The 20th International Workshop on Languages
and Compilers for Parallel Computing

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Siebel Center for Computer Science
Urbana, Illinois, October 11-13, 2007

LCPC 2007 Program
Room 2405 Siebel

Thursday, October 11, 2007
8:00	Breakfast
8:45-9:00	Opening Remarks Vikram Adve, Maria J. Garzaran, and Paul Petersen
9:00-10:00	Reliability Compiler-Enhanced Incremental Checkpointing Greg Bronevetsky, Daniel Marques, Keshav Pingali and Radu Rugina Techniques for Efficient Software Checking Jing Yu, Maria J. Garzaran and Marc Snir
10:00-10:30	Break
10:30-12:00	Languages (This paper will not be presented because of travel difficulties) Revisiting SIMD programming Anton Lokhmotov, Benedict Gaster, Alan Mycroft, Neil Hickey and David Stuttard Multidimensional Blocking Factors in UPC Christopher Barton, Calin Cascaval, George Almasi, Rahul Garg, Jose Nelson Amaral and Montse Farreras An Experimental Evaluation of the New OpenMP Tasking Model Eduard Ayguade, Alejandro Duran, Jay Hoeflinger, Federico Massaioli and Xavier Teruel Language Extensions in Support of Compiler Parallelization Jun Shirako, Hironori Kasahara and Vivek Sarkar
12:00-13:00	Lunch
13:00-14:00	Panel Discussion: How is Multicore Programming Different From Traditional Parallel Computing?
14:00-16:00	Parallel Compiler Technology I Concurrency Analysis for Shared Memory Programs with Textually Unaligned Barriers Yuan Zhang, Evelyn Duesterwald and Guang Gao Iteration Disambiguation for Parallelism Identification in Time-Sliced Applications Shane Ryoo, Christopher Rodrigues and Wen-mei Hwu A Novel Asynchronous Software Cache Implementation for the CELL/BE Processor Jairo Balart, Marc Gonzalez, Xavier Martorell, Eduard Ayguade, Zehra Sura, Tong Chen, Tao Zhang, Kevin O'brien and Kathryn O'Brien Pillar: A Parallel Implementation Language Todd Anderson, Neal Glew, Peng Guo, Brian Lewis, Wei Liu, Zhanglin Liu, Leaf Petersen, Mohan Rajagopalan,James Stichnoth, Gansha Wu and Dan Zhang
16:00-16:30	Break and Poster Session
16:30-17:30	Poster Session Continues
18:00	Conference Dinner and Keynote Speech: David Kirk, Chief Scientist, nVidia Corp. NVIDIA CUDA Software and GPU Parallel Computing Architecture
Friday, October 12, 2007
8:00	Breakfast
8:30-11:00	Panel: What have we learned after 20 LCPCs? Panelists: David Kuck (Intel), Arvind (MIT), Monica Lam (Stanford University), Alexandru Nicolau (University of California Irvine), Keshav Pingali (University of Texas, Austin), Burton Smith (Microsoft Research), and Michael Wolfe (the Portland Group). Moderator: David Padua (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
11:00-11:30	Break
11:30-12:30	Libraries Associative Parallel Containers in STAPL Gabriel Tanase, Chidambareswaran Raman, Mauro Bianco, Nancy M. Amato and Lawrence Rauchwerger Explicit Dependence Metadata in an Active Visual Effects Library Jay L. T. Cornwall, Paul H. J. Kelly, Phil Parsonage and Bruno Nicoletti
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-16:00	Run-time Systems and Performance Analysis Supporting Huge Address Spaces in a Virtual Machine for Java on a Cluster Ronald Veldema and Michael Philippsen Modeling Relations Between Inputs and Dynamic Behavior for General Programs Xipeng Shen and Feng Mao Evaluation of RDMA opportunities in an Object-Oriented DSM Ronald Veldema and Michael Philippsen Automatic Communication Performance Debugging in PGAS Languages Jimmy Su and Katherine Yelick
16:00-16:30	Break
16:30-17:30	Parallel Compiler Technology II Exploiting SIMD Parallelism with the CGiS Compiler Framework Nicolas Fritz, Philipp Lucas and Reinhard Wilhelm Critical Block Scheduling: a Thread-Level Parallelizing Mechanism for a Heterogeneous Chip Multiprocessor Architecture Slo-Li Chu
Saturday, October 13, 2007
8:00	Breakfast
9:00-10:00	Languages II Capsules: Expressing Composable Computations in a Parallel Programming Model Hasnain Mandviwala, Umakishore Ramachandran and Kathleen Knobe Communicating Multiprocessor-Tasks Jorg Dummler, Thomas Rauber and Gudula Runger
10:00-10:30	Break
10:30-12:00	General Compiler Techniques An Effective Automated Approach to Specialization of Code Minhaj Ahmad Khan, Henri-Pierre Charles and Denis Barthou Flow-Sensitive Loop-Variant Variable Classification in Linear Time Yixin Shou, Robert A. van Engelen and Johnnie Birch Using ZBDDs in Points-to Analysis Ondrej Lhotak, Stephen Curial and Jose Nelson Amaral