We are proud to announce that our proposed workshop for IST-2006 "The thread model: challenges and perspectives" has been officially accepted by the IST.
It will take place at IST-2006 on November 21 st, 14h00, Helsinki, Finland.
More information will follow very soon.
Subtitle: Visioning the medium-term future for the embedded systems application industry
This networking session will discuss some of the challenges and perspectives of the thread model in the context of increasingly complex computing devices, emphasising the aspect of adaptivity. Threading is seen as the prevailing metaphor in the domain of computer architecture and programming paradigms to achieve work partitioning for the purpose of maximising resource utilisation. A number of speakers will discuss topics such as micro-threading, high performance computing and emerging threading concepts.
Here is the abstract of the workshop:
The Thread Model: Challenges and Perspectives
This workshop will begin with a presentation from ARM Ltd where the pragmatic case for threading will be made. This will include consideration of power management and resource utilisation in processor design and will delineate the challenges facing the embedded application industry in the medium term. It will be followed by a talk focusing on the approach to threading, called microthreading, which emphasises the temporal aspect of adaptive behaviour, also known as latency tolerance. The concept of threading in high-performance computin will be expounded by a talk presenting an original compilation technology for implicit threading in numerical applications. Finally, new forms of threading, those affecting reconfigurable computing, will be touched upon in describing some hardware solutions.
Talks:
- Introduction on threads in the AETHER project (Christian Gamrat, CEA-LIST, F Coordinator of the AETHER project)
- Threads in modern processor design (Vladimir Vasekin, ARM Ltd CPU Architect, UK)
- The micro thread model (Chris Jesshope, University of Amsterdam, NL)
- The SNET framework (Alex Shafarenko, University of Hertfordshire, UK)
