Austin Center for Advanced Studies Conference 2003
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IBM Austin Center for Advanced Studies
4th Annual Austin CAS Conference
February 21, 2003
IBM Austin Campus, Building 904
Executive Briefing Center
PROGRAM
8:30am Breakfast and Registration
9:00am Session 1: High Quality Systems
Estimating Mean Time to Failure in Digital Systems Using Manufacturing Defective Part Level
Jennifer Dworak, David Dorsey, Amy Wang, and M. Ray Mercer
Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University
IBM Technical Contact - Matthew Mehalic, PowerPC Applications Engineering Manager, Microprocessor Development/PowerPC Applications and Validation
IBM Sponsor - Chekib Akrout, Vice President, PowerPC & Networking Technology Development, Microelectronics Division
Exploiting Microarchitectural Redundancy for Defect Tolerance
Premkishore Shivakumar, Stephen W. Keckler, Charles R. Moore, Doug Burger
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contacts - Rob Bell Jr., Logic Design, Power 5, Power 6, Systems Group, and John Keaty, STI Global Integration Leader, Systems Group, and Elmootazbellah Elnozahy, Manager, Systems Software, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Anthony Befi, Vice President, Systems & Technology Development, Systems Group, Austin Senior Location Executive/Texas Senior State Executive
Fault Localization using Multiple Power Grid IDDQ Measurements
Chintan Patel, Ernesto Staroswiecki, Smita Pawar, Dhruva Acharyya and Jim Plusquellic
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
IBM Technical Contact - Anne Gattiker, Research Staff Member, Tools and Technology, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
10:00am Break
10:15am Session 2: Interconnect and Component Analysis
Power Grid Analysis using Random Walks
Haifeng Qian, Sani R. Nassif*, Sachin S. Sapatnekar
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, *IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Technical Contact - Charles Alpert, Research Staff Member, Tools and Technology, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
Analysis of Transmission Line Model Extraction Methods
David Heckman, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of North Dakota
IBM Technical Contact - Jerry Bartley, STSM Card Development Center, Circuit Technology
IBM Sponsor - Anthony Befi, Vice President, Systems & Technology Development, Systems Group, Austin Senior Location Executive/Texas Senior State Executive
Mplog, Macromodeling via Parametric Identification of Logic Gates
F. G. Canavero, I. A. Maio, I. S. Stievano
Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
IBM Technical Contact - George Katopis, Distinguished Engineer, ESG Packaging Chief Engineer, Systems Technology Development
IBM Sponsor - Anthony Befi, Vice President, Systems & Technology Development, Systems Group, Austin Senior Location Executive/Texas Senior State Executive
11:15am Break
11:30am Session 3: Placement and Power
Improving Min-cut Placement for VLSI Using Analytical Techniques
Saurabh N. Adya, Igor L. Markov, Paul G. Villarrubia*
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, *IBM Microelectronics Division
IBM Technical Contact - Paul Villarrubia, SOC/ASIC/Microprocessor Physical Design and Timing Closure Tools, Microelectronics Division
IBM Sponsor - Glenn Holmes, Manager of Synthesis, Timing, and Chip PD, Electronic Design Automation
Saving Clock Power Using Resonant Clock Generation
Alan J. Drake, Richard B. Brown,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
IBM Technical Contact - Jeff Burns, Manager, Exploratory VLSI Design,
Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
Measuring Subthreshold Conduction Variability
Eric Karl, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
IBM Technical Contacts - Chandler McDowell, Frank Liu, Research Staff Members, Tools and Technology, Austin Research Laboratory, and Sani Nassif, Manager, Tools and Technology, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
12:30pm Lunch
Keynote Speaker
Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
1:45pm Session 4: Organizational Behavior and Technology Development
Coping with Complexity in the Management of Technology Development
Senem Guney, Larry D. Browning, Reuben R. McDaniel
College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Bill Ciarfella, Program Manager, UNIX HW - Regatta H+
IBM Sponsor - Erich Baier, Director, UNIX Hardware Development, UNIX Hardware Program Management
“Regatta” & “Power 4” Innovation & Limits of Organizational Complexity
Dr. Larry Browning, Carmen Romo de Vivar, Dr. David V. Gibson, Dr. Judy Shelter, and Darius Mahdjoubi
UT Austin IC2 Institute and Department of Communications Studies
IBM Technical Contact - Bill Ciarfella, Program Manager, UNIX HW - Regatta H+
IBM Sponsor, Erich Baier - Director, UNIX Hardware Development, UNIX Hardware Program Management
2:25pm Break
2:40pm Session 5: Performance Analysis & Optimization
Compiler Optimization of Scalar Value Communication Between Speculative Threads
Antonia Zhai, Christopher B. Colohan, J. Gregory Steffan, and Todd C. Mowry
