IBM Austin Center for Advanced Studies
5th Annual Austin CAS Conference
February 19-20, 2004
Austin Research Lab Classrooms
Bldg 904, Floor 6, Room 6D-000
Conference Summary
The IBM Austin Center for Advanced Studies held a successful 5th Annual Austin CAS International Conference on February 19-20, 2004. Approximately 150 from the IBM management and technical community attended this two-day conference which gave University Faculty and Graduate Students from around the world the opportunity to present the findings and accomplishments of their 2003/04 IBM-sponsored research. This year's conference, representing over $1M of IBM investment in Faculty Awards, SUR Grants, and student Fellowships, was expanded to two days because of the exciting increase in the number of Austin CAS research projects. Twenty-five presentations shared fresh, innovative techniques and cutting-edge results that will directly benefit IBM's research and development efforts in hardware, software, systems technology, and business management.
Day one featured talks on "Technology and Circuits" including topics on design, power, and performance, analysis, test, and diagnosis. Day two focused on "High Performance Systems & Autonomic Computing," presenting papers on multiprocessor systems and simulation, memory subsystems including cache and prefetching, infrastructure and security, and special topics on autonomic computing and networks. The Keynote was shared by Bill Ciarfella, Regatta H+ Program Manager, and Senem Guney, IBM intern and UT-Austin Communications PhD student, who delivered management recommendations based on organizational complexity and lessons learned from over one year of research at IBM Austin on the "everyday life of an IBM Hardware program manager." At the conference luncheon Mary Rigali, IBM Corporate University Relations program manager, recognized two Professors from UT-Austin's Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments who were recently given Faculty Awards to sponsor new research. These presentations were followed by a few words from J. Strother Moore, UT-Austin Computer Science Department Chair, on behalf of universities everywhere; he thanked IBM for our continued support of university collaborations and research. Full papers from the CAS conference can be found on the Austin CAS 2003/04 Projects page.
PROGRAM
Thursday, Feb. 19 - Technology & Circuits
| 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm | Registration |
| 1:00 pm - 2:20 pm | SESSION 1: Technology: Power & Performance |
"Parametric Yield Estimation Considering Leakage Variability"
Rajeev Rao, Anirudh Devgan*, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
*IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Technical Contact - Sani Nassif, Manager, Tools and Technology, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
"Analysis and Mitigation of CMOS Gate Leakage"
Rahul Rao, Richard B. Brown, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
IBM Technical Contacts - Kevin Nowka, Manager, Exploratory VLSI Design, IBM Austin Research Laboratory, and Jeff Burns, Research Technical Strategy and Worldwide Operations
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
“Hierarchical Random-walk Algorithms for Power Grid Analysis”
Haifeng Qian Sachin and S. Sapatnekar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
IBM technical Contact - Charles J. Alpert, Research Staff Member, Tools and Technology, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
"Coordinated Power, Energy, and Temperature Management for High-Performance Processors"
Heather Hanson*, Stephen W. Keckler, Doug Burger, Computer Architecture and Technology Laboratory, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
*Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Rob Bell Jr., Logic Design, Power 5, Power 6, Systems Group
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, VP of Technology Development, IBM Systems Group
| 2:20 pm - 2:35 pm | Break |
| 2:35 pm - 3:55 pm | SESSION 2: Advanced Circuits: Design & Analysis |
“A Comparative Study of Common MOS VCO Topologies”
J. H. C. Zhan, J. S. Duster, K. T. Kornegay, Cornell Broadband Communications Research Laboratory, Cornell University
IBM Technical Contacts - Robert Putney and Gricell Co., Emerging Product Development, IBM Microprocessor Development
IBM Sponsor - Mike Paczan, PowerPC & Networking Technology Development, IBM Microelectronics Division
“Performance Impact of Gate-Body Signal Phase on DTMOS Inverters”
Alan Drake and Richard B. Brown, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
IBM Technical Contact - Kevin Nowka, Manager, Exploratory VLSI Design, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
"Macromodeling of Interconnects, Discontinuities, and Logic Devices"
