HPEC 2004 Preliminary Agenda -  pdf version

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28 September
0730
Check-In / Poster Setup / Continental Breakfast
AUDITORIUM
0830
Welcome
David Martinez / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
0835
Opening Remarks
Robert Bond  / MIT Lincoln Laboratory

0845

Supercomputing: Trends, Performance Measurement and Opportunities (Invited)
Cray Henry / High Performance Computing Modernization Program

0915
Session 1: Emerging Technologies
Kenneth Teitelbaum / MIT Lincoln Laboratories
0925
Cognitive Systems (Invited)
Robert Graybill / DARPA IPTO
0955
Future Prospects for Moore's Law (Invited)
Robert Doering / Texas Instruments

1025

Break (View Posters)

 
1040
The Evaluation of GPU-Based Programming Environments for Knowledge Discovery
John Johnson / Lawrence Livermore National Library
Randall Frank / Lawrence Livermore National Library
Sheila Vaidya / Lawrence Livermore National Library
1110
Sustaining the Exponential Growth of Embedded Digital Signal Processing Capability
Gary Shaw / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Mark Richards / Georgia Institute of Technology
1140
Poster / Demo A:  High Level Environments and Interconnects
Albert Reuther / Lincoln Laboratory
Poster Session A Précis
Poster A.1
Application-Specific Optical Interconnects for Embedded Multiprocessors
Neal Bambha / U.S. Army Research Lab
Shuvra Bhattacharyya / University of Maryland, College Park
Poster A.2
Software Architecture for Morphing in Polymorphous Computing Architectures
Dan Campbell / Georgia Institute of Technology
Dennis Cottel / SPAWAR Systems Center
Randall Judd / SPAWAR Systems Center
Mark Richards / Georgia Institute of Technology
Poster A.3
Parallel Matlab:  RTExpress on 64-bit SGI Altix with SCSL and MPT
Cosmo Castellano / Integrated Sensors
Poster A.4
pMatlab Takes the HPCchallenge
Ryan Haney / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Andrew Funk / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Jeremy Kepner / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Hahn Kim / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Charles Rader / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Albert Reuther / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Nadya Travinin / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Poster A.5
Gedae:  Auto Coding to a Virtual Machine
William Lundgren / Gedae, Inc.
Kerry Barnes / Gedae, Inc.
James Steed / Blue Horizon Development Software
Poster A.6
Requirements for Scalable Application Specific Processing in Commercial HPEC
Steve Miller / Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Poster A.7

Benchmarking Microprocessors for High-End Signal Processing
Stephen Paavola / SKY Computers

   
Poster A.8

Processing Challenges in Shrinking HPEC Systems into Small UAVs
Stephen Pearce / Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
Richard Jaenicke / Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.

Poster A.9
Implementing Modal Software in Data Flow for Heterogeneous Architectures
James Steed / Gedae, Inc.
Kerry Barnes / Gedae, Inc.
William Lundgren / Gedae, Inc.
Poster A.10
The Development of a Tactical Environmental Processor (TEP) Open Architecture (OA) Application Using Middleware Standard APIs
Bonnie Vena / Lockheed Martin MS&S
Carl Barberi / Lockheed Martin MS&S
Steve Paavola / SKY Computers, Inc.
1235
Lunch (View Posters)
1345
Session 2:   Novel Systems
Michael Harris / BAE Space Systems IEWS
Auditorium

Focus 1: Advanced Software Optimization
David Cousins / BBN Technolgoies
Room S2-180

1355

 

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Deployment of SAR and GMTI Signal Processing on a Boeing 707 Aircraft using pMatlab and a Bladed Linux Cluster
Jeremy Kepner / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Tim Currie / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Hahn Kim / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Bipin Mathew / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Andrew McCabe / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Michael Moore / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Daniel Rabinkin / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Albert Reuther / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Andrew Rhoades / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Louis Tella / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Nadya Travinin /  / MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Discrete Fourier Transform IP Generator
Grace Nordin / Carnegie Mellon University
James Hoe / Carnegie Mellon University
Markus Pueschel / Carnegie Mellon University

1425
Virtual Prototyping and Performance Analysis of RapidIO-based System Architectures for Space-Based Radar
David Bueno / University of Florida
Chris Conger / University of Florida
Alan George  / University of Florida
Adam Leko / University of Florida
Ian Troxel / University of Florida

Mapping Signal Processing Kernels to Tiled Architectures
Henry Hoffman / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
James Lebak / MIT Lincoln Laboratory

1455
Kronecker-FFT Algorithms for Multidimensional SAR PSF Processing
Domingo Rodriquez / University of Puerto Rico

A Transformational Approach to High Performance Embedded Computing
Wim Bohm / Colorado State University
Jeff Hammes / SRC Computers, Inc.