Department of Computer Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
IBM Technical Contact - Rick Eickemeyer, Future Processor Performance, Systems Group
IBM Sponsor - Anthony Befi, Vice President, Systems & Technology Development, Systems Group, Austin Senior Location Executive/Texas Senior State Executive
Toward Dynamic Recognition of Workload Phases
Matthew Alsleben, Jeanine Cook,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
New Mexico State University
IBM Technical Contact - Abraham Torres, Executive Project Manager Emerging Products, Microprocessor Development
IBM Sponsor - Chekib Akrout, Vice President, PPC & Networking Technology Development, Microelectronics Division
L2 Miss Profiling on the p690 for a Large-scale Database Application
Trevor Morgan*, Diana Villa, Patricia J. Teller, and Jaime Acosta
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso
IBM Technical Contact - Cathy Nunez, Manager, Global Firmware
IBM Sponsor - Nick Bowen, Vice President, UNIX and xSeries Software Development
Guided Region Prefetching: A Cooperative Hardware/Software Approach
Zhenlin Wang*, Doug Burger**, Steve K. Reinhardt***, Kathryn S. McKinley**, and Charles C. Weems***
*Department of Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, **Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, ***Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
IBM Technical Contacts - Rob Bell Jr., Logic Design, Power 5, Power 6, Systems Group, and John Keaty, STI Global Integration Leader, Systems Group, and Elmootazbellah Elnozahy, Manager, Systems Software, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Anthony Befi, Vice President, Systems & Technology Development, Systems Group, Austin Senior Location Executive/Texas Senior State Executive
4:00pm Break
4:15pm Session 6: Memory and Simulation
On-chip MRAM as a High-Bandwidth, Low-Latency Replacement for DRAM Physical Memories
Rajagopalan Desikan*, Charles R. Lefurgy**, Stephen W. Keckler, Doug Burger
*Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, **IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Technical Contacts - Rob Bell Jr., Logic Design, Power 5, Power 6, Systems Group, and John Keaty, STI Global Integration Leader, Systems Group, and Charles Lefurgy, Research Staff Member, Power Aware Systems, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Anthony Befi, Vice President, Systems & Technology Development, Systems Group, Austin Senior Location Executive/Texas Senior State Executive
Automatically Selecting Representative Traces for Simulation Based on
Cluster Analysis of Instruction Address Hashes
Yue Luo, Lizy John, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Alex Mericas, Processor Performance, Systems Group
IBM Sponsor - Anthony Befi, Vice President, Systems & Technology Development, Systems Group, Austin Senior Location Executive/Texas Senior State Executive
4:55pm Session 7: Network Protocols
Background Transfers with Minimal Interference
Arun Venkataramani, Ravi Kokku, Mike Dahlin,
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Jeff Achtermann, Configuration and Operations Architecture, Tivoli Software, Software Group
IBM Sponsor - Jeff Smith, Vice President, Configuration and Operations Products, Tivoli Software, Software Group
4:45pm Closing Remarks
Convergence of IPsec in Presence of Resets
Chin-Tser Huang, Mohamed Gouda, Elmootazbellah Elnozahy*,
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, *IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Technical Contact - Elmootazbellah Elnozahy, Manager, Systems Software,
Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
Closing Remarks
New Research (Proposals included in Proceedings)
Layered Learning towards Autonomic Computing
Peter Stone, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Russell Blaisdell, Performance Monitoring Architect, Tivoli Software, Software Group
IBM Sponsor - Bob Madey, Vice President, Performance and Availability Products, Tivoli Software, Software Group
Semisupervised Clustering for Intelligent User Management
Raymond Mooney, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Mark Johnson, Tivoli Technical Strategy, Tivoli Architecture and Technology
IBM Sponsor - Robert Yellin, Vice President of Technology, Tivoli Software, Software Group
Autonomic Modeling for System Management
Ben Kuipers, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact – Neil Pennell, Chief Architect, P&A Monitoring, Tivoli Technical Strategy, Software Group
IBM Sponsor - Bob Madey, Vice President, Performance and Availability Products, Tivoli Software, Software Group
Polymorphic Architectures for Computer Industry Exploitation
Charles Moore, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Elmootazbellah Elnozahy, Manager, Systems Software, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
Teaching Linux Kernel Programming
Yongguang Zhang, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Ray Young, Manager of LTC Test, Linux Technology Center
IBM Sponsor - Ralph Christ, Program Director, Linux System Technology, Linux Technology Center
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