Workshop Program

Opening Remarks: David A. Bader and Santosh Pande, Georgia Tech

Keynote Talk:

Toshiba's Approach  to Consumer Product Application by Cell/B.E.  and  Desire/Challenge to Academia

Yoshio Masubuchi (Toshiba Corp.), General Manager, Broadband System LSI Development Center Yoshio Masubuchi is General Manager, Broadband System LSI Development Center, System LSI Division, Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor Company. He received B.S. and M.S. in Electronics Engineering from University of Tokyo in 1981 and 1983 respectively. He joined Research and Development Center, Toshiba in 1983, and has been engaged in research and development of microprocessor and computer architedture. From 1988 to 1990, he was a visiting fellow at Computer Science Department, University of California, Berkeley. He served as Toshiba Project Leader in Cell project at STI Design Center in Austin, TX from 2002 to 2005.

Technical Session 1: (Software Tools and Technologies)

• Code and Data Partitioning for the Local Stores on the Cell/B.E. processor, Kevin O'Brien, Kathryn O'Brien, Zehra Sura, Tao Zhang and Tong Chen (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
• Execution Model for the Cell/B.E., Marc Gonzales, J. Balart, K. O'brien, J.K O'brien, X. Martorell, E. Ayguade (UPC/BSC Barcelona)
• Compiler techniques for software consistency models, Xing Fang (Purdue University), Kyungwoo Lee, Zehra Sura (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), David Wong (Intel KAI Research Lab), Jaejin Lee (Seoul National University), Sam Midkiff (Purdue University), David Padua (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
• GLIMPSES : A Tool for GLobal Inter-procedural Memory and ParalleliSm Estimation in SPUs, Jaswanth Sreeram, Ling Liu, and Santosh Pande (Georgia Tech) [Short Talk]
• Cellule: Virtualizing Cell/B.E. for Lightweight Execution, Vishakha Gupta (Georgia Tech) and Jimi Xenidis (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) [Short Talk]

Keynote Talk:

Beyond the GFLOPS

Dominic Mallinson, Vice President, US Research and Development, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. After graduating in Computer Science from the University of Durham, England, Dominic spent time at Microsoft working on compilers followed by work as a research scientist with Pilkington Glass in the UK. He went on to join Psygnosis which was subsequently acquired by Sony in 1993. While at Sony, Dominic has worked on various PlayStation related projects and is now Vice President of the US Research and Development department of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Technical Session 2A: (Scientific Computing I)

• A High-Level Signal Processing Library for Multicore Processors, Sharon Sacco, Nadya Bliss, Ryan Haney, Jeremy Kepner, Hahn Kim, Sanjeev Mohindra, Glenn Schrader, and Edward Rutledge (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
• Geoscience and Aerospace Applications on a Potential Heterogeneous Cell/B.E. Cluster at UMBC, Milt Halem and Yelena Yesha (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
• Financial markets - Collateralized Debt Obligations Pricing on the Cell/B.E., Lurng-Kuo Liu (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) and Virat Agarwal (Georgia Tech)
• Development of High Performance Parallel Numerical Algorithms for the Cell/B.E. Processor, Jakub Kurzak (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) and Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, Knoxville & Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Technical Session 2B: (Independent Software Vendors)

• The RapidMind Development Platform and Data-Parallel Programming, Michael McCool, Chief Scientist, RapidMind
• Modeling and Programming the Cell/B.E. Using the Cmpware CMP-DK, Steven A. Guccione, Chief Scientist at Cmpware, Inc.
• Programming the Cell/B.E. Architecture with Gedae, William Lundgren, President/CEO of Gedae
• A Framework for Automatic High-Level Optimization of Applications to the Cell/B.E. Microprocessor: Status and Challenges, Richard Lethin, President, Reservoir Labs, Inc.
• MultiCore Framework (MCF) for Cell/B.E., [Mercury Exhibit Slides], Brian Bouzas, Mercury Computer Systems

Keynote Talk:

Next Generation Systems: Multi-core, Flexible and Modular for the Application Optimized Integrated Solutions

Bijan Davari (IBM Research), IBM Fellow and Vice President, Next Generation Computing Systems and Technology Dr. Davari is IBM fellow and Vice President of Next Generation Computing Systems/Technology. Dr. Davari leads the efforts for the definition and implementation of IBM’s next generation systems for 2009-2012, employing Massively Multi Threaded (MMT) architectures and Special function engines. This activity integrates IBM’s technical disciplines in Hardware and Software (including; silicon, packaging, cooling, system architecture, design tools, compliers, middleware, etc.) with the Client Requirements in the new and emerging business applications in various fields, such as financial sector, healthcare, and electronic industries. Bijan Davari received the J.J. Ebers award in 2005, has authored and co-authored over 70 publications in various aspects of semiconductor devices and technology and he is an IEEE fellow.

Technical Session 3: (Gaming and Entertainment)

• Cell/B.E. Powered Games, Jim Tilander, LucasArts
• Cell/B.E.: Programming for Digital Animation and Visual F/X, Bruce D'Amora (IBM T. J. Watson Research)
• Developing Technology for Insomniac's Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Mike Acton, CellPerformance

Lunch

Technical Session 4: (Scientific Computing II)

• Landing GNU-Based OpenMP on Cell/B.E.: Experience and Perspectives, Guang Gao (University of Delaware)
• High Performance Combinatorial Algorithm Design on the Cell/B.E. Processor, David A. Bader, Virat Agarwal, Kamesh Madduri, Seunghwa Kang (Georgia Tech)
• Scalable String Matching on the Cell/B.E. Processor, Fabrizio Petrini (Pacific Northwest Laboratory)
• CorePy: High-Productivity Cell/B.E. Programming, Chris Mueller, Ben Martin, and Andrew Lumsdaine (Indiana University)

Technical Session 5: (Scientific Computing III)

• Visual Simulation of Fluid Dynamics on the Cell/B.E., Theodore W. Kim (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
• Biological Sequence Analysis on the Cell/B.E.: HMMer-Cell, Kursad Albayraktaroglu (University of Maryland, College Park), Jizhu Lu, Michael Perrone (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Manoj Franklin (University of Maryland, College Park)