SoCal Spring 2004

Southern California Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Architecture

The SoCal Spring 2004 workshop is on Saturday May 15 at UCLA. Previous SoCal meetings: Fall 2002, and many more.

Time and Place: 10-6 in MS 4000A (MS = Math Sciences).

Organizer: Jens Palsberg (UCLA).

If you want to participate, send email to Jens Palsberg (palsberg@ucla.edu). Participation is free. Lunch and refreshments will be provided, free of charge. Some of us will have a joint dinner in Westwood after the workshop.

Program

10:00-12:30: Session 1, chair: Jens Palsberg (UCLA)

Todd Millstein (UCLA), Practical predicate dispatch

Michael Franz (UC Irvine), Providing security by compiler

Jason Hickey (Cal Tech), Frameworks for reliable compilers

Rupak Majumdar (UCLA), Race checking by context inference

Chris Coakley and Pete Cappello (UC Santa Barbara), Jicos: A Java-centric network computing service

Ryan Kastner (UC Santa Barbara), Using Ants to solve system design problems

12:30-2:00: Lunch at the Kerckhoff Hall Plaza (outside, across from MS 4000A)

2:00-3:40: Session 2, chair: Michael Franz (UC Irvine)

Chandra Krintz (UC Santa Barbara), Phase-aware profiling

Beth Simon and Allan Snavely (San Diego Supercomputer Center), A performance prediction framework for scientific applications

Roxana Diaconescu (UC Irvine), A compiler and runtime framework for adaptive code distribution

Rich Vuduc (UC Berkeley), Automatic performance tuning and performance modeling of sparse matrix kernels

3:40-4:10: Break

4:10-5:25: Session 3, chair: Jason Hickey (Cal Tech)

Rich Wolski (UC Santa Barbara), Modeling and predicting machine availability in volatile computing environments

Vasanth Venkatachalam (UC Irvine), The Proxy virtual machine: code generation in the network

Philip Brisk (UCLA), Framework and design methodology of a compiler that compresses code using echo instructions

5:30-6:00: Five-minute madness, chair: Rupak Majumdar (UCLA)

Six people will have five minutes each. We will use an overhead projector to enable quick speaker changes. Three transparencies per person.

Directions and parking

Maps. Another map with an arrow that indicates MS 4000A. Follow the long arrow from the top right corner to find MS 4000A.
MapQuest: Charles E Young Dr S & Westwood Plz, Los Angeles, CA 90095; that spot is the parking kiosk on Westwood Blvd, next to Parking Lot 9.
At the parking kiosk, tell the attendant that you are going to attend the event "SoCal" and that you have heard that parking spots have been reserved in Parking Lot 9. Pay $8 and park.
Relative to Parking Lot 9, the meeting room MS 4000A is on the opposite side of Boelter Hall and Math Science, by the little courtyard between Math Science and Kerckhoff Hall. To get there from Parking Lot 9, one can either walk around the buildings or walk through Boelter Hall and Math Science. One enters MS 4000A from the courtyard.