Special Sessions

1. High-Performance Simulation of Reactive Flows
2. Service Level Agreements
3. Pervasive Computing Application  & Security Service
4. Automatic Performance Analysis of Parallel/Distributed Applications

Simulations of reactive fluid flows are a very important topic in applied fluid dynamics for many kinds of applications. They require 3D models of fluid flows with a close interaction between physical and chemical processes.

Such complex phenomena, dominated by substantial energy exchanges, turbulence, chemical reactions etc. place extremely heavy requirements on the simulation environment, at all levels, from the mathematical models employed, to their implementation in software, down to the level of interaction with parallel, distributed and grid computing architectures.

This special session aims at providing an open forum for application specialists, computer and computational scientists, applied mathematicians, and all scientists involved in the application of high performance computing techniques in this exciting field.

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Existing large scale applications currently makes use of pre-defined resources (and services) – often defined statically at the start of application execution. Often such static resources are not adequate, and therefore the use of a registry service to discover resources dynamically has been recognised as being important. Such resources may be owned by institutions/individuals within another administrative domain – outside the direct control of the application manager. It is therefore necessary to make use of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to provide the interface between application users making demands on resources, and application providers determining what should be made available for external use. SLAs define: (i) requirements that such an application would place on resources (and services) owned by another third party; (ii) check whether these requirements have been met during use. The complexity of an SLA can vary from a static description of resource names (specified in terms of IP addresses) to complex constraints defined as functions that can be evaluated at deployment time.

The aim of this special session is to bring together researchers in high performance computing, networking infrastructure and application sciences to demonstrate how SLAs may be defined, managed, updated and used.

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A Pervasive Computing Environments (PCE) means a human-oriented computing environment created through the embedding of computer chips in everyday objects optimized through close inter-cooperation among them. But if PCE are to be realized, users should be able to remotely control all the information embedded in their home appliances and easily and conveniently use the various services they offer, without the risk of strangers being able to do the same.

Our session provides a chance for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest progress in the area of PCE application and security, including models and systems, new directions in service, security, trust management, and novel applications associated with the utilization of smart and secure methods. The session will publish high quality papers which are closely related to the various theories and practical applications of application and security in PCE. In addition, we expect that the session and its publications will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in this important subject.

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Performance is the main reason of parallel/distributed processing. When a programmer is designing and developing parallel/distributed applications he/she must tackle a performance analysis phase in order to ensure that the expected performance goals are accomplished. In this analysis phase it is necessary to detect the performance bottlenecks, determine their causes and modify the application to overcome them.

This process is very complex and requires a high degree of expertise from the developer to do it in an efficient way. Therefore, automatic performance analysis tools appear as a very promising approach to help the developer in this process, guiding him/her through the detection phase and providing direct information related to the performance bottlenecks and their root causes.

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