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, VP of Technology Development, IBM Systems Group
“Clock Network Sizing in Presence of Power Supply Noise”
Kai Wang and Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
IBM Technical Contact - Sani Nassif, Manager, Tools and Technology, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
| 3:55 pm - 4:10 pm | Break |
| 4:10 pm - 5:10 pm | SESSION 3: Test & Diagnosis |
“Hardware Results Demonstrating Fault Localization Using Power Supply”
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
"Test and Debug in Deep-Submicron Technologies”
Ramyanshu Datta, Antony Sebastine, Ravi Gupta, Whitney J. Townsend, and Jacob A. Abraham,
Computer Engineering Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Robert Montoye, Verification and Analysis, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
"Test Vector Compression Using 3-Stage Linear Network"
C.V. Krishna and Nur A. Touba, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Johnny LeBlanc, Microprocessor Design for Test, Hardware Verification
IBM Sponsor: Mark Papermaster, VP of Technology Development, IBM Systems Group
Friday, Feb. 20 - High Performance Systems & Autonomic Computing
| 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast & Registration |
| 9:00 pm - 10:20 pm | SESSION 4: Simulation & Simulating MP on Multiprocessor Systems |
"Parallel Simulation of Multiprocessor Systems Using Reverse Execution"
Kemin Yang and Richard Fujimoto, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
IBM Technical Contact - Ram Rajamony, Research Staff Member, Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, Austin Research Laboratory
"Using Statistical Theory to Study Issues in Microprocessor Simulation"
Yue Luo and Lizy K. John, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Alex Mericas, Processor Performance, Systems Group
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, VP of Technology Development, IBM Systems Group
“Memory Performance Profiling via Sampled Performance Monitor Event Traces”
Diana Villa, Jaime Acosta, Trevor Morgan, and Patricia J. Teller, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso
IBM Technical Contact - Bret Olszewski, AIX Performance
IBM Sponsor - Nick Bowen, Vice President, UNIX and xSeries Software Development
"Towards Power Oriented Synthetic Workloads"
Ramkumar Srinivasan, Jeanine Cook, The Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University
IBM Technical Contact - Aaron Sawdey, Cache and Memory Nest Models, Future Processor Models, Microelectronics Division
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, VP of Technology Development, IBM Systems Group
| 10:20 am - 10:35 am | Break |
| 10:35 pm - 11:35 pm | SESSION 5: Cache: Prefetching & Optics: How to build it so they come |
"Coherence Decoupling: Making Use of Incoherence"
Jaehyuk Huh, Jichuan Chang*, Doug Burger, Gurindar S. Sohi*, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
*Computer Sciences Dept, University of Wisconsin - Medison
IBM Technical Contacts - Rob Bell Jr., Logic Design, Power 5, Power 6, Systems Group, and Xiaowei Shen, Research Staff Member, Scalable Server Network and MEM Systems
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, VP of Technology Development, IBM Systems Group
"Combining Cooperative Compiler/Hardware Prefetching and Cache Replacement"
Zhenlin Wang*, Kathryn S. McKinley, Doug Burger, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
*Department of Computer Science, Michigan Technological University
IBM Technical Contact - Frank O'Connell, Future Processor Performance, IBM Systems Group, and Bob Blainey, Distinguished Engineer, AIM Compilation PDT & Technology
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, VP of Technology Development, IBM Systems Group
“A Practical Symmetric Multi-Processor Architecture Design Study using Optical Multi-Drop Networks”
Oluwafemi O. Ogunsola and Alan Benner (IBM Mentor), Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. James D. Meindl, Georgia Institute of Technology
IBM Technical Contact - Alan Benner, eServer Architecture and Technology Development
IBM Sponsor - Lisa Kurzajeski, Manager, eServer Technology
| 11:35 am - 1:00 pm | Lunch + Keynote |
Keynote:
Exploring a Mythical Culture: Everyday Life of a Unique Species Called "IBM Hardware Program Manager"
Senem Guney, University of Texas at Austin and Bill Ciarfella, Regatta H+ Program Manager, Based on research: “Lessons Learned from Research and Practice in Organizational Complexity”, Senem Guney, UT Austin Communications Department
IBM Technical Contact - Bill Ciarfella, Regatta H+ Program Manager, UNIX Hardware Development
IBM Sponsor - Erich Baier, Director, UNIX Hardware Development
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| 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | SESSION 6: Infrastructure and Security: Nuts & Bolts and Locks & Keys |
