1999 High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop

AGENDA

22 – 24 September 1999

22 September

 



0730    Check-In & Continental Breakfast

 

AUDITORIUM

 

0830    Welcome

          Al McLaughlin

(Assistant Director, MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

0835    Keynote Address

          David Tennenhouse (Chief Scientist, DARPA)

0905    Opening Remarks

          David Martinez (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

Text Box: Session 1: Embedded Computing Technologies and Applications Kenneth Teitelbaum (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
 


0915   

 

 

 

0925    Rapid Embedded Processor Design AND Uncompromising Performance: The Emerging Challenge for Military Sensor Upgrades

          Allan Steinhardt (DARPA/TTO)

 

0955    Break

 

1010    The Role of Optics in High-Performance Digital Computing Systems

          Elias Towe (DARPA/MTO)

1040    Theater High Altitude Area Defense Homogeneous Signal and Data Processing on COTS Scalable Parallel Processors

        * Greg Smith (THAAD Project Office)

          Chris Barnes (Georgia Tech Research Institute)

1110    Applications Development for a Parallel COTS Spaceborne Computer

         *Daniel Katz (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech)

          Paul Springer (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech)

          Robert Granat (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech)

          Michael Turmon (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech)

Text Box: Poster Session A: Software Standards and Application Programming Interfaces James Waggett (CSPI)
 


1140   

 

 

 

 

Poster Session A Précis

Poster A.1 

          Implementation of the MPI/RT 1.0 and MPI 1.2 Standard APIs for SKY Computers’ “Excalibur” High-Performance Architecture

        * Brian Bush (Integrated Sensors Inc.)

          Ron Adair (Integrated Sensors Inc.)

          Jim Graham (Integrated Sensors Inc.)

Poster A.2

          PM1-1.0:  An MPI/RT Programming Model for Signal/Image-Processing Applications on SKY’s “Excalibur” Platform

        * Dimitris Christodoulou (SKY Computers Inc.)

          Steve Paavola (SKY Computers Inc.)

          Barry Jackson (SKY Computers Inc.)

 

*Denotes speaker
 
 


Poster A.3

          Real-Time Message Passing Interface MPI/RT Standardization for Embedded Systems

        * Arkady Kanevsky (Mercury Computer Systems Inc.)

          Michael Melendez (Mercury Computer Systems Inc.)

          Michael Pepe (Mercury Computer Systems Inc.)

          Rangu Angadi (MPI Software Technology Inc.)

          Zhenqian Cui (MPI Software Technology Inc.)

          Shane Hebert (MPI Software Technology Inc.)

          Anthony Skjellum (MPI Software Technology)

Poster A.4

          MPI/RT-Pro: Commercial-Grade Implementations of MPI/RT for COTS Platforms: RACE and CSPI

          Anthony Skjellum (MPI Software Technology Inc.)

        * Shane Hebert (MPI Software Technology Inc.)

Poster A.5

          API and Product Status of the v1.0 Vector, Signal, and Image Processing Library (VSIPL)

        * R. S. Janka (Georgia Tech Research Institute)

          R. Judd (U.S. Navy SPAWAR Systems Center)

          J. Lebak (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

          M. A. Richards (Georgia Tech Research Institute)

          D. Schwartz (HRL, LLC)

Poster A.6

          VSI/Pro™: A Commercial Implementation of the VSIPL Standard

          Anthony Skjellum (MPI Software Technology)

Poster A.7

          Automatic Vectorization vs. Handcoding for Embedded Computers

          Brian Brode (Pacific-Sierra Research)

          Karen Lauro (Mercury Computer Systems Inc.)

        * Bob Brode (Pacific-Sierra Research)

Poster A.8

          High-Performance CORBA

        * Jim Kulp (Mercury Computer Systems Inc.)

          Marc Laukien (Object Oriented Concepts Inc.)

