CTWatch Special Issue on HPC Productivity

High Productivity Computing Systems and the Path Towards Usable Petascale Computing
Jeremy Kepner
October 2006

1. Observations about Software Development for High End Computing
   Jeffrey Carver, Lorin Hochstein, Richard Kendall, Taiga Nakamura, Marvin Zelkowitz, Victor Basili,and Douglass Post
   August 2006
   
2. Experiments to Understand HPC Time to Development
   Lorin Hochstein, Taiga Nakamura, Victor R. Basili, Sima Asgari, Marvin V. Zelkowitz, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Forrest Shull, Jeffrey Carver, Martin Voelp, Nico Zazworka, and Philip Johnson
   September 2006
   
3. A System-wide Productivity Figure of Merit
   Declan Murphy, Thomas Nash, Lawrence Votta, Jr., and Jeremy Kepner
   October 2006
   
4. Metrics for Evaluating the Performance of Supercomputers
   Tzu-Yi Chen, Meghan Gunn, Beth Simon, Laura Carrington, and Allan Snavely
   October 2006
   
5. What’s working in HPC: Investigating HPC User Behavior and Productivity
   Nicole Wolter, Michael O. McCracken, Allan Snavely, Lorin Hochstein, Taiga Nakamura, and Victor Basili
   September 2006
   
6. Software Productivity Research In High Performance Computing
   Susan Squires, Michael L. Van De Vanter, and Lawrence G. Votta
   October 2006
   
7. Design and Implementation of the HPC Challenge Benchmark Suite
   Piotr Luszczek, Jack J. Dongarra, and Jeremy Kepner
   September 2006
   
8. SLOPE - A Compiler Approach to Performance Prediction and Performance Sensitivity Analysis for Scientific Codes
   Pedro C. Diniz and Jeremy Abramson
   October 2006
   
9. Performance Complexity: An Execution Time Metric to Characterize the Transparency and Complexity of Performance
   Erich Strohmaier
   October 2006
   
10. Symbolic Performance Modeling of HPCS Applications
    Sadaf R. Alam, Nikhil Bhatia and Jeffrey S. Vetter
    October 2006
    
11. A Compiler-guided Instrumentation for Application Behavior Understanding
    Pedro C. Diniz and Tejus Krishna
    October 2006
    
12. Analysis of Parallel Software Development using the Relative Development Time Productivity Metric
    Andrew Funk, Victor Basili, Lorin Hochstein, and Jeremy Kepner
    September 2006
    
13. Designing Scalable Synthetic Compact Applications for Benchmarking High Productivity Computing Systems
    David A. Bader, Kamesh Madduri, John P. Gilbert, Viral Shah, Jeremy Kepner, and Ashok Krishnamurthy
    October 2006
    
14. Modelling HPC workflows with Timed Markov Models
    Viral Shah, John R. Gilbert, David Mizell, and Andrew Funk
    October 2006
    
15. Making the Business Case for High Performance Computing: A Benefit-Cost Analysis Methodology
    Albert Reuther and Suzy Tichenor
    October 2006
    
16. Application Software for High Performance Computers: A Soft Spot for U.S. Business Competitiveness
    Suzy Tichenor
    September 2006
    
17. Large-Scale Computational Scientific and Engineering Project Development and Production Workflows
    D. E. Post and R. P. Kendall
    October 2006