Final Program for the SCIzzL-6 Workshop, Tuesday September 24, 1996
Location: Santa Clara University.
Updated: 960923 at 0100 PDT

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9:00 Opening remarks: "The State of SCI"
 D.B. Gustavson (SCIzzL)

0915 JAST SCI demonstration report
 Steven A. Murphy (Lockheed Martin) 

0930 A PCI-SCI Bridge for Building a PC Cluster with Distributed Shared Memory
 Georg Acher, Hermann Hellwagner, Wolfgang Karl, Markus Leberecht
 (Tech. Univ. of Munich) 1

1000 SCI and the Scalable Cluster Architecture Latency-hiding Environment (SCALE) Project
 Alan George, William Phipps, Robert Todd, et.al.
 (Florida State Univ. and Florida A&M Univ.) 9

1030 Break
1045 NUMA-Q: An SCI-based Enterprise Server
 T. D. Lovett, R. M. Clapp and R. J. Safranek
 (Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.) 25

1115 Combinable locks: NullSwap efficiently delays cache-line transfers
 David V. James (Apple Computer) 31

1145 Implementing Active Messages and Split-C for SCI Clusters and Some Architectural Implications
 Maximilian Ibel, Klaus E. Schauser, Chris Scheiman, Manfred Weis 
 (University of California at Santa Barbara) 39

1215 Lunch
1330 An Evaluation of Dynamic Scheduling Algorithms of Real-Time Signal Processing on SCI-based Multiprocessor Systems
 Hiroyuki MIYATA, Masato TAKAHASHI, Information Technology R&D Center; 
 Hiroyuki TAKANO, Kazuhiro AOYAMA, Kamakura Works 
 (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation) 49

1400 SCI++ proposal: adaptive bandwidth sharing
 Tomasz Kaczynski (Cray Research, Inc.) 59

1430 Applying Commercial Real-Time Data Networks to Future Military Avionics
 C. E. Hudgins, J. E. Schroeder, C. A. Jensen 
 (Harris Corporation, Government Aerospace Systems Division) 69

1500 Break
1515 The Memory System of a PowerPC-based SCI Multiprocessor
 Paul J. Bond, Ph.D. and Martin H. Davis, Jr., Ph.D. (SYSTRAN Corp.) 79

1545 The Split Temporal/Spatial Cache: A Complexity Analysis
 V. Milutinovic (U. of Belgrade), B. Markovic (U. of Montenegro), 
 M. Tomasevic (U. of Belgrade), M. Tremblay (Sun Microsystems) 89

1615 RASCAL: A Library-Based Environment for Rapid Architectural Synthesis of Advanced Computing Architectures
 Lan-Rong Dung and Vijay K. Madisetti (Georgia Institute of Technology) 97

ç Low Latency, High Bandwidth, and Low Cost for Local-Area MultiProcessors: David B. Gustavson and Qiang Li (SCIzzL and Santa Clara University) 105



The rest of the week:

*** Scheduled agenda for September 23-27, 1996, at Santa Clara Univ.:

      Mon 23 Sep   Tues 24 Sep  Weds 25 Sep Thurs 26 Sep  Fri 27 Sep
0830  SCI
0900   intro        SCIzzL-6      P1394.2     P1996        P1596.7
0930  Tutorial       Workshop     Serial      HiRel       SyncLink
1000     "              "         Express    PCI/SerXprs   SLDRAM
1030---Break---------Break---------Break-------Break--------Break
1045  SCI           SCIzzL-6      P1394.2     P1996        P1596.7
1115   intro         Workshop     Serial      HiRel       SyncLink
1145  Tutorial          "         Express    PCI/SerXprs   SLDRAM
1215---Lunch---------Lunch---------Lunch-------Lunch--------Lunch
1330  SCI           SCIzzL-6      P1394.2     P1596.9      P1596.7
1400   C-code        Workshop     Serial     PhysLevel    SyncLink
1430    Tutorial        "         Express       API        SLDRAM
1500---Break---------Break---------Break-------Break--------Break
1515  SCI           SCIzzL-6      P1394.2     P1596.8      P1285
1545   C-code        Workshop     Serial    SCI cables     Scalable
1615    Tutorial        "          Express  conns,fibers,  Storage
1645   (Loebel)         "         P1596.6    parallel     Interface
1715     "              "          SCI/RT    encoding       &DMA

Next meetings: November 18-21, 1996.


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