Presentations—Gelato ICE | San Jose | April 2006
Over 200 scientists, developers, and engineers from 80 companies and institutions met in San Jose, California, for the April 2006 Gelato ICE: Itanium® Conference & Expo. Attendees addressed current high-performance computing issues and collaborative solutions specific to Linux on the Intel Itanium architecture. Over a 3-day period, attendees were treated to 65+ technical presentations by some of the top research and industry users of Linux on the Itanium-based platform.
Aside from the presentations and discussions, attendees participated in a variety of social events. In addition to the technical presentations listed below, view some of the photographs from the meeting.
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Monday, April 24
- Welcome, Mark K. Smith, GCOP
- Keynote—Itanium: Its Rationale and Potential from an HP Labs Perspective, William S. Worley, Secure64 & Itanium Solutons Alliance
- Oracle: An Enterprise Itanium Use Case Study, Brian Hirano, Oracle
- Mathematical Modeling to Formally Prove Correctness, John R. Harrison, Intel
- Preparing for the First Beam at the LHC, Lawrence Pinsky, U. of Houston
- Computing Optimal Equilibrium Strategies for Network Economies, Alejandro Jofré, University of Chile
- Basic Itanium Architecture, Cameron McNairy, Intel
- Columbia Application Tuning Case Studies, Johnny Chang, NASA
- Kernel Optimization for Enterprise Workloads, Kenneth Chen, Intel
- Mathematical Libraries and the Implementation of Parallel Solvers for Engineering, Hugo Daniel Scolnik, University of Buenos Aires
- HP Caliper: An Update to the Linux IPF Performance Tool, Curt Wohlgemuth & Steve Williams, HP
- The ISP RAS Effort to Improve GCC for Itanium, Arutyun I. Avetisyan, ISP RAS
- Suggested Improvements in Itanium and Softwar, Clemens C. J. Roothaan, Gelato Honorary Member
- An Evaluation of High Performance Octave on Itanium, Ashok Krishnamurthy, OSC
- VTune Update, Paul M. Cohen, Intel
- GCC IP Issues, Dan Berlin, Google
- Open64: An Alternative Backend for GCC, Shin-Ming Liu, HP
- Evolution of PCI IO: A Linux IO Geek's Perspective on HW, Grant Grundler, HP
- Superpages / VM Work, Ian Wienand, University of New South Wales
- An Update on Xen on Itanium, Alex Williamson, HP
- An Update on the Current State of Open|SpeedShop, Jack Carter, SGI
- Aliasing in GCC, Dan Berlin, Google
- Superblock Update, Robert Kidd, UIUC
- An Interblock VLIW-Targeted Instruction Scheduler for GCC, Andrey Belevantsev, ISP RAS
- Parallel Programming with GCC, Diego Novillo, Red Hat
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Tuesday, April 25
- Keynote—Trends in Computer System Design, Jerry Huck, HP
- Enterprise Graphics on IPF, Hansong Zhang, SGI
- Valgrind, Julian Seward, OpenWorks
- LTO: A Brief Introduction, Mark Mitchell, CodeSourcery
- Local and Remote Memory: Memory in a NUMA System, Christoph Lameter, SGI
- Experiences on the Itanium-Based Grid Test Bed at UPRM, Wilson Rivera, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez
- LLVM: A Brief Introduction, Chris Lattner, Apple
- In Search of Collaboration, Ping-Hui Kao, HP
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Wednesday, April 26
- Keynote—The Road Ahead: Intel Itanium Architecture and Software, Don Soltis & James Reinders, Intel
- Highlights of the Upcoming October Gelato Conference, Jon Lau, NGO
- Basic Itanium Architecture, Cameron McNairy, Intel
- A Dynamic Instrumentation-Based System for Building Program Analysis Tools for the IPF Platform, Jasper Kamperman, Intel
- Itanium Virtualization and vNUMA, Matthew Chapman, UNSW
- Hardware Overview, Jeff Donsbach, HP
- Blktrace: An Overview, Alan Brunelle, HP
- Bioinformatics in Biomining, Nicholas Loira & Andres Aravena, U. of Chile
- MCA: Machine Check Architecture, Cameron McNairy, Intel
- Itanium Firmware (EFI), Jeff Donsbach, HP
- Scaling Linux to 512 Processors and Beyond, John Hawkes, SGI
- Decimal Floating-Point, John Crawford, Intel
- An Overview of Common Interconnects for Commodity Clusters, Doug Johnson, OSC
- A Systematic Approach to Tuning Software, Sverre Jarp, CERN
- OpenMP: Past, Present, and Future, Timothy Mattson, Intel
- NFS Performance, Peter Chubb, UNSW
- Scalability Mini-Track Wrap Up, Lee Schermerhorn, HP
- Numerical Computation Tools for Itanium, Matthieu Delahaye & Shailesh Patel, GCOP
