MIT Lincoln Laboratory

HPEC 1998
23-24 September 1998

AGENDA


Check-In & Continental Breakfast
AUDITORIUM
Keynote Address
Can We System Engineer the Course?
Frank Perry (Chief Information Officer, Space & Naval Warfare Systems Command)
Session 1: Systems Applications for Embedded Signal Processing
Robert Graybill (Lockheed Martin)
High-Performance Computing for Deeply Embedded Missile Image/Signal Processing Applications
Steve Wagner (Raytheon Missile Systems)
Dennis Braunreiter (SAIC)
Break
A Ubiquitous High-Performance Digital Pulse Compression System (DPCS) for the Kwajalein Missile Range Moderization Program
Stephen Rejto (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Richard Gentile (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Eric Willmann (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Overcoming Technical Challenges for FOPEN Radar Receiver Signal Processing on a Airborne HPEC System
Sreenidhi Tummala (Lockheed Martin)
Stephen Paavola (SKY Computers)
Poster Session A: High-Performance Devices and Reconfigurable Computing
Brent Nelson (Brigham Young University)

Poster A.1 Run-Time Environment for Synthesis of Reconfigurable Hardware
Ted Bapty (ISIS/Vanderbilt University)
Sandeep Neema (ISIS/Vanderbilt University)
Jason Scott (ISIS/Vanderbilt University)
Janos Sztipanovits (ISIS/Vanderbilt University)
Poster A.2 Mapping Signal Processing Loops onto Reconfigurable Computing Architecture for Embedded Applications
Pedro Diniz (University of Southern California)
Poster A.3 A High-Performance In-Memory Reconfigurable Computing Architecture for Embedded Applications
Pedro Deniz (University of Southern California)
Poster A.4 Streams-C: Compiling a Stream-Based Language to Configurable Logic
Maya Gokhale (Sarnoff Corporation)
Jeffery Arnold (Sarnoff Corporation)
James Kaba (Sarnoff Corporation)
Poster A.5 Configurable Micro-Accelerators for Sensor Processing
Michael Lucas (Northrop Grumman)
Richard Webb (Sarnoff Corporation)
Poster A.6 Reconfigurable Computing for High Performance Embedded Processing Systems
Michael McCloskey (Lockheed Martin)
Eric Pancost (Lockheed Martin)
Paul Ramondetta (Lockheed Martin)
Poster A.7    Algorithm Analysis and Mapping Environment for Adaptive Computing Systems
Eric Pauer (Sanders/Lockheed Martin)
Christopher Crawford (Sanders/Lockheed Martin)
Paul Fiore (Sanders/Lockheed Martin)
Cory Myers (Sanders/Lockheed Martin)
John Smith (Sanders/Lockheed Martin)
Christopher Hyland (University of California)
Edward Lee (University of California)
James Lundblad (University of California)
Poster A.8 RF Noise Shaping Digital Receiver Technology
Leopold Pellon (Lockheed Martin)
Thomas Smith (Lockheed Martin)
Robert Doak (Lockheed Martin)
Poster A.9 A Two Teraops Embedded Mixed-Signal Radar Receiver/Processor
William Song (MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Poster A.10 The Role of Field Programmable Gate Arrays in Augmenting an Embedded AN/SPY-1 Radar Signal Processor
Frank Wallace (NSWCDD)
Robert Hix (NSWCDD)
Keith Merranko (NSWCDD)
Ronald Stapleton (NSWCDD)
Session 2:  Case Study Examples of High-Performance Architectures
Edward Baranoski (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Applying the RASSP Process and High-Performance COTS Processors to Upgrade the SAIP SAR Radar Processor 
William Ealy (Lockheed Martin)
Performance Evaluation of Massively Parallel Computers for AEGIS Signal Processing
James Lebak (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Edward Baranoski (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Risk Reduction Efforts for a COTS-Based Large Scale Radar Signal Processor
James Reynolds (Lockheed Martin)
Edward Monastra (Lockheed Martin)
Break
Session 3:  Signal Processor Signals and Computing Technologies
Dennis Braunreit (SAIC)
Heterogeneous Processor for FOPEN SAR
David Coker (Integrated Sensors)
James Graham (Integrated Sensors)
Walter Szczepanski (Integrated Sensors)
Mission-Specific Optimization of Shared Memory Multi-Processors
Douglas Goodman (SGI/Cray)
William Harrod (SGI/Cray)
Effective Methods for Programming STAP Algorithms on Real-Time Embedded Signal Processors
Bruce Hand (Northrop Grumman)
Motorola's AtiVec Technology for Embedded Applications
Craig Lund (Local Knowledge)
Check-In & Continental Breakfast
AUDITORIUM
Session 4: Middleware Libraries and Application Programming Interface
Joseph Germann (SKY Computers)
Portability Issues on High-Performance Embedded Systems Featuring the Rosetta API and MPI
Mark Cotton (Lockheed Martin)