Poster A.9

          Distributed, Asynchronous Embedded Real-Time Systems: Middleware Services and Applications Using COTS Components

          Binoy Ravindran (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

        * E. Douglas Jensen (The MITRE Corporation)

 

1220    Lunch

Text Box: Session 2: Case Study Examples of High-Performance Architectures Bernard Turowski (Lockheed Martin)
 


1305

 

 

 

 

1315    Scalable Implementation of a Navy Theater Wide Large Scale Radar Application

          Rathin Putatunda (Lockheed Martin/GES)

         *John Ciecierski (Lockheed Martin/GES)

          Nathan Doss (Lockheed Martin/GES)

 

 


1345    A Scaleable High-Performance Satellite Payload Processor Architecture

          Donald McManus (Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company)

 

1415    An Application of High Performance Embedded Computing in Tactical Missile Processing Systems

          Steve Wagner (Raytheon Missile Systems)

        * Martin Woolf (Raytheon Missile Systems)

 

1445      Break

 

1515

Text Box: Session 3: Signal Processor Systems and Computing Technologies Mark Richards (Georgia Tech Research Institute)  

 

 


1525    Imagine: A High-Performance, Power-Efficient Signal Processor

        * Scott Rixner (Stanford University)

          William Dally (Stanford University)

          Ujval Kapasi (Stanford University)

          Brucek Khailany (Stanford University)

          Peter Mattson (Stanford University)

          Jinyung Namkoong (Stanford University)

1555    Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software

          R. Clint Whaley (University of Tennessee)

         *  Antoine Petitet (University of Tennessee)

          Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee)

1625    A Randomized Approach to the Synthesis of Interconnection Networks

          Vijay Lakamraju (University of Massachusetts)

          I. Koren (University of Massachusetts)

         *  C.M. Krishna (University of Massachusetts)

 

1655      Adjourn

 

1715    Reception

 

1800    Banquet Speaker

          Emergent Technologies Are Driving a Renaissance in Architecture Innovation

Thomas Sterling (California Institute of Technology and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

 

1830      Banquet

         

 

John Owens (Stanford University)

Manman Ren (Stanford University)

 

 

23 September

 



730         Check-In & Continental Breakfast

 

AUDITORIUM

 

0830    Announcements

          David Martinez (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

Text Box: Session 4: Algorithm Mapping and Parallel Software Architecture Robert Bernecky (Naval Undersea Warfare Center)
 


0835

 

 

 

0845    Implementation of a High-Level Data Reorganization Interface for Signal and Image Processing

        * Ken Cain (The MITRE Corporation)

          Richard Games (The MITRE Corporation)

          Brian Sroka (The MITRE Corporation)

          Mark Sroka (The MITRE Corporation)

0915    Distributed Memory FFT Algorithms and Dataflow

        * J.R. Johnson (Drexel University)

          R.W. Johnson (MathStar Inc.)

0945    An Environment for Migrating Dataflow Algorithms into Adaptive Computing Hardware

        * Eric Pauer (Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company)

          Paul Fiore (Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company)

          John Smith (Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company)

          Cory Myers (Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company)

         

1015    Break

 

1030    Software Re-Use Experience With the Space-Time Adaptive Processing Library (STAPL)

        * James Lebak (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

          Masahiro Arakawa (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

 

 

*Denotes speaker
 
 


1100    Application of Embedded Genetic Allocator Optimization Techniques to the RT_STAP Benchmark on a Heterogeneous Multiprocessor

          David Cousins (BBN Technologies)

        * Matthew Daily (BBN Technologies)

          Christopher Lirakis (BBN Technologies)

 

Text Box: Poster Session B: Embedded Computing Development Tools and Performance Results Masahiro Arakawa (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) 1130   

 

 

 

 

Poster Session B Précis

Poster B.1

Design Environment for Dynamically Reconfigurable Embedded Systems

        * Ted Bapty (ISIS/Vanderbilt University)

          Sandeep Neema (ISIS/Vanderbilt University)

          Jason Scott (ISIS/Vanderbilt University)         

Poster B.2

A Rapid Programming and Development Environment for Adaptive and Embedded Computing Systems

        * Milissa Benincasa (Integrated Sensors Inc.)

          Diane Brassaw (Integrated Sensors Inc.)

