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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