On Feb 16-17, 2005, the Austin Center for Advanced Studies held a successful 7th Annual Austin CAS International Conference. Approximately 120 from the IBM management and technical community, as well as university researchers, attended this two-day conference that hosted 25 professors and research students from around the world as they returned to IBM to present the results of their IBM supported research. Our Site's best and brightest enjoyed hearing innovative techniques and cutting-edge results that will directly benefit IBM's research and development efforts in hardware, software, systems technology, and business management. An inspiring Keynote by Renato J. Recio (Chief Architect and Distinguished Engineer, eServer IO) shared insights on “Areas where Research can contribute in Systems Technology.” Shannon Thrasher (Corporate University Relations) came to Austin for the two-day conference to see first-hand this return on over $1M in IBM investment through the Faculty Awards and SUR Grant Programs. DVDs of the Conference proceedings are available and papers will be posted on our website in the coming weeks: www.research.ibm.com/acas.
| 9:00am | Breakfast & Registration |
| 9:30am | SESSION 1: Intelligent Software |
Generalized Database Middleware Systems and Web Services for Wide-Area Environments
Manuel Rodríguez-Martinez
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
IBM Technical Contacts: Jim Knighton, AIX Diagnostics Development
and Norm Pass, Manager of File System and Application Technology
IBM Sponsor: Pat Butterfield, Manager, AIX Network Security, Java, LDAP, Grid Toolbox
Reinforcement Learning with Evolutionary Function Approximation for Server Job Scheduling
Shimon Whiteson and Peter Stone
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact: Patricia Rago, IBM Software Group, Tivoli, Project Manager, Autonomic Computing
IBM Sponsor: Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research, Autonomic Systems and Networks
Guarding Programs against Attacks with Dynamic Data Flow Analysis
Walter Chang and Calvin Lin
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contacts: Doc Shankar, Linux Security Lead, Linux Technology Center
and Ray Young, Manager, Linux Technology Center
IBM Sponsor: Ralph Christ, Program Manager, Linux System Technology, Linux Technology Center
| 10:30am | Break |
| 11:00am | SESSION 2: Efficient Modeling Techniques |
Automatic Testcase Synthesis and Performance Model Validation for High-Performance PowerPC Processors
Rob Bell, Jr., Rajiv R. Bhatia*, Lizy K. John*, Jeff Stuecheli*, John Griswell, Paul Tu, Louis Capps, Anton Blanchard, Ravel Thai*,
IBM Systems and Technology Division, *Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact: Alex Mericas, Processor Performance, IBM Systems Group
IBM Sponsor: Mark Papermaster, Vice President of Technology Development, IBM Systems and Technology Group
Design, Modeling, and Characterization of Embedded Capacitors for Decoupling Applications
Prathap Muthana, Ege Engin, P.M. Raj, Madhavan Swaminthan, Rao Tummala, Venkatesh Sundaram,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Institute of Technology
IBM Technical Contact: Moises Cases, Distinguished Engineer, eServer xSeries Development
IBM Sponsor: Kelvin Hawkins, Director, xSeries and IntelliStation Hardware Development
Massively Parallel Conformal FDTD on a BlueGene Supercomputer
Raj Mittra, Wenhua Yu, Reza Hashemi, D. N. de Araujo*, M. Cases*, N. Pham, E. Matoglu*,
P. Patel*, B. Herrman*, Electromagnetic Communication Laboratory,
Pennsylvania State University, *IBM Systems and Technology Group
IBM Technical Contact: Moises Cases, Distinguished Engineer, eServer xSeries Development
IBM Sponsor: Kelvin Hawkins, Director, xSeries and IntelliStation Hardware Development
| 12:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm | SESSION 3: Performance and Evaluation |
Power and Performance Optimization: A Case Study with the Pentium M Processor
Heather Hanson* and Stephen W. Keckler, Computer Architecture and Technology Laboratory,
*Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact: Ron Kalla, IBM Systems and Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: Mark Papermaster, Vice President of Technology Development, IBM Systems and Technology Group
Capturing Locality of Reference and Branch Predictability of Programs in Synthetic Workloads
Ajay Joshi, Rob Bell Jr.*, and Lizy K. John, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin, *IBM Systems and Technology Group
IBM Technical Contact: Alex Mericas, Processor Performance, IBM Systems Group
IBM Sponsor: Mark Papermaster, Vice President of Technology Development, IBM Systems and Technology Group
Profiling Memory Subsystem Performance in an Advanced POWER Virtualization Environment
Diana Villa, Mitesh Meswani, and Patricia J. Teller
Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso
IBM Technical Contact: Carole Gottlieb and Bret Olszewski, UNIX Performance
IBM Sponsor: George Wang, Vice President of Systems Performance
| 2:00pm | Break |
| 2:30pm | SESSION 4: Innovative Computer Designs |
The Transient Cache: Modern Programs and Modern Cache Design
S. M. Blackburn, K. S. McKinley
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact: Frank O'Connell, Technical Computing Performance, IBM Systems and Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: Mark Papermaster, Vice President, Technology Development, IBM Systems and Technology Group
Compiler-Directed Functional Unit Shutdown for Microarchitecture Power Optimization
Santosh Talli, Ram Srinivasan, and Jeanine Cook
The Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University
