PACT 2007 Program
The PACT 2007 tutorials and workshops will be held
Saturday September 15 and Sunday September 16 - see the
Tutorials and Workshops Schedule
for details.
The PACT 2007 technical sessions will be held
Monday September 17 through Wednesday September 19
at the conference hotel,
the
ARO Palace Hotel.
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PACT 2007 Program - Sunday, September 16, 2007
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| 18:00 |
Organ Concert in the Black Church & Dinner at Cerbul Carpatin
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PACT 2007 Program - Monday, September 17, 2007
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| 8:45-9:00 |
Opening Remarks
Ion Vişa, President of Transilvania University of Brasov
Marc Snir, PACT General Chair
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| 9:00-10:00 |
Keynote:
Bjarne Stroustrup,
Write clean (parallel) code!
Session Chair: Lawrence Rauchwerger
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| 10:00-10:30 |
Break
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| 10:30-12:00 |
Hardware Track (Session 1): Systems
Session Chair: Thomas Gross
Architectural Support for the Stream Execution Model on General-Purpose Processors
Jayanth Gummaraju, Mattan Erez, Joel Coburn, Mendel Rosenblum and William Dally
A Flexible Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architecture
Miquel Pericas, Ruben Gonzalez, Adrian Cristal, Francisco Cazorla, Daniel A. Jimenez
and Mateo Valero
Improving Performance Isolation on Chip Multiprocessors via an Operating System Scheduler
Alexandra Fedorova, Margo Seltzer and Michael Smith
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Software Track (Session 2): Pipelining
Session Chair: Kemal Ebcioglu
Software-Pipelining on Multi-Core Architectures
Alban Douillet and Guang R. Gao
Speculative Decoupled Software Pipelining
Neil Vachharajani, Ram Rangan, Easwaran Raman, Matthew Bridges, Guilherme Ottoni and David August
Rotating Register Allocation for Enhanced Pipeline Scheduling
Suhyun Kim and Soo-Mook Moon
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| 12:00-14:00 |
Lunch
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| 14:00-16:00 |
Hardware Track (Session 3): Verification & Security
Session Chair: Michael Gschwind
Unified Architectural Support for Soft-Error Protection or Software Bug Detection
Martin Dimitrov and Huiyang Zhou
Verification-Aware Microprocessor Design
Anita Lungu and Daniel Sorin
I2SEMS: Interconnects-Independent Security Enhanced Shared Memory Multiprocessor Systems
Manhee Lee, Minseon Ahn and Eun Jung Kim
Error Detection Using Dynamic Dataflow Verification
Albert Meixner and Daniel Sorin
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Software Track (Session 4): Optimizations
Session Chair: Ayal Zaks
Extending Object-Oriented Optimizations for Concurrent Programs
Kelly Heffner, Michael D. Smith and David Tarditi
Language and Virtual Machine Support for Efficient Fine-Grained Futures in Java
Lingli Zhang, Chandra Krintz and Priya Nagpurkar
Call-chain Software Instruction Prefetching in J2EE Server Applications
Priya Nagpurkar, Harold Cain, Mauricio Serrano, Jong-Deok Choi and Chandra Krintz
Detecting Change in Program Behavior for Adaptive Optimization
Nitzan Peleg and Bilha Mendelson
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| 16:00-18:00 |
Poster Session
Poster Listing
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| 18:00 |
Conference Banquet
Sponsored by Google
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PACT 2007 Program - Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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| 9:00-10:00 |
Keynote:
Fran Allen,
Compilers and Multi-Cores: A Performance Partnership or Missed Opportunity?
