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Dates of Institute @ Semiahmoo Resort


Locations (Floor Plan)

  • Technical meetings will be in the Victoria Room on Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday, and in the Blakely Room on Thursday.
  • Breakfasts and Lunches will be in the Pierside Restaurant.
  • Dinners will be held in the following locations: On Sunday, dinner will be in the Victoria Room. On Monday, dinner will be on the Saltspring Terrace. On Tuesday, dinner will be in the Pierside Restaurant. On Wednesday, dinner will be in the Blakely Room.

Sunday, August 3

6:00 pm Reception (Victoria Room)
6:30pm-10:00 pm Dinner and introductions (Victoria Room)

Monday, August 4

8:00-9:00 am Breakfast (Pierside)
9:00-10:00 am Keynote - "Scheduling for Numerical Linear Algebra Library at Scale," Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee (Victoria)
10:00-10:15 am Break
10:15-11:15 am Keynote - "Disciplined Concurrent Models of Computation for Parallel Software," Edward Lee, UC Berkeley (Victoria)
11:15-11:30 am

Break

11:30 am-12:30 pm Group Discussion: "What's Different Now? And what do you hope to get out of the Institute?" (Victoria)
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch (Pierside)
2:00-3:00 pm Keynote - "Spending Moore's Dividend," Jim Larus, Microsoft Research (Victoria)
3:00-3:30 pm

Break

3:30-5:30 pm Short talks/discussion ("Parallel Thinking," Guy Blelloch, CMU; "Parallel Programming," Keshav Pingali, UT Austin; "Should Parallel Languages be Concurrent?" John Reppy, University of Chicago; "The State of Parallel Programming," Burton Smith, Microsoft) (Victoria)
5:30-7:00 pm

Break

7:00-10:00 pm Dinner (Saltspring Terrace) + 5 minute madness session (Victoria Room)

Tuesday, August 5

8:00-9:00 am Breakfast (Pierside)
9:00-10:00 am Keynote - "Parallelism for the Masses: Opportunities and Challenges," Andrew Chien, Intel Research (Victoria)
10:00-10:30 am Break
10:30 am-12:30 pm Breakout "across areas" QUESTION: "What should your part of the computing stack do to make my job easier?" (Various locations)
12:30-1:30 pm Lunch - box lunch provided (Pierside)
1:30-?? pm Afternoon Activity
7:00-10:00 pm Dinner (Pierside) + Concurrency education session (Victoria)

Wednesday, August 6

8:00-9:00 am Breakfast (Pierside)
9:00-10:00 am Keynote - "Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era," Mark Hill, University of Wisconsin (Victoria)
10:00-10:15 am Break
10:15-11:15 am Keynote - "Multicore Programming Models and their Implementation Challenges," Vivek Sarkar, Rice University (Victoria)
11:15-11:30 am Break
11:30 am-12:30 pm Group Discussion: "Do we have hope?" (Victoria)
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch (Pierside)
2:00-3:30 pm Short talks ("CHAPEL: an HPC language in a mainstream multicore world," Brad Chamberlain, CRAY; "Spiral: Automatic Library Generation," Franz Franchetti, CMU; Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research) (Victoria)
3:30-4:00 pm Break
4:00-5:30 pm Short talks ("The Concurrency Challenge: Some inspirations from hardware design methods," Arvind, MIT; Ras Bodik, UC Berkeley) (Victoria)
5:30-7:00 pm Break
7:00-9:00 pm Dinner (Blakely)

Thursday, August 7

8:00-9:00 am Breakfast (Pierside)
9:00-10:30 am Breakout within areas QUESTION: "Given what you learned, how would you change your research trajectory?" (Blakely)
10:30-11:30 am Wrap Up (Blakely)
11:30 am-12:30 pm Lunch (Pierside)

Please check back for updates.

Last updated: 08/08/2008


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