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Presentations—Gelato ICE | San Jose | April 2007

Over 145 scientists, developers, and engineers from 56 companies and institutions met in San Jose, California, for the April 2007 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 72 technical presentations by some of the top research and industry users of the platform.

Aside from the presentations and discussions, attendees participated in a variety of social events.

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  Monday, April 16, 2007

  Presentation	Speaker
  Opening Session	Mark K. Smith, Gelato Central Operations
  Enterprise Linux Workloads on Itanium-Based Servers	Jean Bozman, IDC
  Gelato Federation Lifetime Achievement Award to Clemens Roothaan	Bill S. Worley, Secure64
  Introduction to Virtualization on Itanium Architecture	Peter Chubb, University of New South Wales César De Rose, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
  Introduction to GCC Improvements	Shin-Ming Liu, HP
  ISP-RAS Projects on Improving GCC for Intel Itanium Architecture	Arutyun I. Avetisyan, Institute for System Programming, Russian Academy of Science Andrey Belevantsev, Institute for System Programming, Russian Academy of Science
  LRZ's Recent Altix 4700 Installation	Iris Christadler, Leibniz Computing Centre
  Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM) for IPF	Fenghua Yu, Intel
  S7 Case Study: Porting Fidelity's GT.M, A High-Performance DBMS, to Itanium	Pankaj Kulkarni, S7 Solutions
  Virtualizing the Performance Monitoring Unit	Stéphane Eranian, HP
  CERN Snippets Dissected	Jose Dana, European Organization for Nuclear Research
  64-Bit Migration to Linux on Itanium Architecture	Jonathan Ward, HP
  uProfiler: A Concurrent Profiler for a Concurrent C++	Peter Buhr, University of Waterloo Justyna Gidzinski, University of Waterloo
  Update on the Gelato GCC Build Farm	Matthieu Delahaye, Gelato Central Operations
  Xen/ia64 Progress and Status	Joseph Szczypek, HP
  Optimizing Software with Intel Compilers	Eric W. Moore, Intel
  Update on Prefetching Work	Zdenek Dvorak, SUSE
  Xen and the Art of Portability: Porting Xen to the SGI Altix	Jes Sorensen, SGI
  Determining Chebyshev and Remez Expansions of Transcendental Functions	Clemens C. J. Roothaan, Gelato Honorary Member
  Locating Optimization Opportunities with VTune	Gary Carleton, Intel
  LinuxOnLinux: A UML Work-Alike for IA-64	Peter Chubb, University of New South Wales
  Update on Alias Analysis Work	Diego Alejandro Novillo, Redhat/GCC
  Reading and Interpreting Stall Counters	Sujoy Saraswati, HP Murali Vijayasundaram, HP
  The Significance of Multi-Core: The Intel Perspective	Xinmin Tian, Intel
  Multi-Core Programming & Research: The Future of Itanium Architecture	Wen-mei W. Hwu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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  Tuesday, April 17, 2007

  Presentation	Speaker
  Itanium Processor Vision and Roadmap	James D. Fister, Intel
  Update on Superblock Work	Robert Kidd, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  An Overview of OpenVZ Virtualization Technology	Kir Kolyshkin, OpenVZ
  HPCPI/Xtools Performance Analysis Toolset	David C. P. LaFrance-Linden, HP
  ISP-RAS Activities in Open-Source Software	Arutyun I. Avetisyan, Institute for System Programming, Russian Academy of Science
  GCC and Osprey Update	Shin-Ming Liu, HP
  HP Integrity Virtual Machines Technology Overview	Todd Kjos, HP
  Extending OpenMP Applications to Clusters Using Intel Cluster OpenMP	Lawrence F. Meadows, Intel
  Service-Oriented Programming: Going Beyond SOA & Bringing Moore's Law to Software Development	Sandy Zylka, NextAxiom
  CPU2006 on IPF	Gerolf F. Hoflehner, Intel
  Compiling Debian Using GCC 4.2 and Osprey	Martin Michlmayr, Debian
  BladeSymphony with Virtage	Paul Figliozzi, Hitachi
  Deploying Linux/IA-64 in the Telecom Market	Khalid Aziz, HP
  Interprocedural Optimization Framework	Jan Hubicka, SUSE
  Detecting and Solving Linux Application Memory Problems	Tom Archambault, Etnus
  Basic Intel Itanium Architecture	Cameron McNairy, Intel Eric W. Moore, Intel
  Discussion: Synchronization and Memory Ordering on Intel Itanium Architecture	Cameron McNairy, Intel
  Update on LTO	Kenneth Zadeck, NaturalBridge, Inc.
  Machine Check Architecture	Russ Anderson, SGI
  Work in Progress: NFS Research at UNSW	Peter Chubb, University of New South Wales
  Caliper: HP's Performance Tool	Murali Vijayasundaram, HP Stephen Williams, HP
  On-The-Fly TLB Generation to Realize Variable Page Size Support	Christoph Lameter, SGI
  Numerical Experiences with High-Speed Linear Solvers on Itanium 2-Based Computers	Hugo Daniel Scolnik, University of Buenos Aires
  Optimized Itanium Binaries Using GCC and Related Tools	Diego Alejandro Novillo, Redhat/GCC
  Hyper-Threading on the Dual-Core Itanium 2 Processor	Rohit Bhatia, Intel
  Linux Kernel Development for Itanium Architecture	Andrew Morton, Linux 2.6 Kernel Maintainer