Nathan Doss (Lockheed Martin)
Vector, Signal & Image Processing Standardization for Embedded Systems: VSIP 1.0 API
David Schwartz (HRL Laboratory)
The Deput of the MPI/RT Standard
Anthony Skjellum (Mississippi State  University)
Arkady Kanevsky (MITRE)
The DARPA Data Reorganization Effort- Transpose and Reshape API's for High Performance Message-Oriented Middleware
Anthony Skjellum (MPI Software technology)
Clayborne Taylor (MPI Software technology)
Standards-Based Real-Time Embedded High Performance Computing: RT_STAP Case Study
Kenneth Cain (MITRE)
Richard Games (MITRE)
Brian Sroka (MITRE)
Poster Session B:  Algorithm Mapping and System Development Tools
David Martinez (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Poster B.1 RTExpress: A Rapid Prototyping Environment for Real-Time Embedded Systems 
Milissa Benincasa (Integrated Sensors)
Richard Besler (Integrated Sensors)
Diane Brassaw (Integrated Sensors)
John Steill (Integrated Sensors)
Poster B.2 Performance of the Scalable Programming Environment
Dennis Cottel (SPAWAR, University of Southern California)
Perry Partow (SPAWAR, University of Southern California)
Poster B.3 Multicomputer Processor Configuration for Real-Time Data Flow Processing Applications
Thomas Einstein (Mercury Computer)
Poster B.4 Implementation of the STAP Library and Framework (STAPL) for Real-Time Matrix-Based Signal Processing
Curtis Heisey (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Christopher Adamo (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Masahiro Arakawa (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Paul Baggeroer (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
James Daly (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Cecelia Deluca (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
W. Dale Hall (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Kimberly Pickard (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
H. Austin Spang (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Poster B.5 Exploiting Instruction-Level Parallelism on Embedded Digital Signal Processors Using Code Motion
Vipin jain (University of Cincinnati)
Santosh Pande (University of Cincinnati)
Poster B.6 Interfacing Interpreted and Complied Languages for Computing on a Massively Parallel Network of Workstations (MP-NOW)
Jeremy Kepner (Princeton University)
John DeGood (Sarnoff Corporation)
Maya Gokhale (Sarnoff Corporation)
Aaron Marks (Sarnoff Corporation)
Ron Minnich (Sarnoff Corporation)
Poster B.7 The Expressiveness of the GEDAE Graph Language
William Lundgren (Lockheed Martin)
Poster B.8 Multi_Domain Embedded System Architect (MESA): A Tool for the Design of Real-Time Parallel Applications on High Performance Computing Platforms
Minesh Patel (Honeywell)
Devesh Bhatt (Honeywell)
William Wren (Honeywell)
Poster B.9 Performance Modeling for Design and Analysis of a High-Performance Radar Signal Processor
Rathin Putatunda (Lockheed Martin) 
Rocco Tinari (Lockheed Martin) 
Poster B.10 PacketWay - A Standard for Connecting SAN's, LAN's and Embedded Multicomputers Without Using IP
Anthony Skjellum (MSU)
Robert George (MSU)
Matthew Gleeson (MSU)
Daniel Cohen (Myricom)
Break
Session 5: Software Architectures, Reusability and Scalability
Robert Bond (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Application-Level Fault Tolerance as a Complement to System-Level Fault Tolerance 
Joshua Haines (University of Massachusetts)
Isreal Koren (University of Massachusetts)
C. Mani Krishna (University of Massachusetts)
Vijaya R. Lakamraju (University of Massachusetts)
An Integrated Scalable Hardware/Software Environment for Real-Time High Performance Computing Applications
Joseph Sgro (Alacron)
Leveraging the Mainstream in High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC)
Gerard Vichniac (Northrop Grumman)
Session 6 : Benchmarking of Embedded Systems
Michael Lucas (Northrop Grumman)
Implementation and Performance of an Embedded Parallel Adaptive Signal Processor
Masahiro Arakawa (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Robert Bond (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Janice McMahon (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Quantifying Development Productivity for Scalable Embedded Computers
Karen Lauro (Mercury Computer Systems)
Assessing NOW Architectures for Shipborne Processing
Nicholas Carriero (Scientific Computer Systems)
Andrew Sherman (Scientific Computer Systems)
Janice McMahon (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Adjourn