BMW08: Barcelona Multicore Workshop

	Thursday 5th June
8:30	Registration
9:00	Welcome, Mateo Valero, BSC/UPC
9:10	The Rock Architecture, Marc Tremblay, SUN
9:40	Future CPU Architectures:The Shift From Traditional Models, Jesus Corbal, Intel
10:10	Parallel Computing using NVIDIA CUDA, Simon Green, NVIDIA
10:40	Coffee break
11:00	Decoupled Composable Processors, Doug Burger, Microsoft Research
11:30	Programming Heterogeneous Multicore Processors, Peter Hofstee, IBM
12:00	Parallelizing Computer System Simulators, Derek Chiou, UT-Austin
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Design and Implementation of Transactional Constructs for C/C++, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Intel
14:30	Making Transactional Memory More Scalable, Maurice Herlihy, Brown U.
15:00	Major Hurdles of Hardware Transactional Memory and Some Solutions, Per Stenström, Chalmers U.
15:30	Coffee break
16:00	Panel “50 Billion Transistor Chips: What should the Hardware provide?”, chaired by Yale Patt, UT-Austin
	Friday 6th June
9:00	European Research in Computing, Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos, European Commission
9:30	Panel “What Terrifies You More: Multicore Hardware or Software?”, chaired by Dan Reed, Microsoft
11:00	Coffee break
11:15	StarSs: Portable Programming for a Fuzzy Multicore Space, Jesus Labarta, BSC/UPC
11:45	UPCRC at Illinois: Making Parallel Programming Synonymous with Programming, Marc Snir, UIUC
12:15	Towards Pervasive Parallelism: Parallel Applications without Parallel Programming, Kunle Olukotun, Stanford U.
12:45	Compiling for Multi, Many and Anycore, Rudi Eigenmann, Purdue U.