Workshop on Multicore Technologies
International
Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad.
July 23 -- 25, 2009
The workshop will be held during July 23--25, 2009 at IIIT-H.
Information on how to reach IIIT-H is available here.
The objectives of the workshop are:
- To promote an understanding of multicore technologies
- To facilitate projects on Cell BE with joint guidance from
IIIT-H
- To promote high performance computing as an elective in
the undergraduate program.
The workshop is being organized by the IBM Hybrid Multicore
Center of Excellence at IIIT-H. More information about the
center can be found here.
There is NO registration fee for attending the workshop. In
addition, boarding and lodging shall be provided at the expense
of IIIT-H for select participants. To avail of this
opportunity, please ask your institute to write to us at
kkishore@iiit.ac.in.
The (tentative) schedule of the workshop is as follows.
| Day 1 |
| Forenoon |
- Basics of multicore architectures and the Cell
Prof. R. Govindarajulu, IIIT-H - Cell
programming environment (double buffering, vector
operations, DMA transfers)
TBD |
| Afternoon |
Familirization, Running available examples, performance
measurement, etc. |
|
| Day 2 |
| Forenoon |
- Performance Aspects of Cell BE
Programming
TBD - Case Study 1
Dr. Kishore
Kothapalli |
| Afternoon |
Programming assignment 1 - parallel prefix,
matrix operations, etc.
|
|
| Day 3 |
| Forenoon |
- Applications of Cell BE
Environment
TBD - Parallel Algorithms and
Programming: A Primer
Dr. Kishore
Kothapalli |
| Afternoon |
Programming assignment 2
|
|
Contact:
Dr. Kishore Kothapalli
Assistant Professor
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
Email: kkishore@iiit.ac.in, Tel: 91-40-6653 1151.