Workshop Program

Opening Remarks: David A. Bader, Georgia Tech

Keynote Talk:

The Cell at Los Alamos: Ray Tracing to Roadrunner

	Allen McPherson, Los Alamos National Laboratory Allen McPherson is a visualization researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research interests include hardware-accelerated rendering, visualization and rendering algorithms, and parallel computing. He holds a BS and MS in computer science from Southern Illinois University and the University of New Mexico, respectively.

STI Centers of Competence, Plans and Successes:

Session Chair, Doreen Anding (IBM)

• CoC Europe: Michael Manzke (Trinity College Dublin)

STI Centers of Competence, Plans and Successes:

• CoC Japan: Yasuhiko Tanaka (Exective Director, Application Engineering Department, Semiconductor Engineering Center, Kitakyushu Foundation for the Advancement of Industry, Science, and Technology, Japan)
• CoC Americas: David A. Bader (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Applications for Low-Cost Cell/B.E. Clusters:

• Jun Igarashi (Kyushu Institute of Technology) Application for Low-Cost Cell/B.E. Clusters
• Chris Poulin (Patterns & Predictions) Building Low-Cost Clustering Infrastructure with the Cell/B.E.
• Kai Staats (Terrasoft Solutions) Commercial Solutions for Low Cost Cell/B.E. Clusters

Digital Media and Visualization Applications for Cell/B.E.:

• Andrew Clinton (SideFX) Accelerating Visual Effects Production with the Cell/BE
• Bruce D'Amora (IBM TJ Watson Research Center) Cell/B.E. Servers: A Platform for Real Time Scalable Computing and Visualization
• Guochun Shi (NCSA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Implementation of Scientific Computing Applications on the Cell Broadband Engine
  

Programmability Session 1: (Language and Compiler)

• Jesus Labarta (Barcelona Supercomputing Center),StarSs and CellSs: dataflow programming for multicore systems
• Allen Leung (Reservoir Labs) Automatic High Level Compilation to Cell/B.E. with the Polyhedral Approach
• Tao Zhang (IBM) Single source compiler for Cell/B.E.

Programmability Session 2: (Programming Model and Common Runtime)

• Seiji Maeda (Toshiba Corp.) Common Software Models and Platform for Cell and SpursEngine
• Geoff Levand (Sony Corp.) Introduction to MARS and SPE Multi-Tasking
• Catherine Crawford (IBM) Toward an Open and Unified Model for Heterogeneous and Accelerated Multicore Computing

Programmability Session 3: (ISV Programmability Framework and Tooling)

• William Lundgren (Gedae) Gedae: Automated Multithreading and System Requirements for Interoperability
• Michael McCool (RapidMind) High-Productivity Parallel Programming Without Sacrificing Performance
• Guang Gao (University of Delaware) The OPELL Partition/Overlay Manager

Lunch

Discussion and Wrap-up

• David A. Bader (Georgia Tech)