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All events take place in Sitterson Hall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A schedule of events is now available below.

Monday, May 22, 2006
04:00pm – 05:00pm

Registration Open (Sitterson Hall Lobby Area)

All workshop events take place in Sitterson Hall. Plenary Sessions will be held in Sitterson Lecture Hall, RM# 014. All Poster Sessions, coffee breaks, and dinner receptions will be held in the Lower Level Lobby of Sitterson Hall.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
07:30am – 08:45am Registration
SESSION 1
8:30am - 9:40am
08:30am – 09:00am Welcome & Introduction
Ming Lin, Dinesh Manocha, Jan Prins, Tony Waldrop
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and
Michael Macedonia (Disruptive Technology Office)
09:00am – 09:40am

The Future: Release 2016
Dan Reed (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & RENCI)
Abstract
Slides (PDF File)

09:40am – 11:00am BREAK & POSTER PRESENTATIONS (I)
SESSION 2 - Chair: Henry Fuchs (UNC)
11:00am - 12:20pm
11:00am – 11:40am

Exploiting the Performance of 32 bit Floating Point Arithmetic in Obtaining 64 bit Accuracy
Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Lab)

Abstract
Slides (PDF File)

11:40am – 12:20pm

The Why, How and When of Multicore
Anant Agarwal (MIT)
Abstract

Slides (PDF File)

12:20pm – 01:50pm LUNCH
12:40pm – 01:10pm ATI University Relations Session
Slides (PPT File)
Informal informational session for students and academic researchers regarding ATI University Relations activities.
01:10pm – 01:40pm NVIDIA Session
This information session will start with a brief company overview of NVIDIA, including a description of the engineering groups whithin the company. Career opportunities in these technical groups will be discussed, followed by an overview of the NVIDIA Fellowship and Research Grant programs, which provide funding opportunities for doctoral students and faculty.
SESSION 3 - Chair: Anselmo Lastra (UNC)
1:50pm - 3:10pm
01:50pm – 02:30pm

Bringing Co-processor Performance to Every Programmer
Turner Whitted (Microsoft Research)
Abstract
Slides (PPT File)

02:30pm – 03:10pm

Communication Analysis of the Cell Broadband Engine Processor
Fabrizio Petrini (Pacific NorthWest Lab)
Abstract
Slides (PDF File)

03:10pm – 04:30pm BREAK & POSTER PRESENTATIONS (II)

SESSION 4 - Chair: Sheila Vaidya (LLNL)
4:30pm - 6:00pm

04:30pm – 06:00pm

Industry Panel
Participants:

ATI Technologies Inc.
Mark Segal
Abstract
Slides (PPT File)

IBM Corporation
Ashwini Nanda
Cell BE Based Systems and Applications
Abstract

Intel Corporation
Pradeep K. Dubey
Teraflops for the Masses: Killer Apps of Tomorrow
Abstract
Slides
(PDF File)

NVIDIA Corporation
Mark Harris
Abstract
Slides (PPT File)

Sun Microsystems
Rao Shoaib
Niagara: A chip multithreaded processor
Abstract
Slides (PDF File)

Moderator: Sheila Vaidya (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)

06:00pm – 06:10pm Announcements

06:15pm – 09:00pm

DINNER RECEPTION & DEMOS (Lower Level Lobby)
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
07:45am – 08:30am Registration
08:30am – 08:40am Announcements
SESSION 5 - Chair: Jan Prins (UNC)
8:40am - 10:00am
08:40am – 09:20am

Stream Programming: Managing Explicit Parallelism and Locality
Bill Dally (Stanford University)
Abstract
Slides (PDF File)

09:20am – 10:00am

Program Analysis and Synthesis for Parallel Computing
David Padua (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Abstract
Slides (PPT File)

10:00am – 11:20am BREAK & POSTER PRESENTATIONS (III)
SESSION 6 - Chair: Bob Lucas (USC/ISI)
11:20am - 12:40pm
11:20am – 12:00pm

Who needs optimizing compilers when we have self-optimizing programs?
Keshav Pingali (Cornell University)
Abstract
Slides (PPT File)

12:00pm – 12:40pm

Database Systems on Modern Processors
Kenneth Ross (Columbia University)
Abstract
Slides (PPT File)

12:40pm – 02:00pm LUNCH
01:00pm – 02:10pm

IBM Cell Tutorial
The IBM team consisting of Dr. Jeff Derby, STSM, and Michael Perrone, will present a tutorial on Cell.
Slides: Cell Programming Tutorial (PPT File)
Slides: Cell BroadbandEngine (BE) ProcessorTutorial (PPT File)

SESSION 7 - Chair: Ming Lin (UNC)
2:10pm - 2:50pm

02:10pm – 02:50pm

Scalable Benchmarks and Kernels for Data Mining and Analytics
Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota)
Abstract
Slides (PPT File)

02:50pm – 04:10pm

BREAK & POSTER PRESENTATIONS (IV)
SESSION 8 - Chair: Dinesh Manocha (UNC)
4:10pm - 5:50pm

04:10pm – 05:50pm

SESSION on “Future Directions & Federal Initiatives”
Participants:

Almadena Y. Chtchelkanova and Timothy M. Pinkston
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Slides (PPT File)

Michael Coyle
U.S. Army Research Office
Slides (PPT File)

Frederica Darema
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Research and Technology Advances in Systems Software for Emerging Computer Architectures

Abstract

Slides (PPT File)

William Harrod (IPTO)
Jon Hiller, Science & Technology Associates Inc.
Defense Advanced Research Project Agency
(DARPA)

Slides (PPT File)

Michael Macedonia and Paul Matthews
Disruptive Technology Office (DTO) under the Director of National Intelligence, Video Analysis and Content Extraction (VACE) program

Angel Rodriguez
Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM)

Donald R. Snyder III
Missile Defense Agency
Challenges for High Performance Real Time Scene Generation - Next Generation SW and HW Interconnects
Abstract

05:50pm – 06:00pm

Concluding Remarks
06:00pm - 08:30pm

DINNER RECEPTION (Lower Level Lobby)