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  Wednesday, April 18, 2007

  Presentation	Speaker
  Itanium, A Popular Platform for Large Systems	Wim Coekaerts, Oracle
  Looking Ahead to Gelato ICE Singapore 2007	Jon Lau, National Grid Office
  Parallel Programming Concepts	Gary Carleton, Intel
  Future Challenges to Linux Scalability	Andrew Morton, Linux 2.6 Kernel Maintainer
  Solaris/SPARC Applications Running on Linux/Itanium-Based Systems	Ian Robinson, Transitive
  Understanding Linux NUMA Memory Allocation Policies	Lee Schermerhorn, HP
  Development of a Compiler for Modulo Scheduled Itanium Codes	John H. Detrich, Independent Contractor
  OpenMP	Eric W. Moore, Intel
  Genuinely Secure Systems	Bill S. Worley, Secure64
  Hardware Profile-Guided Automatic Page Placement for ccNUMA Systems	Jaydeep Marathe, North Carolina State University
  Kexec/Kdump on IPF	Nanhai Zou, Intel
  Intel Thread Checker	Gary Carleton, Intel Matthieu Delahaye, Gelato Central Operations
  Process Scheduling on 1024 Processors	Christoph Lameter, SGI
  The Itanium PAL (Processor Abstraction Layer)	Tony Luck, Intel
  OpenUH: Exploring Language Constructs and Their Implementations	Barbara Chapman, University of Houston
  Intel Thread Profiler	Gary Carleton, Intel Matthieu Delahaye, Gelato Central Operations
  Parallel Programming Tools for Multi-Core, SMPs, and Computational Clusters	Alexander Moskovsky, Program Systems Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
  Distribution Panel: Redhat, Debian & openSUSE	Prarit Bhargava, Redhat Nathan Conger, Novell Dann Frazier, HP
  Intel's Commitment to Linux	Sunil Saxena, Intel
  Update on Open|SpeedShop: An Open-Source Performance Toolset for Linux Clusters	Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  Itanium 2 and Montecito Microarchitecture	Cameron McNairy, Intel
  Setting Up a Quiet Itanium-Based Home Office for Fun and Profit	David Mosberger, Gelato Honorary Member

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  Keynote

  Presentation	Speaker
  Enterprise Linux Workloads on Itanium-Based Servers	Jean Bozman, IDC
  Linux Kernel Development for Itanium Architecture	Andrew Morton, Linux 2.6 Kernel Maintainer
  Itanium, A Popular Platform for Large Systems	Wim Coekaerts, Oracle

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  Spotlight

  Presentation	Speaker
  The Significance of Multi-Core: The Intel Perspective	Xinmin Tian, Intel
  Multi-Core Programming & Research: The Future of Itanium Architecture	Wen-mei W. Hwu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Itanium Processor Vision and Roadmap	James D. Fister, Intel
  Setting Up a Quiet Itanium-Based Home Office for Fun and Profit	David Mosberger, Gelato Honorary Member

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  General Interest

  Presentation	Speaker
  Opening Session	Mark K. Smith, Gelato Central Operations
  Gelato Federation Lifetime Achievement Award to Clemens Roothaan	Bill S. Worley, Secure64
  LRZ's Recent Altix 4700 Installation	Iris Christadler, Leibniz Computing Centre
  S7 Case Study: Porting Fidelity's GT.M, A High-Performance DBMS, to Itanium	Pankaj Kulkarni, S7 Solutions
  ISP-RAS Activities in Open-Source Software	Arutyun I. Avetisyan, Institute for System Programming, Russian Academy of Science
  CPU2006 on IPF	Gerolf F. Hoflehner, Intel
  Looking Ahead to Gelato ICE Singapore 2007	Jon Lau, National Grid Office

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  Topics for Enterprise

  Presentation	Speaker
  Service-Oriented Programming: Going Beyond SOA & Bringing Moore's Law to Software Development	Sandy Zylka, NextAxiom
  Solaris/SPARC Applications Running on Linux/Itanium-Based Systems	Ian Robinson, Transitive
  Genuinely Secure Systems	Bill S. Worley, Secure64
  The Itanium PAL (Processor Abstraction Layer)	Tony Luck, Intel
  Intel's Commitment to Linux	Sunil Saxena, Intel

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  ISA Software Developer

  Presentation	Speaker
  64-Bit Migration to Linux on Itanium Architecture	Jonathan Ward, HP
  Optimizing Software with Intel Compilers	Eric W. Moore, Intel
  Locating Optimization Opportunities with VTune	Gary Carleton, Intel
  Reading and Interpreting Stall Counters	Murali Vijayasundaram, HP
  Basic Intel Itanium Architecture	Cameron McNairy, Intel Eric W. Moore, Intel

