Goteborg meeting (January 2008)

Cluster presentation (BSC/UPC)

We identified some important issues to research in the cluster. For some of them there are slides available:

Programming models

• OpenMP and StarSS (BSC/UPC)‏
• Data-driven multithreading (UCyprus)
• Transactional Memory (BSC, INRIA, DITEC/UM, Univ. Edinburgh)‏
• CAPSULE (INRIA)‏
• Tagged procedure call (FORTH)‏
• Heterogeneous cores (NTNU)‏
• Hierarchically Tiled Array (UDC)‏
• Load/task distribution (Thales)‏

Identifying and exploring parallelism

• Program analysis and optimizations (UPC, Ugent, Thales)‏
• Mapping algorithms to GPGPU (UPM)
• TUDelft expression of interest
• System-level design methods and tools (ULPGC)

Operating Systems/RunTime

• Scheduling (Hebrew University)‏
• Resource management (Univ. Edinburgh, Hebrew University)‏
• Runtime and OS evaluation tools for heterogeneous multicore environments (UPC/BSC, FORTH-ICS, IBM Research)‏
• MAPS compiler for MPSoC (RWTH)
• Embedded (Hard) Real-time Systems (U Augsburg)

Real Time

• MERASA (European FP7 project)‏
• ASMP-Linux (BSC, Univ. of Rome “Tor Vergata”)‏