Program (Draft)
Sunday, September 18
| 17:00-21:00 | Check-in & Reception (``Seminario'' - Via Frangipane, 4)
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| 19:00-21:00 | Welcome Buffet (``Center Canteen'' - Via Frangipane, 2) |
Monday, September 19
| 07:30-08:45 | Breakfast (``Center Canteen'')
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| 08:30-09:00 | Registration (``Museum Room'' - La Rocca, Via Frangipane, 6)
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| 09:00-09:15 | Welcome
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| 09:15-09:50 | Introduction to GPU Architecture |
| Pratap Pattnaik (IBM Research)
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| 09:50-10:25 | From total Enthusiasm to bitter Cynicism - The religious War on GPUs |
| Carsten Trinitis (University of Munich)
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| 10:25-10:55 | Coffee
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| 10:55-11:30 | EXA-Scale Computing in 2018: About the Challenges for all Kinds of Technology! |
| Wolfgang Nagel (Technische Universität Dresden)
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| 11:30-12:30 | Discussion Session I: Where are GPUs Going? What are the Technological and Business Opportunities and Constraints? (Part A: Target Questions) |
| Coordinators: G. Almasi and P. Kelly
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| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch (``Center Canteen'')
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| 15:00-15:35 | Hacking GPUs: insights into the NVidia architecture |
| Gheorghe Almasi (IBM Research)
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| 15:35-16:10 | Parallel Application Characterization with Quantitative Metrics |
| Henk Sips (Delft University of Technology)
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| 16:10-16:40 | Coffee
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| 16:40-17:15 | Experiences in Co-Design: Tackling the Challenges of Performance, Power, and Reliability |
| Darren Kerbyson (PNNL)
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| 17:15-17:50 | What does it take to Achieve Energy-Efficient Computing. An Exploration of the Software Challenge |
| Paul Kelly (Imperial College London)
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| 20:00-21:30 | Dinner, Ristorante Belvedere, Via Mazzini 7, 47032 Bertinoro (0543 445127) |
Tuesday, September 22
| 07:30-08:45 | Breakfast (``Center Canteen'')
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| 09:00-09:35 | The GPU Computational Model as a Bridge to Stream-based Reconfigurable HW Design |
| Pedro Trancoso (University of Cyprus)
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| 09:35-10:10 | From GPGPUs to Many Core Co-Processors - An Exciting Journey |
| Alexander Heinecke (University of Munich)
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| 10:10-10:40 | Coffee
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| 10:40-11:15 | Where do GPUs Fit: An Analysis based on Case Studies |
| Jan Treibig (University of Erlangen)
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| 11:15-12:50 | Discussion Session I: Where are GPUs Going? What are the Technological and Business Opportunities and Constraints? (Part B: Answers and Directions for Further Research) |
| Coordinators: G. Almasi and P. Kelly
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| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch (``Center Canteen'')
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| 14:30-22:30 | Excursion to Ravenna |
| Social Dinner at Grand Hotel Cesenatico, Piazza Andrea Costa 1, 47042 Cesenatico (0547 80012) |
Wednesday, September 21
| 07:30-08:45 | Breakfast (``Center Canteen'')
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| 09:15-09:50 | GPU Implementations of Irregular Algorithms |
| Keshav Pingali (University of Texas, Austin)
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| 09:50-10:25 | SIMD - The Next Generation: Irregular and Non-Numerical Computing |
| Jose Moreira (IBM Research)
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| 10:25-11:00 | OpenCL vs. Cuda: A Programmability Debate |
| Ana Lucia Varbanescu (University of Amsterdam )
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| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee
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| 11:30-12:05 | Thick Control Flows - Imperative Version of Stream Programming |
| Ville Leppanen (University of Turku)
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| 12:05-12:40 | Programming Heterogeneous, Accelerator-based Multicore Machines: current situation and main challenges |
| Samuel Thibault (LaBRI, University Bordeaux)
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| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch (``Center Canteen'')
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| 15:00-16:00 | Discussion Session II: What Problems should be Addressed to Realize the GPU Potential? (Part A: Target Questions) |
| Coordinators: J. Moreira and K. Pingali
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| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee
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| 16:30-17:05 | SkePU: A Skeleton Programming Framework for GPU-based Systems |
| Usman Dastgeer (Linkoping University)
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| 17:05-17:40 | Utilising GPUs by the Press of a Compiler Switch? Lessons from the SaC Approach. |
| Sven-Bodo Scholz (University of Hertfordshire )
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| 18:00-18:30 | Visit to Bertinoro Inter-Faith Museum (La Rocca, Via Frangipane, 6)
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| 20:00-21:30 | Dinner, Casina Pontormo, Via dei Cappuccini, 460, Bertinoro (0543 445699) |
Thursday, September 22
| 07:30-08:45 | Breakfast (``Center Canteen'')
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| 09:00-09:35 | TBA |
| Henry Tufo (CSCS-ETH)
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| 09:35-10:10 | GPUs in Astrophysics? Project ISAAC and Multi-science with AMR based GAMER Framework |
| Hemant Shukla (LBNL, NERSC)
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| 10:10-10:45 | psort, yet another Fast Stable External Sorting Software |
| Marco Bressan (University of Padova)
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| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee
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| 11:15-11:50 | Performance, Efficiency, and Programming Challenges in Many-Core/Exascale Computing Architecture: the General Purpose GPU answer and more |
| Lorenzo Verdoscia (ICAR-CNR, Napoli)
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| 11:50-12:25 | rCUDA: a Tool for Accessing to a Remote GPU for GPU Computing |
| Rafael Mayo Gual (University Jaume I )
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| 12:25-13:00 | A Generic Stencil Library |
| Mauro Bianco (CSCS-ETH)
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| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch (``Center Canteen'')
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| 14:30-16:30 | Discussion Session II: What Problems should be Addressed to Realize the GPU potential? (Part B: Answers and Directions for Further Research) |
| Coordinators: J. Moreira and K. Pingali
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| Adjourn
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| 20:00-21:30 | Dinner, Locanda della Fortuna, Via Frangipane 1, 47032 Bertinoro (0543 444456). |