1525
Break (View Posters)

Break

1550
A KASSPER Real-Time Signal Processor Testbed
Glen Schrader / MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Adaptive Mapping of Linear DSP Algorithms to Fixed-Point Arithmetic
Lawrence Chang / Carnegie Mellon University
Markus Pueschel / Carnegie Mellon University
Yevgen Voronenko / Carnegie Mellon University
Inpyo Hong / Carnegie Mellon University

1620
HPCS HPCchallenge Benchmark Suite
David Koester / The MITRE Corporation
Jack Dongarra / University of Tennessee
Piotr Luszczek / Innovative Computing Laboratory

Language-level Transactions for Modular Reliable Systems
C. Scott Ananian / MIT CSAIL
Martin Rinard / MIT CSAIL

1650

Title:  TBD (Invited)
Mootaz Elnozahy / IBM Austin Research Lab

SAE AADL: An Industry Standard for Predictable Embedded Real-Time Systems Engineering
Peter Feiler / Carnegie Mellon University

1720
Adjourn

1730

Reception

1800
Banquet Presentation
Title:  TBD
Dr. Michael Flynn / Stanford University
1845
Banquet (Burlington Marriott)
29 September
0730
Check-In / Poster Setup / Continental Breakfast
0830
Announcements
Robert Bond / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
      0835

Keynote Address
Title:  Why Latency Lags Bandwidth, and What it Means to Computing

Dr. David Patterson / University of California, Berkeley

0905
Session 3: FPGAs
John Grosh / OSD
0915
Microprocessor Design Tradeoffs (Invited)
H. Peter Hofstee / IBM
0945
FPGA Acceleration of Information Management Services
Richard Linderman / AFRL
Chun-Shin Lin / University of Missouri, Columbia
Mark Linderman / AFRL
1015
Break (View Posters)
1030
A Systolic FFT Architecture for Real Time FPGA Systems
Preston Jackson / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Cy Chan / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Charles Rader / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Jonathan Scalera / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Michael Vai / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
1100
Variable Precision Floating Point Division and Square Root
Miriam Leeser / Northeastern University
Xiaojun Wang / Northeastern University
Albert Conti / Norhteastern University
1130
Poster / Demo B: Dynamic Hardware
Michael Vai / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Poster Session B Précis
Poster B.1
Automated Incremental Design of Flexible Instrusion Detection Systems on FPGAs
Zachary Baker / University of Southern California
Viktor Prasanna / University of Southern California
Ronald Scrofano / University of Southern California
Poster B.2
Reconfigurable Computing for Embedded Systems, FPGA Devices and Software Components
Graham Bardouleau / Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
James Kulp / Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
Poster B.3
An Efficient Architecture for Ultra Long FFTs in FPGAs and ASICs
Tom Dillon / Dillon Engineering
Poster B.4
MONARCH:  Next Generation SoC (Super Computer on a Chip)
John Granacki / University of Southern California
Poster B.5
Sparse Linear Solver for Power System Analysis using FPGA
Jeremy Johnson / Drexel University
Prawaat Nagvajara / Drexel University
Chika Nwankpa / Drexel University

Poster B.6

Initial Kernel Timing Using a Simple PIM Performance Model
Daniel Katz / Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Gary Block / Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jay Brockman / University of Notre Dame
David Callahan / Cray, Inc.
Paul Springer / Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Thomas Sterling / Center for Advanced Computing Research

Poster B.7

CASE STUDY:  Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays in a Beowulf Cluster
Matthew Krzych / NUWC

Poster B.8

The World's First Commercially-Available Stream Processor:  Architecture, Algorithms and Benchmark Results
Simon McIntosh-Smith / ClearSpeed Technology
Ron Bell / AWE Aldermaston

Poster B.9

High Performance Embedded Computing using Field Programmable Gate Arrays
Craig Petrie / Nallatech, Ltd.
Charlie Cump / Nallatech, Ltd.
Malachy Devlin / Nallatech, Ltd.
Keith Regester / Nallatech, Inc.

