Keynote luncheon: (l-r) Dr. Mary Ann Rankin, Dean of the College of Natural Sciences, Ann Marie Maynard, Program Director of Austin CAS, J Strother Moore, Chair of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Margaret Ashida, Director, IBM University Talent Programs
On Feb 24-25, 2005, the Austin Center for Advanced Studies hosted the successful 6th Annual Austin CAS International Conference. Over two days, approximately 200 from our IBM management and technical community, as well as university researchers and administrators, attended this conference that invited professors and research students from around the world to return to IBM to present the findings and accomplishments of their IBM supported research. Our Site's best and brightest enjoyed hearing the innovative techniques and cutting-edge results that will directly benefit IBM's research and development efforts in hardware, software, systems technology, and business management. (Extra conference proceedings available at Austin CAS; papers available on our website: www.research.ibm.com/acas.)
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Program
Thursday, February 24, 2005 – High Performance and Future Systems
| 8:30am - 9:00am | Breakfast & Registration |
| 9:00am - 10:00am | SESSION 1: Parallel and Distributed Systems |
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, Systems Group
IBM Sponsor – Mike Dawkins, GM, IGS Global Operations and Albert Bunshaft, Vice President, Grid Computing Sales and Business Development, Systems Group
Interconnect Modeling on the IBM Blue Gene/L Using the Parallelized Maxwell Solver PFDTD
Raj Mittra, Tao Su, Wenhua Yu and Reza Hasheimi,
Electromagnetic Communication Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University
IBM Technical Contact: Moises Cases, Distinguished Engineer, eServer xSeries Development
IBM Sponsor: Vijay Lund, Vice President, Hardware Development
Net Traveler: A Framework for Autonomic Web Services Collaboration, Orchestration and Choreography in E-Government Information Systems
Hillary Caituiro-Monge and Manuel Rodríguez-Martinez
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
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
| 10:00am - 10:15am | Break |
| 10:15am - 12:00pm | SESSION 2: Architecture and Performance Evaluation |
Capturing the Essence of Benchmarks: A New Approach to Benchmark Synthesis
Rob Bell, Jr.* and Lizy Kurian John, *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 Group
Coordinated Management: Power, Performance, Energy, and Temperature
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: Rob Bell, Jr., Logic Design, Power 5, Power 6, Systems Group
IBM Sponsor: Mark Papermaster, Vice President of Technology Development, IBM Systems Group
Measuring Program Similarity: Experiments with SPEC CPU Benchmark Suites
Aashish Phansalkar, Ajay Joshi, Lieven Eeckhout*, and Lizy K. John
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin,
*Ghent University, Belgium
IBM Technical Contact: Alex Mericas, Processor Performance, IBM Systems Group
IBM Sponsor: Mark Papermaster, Vice President of Technology Development, IBM Systems Group
Performance Evaluation of Decimal Floating-Point Arithmetic
Michael J. Schulte, Nick Lindberg, and Anitha Laxminarain,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
IBM Technical Contact: Eric Schwarz, Floating-Point Hardware Technical Leader,
Systems and Technology Group
IBM Sponsor: Mark Papermaster, Vice President of Technology Development, IBM Systems Group
Mining Performance Data from Sampled Event Traces
Ricardo Portillo, Diana Villa, and Patricia J. Teller,
Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso
IBM Technical Contacts - Carole Gottleib and Bret Olszewski, Unix Performance
IBM Sponsor - Nick Bowen, Vice President, UNIX and xSeries Software Development
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm - 2:20pm | SESSION 3: Compilers and Languages |
Developing An Optimized UPC Compiler For Future Architectures
Tarek El-Ghazawi, Francios Cantonnet, Yiyi Yao,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University
IBM Technical Contact: Ram Rajamony, Manager, Novel Systems Architecture,
IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
The Garbage Collection Advantage: Improving Program Locality
X. Huang 1., S. M. Blackburn 2., K. S. McKinley 1., J. E. B. Moss 3., Z. Wang 4., and P.Cheng*, 1. Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 2. Australian National University, 3. University of Massachusetts, 4. Michigan Technological University, *IBM Research
IBM Technical Contacts: Frank O'Connell, Technical Computing Performance, IBM Systems Group, Hazim Shafi, Architecture and Performance Evaluation, IBM Austin Research Laboratory and
Roch Archambault, STSM, Compiler Optimization Technology and Compiler Focal Point for HPC, IBM Software Group/Application Integration Middleware
IBM Sponsor: Mark Papermaster, Vice President, Technology Development, Systems Group
Evaluating Instruction Reorderings and Transformations for Microarchitecture Power Reduction
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
An Imperical Investigation of Symbolic Pointer Analysis Algorithms
Ben Hardekopf 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
| 2:20pm - 2:35pm | Break |
| 2:35pm - 3:30pm | SESSION 4: Emerging Research Areas |
Characterizing The Duration And Association Patterns Of Wireless Access In A Campus
Maria Papadopouli, Haipeng Shen* and Manolis Spanakis**
Department of Computer Science, *Department of Statistics & Operations Research,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, **Department of Computer Science,