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  Tools & Tuning

  Presentation	Speaker
  HPCPI/Xtools Performance Analysis Toolset	David C. P. LaFrance-Linden, HP
  Extending OpenMP Applications to Clusters Using Intel Cluster OpenMP	Lawrence F. Meadows, Intel
  Detecting and Solving Linux Application Memory Problems	Tom Archambault, Etnus
  Caliper: HP's Performance Tool	Murali Vijayasundaram, HP Stephen Williams, HP
  Optimized Itanium Binaries Using GCC and Related Tools	Diego Alejandro Novillo, Redhat/GCC
  Parallel Programming Tools for Multi-Core, SMPs, and Computational Clusters	Alexander Moskovsky, Program Systems Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
  Update on Open|SpeedShop: An Open-Source Performance Toolset for Linux Clusters	Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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  Multi-Core Programming

  Presentation	Speaker
  Hyper-Threading on the Dual-Core Itanium 2 Processor	Rohit Bhatia, Intel
  Parallel Programming Concepts	Gary Carleton, Intel
  OpenMP	Eric W. Moore, Intel
  Intel Thread Checker	Gary Carleton, Intel Matthieu Delahaye, Gelato Central Operations
  Intel Thread Profiler	Gary Carleton, Intel Matthieu Delahaye, Gelato Central Operations

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  GCC Improvements

  Presentation	Speaker
  Introduction to GCC Improvements	Shin-Ming Liu, HP
  ISP-RAS Projects on Improving GCC for Intel Itanium Architecture	Arutyun I. Avetisyan, Institute for System Programming, Russian Academy of Science Andrey Belevantsev, Institute for System Programming, Russian Academy of Science
  CERN Snippets Dissected	Jose Dana, European Organization for Nuclear Research
  Update on the Gelato GCC Build Farm	Matthieu Delahaye, Gelato Central Operations
  Update on Prefetching Work	Zdenek Dvorak, SUSE
  Update on Alias Analysis Work	Diego Alejandro Novillo, Redhat/GCC
  Update on Superblock Work	Robert Kidd, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  GCC and Osprey Update	Shin-Ming Liu, HP
  Compiling Debian Using GCC 4.2 and Osprey	Martin Michlmayr, Debian
  Interprocedural Optimization Framework	Jan Hubicka, SUSE
  Update on LTO	Kenneth Zadeck, NaturalBridge, Inc.

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  Virtualization

  Presentation	Speaker
  Introduction to Virtualization on Itanium Architecture	Peter Chubb, University of New South Wales César De Rose, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
  Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM) for IPF	Fenghua Yu, Intel
  Virtualizing the Performance Monitoring Unit	Stéphane Eranian, HP
  Xen/ia64 Progress and Status	Joseph Szczypek, HP
  Xen and the Art of Portability: Porting Xen to the SGI Altix	Jes Sorensen, SGI
  LinuxOnLinux: A UML Work-Alike for IA-64	Peter Chubb, University of New South Wales
  An Overview of OpenVZ Virtualization Technology	Kir Kolyshkin, OpenVZ
  HP Integrity Virtual Machines Technology Overview	Todd Kjos, HP
  BladeSymphony with Virtage	Paul Figliozzi, Hitachi

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  IA-64 Linux Kernel

  Presentation	Speaker
  Deploying Linux/IA-64 in the Telecom Market	Khalid Aziz, HP
  Machine Check Architecture	Russ Anderson, SGI
  On-The-Fly TLB Generation to Realize Variable Page Size Support	Christoph Lameter, SGI
  Future Challenges to Linux Scalability	Andrew Morton, Linux 2.6 Kernel Maintainer
  Understanding Linux NUMA Memory Allocation Policies	Lee Schermerhorn, HP
  Hardware Profile-Guided Automatic Page Placement for ccNUMA Systems	Jaydeep Marathe, North Carolina State University
  Kexec/Kdump on IPF	Nanhai Zou, Intel
  Process Scheduling on 1024 Processors	Christoph Lameter, SGI
  Distribution Panel: Redhat, Debian & openSUSE	Prarit Bhargava, Redhat Nathan Conger, Novell Dann Frazier, HP

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  Research/Advanced Topics

  Presentation	Speaker
  uProfiler: A Concurrent Profiler for a Concurrent C++	Peter Buhr, University of Waterloo Justyna Gidzinski, University of Waterloo
  Determining Chebyshev and Remez Expansions of Transcendental Functions	Clemens C. J. Roothaan, Gelato Honorary Member
  Discussion: Synchronization and Memory Ordering on Intel Itanium Architecture	Cameron McNairy, Intel
  Work in Progress: NFS Research at UNSW	Peter Chubb, University of New South Wales
  Numerical Experiences with High-Speed Linear Solvers on Itanium 2-Based Computers	Hugo Daniel Scolnik, University of Buenos Aires
  Development of a Compiler for Modulo Scheduled Itanium Codes	John H. Detrich, Independent Contractor
  OpenUH: Exploring Language Constructs and Their Implementations	Barbara Chapman, University of Houston
  Itanium 2 and Montecito Microarchitecture	Cameron McNairy, Intel