Workshop Agenda:: Workshop Slides

Organizers

• Kathy Yelick (University of California at Berkeley), "yelick"  AT "cs.berkeley.edu"

• Keith Cooper (Rice University), "keith" AT "cs.rice.edu"

Abstract

Over the past several years, processors have grown in complexity due to the inclusion of multiple cores, processor accelerators, and various techniques to mask the ever-growing gap between on-chip computation performance and off-chip memory access performance. Each of these performance features requires a significant effort in tuning of applications and libraries.  As a result, compiler and library developers have turned to automating the process of software tuning, using large amounts of computation time to explore a space of different variants of the program and running each variant on the target architecture.  
The goal of this workshop was to bring together researchers and practitioners in automatic tuning, compiler code generation, and architecture design to identify some of the opportunities and challenges of using automatic tuning on future petascale systems. The emphasis was on optimizations for multicore processors, accelerators, and novel computational and memory structures that will make up the compute nodes of petascale systems.

Agenda

Day 1 - Monday, July 9

• Workshop Overview
  Kathy Yelick, U.C. Berkeley and LBNL
• Register Allocation in Kernel Generators
  Matteo Frigo, Cilk Arts
• SPIRAL: Past, Present and Future
  Jeremy Johnson, Drexel University
• Parallelism in Spiral
  Franz Franchetti
• GPU Computing with CUDA
  Richard Johnson
• Cray Math Software: Current and Future Developments
  Adrian Tate
• Tuning Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication for multicore processors
  Sam Williams
• Sequoia
  Michael Houston

Day 2 - Tuesday, July 10

• Paolo Bientenisi
• Nikos Pitsianis
• Targeting Multicore Systems in Linear Algebra Applications
  Dan Terpstra
• Clint Whaley
• Search-based Compilation: Lessons from a Decade of Experiments
  Keith Cooper
• Compilers and Runtime Systems for Dynamically Adaptive Applications
  Rudi Eigenmann
• Compiler-Assisted Performance Tuning
  Mary Hall
• Jackie Chame

Day 3 - Wednesday, July 11

• OSKI: Autotuned Sparse Matrix Kernels
  Richard Vuduc 
• Tuning 3D Stencil Codes
  Kaushik Datta
• Jim Demmel (Optimal, ScaLAPACK)
• Library experiences (short talks/discussion)
  Mattan Erez
• Michael Frank

Day 4 - Thursday, July 12

• POET: Parameterized Optimizations for Empirical Tuning
  Qing Yi
• Guojing Cong
• Hardware Performance Monitoring with PAPI
  Dan Terpstra
• Yaoqing Gao
• Wrap-up Discussion
  Community building Engaging applications
  Informal discussions with specific subgroups

Sponsors

This workshop was sponsored by the Center for Scalable Application Development Software, with funding from the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program.