Poster B.10

Dynamo:  A Runtime Codesign Environment
Heather Quinn / Northeastern University
Laurie King / College of the Holy Cross
Miriam Leeser / Northeastern University

Poster B.11

Hardware Benchmark Results for An Ultra-High Performance Architecture for Embedded Defense Signal and Image Processing Applications
Stewart Reddaway / WorldScape Defense Co.
Brad Atwater / Lockheed Martin MS&S
Paul Bruno / WorldScape Defense Co.
Dairsie Latimer / ClearSpeed Technology, Ltd.
Rick Pancoast / Lockheed Martin NE&SS
Pete Rogina / WorldScape, Inc.

Poster B.12

Developing Energy-Aware Strategies for the Blackfin Processor
Steven VanderSanden / Northeastern University
Richard Gentile / Analog Devices, Inc.
David Kaeli / Northeastern University
Giuseppe Olivadoti / Analog Devices, Inc.

1225
Lunch (View Posters)
1335
Session 4: Hardware Architecture
Rick Pancoast / Lockheed Martin
Auditorium

Focus 2: Parallel Software
Cleve Moler / The MathWorks, Inc.
Room S2-180

1345
Microarchitecture Optimization for Embedded Systems
David Schuehler / Washington University
Benjamin Brodie / Washington University
Roger Chamberlain / Washington University
Ron Cytron / Washington University
Scott Friedman / Washington University
Jason Fritts / Washington University
Phillip Jones / Washington University
Praveen Krishnamurthy / Washington University
John Lockwood / Washington University
Shobana Padmanabhan / Washington University
Huakai Zhang / Washington University

LLgrid:  Enabling On-Demand Grid Computing with gridMatlab and pMatlab
Albert Reuther / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Tim Currie / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Jeremy Kepner / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Hahn Kim / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Andrew McCabe / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Michael Moore / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Nadya Travinin / MIT Lincoln Laboratory

1415
Versatile Tiled-Processor Architecture:  The Raw Approach
Rodric Rabbah / MIT CSAIL
Anant Agarwal / MIT CSAIL
Ian Bratt / MIT CSAIL
Krste Asanovic / MIT CSAIL

Parallel Matlab Computation for STAP Clutter Scattering Function Estimation and Moving Target Estimation
Roger Chamberlain / Washington University
Lisandro Boggio / Washington University
Daniel Fuhrmann / Washington University
John Maschmeyer / Washington University

1445
Proposed Parallel Architecture for Matrix Triangularization with Diagonal Loading
Charles Rader / MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Star-P:  High Productivity Parallel Computing
Ron Choy / CSAIL, MIT
David Cheng / CSAIL, MIT
Alan Edelman / CSAIL, MIT
John Gilbert / University of California, Santa Barbara
Viral Shah / University of California, Santa Barbara

1515
Break (View Posters)

1540
Panel:  Amending Moore's Law for Embedded Applications
Moderator:
Dr. James C. Anderson / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Distinguished Panelists:
Mr. David Martinez / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Dr. Richard Linderman / AFRL
Dr. Robert Schaller / College of Southern Maryland
Dr. Mark Richards / Georgia Institute of Technology

1730

Adjourn

30 September

0730

Check-In / Poster Setup / Continental Breakfast

0830

Announcements
Robert Bond  / MIT Lincoln Laboratory

0835

From a Federated to an Integrated Architecture for Dependable Embedded Systems (Invited)
Dr. Hermann Kopetz / Institut fur Technnische Informatik

0905

Session 5: Standards Overview
Craig Lund / Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.

