Spring 2005 HPCC Seminars

Welcome to the HPCC weekly seminar series!

The HPCC seminar series is an informal weekly gathering of faculty and students to discuss a wide range of topics in architectures, compilers and their intersection. It is open to all. The seminar is an excellent medium for students/faculty to discuss recently published papers and to present their research results. The students are encouraged to use this opportunity to polish their presentation skills, bounce ideas off their colleagues, and practice conference presentations.

Homepage:

http://www.cs.umn.edu/~zhai/hpcc-seminars/

Mailing list:

hpcc-seminar at lists.umn.edu

To subscribe: i) Send an email, with the line "sub hpcc-seminar" in the body of the message, to listserv@lists.umn.edu. ii) Follow the directions in the confirmation email you receive.

When / Where?

Every Wednesday 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. in EE/CSci Building 6-212

Presentation Schedule:

Please send me (zhai at cs. umn. edu) the title and the abstract of your talk at least three days ahead of time so the talk can be properly advertised. At the end of the talk, the presenter will receive presentation feedback forms from the audiences.

Spring 2005

Presenter Title
Feb.
2 Jinpyo Kim COBRA: COntinuous Binary Re-Adaptation Framework for Parallel and Multi-threaded applications
9 Ying Chen Interaction s between architecture design and lower level design
16 No Seminar Attending HPCA
23 John A. Bartucz Issues in quantitative financial computing
Mar.
2 Xiaoru Dai A Compiler Framework for Speculative Optimizations Using Data Speculative Code Motion
9 Michael Raymond Large Real-Time Embedded Systems and How to Get There
30 Howard Chen

Reading Schedule:

We will read 2 papers during each meeting. The presenter is asked to give a 10-15 mins presentation on a paper he/she has read and the discussion leader will prepare a list of questions to ask and lead the group discussion.

Spring 2005

Theme Presenter #1 Presenter #2 Papers
Jan.
26 HPCA Papers Venkatesan Packirisamy Kiran S Yellajyosula
Mar.
23 HPCA Papers Liu Yang Harish Barathvajasankar
Apr.
6 CGO papers Xiaoru Dai Yang Liu
13 HPCA papers Jinpyo Kim Sreekumar
27 Special topics Chris Hescott Drew C. Ness

Previous Schedules:

Fall 2004

Misc:

Mark Hill's Oral Presentation Advices.

Robert Drysdale's slides on Giving Technical Talks.

How to read a paper? Not from our field, and the rules still apply.

Some comments on how not to write a good paper.