Session Chair: Marc Snir
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| 10:00-10:30 |
Break
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| 10:30-11:30 |
Hardware Track (Session 5): Saving Energy
Session Chair: Gabriel Silberman
Reducing Energy Consumption of On-Chip Networks Through a Hybrid Compiler-Runtime Approach
Guangyu Chen, Feihui Li and Mahmut Kandemir
An Energy Efficient Parallel Architecture Using Near Threshold Operation
Ronald Dreslinski, Bo Zhai, Trevor Mudge, David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester
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Software Track (Session 6): Algorithms
Session Chair: Albert Cohen
AA-Sort: A New Parallel Sorting Algorithm for Multi-Core SIMD Processors
Hiroshi Inoue, Takao Moriyama, Hideaki Komatsu and Toshio Nakatani
The Fault Tolerant Parallel Algorithm: the Parallel Recomputing Based Failure Recovery
Xuejun Yang, Yunfei Du, Panfeng Wang, Hongyi Fu, Jia Jia, Zhiyuan Wang and Guang Suo
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| 12:00 |
Conference Excursion
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PACT 2007 Program - Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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| 9:00-10:00 |
Keynote:
Yale Patt,
Harnessing the Transformation Hierarchy
Session Chair: Lawrence Rauchwerger
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| 10:00-10:30 |
Break
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| 10:30-12:30 |
Hardware Track (Session 7): Processors
Session Chair: Nacho Navarro
Paceline: Improving Single-Thread Performance in Nanoscale CMPs
through Core Overclocking
Brian Greskamp and Josep Torrellas
Early Register Release for Out-of-Order Processors with Register Windows
Eduardo Quiñones, Joan-Manuel Parcerisa and Antonio González
L1 Cache Filtering Through Random Selection of Memory References
Yoav Etsion and and Dror G. Feitelson
Effective Management of DRAM Bandwidth in Multicore Processors
Nauman Rafique, Won-Taek Lim and Mithuna Thottethodi
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Software Track (Session 8): Compilers
Session Chair: Jaejin Lee
A Loop Correlation Technique to Improve Performance Auditing
Jeremy Lau, Matthew Arnold, Brad Calder and Michael Hind
Latency Hiding in Multi-Threading and Multi-Processing of Network Applications
Xiaofeng Guo, Jinquan Dai, Long Li, Zhiyuan Lv and Prashant R. Chandra
Introducing Control Flow into Vectorized Code
Jaewook Shin
Automatic Correction of Loop Transformations
Nicolas Vasilache, Albert Cohen and Louis-Noel Pouchet
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| 12:30-14:30 |
Lunch
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| 14:00-14:30 |
Funding Opportunities - NSF/CISE Directorate
(full version (pdf),
short version (pdf))
Almadena Chtchelkanova, Program Director, NSF
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| 14:30-16:30 |
Hardware Track (Session 9): Modeling & Measurement
Session Chair: James Cownie
FAME: FAirly MEasuring Multithreaded Architectures
Javier Vera, Francisco J. Cazorla, Alex Pajuelo, Oliveiro J. Santana, Enrique Fernandez and Mateo Valero
CIGAR: Application Partitioning for a CPU/Coprocessor Architecture
John Kelm, Isaac Gelado, Mark Murphy, Nacho Navarro, Steve Lumetta and Wen-mei Hwu
Using Predictive Modeling for Cross-Program Design Space Exploration in Multicore Systems
Salman Khan, Polychronis Xekalakis, John Cavazos and Marcelo Cintra
CacheScouts: Fine-Grain Monitoring of Shared Caches in CMP Platforms
Li Zhao, Ravi Iyer, Ramesh Illikkal, Jaideep Moses, Don Newell and Srihari Makineni
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Software Track (Session 10): Transactional Memory & Locks
Session Chair: Andreas Moshovos
Component-Based Lock Allocation
Richard L. Halpert, Christopher J. F. Pickett and Clark Verbrugge
JudoSTM: A Dynamic Binary Rewriting Approach to Software Transactional Memory
Marek Olszewski, Jeremy Cutler and J. Gregory Steffan
The OpenTM Transactional Application Programming Interface
Woongki Baek, Chi Cao Minh, Martin Trautmann, Christos Kozyrakis and Kunle Olukotun
A Study of a Transactional Parallel Routing Algorithm
Ian Watson, Chris Kirkham and Mikel Lujan
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| 16:30 |
Conference Closing
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