Monday, September 03

07:30-08:30 Breakfast (``Center Canteen'')

08:30-09:00 Registration (``Frangipane Room'' - La Rocca, Via Frangipane, 6)

09:00-09:15 Welcome

09:15-09:55 Recent Technological Trends and their Impact on System Design
  Pratap Pattnaik (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

09:55-10:35 Transactional Memory for a Modern Microprocessor
  Marc Tremblay (Sun Microsystems)

10:35-11:05 Coffee

11:05-11:45 High-Performance Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC) Roadmap
  Koen De Bosschere (Ghent University)

11:45-12:45 Discussion Session I: Technology: Shaping the Class of Realizable Systems (Coordinators: P. Pattnaik and M. Tremblay)
  Part A: Target Questions

13:00-14:00 Lunch (``Center Canteen'')

15:00-15:40 (When) Will Multiprocessors Hit the Power Wall?
  Ben Juurlink (Delft University of Technology)

15:40-16:20 Core Fusion: Accommodating Software Diversity in Chip Multiprocessors
  Jose F. Martinez (Cornell University)

16:20-16:50 Coffee

16:50-17:30 Lattice QCD on Cell
  Fabio Schifano (University of Ferrara & INFN - Ferrara)

17:30-18:10 Improving Performance by Improving Memory Sharing
  Larry Rudolph (MIT & VMWare)

20:00-21:30 Dinner, Osteria della Serafina, Via Roma 29, Bertinoro (0543 445080).


Tuesday, September 04

07:30-08:30 Breakfast (``Center Canteen'')

08:40-09:20 On-Chip/Off-Chip Multiprocessing; Shared Memory or Message Passing
  Einar Rustad (Dolphin Interconnect Solutions)

09:20-10:00 Enabling ``Rugged'' HPC
  Pierfrancesco Zuccato (Eurotech SpA)

10:00-10:30 Coffee

10:30-12:30 Discussion Session I: Technology: Shaping the Class of Realizable Systems (Coordinators: P. Pattnaik and M. Tremblay)
  Part B: Answers and Directions for Further Research

13:00-14:00 Lunch (``Center Canteen'')

14:00-23:30 Excursion to San Marino Republic
  Social Dinner at La Taverna Restaurant, Piazza della Libertà, San Marino Town, (0549 991196).


Wednesday, September 05

07:30-08:30 Breakfast (``Center Canteen'')

09:00-09:40 Huge Networks, Tiny Faulty Nodes
  Enoch Peserico (University of Padova)

09:40-10:20 System Wide Software Development Tools for Heterogeneous Programming, Debug and Profiling of Mixed Multi-core and Acceleration Processors
  Ray McConnell (ClearSpeed)

10:20-10:50 Coffee

10:50-11:30 A Data-Driven Co-operative Approach to Scaling of Commercial Java Codes
  Manish Gupta (IBM India Systems and Technology Lab)

11:30-12:10 Architectural Support for Software Transactional Memory
  Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai (Intel)

13:00-14:00 Lunch (``Center Canteen'')

15:00-16:00 Discussion Session II: Transforming Applications into Systems Workloads (Coordinators: A. Adl-Tabatabai, M. Gupta, and G. Bilardi)
  Part A: Target Questions

16:00-16:40 The Cache-Oblivious Gaussian Elimination Paradigm
  Vijaya Ramachandran (University of Texas at Austin)

16:40-17:10 Coffee

17:10-17:50 Adaptive Winograd's Matrix Multiplication
  Paolo D'Alberto (Yahoo!)

17:50-18:30 Network-Oblivious Algorithms
  Andrea Pietracaprina (University of Padova)
18:30-19:00 Visit to Bertinoro Inter-Faith Museum (La Rocca, Via Frangipane, 6)
20:00-21:30 Dinner, Ristorante Bistrot Colonna, Via Mainardi 1, Bertinoro (0543 444333).


Thursday, September 06

07:30-08:30 Breakfast (``Center Canteen'')

09:00-09:40 Productivity: The Quest for Performance without Pain
  Calin Cascaval (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

09:40-10:20 Stability and Efficiency of a Random Local Load Balancing Protocol
  Eli Upfal (Brown University)

10:20-10:50 Coffee

10:50-11:30 Stochastic Analysis and Optimality of Replacement Policies
  Gianfranco Bilardi (University of Padova)

11:30-12:10 An Asynchronous and Reconfigurable Computational Model for Multi/Many-Core Processors
  Lorenzo Verdoscia (CNR - ICAR)

13:00-14:00 Lunch (``Center Canteen'')

14:30-16:30 Discussion Session II: Transforming Applications into Systems Workloads (Coordinators: A. Adl-Tabatabai, M. Gupta, and G. Bilardi)
  Part B: Answers and Directions for Further Research

  Adjourn

20:00-21:00 Dinner, Ristorante Belvedere, Via Mazzini 7, 47032 Bertinoro (0543 445127).