Multicore Computational Center

                                     Frontiers of Multicore Computing Workshop
                                                  Program Agenda
                                                August 26-28, 2008
                                 University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
August 26:     
1:30- 6:30 PM          Registration             University Center Ballroom
2:00- 5:00             Tutorials (IBM, Gedae, etc.)                          “
5:00- 6:30             Icebreaker                        ITE 436                         

August 27:
7:30-9:00 AM         Registration  & Lite Breakfast                 University Center B-43
9:00-9:15 AM         Welcome                            President F. Hrabowski, UMBC
                                                           Dean W. DeVries, COEIT
                                                        E. Corbin, IBM Syst & Tech Dev.
                                                    
9:15-10:00            Keynote Speaker:                         Andrew White, LANL
                        “Breaking the Petaflop Barrier “       Proj.   Mgr. Roadrunner
10:00-10:20                   Break
10:20-12:00    Multicore Optimizations for Geoscience  Session Chair F. Darema NSF
         Geophysical Data Processing: Computing with Intensity     P. Bording, Mem. U/CA
         Climate Model Radiation  on the Cell                      S. Zhou, T. Clune  NG/GSFC
         Probing the Structure of Tropical Cyclones                A.Arking, P.Ma  JHU
         using a High Resolution Atmospheric Model
         Fast Transforms using the Cell B.E. Processor             D. Bader     Ga.Tech     
         360 TFlops Molecular Dynamics on the Roadrunner           T. German LANL

12:00-1:30                              Lunch and  Exhibits
             (IBM, Gedae, Rapid Mind, Code Sourcery, Mentor Graphics, Bartron Medical Imaging)

1:30-2:15      Keynote Speaker: Ram Rajamony,  IBM Research, Austin 
                      "IBM's Next Challenge: Highly Productive Exaflop Solutions."
2:15-2:40             Break
2:40-4:00   Multicore Applications for Aerospace  Session chair J. Bredekamp NASA
              Towards a Service Oriented 50 year Global Satellite Radiance
                  Climate Data Record                                            M. Halem UMBC  
                  Large- scale Scientific Visualization on Multicore Processors   J. JaJa UMCP
                  Turbulent Fluid Flow on the LANL Roadrunner                P. Woodward  LCSE 
                  MapReduce for the Cell B.E.                         K. Sankaralingam  U/WISC

4:00-5:20           Panel Discussion: R. Golliver: Intel, M. Aguilar: IBM,  R. Schooler: Tilera,
                                        M.Raymond: SGI 

5:20-6:30       Reception in Exhibit Area 

6:30-8:00       Banquet and Speaker:  T. Sterling  LSU
                           “Entering the Petaflop Era”



August 28:

9:00-9:40        Keynote Speaker: G. Rochon  Purdue Univ.
                         “A Virtual Terrestrial Observatory”    Chief Sci. Rosen Sch. Adv Comp.

9:40-10:00        Break 

10:00-12:00      Multicore Applications for Defense  Session Chair A. Andrews LTS
 PVTOL: Providing Productivity, Performance, and Portability to DoD
 Signal Processing Applications on Multicore Processors        N. Bliss MIT Lincoln Labs 
 DoD Application Performance on Multicore Architectures         T. Simon US Army ERDC 
 TB Suffix Arrays for String Searches on Cell B.E,              M. Ferguson, Lab Tel. Sci.
 Multicore Processors for Dangerous Applications                R. Schooler, Tilera  Corp.
 Analyzing Social Networks                                      A. Joshi/A. Java  UMBC

12:00-1:30              Lunch 

1:30-2:10        Keynote Speaker:
                          Programming Models for Cell B.E.        W. Lundgren , Gedae

2:10-3:30       Multicore for  Digital Media and Bio-Medical Applications 
                         Session chair                                M. Aguiler IBM
                         An  Interactive City                         S.Brown UC
                         A Cell Algorithm for  Medical Imaging        J. Tilton  GSFC 
                         Extracting Content from Wikipedia            T. Finin UMBC
                         Extreme Computing           D. Chapman et. al., UMBC/IBM Austin
 

                             
                           
3:30-3:40     Concluding Remarks /  Adjourn                    E.Corbin /R.Szabo/ IBM
                                                                                                   M. Halem/ MC2