0920

GPUs: Engines for Future High-Performance Computing (Invited)
John Owens / University of California at Davis

0945

OMG Data-Distribution Service (DDS):  Architectural Overview
Gerardo Pardo-Castellote / Real-Time Innovations

1010

High Productivity MPI - Grid, Multi-Cluster, and Embedded System Extensions
Pirabbhu Raman / Verari Systems Software, Inc.
Puri Banglore / Verari Systems Software, Inc.
Rossen Dimitrov / Verari Systems Software, Inc.
Kumaran Rajaram / Verari Systems Software, Inc.
Anthony Skjellum / Verari Systems Software, Inc.

1035

Break (View Posters)

1055

HPEC Related VITA Standards:  An Update
Randy Banton / Mercury Computers

1110

DigitalIF Interface Standardization
Paul Mesibov / Pentek

1125

Poster / Demo C:  Software
Stephen Paavola / SKY Computers, Inc.

Poster Session C Précis

Poster C.1

An Overview of the Common Component Architecture
Rob Armstrong / Sandia National Laboratory
David Bernholdt / Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Teresa Ko / Sandia National Laboratory                                                                                      

Poster C.2

Performance Analysis of Real-Time CORBA on RapidIO
Bill Beckwith / Objective Interface Systems, Inc.
Kevin Buesing / Objective Interface Systems, Inc.

Poster C.3

High-Assurance Security/Safety on HPEC Systems:  An Oxymoron?
Bill Beckwith / Objective Interface Systems, Inc.
Mark Vanfleet / National Security Agency

Poster C.4

Pulse Compression Made Easy with VSIPL++
Brian Chase / Verari Systems Software
Dave Leimbach / Verari Systems Software
Rick Pancoast / Lockheed Martin NE&SS
Anthony Skjellum / Verari Systems Software
Wenhao Wu / Verari Systems Software

Poster C.5

Optimised MPI for HPEC Applications
Gerard Cristau / Thales Computers
Vincent Chuffart / Thales Computers

Poster C.6

Implementing the Matrix Exponential Function on Embedded Processors
James Lebak / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Andrea Wadell / MIT Lincoln Laboratory

 

Poster C.7

R-Stream: Compiler Technology for Next Generation HPEC
Richard Lethin / Reservoir Labs, Inc.
Peter Mattson / Reservoir Labs, Inc.

Poster C.8

Utility Accrual Scheduling of Distributable Threads:  The Tempus Approach
Peng Li / Virginia Polytechnic Institute
E. Douglas Jensen / The MITRE Corporation
Binoy Ravindran / Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Poster C.9

Optimizing the Fast Fourier Transform Over Memory Hierarchies for Embedded Digital Systems:  A Fully In-Cache Algorithm
James Reynolds / SUNY, Albany
Lenore Mullin / SUNY, Albany

Poster C.10

Time-Frequency Analysis for Single Channel Applications
John Saunders / Mercury Computers

Poster C.11

Model Driven Architectures and UML Performance Modeling Capability - Design and Usage
Leonard Weinberg / Lockheed Martin MS&S
Harald Pschunder / Lockheed Martin MS&S
Michael Stebnisky / Lockheed Martin ATL

1220

Lunch (View Posters)

1330

Session 6: Advanced Systems
Henk Spaanenburg / Pentum Group
Auditorium: Closed / Limited

Focus 3: HPEC-Software Initiative
Jeremy Kepner / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Room S2-180
: Open / Public Domain

1340

VSIPL++:  Parallel Performance
Mark Mitchell / CodeSourcery, LLC
Jeffrey Oldham / CodeSourcery, LLC

1410

Evaluation of the VSIPL++ Serial Specification Using the DADS Beamformer
Dennis Cottell / SPAWAR Systems Center
Randall Judd / SPAWAR Systems Center

 

 

1440

Implementation of a Shipboard Ballistic Missile Defense Processing Application Using the High Performance Embedded Computing Software Initiative (HPEC-SI) API
Joe Cook / Lockheed Martin NE&SS
Nathan Doss / Lockheed Martin NE&SS
Jane Kent / Lockheed Martin NE&SS
Jeremy Kepner / MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Rick Pancoast / Lockheed Martin NE&SS

1510

Adjourn - Open/Public Domain Session

1705

Adjourn - Closed/Limited Session