Program

MCC 2015 takes place on November 25th and 26th. The program is as follows:

Wednesday November 25th

08:30		Registration / Coffee
09:00		Opening remarks
		Keynote by Jim Nilsson, Intel:
		Memory Sharing and The Compute Architecture of Intel® Processor Graphics Gen9 (Skylake)
10:30		Coffee break
11:00		Session: Heterogeneous Systems
		Chair: Tomas Nordström
	•	Peter Brauer, Martin Lundqvist and Aare Mällo:
		Improving latency in a signal processing system on the Epiphany architecture (long)
	•	Laust Brock-Nannestad and Sven Karlsson:
		Accelerators as First Class Citizens (long)
	•	Erik Hansson and Christoph Kessler:
		Optimized variant-selection code generation for loops on heterogeneous multicore systems (short)
12:00		Lunch
13:00		Session: Coordination
		Chair: Alberto Ros Bardisa
	•	Flavius Gruian:
		Application-Set Mapping for Minimal-Disturbance Reconfiguration in Embedded Streaming (long)
	•	Nicolas Melot, Johan Janzen and Christoph Kessler:
		Mimer and Schedeval: Tools for Comparing Static Schedulers for Streaming Applications on Manycore Architectures (short)
	•	Vincenzo Gulisano, Yiannis Nikolakopoulos, Marina Papatriantafilou and Philippas Tsigas:
		ScaleJoin: a Deterministic, Disjoint-Parallel and Skew-Resilient Stream Join (long)
	•	Marina Andric, Rocco De Nicola and Alberto Lluch Lafuente:
		Replicating Data for Better Performances in X10 (short)
14:20		Coffee break
14:50		Session: Tools and Tasks
		Chair: Sven Karlsson
	•	Lasse Natvig, Torbjørn Follan, Simen Støa, Sindre Magnussen and Antonio Garcia Guirado:
		Climbing Mont Blanc -- A Training Site for Energy Efficient Programming on Heterogeneous Multicore Processors (short)
	•	Nicklas Bo Jensen, Niklas Nielsen, Gregory L. Lee, Sven Karlsson, Matthew Legendre, Martin Schulz and Dong Ahn:
		A Scalable Prescriptive Parallel Debugging Model (short)
	•	Usman Dastgeer and Christoph Kessler:
		Smart containers and skeleton programming for GPU-based systems (short)
	•	Georgios Georgakarakos and Johan Lilius:
		Improving Parallel HEVC decoding using Wool (short)
	•	Simon Holmbacka and Johan Lilius:
		Fitness: A Metric Describing the Efficiency of Microarchitectual Utilization (short)
	•	Simon Holmbacka, Jörg Keller, Patrick Eischberger and Johan Lilius:
		Accurate Energy Modelling for Many-Core Static Schedules (short)
16:10		Refreshments
16:40		Transfer - optional social event

Thursday November 26th

09:00		Coffee + Croissant
09:30		Session: Coherence and Synchronization
		Chair: Christoph Kessler
	•	Alberto Ros and Stefanos Kaxiras:
		Callback: Efficient Synchronization without Invalidation with a Directory Just for Spin-Waiting (short)
	•	Mahdad Davari, Alberto Ros, Erik Hagersten and Stefanos Kaxiras:
		An Efficient, Self-Contained, On-Chip, Directory: DIR1-SISD (short)
	•	Maxwell Walter, Jesper Nielsen and Sven Karlsson:
		Efficient Communication Using Ring Buffers -- Early Results (long)
10:30		Coffee break
11:00		Session: Lock-free Approaches, Tooling
		Chair: Alexandra Jimborean
	•	Bapi Chatterjee:
		Efficient Lock-free External Binary Search Trees (long)
	•	Jesper Puge Nielsen, Maxwell Walter and Sven Karlsson:
		Designing a Lock-free Virtual Memory Management System (long)
	•	Lu Li and Christoph Kessler:
		MeterPU: A Generic Measurement Abstraction API Enabling Energy-tuned Skeleton Backend Selection (short)
12:00		Lunch
13:00		Keynote by Morten Sleth Rasmussen, ARM:
		Energy and thermal awareness in OS and middleware
14:30		Closing remarks
15:00		Refreshments