- Completing a Successful Migration, Jeff Donsbach, HP
- The Itanium Vector Math Library (VML), Clemens C. J. Roothaan, Gelato Honorary Member
- Update on the Perfmon2 Interface, Stéphane Eranian, HP
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General Interest
- Welcome, Mark K. Smith, GCOP
- Keynote—Itanium: Its Rationale and Potential from an HP Labs Perspective, William S. Worley, Secure64 & Itanium Solutons Alliance
- Basic Itanium Architecture, Cameron McNairy, Intel
- An Evaluation of High Performance Octave on Itanium, Ashok Krishnamurthy, OSC
- Keynote—Trends in Computer System Design, Jerry Huck, HP
- Keynote—The Road Ahead: Intel Itanium Architecture and Software, Don Soltis & James Reinders, Intel
- Highlights of the Upcoming October Gelato Conference, Jon Lau, NGO
- An Overview of Common Interconnects for Commodity Clusters, Doug Johnson, OSC
- Numerical Computation Tools for Itanium, Matthieu Delahaye & Shailesh Patel, GCOP
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Topics for Enterprise
- Oracle: An Enterprise Itanium Use Case Study, Brian Hirano, Oracle
- An Update on Xen on Itanium, Alex Williamson, HP
- Enterprise Graphics on IPF, Hansong Zhang, SGI
- MCA: Machine Check Architecture, Cameron McNairy, Intel
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ISA Developer Days
- Basic Itanium Architecture, Cameron McNairy, Intel
- Hardware Overview, Jeff Donsbach, HP
- Itanium Firmware (EFI), Jeff Donsbach, HP
- A Systematic Approach to Tuning Software, Sverre Jarp, CERN
- Completing a Successful Migration, Jeff Donsbach, HP
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Tools and Tuning
- Columbia Application Tuning Case Studies, Johnny Chang, NASA
- HP Caliper: An Update to the Linux IPF Performance Tool, Curt Wohlgemuth & Steve Williams, HP
- VTune Update, Paul M. Cohen, Intel
- An Update on the Current State of Open|SpeedShop, Jack Carter, SGI
- Valgrind, Julian Seward, OpenWorks
- A Dynamic Instrumentation-Based System for Building Program Analysis Tools for the IPF Platform, Jasper Kamperman, Intel
- OpenMP: Past, Present, and Future, Timothy Mattson, Intel
- Update on the Perfmon2 Interface, Stéphane Eranian, HP
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Focus on GCC
- The ISP RAS Effort to Improve GCC for Itanium, Arutyun I. Avetisyan, ISP RAS
- GCC IP Issues, Dan Berlin, Google
- Open64: An Alternative Backend for GCC, Shin-Ming Liu, HP
- Aliasing in GCC, Dan Berlin, Google
- Superblock Update, Robert Kidd, UIUC
- An Interblock VLIW-Targeted Instruction Scheduler for GCC, Andrey Belevantsev, ISP RAS
- Parallel Programming with GCC, Diego Novillo, Red Hat
- LTO: A Brief Introduction, Mark Mitchell, CodeSourcery
- LLVM: A Brief Introduction, Chris Lattner, Apple
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Focus on Scalability
- Blktrace: An Overview, Alan Brunelle, HP
- Scaling Linux to 512 Processors and Beyond, John Hawkes, SGI
- NFS Performance, Peter Chubb, UNSW
- Scalability Mini-Track Wrap Up, Lee Schermerhorn, HP
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Advanced Topics
- Mathematical Modeling to Formally Prove Correctness, John R. Harrison, Intel
- Kernel Optimization for Enterprise Workloads, Kenneth Chen, Intel
- Suggested Improvements in Itanium and Softwar, Clemens C. J. Roothaan, Gelato Honorary Member
- Evolution of PCI IO: A Linux IO Geek's Perspective on HW, Grant Grundler, HP
- Local and Remote Memory: Memory in a NUMA System, Christoph Lameter, SGI
- Decimal Floating-Point, John Crawford, Intel
- The Itanium Vector Math Library (VML), Clemens C. J. Roothaan, Gelato Honorary Member
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Research
- Preparing for the First Beam at the LHC, Lawrence Pinsky, U. of Houston
- Computing Optimal Equilibrium Strategies for Network Economies, Alejandro Jofré, University of Chile
- Mathematical Libraries and the Implementation of Parallel Solvers for Engineering, Hugo Daniel Scolnik, University of Buenos Aires
- Superpages / VM Work, Ian Wienand, University of New South Wales
- Experiences on the Itanium-Based Grid Test Bed at UPRM, Wilson Rivera, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez
- In Search of Collaboration, Ping-Hui Kao, HP
- Itanium Virtualization and vNUMA, Matthew Chapman, UNSW
- Bioinformatics in Biomining, Nicholas Loira & Andres Aravena, U. of Chile