Poster B.3

Investigation of Parallelization of AEW Simulations Written in MATLAB

          Donald Fabozzi II (Maui High Performance Computing Center)

Poster B.4

Rapid Signal Processing Software Development via Interpreted VSIPL

          Jeremy Kepner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

Poster B.5

Performance Modeling Tools for High-Speed Parallel Architectures

          Carl Beckmann (Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company)

Poster B.6

          Execution Efficiency of Applications Developed in GEDAE™

          William Lundgren (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories)

Poster B.7

          Multi-Thread Embedded Supercomputing?

          Timothy Boggess (Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company)

Poster B.8

          Managing Dynamic Precision on Reconfigurable Hardware

        * Kiran Bondalapati (University of Southern California)

          Viktor Prasanna (University of Southern California)

          Petros Ioannou (University of Southern California)

 

1210    Lunch

Text Box: Session 5: Embedded Computing Implementations Brent Nelson (Brigham Young University)
 


1255   

 

 

 

1305    Low-Latency High-Throughput Parallel Processing for Airborne Adaptive Optics

          James Roberts (Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space)

1335    Parallel Implementations of Sonar Beamforming Algorithms

        * Marvin Kuznitz (Naval Undersea Warfare Center)

          Daniel Kim (Naval Undersea Warfare Center)

1405    Standards-Based Real-Time Embedded High Performance Computing: Airborne Radar Signal Processing Case Study

        * Brian Sroka (The MITRE Corporation)

          Ken Cain (The MITRE Corporation)

          Richard Games (The MITRE Corporation)

 

1435    Break

 

1450    The Role of Adjunct Processors in Heterogeneous Embedded Processing Systems

          Henk Spaanenburg (Mercury Computer Systems Inc.)

1520    Mercury RACE Multicomputer Performance for QR Factorization

        * Ian Dunn (Northrop Grumman Corporation)

          Gerard Meyer (The Johns Hopkins University)

 

Text Box: Panel Session: HPEC System Modernization in Ten Easy Steps Richard Games (The MITRE Corporation) 1550

 

 

 

 

1720    Adjourn

 

 

24 September

 



0730    Check-In & Continental Breakfast

 

AUDITORIUM

 

0830    Announcements

          David Martinez (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

 

Text Box: Session 6: Reconfigurable Computing Miriam Leeser (Northeastern University) 0835

 

 

 

 

0845    An FPGA Based Adaptive Computing Implementation of Signal Detection and Frequency Estimation for Digital Receivers

        * R. Bassett (Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company)

          T.S. Sun (Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company)

          P.D. Fiore (Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company)

          J.M. Smith (Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company)

          J. Zaino (Sanders, A Lockheed Martin Company)

          D.W. Tufts (University of Rhode Island)

0915    A Reconfigurable-Computing Real-Time Image Processing Framework

          Normand Belanger (MiroTech Microsystems Inc.)

          Ivan Kraljic (MiroTech Microsystems Inc.)

        * Yvon Savaria (MiroTech Microsystems Inc.)

0945    An FPGA Adaptive Line Enhancer for Increased Radar EW Receiver Sensitivity

         *  Phil Cork (DERA)

          Clare Sprigings (DERA)

          Roger Woods (The Queens University of Belfast)

          LK Ting (The Queens University of Belfast)

*Denotes speaker
 
          Colin Cowan (The Queens University of Belfast)

 

1015    Break

 

1030    Design and FPGA Implementation of a Reconfigurable Demodulator

          Sandeep Mukthavaram (ITTC/University of Kansas)

        * Joseph Evans (ITTC/University of Kansas)

1100    PULSAR the World’s First FFT-Based DSP Accelerator for Mercury RACE Systems

        * Kevin Witt (Catalina Research Inc.)

          Mike Bonato (Catalina Research Inc.)

          Rick LeBlanc (Catalina Research Inc.)

1130    Optically Programmable Gate Array

          Gan Zhou (Holoplex Corporation)

          Xin An (Holoplex Corporation)

          Fai Mok (Holoplex Corporation)

        * Jose Mumbru (California Institute of Technology)

          Demetri Psaltis (California Institute of Technology)

          Suat Ay (Photobit Corporation)

          Eric Fossum (Photobit Corporation)

         

 

1200    Closing Remarks

          David  Martinez (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

 

1210    Lunch

 

1240    Adjourn