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Manycore Computing Workshop

Manycore Computing Workshop

June 20 and 21, 2007

Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1113 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, WA

Immediately following the International Conference on Supercomputing 07 (http://ics07.ac.upc.edu/)

Program Overview

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Manycore Computing Workshop

June 20^th (Evergreen Conference Room) – Open to all conference and workshop attendees
14.30 – 14.45	Workshop Opening
14.45 – 15.30	Burton Smith, Microsoft Corporation
15.30 – 16.15	Position papers I – see descriptions on following page (see detailed program for presentations)
16.15 – 16.30	Break
16.30 – 17.15	Position papers II – see descriptions on following page (see detailed program for presentations)
17.15 – 18.00	David Patterson, UC Berkeley

June 20^th – (Hotel Monaco, Paris Ballroom) – By-invitation only
18.30 – 21.30	Workshop reception - Hotel Monaco, Paris Ballroom – see directions below

June 21^st (Evergreen Conference Room) – By-invitation only
8.30 – 9.00	Breakfast/coffee
9.00 – 9.45	Andrew Chien, Intel Corporation
9.45 – 11.15	Discussion Panel – Applications Leader: Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University) (see detailed program for presentations)
11.15 – 11.30	Break
11.30 – 13.00	Discussion Panel – Programming Languages/Models and Compiler Technologies Leader: John Mellor-Crummey (Rice University) (see detailed program for presentations)
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 15.30	Discussion Panel – Architectures Leader: Mateo Valero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) (see detailed program for presentations)
15.30 – 15.45	Break
15.45 – 17.00	Discussion Panel – Tools and Libraries Leader: Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee) (see detailed program for presentations)

Program details

June 20^th (Evergreen Conference room) – Open to everyone

Position papers I – 10 mins each
Arch Robison (Intel)	Allow Concurrency, Don't Mandate It!
Michael Heroux (Sandia National Laboratories)	Some Thoughts On Multicore
Ian Watson (Manchester University)	Programming Models and Memory Systems
Paul Petersen (Intel)	I Own What I Own When I Own It

Position papers II – 10 mins each
Jim Larus (Microsoft Research)	Parallel Thoughts
Jeff Steinman (WarpIV Technologies)	The WarpIV Kernel
David Penry (Brigham Young University)	You Can't Parallelize Just Once: Managing Manycore Diversity
Richard Lethin (Reservoir Labs)	Manycore architecture of the future will be determined by compiler capabilities
Tim Mattson (Intel)	Defining the foundations of Programmability Research

June 20^th – (Hotel Monaco, Paris Ballroom) – By-invitation only
18.30 – 21.30	Workshop reception Directions: Go west (toward Puget Sound) to 4^th Avenue. Cross 4^th Avenue and turn left. The Hotel is at 1101 4^th Avenue, between Spring and Seneca. The Paris Ballroom is on the lower level of the hotel.