Multicore Programming: From Threads to Transactional Memory
Yuan Lin (Sun Microsystems) , Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai (Intel) , Bratin Saha (Intel) , and Christos Kozyrakis (Stanford University)
Afternoon Tutorial
Moderator: Jan Rabaey
Wireless in the Home: Challenges and Opportunities
Conference Day One
SessionMonday, August 21, 2006
Opening Remarks
Opening remarks
Session 1
Video Processing Chair: Howard Sachs, Telairity • Highly Integrated Nexperia PNX8535 Hybrid Television Processor, Philips Semiconductors
Authors(s): Ben Pronk• Heterogeneous Multiprocessing for Efficient Multi-Standard High Definition Video Decoding, Philips Semiconductors Authors(s): Stephane Mutz, Philippe Durieux
• Home entertainment-quality multimedia experience whilst on the move – Philips Nexperia Mobile Multimedia Co-Processor PNX4103, Philips Semiconductors Authors(s): Marcin Klecha, Ralf Karge, Richard O’Connor
Keynote 1
Cool Codes for Hot Chips
Chair: Pradeep Dubey, Intel Author(s): Justin Rattner, Chief Technology Officer & Intel Senior Fellow (Intel)
Session 2
Microprocessors I Chair: Marc Tremblay, Sun Microsystems • The Low-Power High-Performance Architecture of the PWRficient Processor Family, P.A. Semi Author(s): Tse-Yu Yeh• The Opteron CMP NorthBridge Architecture, Now and in the Future, AMD
Author(s): Pat Conway, Bill Hughes
Session 3
Memory and Storage Chair: Mitsuo Saito, Toshiba• Z-RAM Ultra-dense Memory for 90nm and Below, Innovative Silicon
Author(s): David Fisch, Anant Singh, Greg Popov• The Ultra Small HDD for the Mobile Applications, Toshiba Author(s): Akihiko Takeo, Kazuhito Shimomura, Jun Itoh
Session 4
Reconfigurable Computing Chair: John Wawrzynek, UC Berkeley• Virtex5, the Next Generation 65nm FPGA, Xilinx Author(s): Steve Douglass, Peter Alfke, Kees Vissers• RAMP: Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors Author(s): Professor David Patterson (UC Berkeley), Professor Arvind (MIT), Professor Krste Asanovic (MIT), Professor Derek Chiou (UT Austin), Professor James C. Hoe (CMU), Professor Christoforos Kozyrakis (Stanford), Shih-Lien Lu (Intel), Professor Mark Oskin (U Washington), Professor Jan Rabaey (UC Berkeley), and Professor John Wawrzynek (UC Berkeley)
• An Implementation of Hardware Accelerator using Dynamically Reconfigurable Architecture, Toshiba R&D Center Author(s): Takashi Yoshikawa, Yutaka Yamada, Shigehiro Asano
Session 5
Parallel Processing Chair: John Wawrzynek, UC Berkeley• TeraOPS Hardware & Software: A New Massively-Parallel, MIMD Computing Fabric IC, Ambric
Author(s): Mike Butts, Anthony Mark Jones• The CA1024: A Fully Programmable System-On-Chip for Cost-Effective HDTV Media Processing, Connex Technology Author(s): Gheorghe Stefan, Lazar Bivolarski, Anand Sheel, Bogdan Mitu, Tom Thomson, and Dan Tomescu
• Hardware and Applications of AsAP: An Asynchronous Array of Simple Processors, UC Davis Author(s): Bevan Baas (Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Davis), Zhiyi Yu, Michael Meeuwsen, Omar Sattari, Ryan Apperson, Eric Work, Jeremy Webb, Michael Lai, Daniel Gurman, Chi Chen, Jason Cheung, Dean Truong, Tinoosh Mohsenin (UC Davis)
Panel Discussion
Who Owns the Living Room? Moderator: Jan-Willem van de Waerdt, Philips SemiconductorsPanelists:James Akiyama (Intel) , Bob Brummer (Microsoft) , Bill Curtis (Dell) , Eugene Shteyn (Philips CE), Alan Messer (Samsung) , Glen Stone (Sony) , Prof. Yamada (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Conference Day Two
SessionTuesday, August 16, 2006
Session 6
Embedded Processors Chair: Chuck Moore, AMD• ARM996HS: The First Licensable, Clockless 32-bit Processor Core, Handshake Solutions Author(s): Arjan Bink (Handshake Solutions), Richard York (ARM Ltd.), Mark de Clercq (Handshake Solutions)• The MIPS32® 34K™ Processor Cores: Ultimate Design Flexibility for Embedded Applications, MIPS
Author(s): Ryan Kinter
• Design of a Reusable 1GHz, Super-scalar ARM Processor, ARM Inc. Author(s): Stephen Hill
• Towards Optimal Custom Instruction Processors, Imperial College, London Author(s): Wayne Luk, Oskar Mencer, Robert G. Dimond, Kubilay Atasu
Keynote 2
Collaborative Innovation: A New Lever in Information Technology Development
Chair: Forest Baskett, New Enterprise AssociatesAuthor(s): Bernard Meyerson, IBM Fellow; VP Strategic Alliances and Chief Technologist, Meyerson IBM Systems & Technology Group, Development
Session 7
Novel Silicon Applications Chair: Rajeevan Amirtharajah, UC Davis• In Silico Vox: Towards Speech Recognition in Silicon, Carnegie Mellon University Author(s): Professor Rob A. Rutenbar (ECE & CS), Edward C. Lin, Kai Yu, Tsuhan Chen• A Novel Processor Architecture for High-Performance Stream Processing, IBM Research, Zurich Author(s): Jan van Lunteren
Communications Chair: Forest Baskett, New Enterprise Associates• FocalPoint: A Low-Latency, High-Bandwidth Ethernet Switch Chip, Fulcrum Microsystems
Author(s): Uri Cummings• SH-MobileG1: A Single-Chip Application and Dual-mode Baseband Processor,Renesas Technology
Author(s): Masayuki Ito, Takahiro Irita, Eiji Yamamoto, Kunihiko Nishiyama, Takao Koike, Yoshihiko Tsuchihashi, Hiroyuki Asano, Hiroshi Yagi, Saneaki Tamaki, Ken Tatezawa, Toshihiro Hattori, Shinichi Yoshioka (Renesas Technology), and Koji Ohno (NTT DoCoMo)
• APP300 Access Network Processor, Agere Systems Author(s): Balakrishnan Sundararaman
Session 9
Microprocessors II Chair: Alan Smith, UC Berkeley• TULSA, A Dual P4 Core Large Shared Cache Intel® Xeon™ Processor for the MP Server Market Segment, Intel
Author(s): Jeffrey D. Gilbert, Stephen H. Hunt, Daniel Gunadi, and Ganapati Srinivasa• Niagara2: A Highly-Threaded Server-on-A-Chip, Sun Microsystems
Author(s): Greg Grohoski
• Blackford: A Dual Processor Chipset for Servers and Workstations, Intel Author(s): Kai cheng, Sundaram Chinthamani, Sivakumar Radhakrishnan, Fayé Briggs and Kathy Debnath
• Inside the Core™ Microarchitecture, Intel Author(s): Jack Doweck