Multicore Day 2009 presentations available

Multicore processors are replacing single core processors in servers, personal computers and embedded systems alike. To leverage multicore, all software must be parallel. How can we meet this challenge? What are the current options? What happens internationally and in Sweden?

Multicore Day 2009 features leading international and Swedish experts from industry and academia, who will present the cutting edge of multicore computing technologies. We are proud to present Richard Kaufmann (HP), Steve Teixiera (Microsoft) and Anders Landin (Sun) as keynote speakers.

Multicore Day 2009 is free of charge and organized by the Swedish Multicore Initiative.

Time: September 4 2009, at 9.15-17.00
Place: Electrum, Isafjordsgatan 22, Kista

Program

09.15 Registration and coffee
09.45 Welcome
10.00 Keynote 1: Hazim Shafi, architect of parallel performance and correctness tools in the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft: "Parallel Programming with Visual Studio 2010"
11.00 Keynote 2: Richard Kaufmann, Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett-Packard: "Promises and Challenges in Systems of Multicores"

12.00 Lunch (not organized)

BEGIN Parallel tracks
Track 1: Multicore in industry
13.15 Per Holmberg, Ericsson: "Implementing Multicore in a Distributed System"
13.45 Patrik Nyblom, Ericsson: "Utilizing Multicore for a Highly Parallell Application"
14.15 Johan Olsson, National Instruments Sweden AB: "Graphical Multicore Programming Techniques for Industrial Applications"

Track 2: Programming multicore
13.15 Bo Kågström, Umeå University: "Algorithms and Library Software Targeting Multicore Architectures and Massive Parallelism"
13.45 Christoph Kessler, Linköping University: "Programming Techniques for the Cell Processor"
14.15 Björn Lisper, Mälardalen University: "Multicore and Hard Real-Time Systems"

Track 3: Theory, techniques and tools
13.15 Bengt Jonsson, Uppsala University: "Correctness, Efficiency, and Predictability of Multicore Programs"
13.45 Per Stenström, Chalmers: "A Methodology to Parallelize Code without Parallelization Obstacles"
14.15 Martin Karlsson, Sun: "Transactional Memory -- A Solution to the Multicore Challenge?"
END Parallel tracks

14.45 Coffee Break
15.15 Keynote 3: Anders Landin, Chief System Architect at Sun Microsystems: "Multicore and Beyond"
16.15 Panel Discussion
17.00 The end

Welcome!