CompArch Summer School on Parallel Programming and Architectures

Brown University, Providence, RI

August 20-21, 2008

Workshop Agenda

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

8:00am -8:30am	Breakfast and opening remarks
8:30am-9:30am	Valentina Salapura (IBM Research): What is Computer Architecture? (pdf)
9:30am-10:30am	Frances Allen (IBM Research): Q & A Session: My Research Past & Present, Getting The Turing Award, Personal Experiences as a Woman in Computing
10:30am-11:00am	Break
11:00am-12:00pm	Jaime Moreno (IBM Research): Impact of Technology Trends on Computer Architecture (pdf)
12:00pm-1:30pm	Lunch, including a mealtime mentoring event led by Kunle Olukotun (Stanford University), Iris Bahar (Brown University), Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University), and Russ Joseph (Northwestern University)
1:30pm-2:30pm	Tali Moreshet(Swarthmore College): Introduction to Parallel Computing (pdf)
2:30pm-6:30pm	Parallel programming breakout session (pdf)
7:00pm -9:00pm	Dinner @ Café Nuovo

Thursday, August 21, 2008

8:00am -8:30am	Breakfast
8:30am-9:30am	Kunle Olukotun (Stanford University), Iris Bahar (Brown University), Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University), and Russ Joseph (Northwestern University): Techniques on Giving Effective Presentations (pdf)
9:30am-10:30am	Arvind (MIT): More about Computer Architecture (pdf)
10:30am-11:00am	Break
11:00am-12:00pm	Mandy Pant (Intel Massachusetts): Hardware and Power Concerns in Multiprocessor System Design (pdf)
12:00pm-1:00pm	Lunch
12:30pm-2:00pm	Karin Strass (Advanced Micro Devices, AMD), Lisa Hsu (University of Michigan), Korey Sewall (University of Michigan), Tali Moreshet (Swarthmore College): Panel Discussion: Graduate School: Are You Experienced?
2:00pm-3:00pm	Final programming wrap up and talk preparation
3:00pm -4:30pm	Parallel programming presentations
4:30pm-5:00pm	Wrap up