IBM Technical Contact: Lee Eisen, STSM, eClipz Development
IBM Sponsor: Ralf Fischer, Director, eClipz Development
A Lower Power Microsystem with Applications for On-Die Monitoring and Adaptive Control
Robert M. Senger, *Eric D. Marsman, and **Richard B. Brown, *Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, **University of Utah, and IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Technical Contact: Kevin Nowka, Manager, VLSI Systems, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Day 2: Friday, Feb 17 – Innovations and Circuits, Cyberinfrastructures, and Risk Management
| 9:00am | Breakfast & Registration |
| 9:30am | SESSION 5: Innovations in CAD I |
Timing-aware Power Noise Reduction in Placement
Chao-Yang Yeh and Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
IBM Technical Contact: Frank Liu and Sani Nassif, Tools and Technology, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
A New Methodology for Parasitic Extraction Considering Photolithography Effects
Y. Zhou, Z. Li, Y. Tian, W. Shi and F. Liu*,
Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, *IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Technical Contact: Frank Liu, Research Staff Member, Tools and Technology, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Fast Algorithms for Slew Constrained Minimum Cost Buffering
Shiyan Hu, Chuck Alpert*, Jiang Hu, Shrirang Karandikar*, Zhuo Li, Weiping Shi, Cliff N. Sze*,
Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, *IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Technical Contact: Chuck Alpert, Tools & Technology, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
| 10:30am | Break |
| 11:00am | SESSION 6: Innovations in CAD II |
A New LP Based Incremental Timing Driven Placement for High Performance Designs
Tao Luo, David Newmark*, and David Z. Pan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin, *Advanced Micro Devices
IBM Technical Contacts: Ruchir Puri, T.J. Watson Research Center, and
Charles Alpert, Tools and Technology, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Exploiting Regularity for Inductive Fault Analysis
Jason G. Brown and R.D. (Shawn) Blanton, Center for Silicon System Implementation,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
IBM Technical Contact: Anne Gattiker, Tools and Technology, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
On-the-Fly Estimation of IC Macromodels for the Assessment of High-Speed Digital System Performance
F.G. Canavero, S. Grivet-Talocia, I.A. Maio, I.S. Stievano,
Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Torino, Italy
IBM Technical Contact: George Katopis, Distinguished Engineer, ESG Packaging Chief Engineer, Systems Technology Development
IBM Sponsors: George Katopis, Systems Technology Development,
and Mark Papermaster, Vice President, IBM Systems and Technology Group
| 12:00pm | Lunch & Keynote
“Areas where Research can contribute in Systems Technology”
Renato J. Recio, Chief Architect and Distinguished Engineer, eServer IO
Bldg 908 Cafeteria |
| 1:30pm | SESSION 7: Infrastructure and Management |
The UT Grid Project: Building a Comprehensive Campus Cyberinfrastructure for Research and, Education
John R. Boisseau, Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact: Albert Bunshaft, Vice President, Grid Computing Sales and
Business Development, IBM Systems Group
IBM Sponsor: Mike Dawkins, GM, IGS Global Operations and Albert Bunshaft, Vice President,
Grid Computing Sales and Business Development, IBM Systems Group
Grid and Cyberinfrastructure Activities at UPRM
Jaime Seguel, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
IBM Technical Contact: Pete Martinez, Vice President, Business Consulting Services
and Senior Location Executive IBM South Florida
IBM Sponsor: Nick Bowen, Vice President, Software Development, IBM Systems and Technology Group
Risk Management Model for New Product Development
Jim Dyer and Saurah Bansal, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact: Bill Ciarfella, Squadrons Program Management, HW Program Management
IBM Sponsor: Erich Baier, Vice President, HW Program Management
| 2:30pm | Late Breaking Research |
High Speed Optical Interconnects for High-Throughput, Low Latency Server Systems
Yin-Jung Chang, Daniel Guidotti, Gee-Kung Chang
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
IBM Technical Contact: Moises Cases, IBM Systems & Technology Group, Development,
Distinguished Engineer, System Electrical Packaging
IBM Sponsor: Kelvin Hawkins, Director, xSeries and IntelliStation Hardware Development
Diameter-constrained Clustering: Algorithms and Experiments for a Layout Coverage Problem
Shi Zhong and David DeMaris*
Florida Atlantic University, *IBM Systems and Technology Group
IBM Technical Contact: David DeMaris, IBM Systems and Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: John Acocella, Vice President, OEM ASICS and Processor,
IBM Systems and Technology Group
Autonomic Power Management for BladeCenters Hosting Client Workloads
Anand Sivasubramaniam
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
IBM Technical Contact: Patrick M. Bland (Maurice), Distinguished Engineer,
xSeries Server H/W Development, IBM Systems &Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: Kelvin Hawkins, Vice President, eServer xSeries & IntelliStation Development
IBM Systems & Technology Group,
FastPlace 2.0: An Efficient Analytical Placement Algorithm for Mixed-Mode Designs
Natarajan Viswanathan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Iowa State University
IBM Technical Contact: Chuck Alpert, Tools and Technology, IBM Austin Research Laboratory,
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Closing Comments
