W6 Designing for embedded parallel computing platforms: architectures, tools, and applications
Organisers:
Mike Woodward & Pieter Mosterman, MathWorks, US
Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Maryse Wouters, IMEC, BE
Michael Huebner, Universitaet Karlsruhe, DE
Description:
Embedded systems designers are increasingly faced with the challenge of designing concurrent systems. Such systems run on multi-core architectures, but also on heterogeneous platforms (for example DSPs and FPGAs). Designers need to take advantage of the parallelism on offer, but there are significant issues:
- How can we create applications that can exploit the underlying (parallel) architecture?
- What does the application designer really need to know of the underlying architecture?
- What tools are needed to write applications and what part of the process should they automate?
- How should we design the underlying hardware architectures?
These and other questions will be central to this workshop, which will bring together researchers actively working on architectures, design tools, and applications for embedded parallel systems.
This workshop will have three main sessions:
- Architectures: presenting and discussing the most relevant problems arising during the design optimization and exploration of many/multi core architectures.
- Design tools: focusing on the state-of-the-art of tool development, showing where we are now and the directions we need to move in.
- Applications: discussing the analysis, development, modification and integration of applications with respect to parallel computing platforms.
We invite posters on each of the three topics: architectures, design tools, and applications.
Poster session submissions are invited for each of the sessions. Posters will be given a short presentation time during the workshop.
Poster session submissions should either be a 150-200 word abstract or in the form of the poster itself (in an A4 or US Letter size format) and should clearly identify the relevant session (architectures, design tools, or applications).
The submission deadline for posters is February 13th, 2009
All poster submissions must be sent to Pieter Mosterman (Pieter.Mosterman@MathWorks.com).
| 0830 | Introduction and Keynote - Chair, Pieter J Mosterman Keynote Address: Methods for Hardware/Software and Parallel Computing Platforms - Stephen Mellor, Freeter Stephen is a well-known methodologist. With Sally Schlaer he created the well-known Schlaer-Mellor design methodology and he has been extensively involved in UML for several years – with a particular focus on real-time methods. He was Chief Scientist of Mentor Graphics Embedded Systems Division. He chairs the advisory board for IEEE Software and is involved with several conference organization committees. |
| 0945 |
Poster Session - Chair, Pieter J Mosterman, The MathWorks Architecture Posters Introduction - Chair, Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano Design Tools Posters Introducton - Chair, Maryse Wouters, IMEC Application Posters Introduction - Chair, Michael Huebner, University of Karlsruhe 1000 BREAK |
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1030 |
Architecture Session - Chair, Cristina Silvano 1030 - Technologies issues and trends for many-multi cores architectures - Roberto Zafalon, STMicroelectronics 1055 - Beyond the power and memory walls: The role of NoCs in future system architectures - Jose Duato, University of Valencia 1120 - Leveraging Modular Simulation to Automata Design-Space Exploration - Olivier Temam, INRIA, Saclay |
| 1145 | Architecture Poster Session |
| 1215 | LUNCH |
| 1300 |
Design Tools Session - Chair, Maryse Wouters 1300 - Multicore tool challenges and solutions for cognitive radio and advanced multimedia applications - Maryse Wouters, IMEC 1325 - Minimizing the cost and risk when migrating software to multicore platforms - David Stewart, CriticalBlue 1350 - Simulink-based Programming Environment for Heterogeneous MPSoC - Katalin Popovici, The MathWorks |
| 1415 | Design Tools Poster Session |
| 1500 |
Application Session - Chair, Michael Huebner, University of Karlsruhe 1500 - High performance computing and multi/manycore architectures, application: Numerical Simulation - Jan-Philipp Weiss, HP/University of Karlsruhe 1525 - High Energy Physics on multiprocessor systems - Udo Kebschull, University of Heidelberg 1550 - Image Processing exploiting new dimensions in reconfigurable multiprocessor systems - Diana Gohringer and Thomas Perschke, University of Karlsruhe |
| 1615 | Application Poster Session |
| 1630 |
Wrap-up Discussion - Chair, Pieter J Mosterman, The MathWorks 1630 - Retrospective and Outlook - Cristina Silvano, Maryse Wouters, Michael Huebner 1645 - Open Discussion - all participants and attendees |
| 1700 | CLOSE |
