJacqueline Chame ISI, University of Southern

CaliforniaAlmadena ChtchelkanovaNational Science FoundationJaewoong Chung AMDMarcelo Cintra University of EdinburghJesus Corbal IntelLuiz De RoseCray, Inc.James Dehnert GoogleEvelyn Duesterwald IBMAlejandro Duran Barcelona Supercomputing CenterRudolf Eigenmann Purdue University

Babak Falsafi Ecole PolytechniqueFederale de Lausanne

Diana Franklin University of California at Santa Barbara

Todd Gamblin Lawrence LivermoreNational Laboratory

Ada Gavrilovska Georgia Institute of TechnologyRoberto Gioiosa Barcelona Supercomputing CenterMaya Gokhale Lawrence Livermore

National LaboratoryGanesh Gopalakrishnan University of UtahWilliam D. Gropp University of Illinois at

Urbana-ChampaignMary Hall University of UtahTorsten Hoefler University of Illinois at

Urbana-ChampaignJeffrey K. Hollingsworth University of MarylandMary Jane Irwin Pennsylvania State UniversityCanturk Isci IBMNatalie Enright Jerger University of TorontoLizy John University of Texas at AustinRuss Joseph Northwestern University

ICS ’11Program Committee

Zhiling Lan Illinois Institute of TechnologyBenjamin C. Lee Duke UniversityRichard Lethin Reservoir Labs, Inc. and

Yale UniversityGabriel H. Loh Georgia Institute of Technology

and AMDSonia Lopez Alarcon Rochester Institute of

TechnologyNaoya Maruyama Tokyo Institute of TechnologyShirley Moore University of TennesseeTali Moreshet Swarthmore CollegeMatthias S. Mueller Dresden University of

TechnologyYang Ni IntelDimitrios Nikolopoulos FORTH-ICS and

University of CreteBoyana Norris Argonne National LaboratoryDaniel Ortega IntelPadma Raghavan Pennsylvania State UniversitySteven K. Reinhardt AMDSuzanne Rivoire Sonoma State University

Philip C. Roth Oak Ridge National LaboratoryValentina Salapura IBMMartin Schulz Lawrence Livermore

National LaboratoryKelly A. Shaw University of RichmondMagnus Sjalander Chalmers University of TechnologyKevin Skadron University of VirginiaLauren L. Smith US Department of DefenseAllan Snavely San Diego Supercomputer CenterKarin Strauss Microsoft ResearchNathan Tallent Rice UniversityValerie Taylor Texas A&M UniversityPatricia J. Teller University of Texas at El PasoRajeev Thakur Argonne National LaboratoryGary Tyson Florida State UniversityThomas F. Wenisch University of MichiganPatrick Widener Emory UniversityQing Yi University of Texas at San AntonioMohamed Zahran CUNY/NYULixin Zhang Institute of Computing Technology,

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