Participation

There is no registration fee. To register, please send an email to james.brodman@intel.com and sadayappan.1@osu.edu with the following information:

• Name
• Affiliation
• Background with CnC
• Dietary Information (for Boxed Lunches)

Location

The workshop will be held at the Siebel Center on the UIUC campus in Room 2405.

Directions: http://cs.illinois.edu/siebel/directions

Hotel Information

The workshop has reserved a block of rooms at the Hampton Inn Champaign/Urbana at a special workshop rate. The Hampton Inn is located two blocks from the Siebel Center.

Link to Room Block

Agenda

The workshop agenda includes research and experience presentations, a keynote address, a tutorial and plenty of time will be left open for unstructured mixing, mingling, and networking.

Thursday, December 6

08:15 -- Breakfast and Coffee

08:30 -- CnC Tutorial: Frank Schlimbach

10:00 -- Break

10:30 -- Tutorial, Continued

12:00 -- Lunch

13:00 -- Keynote: "Expressing Concurrency within and across Objects in Charm++" -- Professor Sanjay Kale

14:00 -- Tutorial, CnC Research Efforts: Zoran Budimlic

15:00 -- Break

15:30 -- Session 1: Applications

• Parallelizing Compressive Sensing MRI via CnC-Babel and Matlab -- Richard Baraniuk, Zoran Budimlic, Michael Burke, Shams Imam, Kath Knobe, Vivek Sarkar, Jianing Shi
• BFS Preconditioning for High Locality, Data Parallel Algorithms -- Nicolas Vasilache, Benoit Meister, Muthu Baskaran, Richard Lethin
• A Performance Evaluation of Distributed CnC on RTM -- Marc Tchiboukdjian, Bettina Krammer, Frank Schlimbach, Kath Knobe, James Brodman
• Overhead of CnC over TBB for Matrix Inversion -- Peiyi Tang

17:30 -- End Day 1

Friday, December 7

08:15 -- Breakfast and Coffee

08:30 -- Session 2: Programming Models

• CDSC-GL: A CnC-inspired Graph Language for Mapping Applications onto Heterogeneous Devices -- Zoran Budimlic (Rice), Louis-Noel Pouchet, Alina Sbirlea, Peng Zhang, Jason Cong, Vivek Sarkar
• Thoughts on the Intel Threading Building Blocks Flow Graph and Intel Concurrent Collections -- Mike Voss
• Flexible Preconditions: A Model for Efficient Macro-Dataflow Execution -- Dragos Sbirlea, Alina Sbirlea, Kyle Wheeler, Vivek Sarkar
• S-Net: A Coordination Language for Concurrent Collections -- A. Shafarenko and R. Kirner

10:30 -- Break

11:00 -- Session 3: Memory

• Item Collections for Dense N-Dimensional Data Arrays in CnC -- Juergen Ributzka
• Provably Correct Space-folding of CnC Programs - Aaron W. Hsu
• On the Scalability of Loop Tiling Techniques -- David G. Wonnacott, Michelle Mills Strout

12:30 -- Lunch

13:30 -- Session 4: Platforms

• Mapping a Data-flow Programming Model onto Heterogeneous Platforms -- Alina Sbirlea, Yi Zou, Zoran Budimlic, Jason Cong, Vivek Sarkar
• Execution Frontiers as Checkpoints in CnC -- Nick Vrvilo, Vivek Sarkar, Kath Knobe
• Execution Frontiers in CnC: Increasing Execution Flexibility for Exascale Systems -- Kath Knobe
• Early Experience with a CnC Tuning Capability -- Sanjay Chatterjee, Zoran Budimlic, Mike Burke, Vivek Sarkar, Kath Knobe

15:30 -- End Day 2