RIDMS-1:  First Workshop on Real Time and Interactive Digital Media Supercomputing
   
Sunday, Feb. 12, 2006,  Austin, Texas
 
Immediately Preceding 
the 12th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-12)

• Call For Papers, Abstract Due: Dec. 12, 2005 
  

• Schedule to be Made Available 2nd Half, Dec. 2005

• Presentations to be Made Available After Feb. 19, 2006

• Organizing Committee

Workshop Schedule

RIDMS-1 Schedule

Sunday, Feb. 12, 2006, Austin, Texas

8.30am – 10.10am:     Session 1

Introductory Remarks                                                             20 mins

Ashwini Nanda, Workshop Chair (IBM Research)

Workload Convergence: Hollywood to Wall Street                     25 mins

Pradeep Dubey (Intel Corporation)

Merrimac, Imagine, and Trends in Stream Programming            30 mins

Bill Dally (Stanford University)

The Cell Processor Vision                                                       25 mins

Jim Kahle (IBM Corporation) and STI partners

10.10am – 10.30am: Coffee break

10.30am – 12.10pm:   Session 2

Real Time Computing needs in Sensor Networks                     20 mins

Alex Morrow, IBM Research

Commodity Supercomputing with MareNostrum                        20 mins

JJ Porta and Mateo Valero (Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain)

Cell computing Platforms and Applications                               20 mins

Randy Dean, Mercury Computer Systems

Computational Chemistry on Game Console/Cell Clusters           20 mins

Todd Martinez and Ben Levine (University of Illinois)

Available Slot                                                                          20 mins

(nVidia Corporation/others)

12.10am – 1.00pm: Lunch

1.00pm – 3.10pm: Session 3

Enhancing the performance of sparse matrix computation by equally distributing real   

load of the matrix with reduced communication overhead             10 mins

Dongseung Kim and Won Tea Hwang, (Korea University, Seoul, Korea)

An Exploration into a V-Cycle Multigrid Implementation for the Cell Architecture

Yahya Mirza (Aurora Borealis Software LLC)                              10 mins

Optimization approach of background subtraction algorithm

for Cell processor                                                                   15 mins

Sreeni Kesavarapu, Jonathan Connell and Lurng-Kuo Liu (IBM Research),     

Larkhoon Leem (Stanford University), Lijun Tang (Columbia University)

Ab-initio Molecular Dynamics on Cell processor: Early Experiences

Alessandro Curioni,  IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland           15 mins

Unified Data-Parallel Metaprogramming Model for GPUs, Cell, and

Multicore CPUs                                                                      20  mins                      

Michael McCool (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Applying Cell technology to real time embedded signal processing applications

Steve Kirsch (Raytheon Corporation)                                       20 mins

Challenges in Making Linux Ready for Real Time computing

Paul McKenney (IBM Corporation)                                         20 mins

Achieving Absolute Security, Total Reliability and Safety in Cell Software

Tim Reed, Green Hills Software, Inc.                                            20 mins

3.10pm – 3.30pm: Coffee break

3.30pm – 5.20pm:   Session 3

RealityServer(R) - The Scalable Platform for

3D Web Services                                                                       20 mins

Rolf Herken and Ludwig von Reiche (Mental Images GmbH,  Germany)

Implementation and performance comparison of isolated digit speech

 recognition on Cell                                                                     20 mins

Yang Liu, Holger Jones, John R. Johnson and Sheila Vaidya

(Lawrence Livermore National Labs),

Michael Perrone, Borivoj Tydlitat and Ashwini Nanda (IBM Research)

Trends in High Performance Visualization                                    20 mins

Allen McPherson (Los Alamos National Labs)

Serious Games, Virtual Worlds and Supercomputing                    30 mins

Michael Zyda (University of Southern California)   

High Performance Compute Servers and Next Generation

Online Games                                                                          20 mins

Bruce D’Amora, Ashwini Nanda and Karen Magerlain (IBM Research)

Atman Binstak and Bernard Yee (Episode Inc)

5.20pm – 5.35pm: Wrap Up

Email Ashwini at IBM  

Contact Tel. 914 945 1848