University of Crete and ICSFORTH
IBM Technical Contact: Mark Pozefsky, Pervasive Computing, IBM Software Group
IBM Sponsor: Todd Moore, Manager, PvC Architecture and Technical Strategy
User Interface Design, Transaction Measurement, and Usability Engineering for Remote Devices
Randolph G. Bias, Bill Bodin*, Sam Burns, Anuj Nanavati and Ann Marie Maynard**
School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, *IBM Austin Advanced Technology and Research, **IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Technical Contact: Bill Bodin, Senior Technical Staff Member, Pervasive Computing Division,
Director of Pervasive Computing Advanced Technology Laboratory, Chief Technology Officer, Internet Home Alliance
IBM Sponsor - Todd Moore, CTO Pervasive Computing, Architecture/Performance/User Experience/Standards
Risk Management in New Product Development Decisions
James S. 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
Friday, Feb 25 – Technology and Circuits Day
| 8:30am - 9:00am | Breakfast & Registration |
| 9:00am - 10:20am | SESSION 5: Shipping Chips That Work: Test, Diagnosis, and Yield |
Scan Design and AC Test
Ramyanshu Datta, Ravi Gupta, Antony Sebastine, Jacob A. Abraham and Manuel d’Abreu*
Computer Engineering Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, * Sun Microsystems
IBM Technical Contact: Robert Montoye, Research Staff Member,
Verification and Analysis, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Hardware Results Demonstrating Defect Detection Using Power Supply Signal Measurements
Dhruva Acharyya, 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, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Accurate and Efficient Gate-Level Parametric Yield Estimation Considering Power/Performance Correlation
Dennis Sylvester, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
IBM Technical Contact: Sani Nassif, Manager, Tools and Technology,
IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Reducing Clock Skew Variability Via Cross Links
Anand Rajaram, Jiang Hu, Rabi Mahapatra*,
Department of Electrical Engineering, *Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
IBM Technical Contact: Charles Alpert, Research Staff Member, Tools and Technology,
IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
| 10:20am - 10:35am | Break |
| 10:35am - 12:00pm | SESSION 6: Physical Design and Simulation for Chips and Packages |
Pre-Layout Interconnect Lengths Prediction with Applications to Clustering, Placement, and Logic Synthesis
Qinghua Liu and Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
IBM Technical Contact: Charles Alpert, Research Staff Member,
Tools and Technology, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Diffusion-Based Placement Migration
Haoxing Ren, David Z. Pan*, Charles Alpert**, Paul Villarrubia,
IBM Systems & Technology Group, Electronic Design Automation,
*Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin,
**IBM Austin Research Laboratory, IBM Electronic Design Automation
IBM Technical Contacts: Prabhakar Kudva, T.J. Watson Research Center, and
Charles Alpert, Tools and Technology, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Routing Algorithms for High-Speed VLSI Packaging
Muhammet Mustafa Ozdal and Martin Wong, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
IBM Technical Contacts: Philip Honsinger, IBM Microelectronics, John Ludwig, Systems Group,
Daniel Miller, Manager Routing and Signal Integrity, IBM Microelectronics
IBM Sponsor: Mary Lee Froese, Director Electronic Design Automation
A Chip-Level Electrostatic Discharge Simulation Strategy
Haifeng Qian, Joseph N. Kozhaya*, Sani R. Nassif** and Sachin Sapatnekar,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota,
*IBM ASIC Methodology, **IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Technical Contact: Charles Alpert, Research Staff Member,
Tools and Technology, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
IBM Sponsor: Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | Lunch & Keynote
Introduction
Lorraine Herger, Director, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Welcome
Tony Befi, Vice President, IBM Systems and Technology Group, Austin Senior Location Executive
Keynote Talk: "IBM Directions in Innovation"
Dave Ehnebuske, President , IBM Academy of Technology |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | SESSION 7: Advances in Communications: Modeling and Design |
Open-Loop Clock and Data Recovery Systems
Kevin Kornegay, Cornell Broadband Communications Research Laboratory, Cornell University
IBM Technical Contact: Robert Putney, Gricell Co., Emerging Product Development, IBM Microprocessor Development
IBM Sponsor: Mike Paczan, PowerPC and Networking Technology Development, IBM Microelectronics Division
Modeling of Interconnects, Drivers and Receivers in Packaged Systems
Rohan Mandrekar, Bhyrav Mutnury and Madhavan Swaminthan,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Institute of Technology
IBM Technical Contact: Moises Cases, Distinguished Engineer, eServer xSeries Development
IBM Sponsor: Vijay Lund, Vice President, Hardware Development
Efficient Digital Data Transmission Assessment via Macromodeling
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 Group
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm | SESSION 8: Circuit Design: High Performance and Low Power |
Closing Comments
Additional Research
Exploiting Regularity for Bridge Fault Extraction
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
