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.

Daily Readings

• Interview with Donald Knuth: “To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas, and that they’re trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore’s Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks!”