On Friday, February 22, 2008, the IBM Austin Center for Advanced Studies (Austin CAS) held a successful 9th Annual Austin CAS Conference. Sani Nassif, Manager, Tools & Technology for the IBM Austin Research Laboratory, conducted the kickoff with approximately 50 attendees from STG business units, as well as an exceeding level of University participation, including a first time attendance and collaboration by Texas State University. Professor Lizy John from the University of Texas at Austin delivered an inspiring Keynote on "Performance and Power Modeling: The Return of Synthetic Benchmarks". Divisions around the IBM Austin campus enjoyed hearing innovative presentations on key research technologies by professors and graduate students.
Our research environment is dedicated to promoting and cultivating relationships between IBM and major universities across the US. As a result, the collaborative efforts of our internal business units and the academic world continues to embody the very principles of our research environment...moving new ideas, new approaches to the highest levels. The strength of this event is derived from the innovativeness of the research being conducted....all with a demonstrated level of aggressiveness, thoughtfulness and the students seem to have boundless energy and passion for what they are working on.
We list below the Final Program that was presented during this non-IBM-Confidential conference. For more information, please contact Heather Wagner, or Christa Mace.
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Final Program
Friday, February 22, 2008
| 10:00am | Breakfast & Registration |
| 10:20am | Welcome and Opening Remarks Kevin Nowka, Senior Manager, VLSI Systems, IBM Austin Research Laboratory |
| 10:30am | Session 1: Technology and Circuit Variability Issues Session Chair: Sani Nassif |
On-chip Negative Bias Temperature Instability Sensor using Slew Rate
Monitoring Circuitry
Amlan Ghosh, Ching-Te Chuang, and Richard B. Brown, University of Utah
IBM Technical Contact: Rahul Rao, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
IBM Sponsor: Mike Rosenfield, Director, VLSI Systems. Area Strategist, Microprocessors and Tools
Paper | Presentation
Statistical Modeling and Simulation of Threshold Variation under Dopant Fluctuations and Line-Edge Roughness
Yun Ye and Yu (Kevin) Cao, Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University
IBM Technical Contacts: Frank Liu and Sani Nassif, Tools & Technology,
IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Sid Chatterjee, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Paper | Presentation
| 11:10am | Break |
| 11:20am | Session 2: Microarchitecture Evaluations and Characterization Session Chair: Mike Kistler |
Experiences Building a Coherent, Shared Memory Machine: RAMP-White
Hari Angepat and Derek Chiou, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact: Volker Strumpen, Verification & Analysis, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Sid Chatterjee, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Paper | Presentation
Microarchitectural Characterization of Production JVMs and JavaWorkloads
Jungwoo Ha#, Magnus Gustafsson*, Steve Blackburn**, and Kathryn S McKinley#,
#Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, *Uppsala Universitet,
**Australian National University
IBM Technical Contact: Frank O'Connell, Technical Computing Performance,
IBM Systems & Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: Kelvin Hawkins, Vice President, POWER Systems Development, IBM
Systems & Technology Group
Paper | Presentation
Performance and Power Modeling: The Return of Synthetic Benchmarks
Lizy John, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
Presentation
Session Chair: Juan Rubio
Power Aware Domain Migration in a Virtualized Cluster
Tyler Bletsch and Vincent Freeh, North Carolina State University
IBM Technical Contact: Freeman Rawson, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Sid Chatterjee, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Paper | Presentation
Comparative Study of AIX, Linux, and Solaris: Toward OS Dependability Benchmarking
Ravi Iyer and Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Center for Reliable and High-Performance
Computing (CRHC), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
IBM Technical Contact: Bruce Mealey, Tom Mathews and Sara Epsztein, AIX RAS,
IBM Systems and Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: Kumar Nallapati, Director, AIX Development, IBM Systems and Technology Group
Paper | Presentation
| 1:40pm | Break |
| 1:50pm | Session 4: Benchmarks and Multicore Design Exploration Session Chair: Lixin Zhang |
Stressing Microarchitectures Through Custom Benchmark Synthesis
Ajay M. Joshi*, Lieven Eeckhout**, Lizy K. John*, Ciji Isen*, *The University of Texas at Austin,
**Ghent University, Belgium
IBM Technical Contacts: Alan MacKay, Commercial Performance and Alex Mericas, Hardware Performance Instrumentation, IBM Systems & Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: Kelvin Hawkins, Vice President, POWER Systems Development, IBM Systems & Technology Group
Paper | Presentation
Behavior-Driven Hierarchical Synthesis of Multithreaded Workloads for
Efficient Multi-Core Processor Design Space Exploration
Clay Hughes and Tao Li, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida
IBM Technical Contact: Rob Bell Jr., Logic Design and Performance Analysis,
IBM Systems & Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: Jan Janick, VP Modular Server and Storage Development, IBM Systems & Technology Group
Paper | Presentation
| 2:30pm | Closing Remarks |