1:00 OPENING

"Austin CAS Overview"
Dr. Ann Marie Maynard - Program Director,
Austin Center for Advanced Studies

Keynote

"Higher and higher performance Microprocessors: Are the problems just too hard to solve?"
Yale Patt, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Computer Science, and Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

CURRENT ACAS PROJECTS

1:30 IBM e-business Operating Systems Solutions Jeff Smith, Vice President

"Software Group Overview"
Jerry Kilpatrick, Distinguished Engineer,
Manager of e-boss System Performance

"Scalable Linux Scheduling"
Steve Molloy and Dr. Peter Honeyman,
Center for Information Technology Integration,
University of Michigan.
IBM Mentor: Ray Bryant,
IBM Linux Technology Center

"Compilation Techniques for Customizing Large Java Libraries"
Teck Tok and Dr. Calvin Lin,
Department of Computer Sciences,
University of Texas at Austin.
IBM Mentor: Weiming Gu and Peter Wong,
IBM e-boss System Performance

2:10 Break

2:20 Austin Research Laboratory David Cohn, Director

"ARL Research Overview"
Elmootazbellah N. Elnozahy, Mgr. System Software, Austin Research Laboratory

"Issues in Improving Web Server Performance"
Ravindranath Kokku, Dr. Lorenzo Alvisi
and Dr. Harrick Vin, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin.
IBM Mentor: Ram Rajamony, IBM Austin Research Laboratory

"On-the-fly Compression of Logic Circuits"
Malay Ganai, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. IBM Mentor: Andreas Kuehlmann, IBM T. J. Watson Research

3:00 IBM Enterprise Systems Group Mark Papermaster, Director

"Server Directions and Research Opportunities"
Charles Moore, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Enterprise Systems Group

"University research within Server Group"
Alex Mericas, Processor Performance - Enterprise Systems Group

"Future Performance Monitors"
Mary D. Brown, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. IBM Mentor: Alex Mericas, Advance CEC Engineering, IBM Enterprise Systems Group

3:30 Break

3:40 IBM Enterprise Systems Group (continues)

"Architectural Support for Thread-Level Speculation"
Dr. Todd C. Mowry, Associate Professor,
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. IBM Mentor: Charles Moore, IBM Enterprise Systems Group

"Characterization of Web Workloads for Three Generations of IBM PowerPC Microarchitectures"
Pattabi Sheshadri and Dr. Lizy Kurian John, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
The University of Texas at Austin.
IBM Mentor: Alex Mericas, Advance CEC Engineering, IBM Enterprise Systems Group

"Effectiveness of Aggressive Out of Order Scheduling in the IBM PowerPC Processors"
Dr. Lizy Kurian John and Juan Rubio, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
The University of Texas at Austin.
IBM Mentor: Alex Mericas, Advance CEC Engineering, IBM Enterprise Systems Group

"Compiler Transformations for Improving the Utilization of Hardware Prefetching Units"
Ibrahim Hur and Dr. Calvin Lin, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin. IBM Mentor: Brian O'Krafka, IBM Enterprise Systems Group

"Design Challenges for Single-Chip Servers"
Vikas Agarwal, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam,
Dr. Doug Burger and Dr. Steve Keckler,
Department of Computer Sciences,
The University of Texas at Austin.
IBM Mentor: Charles Moore and Alex Mericas, IBM Enterprise Systems Group

4:55 Closing Remarks

5:00 Reception

For More Information
Dr. Ann Marie Maynard
Program Director, Austin CAS
512-838-7937
amg@us.ibm.com
www.research.ibm.com/acas