“CISE Terascale Facility for GRID Applications at UPRM”
Dr. Manuel Rodriguez-Martinez, Dr. Wilson Rivera, Dr. Jaime Seguel, Dr. Bienvenido Velez-Rivera, Dr. Jaime Ramirez-Vick, Dr. Domingo Rodriguez, Dr. Pedro I. Rivera Vega, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of General Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
IBM Technical Contact - 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
“Top Gun: UTEP’s p690 – a Foundation for Building HPC Capability”
Patricia Teller, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso
IBM Technical Contact - Robert Acosta, Linux Project Management
IBM Sponsor - Robert Amezcua, Vice President, pSeries Operations
“Making Open Source Software More Secure”
Walter Chang and Calvin Lin, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Ray Young, LTC Test, Linux Technology Center, and Doc Shankar, Linux Security Lead, Linux Technology Center
IBM Sponsor - Ralph Christ, Program Manager, Linux System Technology, Linux Technology Center
| 2:00 pm - 2:15 pm | Break |
| 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm | SESSION 7: Autonomic Computing and Networks |
"Towards Autonomic Computing: Adaptive Network Routing and Scheduling"
Shimon Whiteson and Peter Stone, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Russell Blaisdell, Performance Monitoring Architect, Tivoli Software, Software Group
IBM Sponsors - Bob Madey, Vice President, Performance and Availability Products, Tivoli Software, Software Group; Jeff Dean, Tivoli Architecture and Technology
“Semi-Supervised Clustering for Intelligent User Management”
Sugato Basu, Mikhail Bilenko, Raymond J. 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
“Analysis of Wireless Information Locality and Association Patterns in a Campus”
Francisco Chinchilla, Mark Lindsey, Maria Papadopouli, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
IBM Technical Contact - Mark Pozefsky, Pervasive Computing, SWG
IBM Sponsor -Todd Moore, Manager, PvC Architecture and Technical Strategy
“Power-Aware On-Chip Memory Hierarchies for Nanoscale CMOS”
Babak Falsafi, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
IBM Technical Contact - Daniel Skooglund, Custom Design, Systems Group
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, VP, Technology Development, IBM Systems Group
Closing Comments
New Research (Proposals included in Proceedings)
“User Interface Design, Transaction Measurement, and Usability Engineering for Digital Rights Managed Media on a Cluster of Authorized and Unauthorized Devices”
Randolph G. Bias, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Bill Bodin, Senior Technical Staff Member - Pervasive Computing Division,
Director - Pervasive Computing Advanced Technology Laboratory, Chief Technology Officer - Internet Home Alliance
IBM Sponsor - Todd Moore, CTO Pervasive Computing, Architecture/Performance/User Experience/Standards
“Mastodon: Large-Memory Scientific Simulation”
IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Proposal
Doug Burger and Stephen Keckler, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
IBM Technical Contact - Hazim Shafi, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor - Michael Rosenfield, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
“Simulating Enterprise-Class Servers”
Alan Cox and Scott Rixner, Department of Computer Sciences, Rice University
IBM Technical Contact - Andrew Wack, pSeries Clusters Test Architect, IBM RS/6000 Division
IBM Sponsor - Erich Baier, Director, UNIX Hardware Development
“Exploiting Thread-Level Speculation to Accelerate Database Performance on Chip Multiprocessors”
Todd C. Mowry, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
IBM Technical Contact - Rick Eickemeyer, eServer Performance, IBM Systems Group
IBM Sponsor - Mark Papermaster, VP of Technology Development, IBM Systems Group
“Quantifying Design Correctness during Multi-Processor Verification and Validation”
Ray Mercer, Computer Engineering Group, Department of Electrical Engineering,
Texas A&M University
IBM Technical Contact - Matthew Mehalic, PowerPC Engineering Manager, High Performance Processor Development, IBM Microelectronics
IBM Sponsor - Henry Levine, Manager PowerPC Product Management, IBM Microelectronics
“HF-Measurements & Characterization of Product Related Interconnect Test Structures”
Hartmut Grabinski, Department of Electrical Engineering, Laboratorium für Informationstechnologie, Universität Hannover (Germany)
IBM Technical Contact - Thomas-Michael Winkel, Systems Group, IBM Germany
IBM Sponsor - George Katopis, Distinguished Engineer, Systems Technology Development, IBM Systems Group, and Mark Papermaster, VP of Technology Development, IBM Systems Group
