BMW08: Barcelona Multicore Workshop Program

BMW08: Barcelona Multicore Workshop

June 5-6, 2008

  BMW08 Program
Thursday 5th June
8:30 Registration
9:00 Welcome, Mateo Valero, BSC/UPC
9:10 The Rock Architecture, Marc Tremblay, SUN
9:40 Future CPU Architectures:The Shift From Traditional Models, Jesus Corbal, Intel
10:10 Parallel Computing using NVIDIA CUDA, Simon Green, NVIDIA
10:40 Coffee break
11:00 Decoupled Composable Processors, Doug Burger, Microsoft Research
11:30 Programming Heterogeneous Multicore Processors, Peter Hofstee, IBM
12:00 Parallelizing Computer System Simulators, Derek Chiou, UT-Austin
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Design and Implementation of Transactional Constructs for C/C++, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Intel
14:30 Making Transactional Memory More Scalable, Maurice Herlihy, Brown U.
15:00 Major Hurdles of Hardware Transactional Memory and Some Solutions, Per Stenström, Chalmers U.
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Panel "50 Billion Transistor Chips: What should the Hardware provide?", chaired by Yale Patt, UT-Austin
Friday 6th June
9:00 European Research in Computing, Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos, European Commission
9:30 Panel "What Terrifies You More: Multicore Hardware or Software?", chaired by Dan Reed, Microsoft
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 StarSs: Portable Programming for a Fuzzy Multicore Space, Jesus Labarta, BSC/UPC
11:45 UPCRC at Illinois: Making Parallel Programming Synonymous with Programming, Marc Snir, UIUC
12:15 Towards Pervasive Parallelism: Parallel Applications without Parallel Programming, Kunle Olukotun, Stanford U.
12:45 Compiling for Multi, Many and Anycore, Rudi Eigenmann, Purdue U.
13:15 Close