Multi-cores / Many-cores 2007

Coalescing Architectures, Programming Models and Tools to Enable Tomorrow's Innovative Applications

Friday March 2nd Schedule


Marriott 4th Floor Meeting Room Pacific J
Time Speaker Presentation Title
7:00 - 9:30 Registration
8:45 - 9:00 Yahya H. Mirza
Aurora Borealis Software LLC
Welcome / Agenda
Krste Asanovic
MIT
Session Chair:
Mult-cores / Many-cores:
Architectures & Systems
9:00 - 10:00 David A. Patterson Keynote
University of California at Berkeley
Computer Architecture is Back- The Berkeley View on the Parallel Computing Landscape
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:00 Sanjay Patel
Ageia
The Ageia PhysX Technology
11:00 - 11:30 Jose E. Moreira
IBM T.J. Watson
Scale-up x Scale-out: A Case Study using Commercial Application
11:30 - 12:00 Kunle Olukotun
Stanford
Thread-level Parallelism for the Masses
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
Dominic Mallinson
SCE US R&D
Session Chair:
Multi-cores / Many-cores:
Programming Models & Substrates
1:00 - 2:00 Fred G. Gustavson Keynote
IBM TJ Watson
New Generalized Data Structures for Matrices Lead to a Variety of High Performance Dense Linear Factorization Algorithms including the Linpack Benchmark on Cell
2:00 - 2:30 Saman Amarasinghe
MIT
Escaping the Programming Quagmire Created by the Multicore Menace
2:30 - 3:00 Matthew Pappakipos
PeakStream
The Peakstream Platform
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:00 DK Panda
OSU
Designing Multi-core Aware Middleware for HPC and Data-Centers
4:00 - 4:30 Vangelis Kokkevis
SCE US R&D
(Game) Physics on the CELL
4:30 - 5:30 Moderator:
Yahya H. Mirza

Aurora Borealis Software LLC
Discussion:
Multi-Core Implications for Numerical Libraries and Algorithms

Alfredo Buttari (University of Tennessee)
Fred G. Gustavson (IBM TJ Watson)
Mike Heroux (Sandia National Labs)
Vangelis Kokkevis (SCE US R&D)


Saturday March 3rd Schedule


Marriott 4th Floor Meeting Room Pacific J
Time Speaker Presentation Title
7:00 - 9:30 Registration
8:45 - 9:00 Yahya H. Mirza
Aurora Borealis Software LLC
Welcome / Agenda
Ralph E. Johnson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Session Chair:
Multi-cores / Many-cores:
Libraries & Frameworks
9:00 - 9:30 Alfredo Buttari
University of Tennessee
Targeting Multi-Core Systems in Linear Algebra Applications
9:30 - 10:00 Mike Heroux
Sandia National Labs
Been There, Done That: Lessons Learned from SMP Computing
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30 John Gustafson Keynote
ClearSpeed Inc.
Programming for the New Computational Costs
11:30 - 12:00 Laxmikant Kale
UIUC
Data-Driven Objects for Programming Multi-core Machines
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 1:30 Richard Lethin
Reservoir Labs
What the Experience of Developing a High-level Automatic Application Mapping Tool is Teaching us about Execution Models and Virtual Machines for Multi-core Processors
George Bosworth
Ephemeral Consultants
Session Chair:
Multi-cores / Many-cores:
Future Applications
1:30 - 2:30 Kevin G. Bowcutt Keynote
Boeing PhantomWorks
Hypersonic Flight and Space Planes: Parametric Modeling, Physical Simulation & Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
2:30 - 3:00 Evan Smyth
PDI DreamWorks SKG
Leveraging Multi-core Systems for Rendering Animated Feature Films
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:00 Gareth Morgan
Avid Softimage
The Avid Softimage Modeling & Animation System
4:00 - 5:30 Moderator:
Yahya H. Mirza

Aurora Borealis Software LLC
Discussion:
Leveraging Scalable Multi-Core Systems for Future Applications

George Bosworth (Ephemeral Consultants)
Kevin G. Bowcutt (Boeing PhantomWorks)
Ralph E. Johnson (UIUC)
Gareth Morgan (Avid Softimage)
Evan Smyth (PDI DreamWorks SKG)
Habib Zargarpour (Electronic Arts)
7:00 - 10:00 Dinner



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