[HiPEAC-announce] Call for Participation: Workshop on Streaming Systems at MICRO-41

[Rodric Rabbah]

Preliminary program is now available. Advanced registration ends October 6.

  Workshop on Streaming Systems: From Web and Enterprise to Multicore
            http://web.mit.edu/rabbah/www/conferences/08/micro/wss/

                                           November 8, 2008
                                           Lake Como, ITALY
    in conjunction with the 41st Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium
                                 on Microarchitecture (MICRO).
                              http://www.microarch.org/micro41/

This goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss the impact
of stream computing on the entire computing stack, from applications
to architectures. Stream programming and streaming systems are gaining
increasing attention because they ease the burden associated with the
design and implementation of complex, large-scale, and scalable
applications that run on parallel and distributed computing platforms.

Streaming systems in various domains may appear to address the many
challenges of delivering high-performance in contrasting ways, but in
reality there are many similarities in philosophy, engineering, and
implementation. This workshop aims to highlight the commonalities and
contrast the differences in the context of stream computing on Web and
Enterprise platforms, and stream computing on Multicores.

The workshop is a half day session and will feature invited talks from
leading researchers in the field, as well as presentations selected
from the submissions.

Preliminary Program
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8:30-10:00
Session 1: Programming Models, Languages and Applications

- Introduction and Overview
Rodric Rabbah (IBM Research)

- Invited Talk
William Lundgren (Gedae Inc.)

- How to Make Stream Processing More Mainstream
Shuvra Bhattacharyya (UMD), Gordon Brebner (Xilinx Research), Johan
Eker (Xilinx Research), Jorn Janneck (Ericsson Research), Marco
Mattavelli (EPFL), Mickael Raulet (IETR/INSA)

- Stream Extensions for Object Oriented Languages
Frank Otto, Victor Pankratius, Walter Tichy (University of Karlsruhe)

- Comparing Synthesizable HDL Design and Stream Programming
Jesse Beu, Thomas Conte (GaTech)

- StreamIt: A Programming Language for the Era of Multicores
Saman Amarasinghe (MIT)

10:30-12:00
Session 2: Compilers, Runtime and Architecture

- Liquid Metal: Blurring the Hardware/Software Boundary
Rodric Rabbah (IBM Research)

- Invited Talk
Scott Mahlke (UMich)

- Methodologies and Tools for Development of Signal Processing Software
Jerker Bengtsson, Bertil Svensson (Halmstad University)

- Dataflow Deadlock Avoidance for Streaming Applications Mapped on
Network-on-Chips
Vittorio Zaccaria (Politecnico di Milano)

- The Case for Malleable Architectures
Christopher Batten (MIT), Hidetaka Aoki (Hitachi), Krste Asanovic (UC Berkeley)

- Invited Talk
Richard Lethin (Reservoir Labs)

Organizers
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Saman Amarasinghe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rodric Rabbah, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Xiaowei Shen, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and IBM China Research