Summary of the 19th SBAC-PAD
Last year I attended the 19th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD) in Gramado, RS, Brazil. The web page of the event is here.
There were very nice presentations like the “Computational Characteristics of Production Seismic Migration and its Performance on Novel Processor Architectures” by Jairo Panetta (Petróleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil), “Impacts of Multiprocessor Configurations on Workloads in Bioinformatics” by Mauricio Breternitz (Intel Corporation, USA) and the Google Keynote presentation.
The event had many parallel Workshops and the most famous of them are the WSCAD (Workshop em Sistemas Computacionais de Alto Desempenho – Workshop in High Performance Computing Systems). This is a portuguese event, so I think that is not interesting point the presentations here, but there was a good CELL programming short course.
Summarizing the event I can point three things discussed in the keynotes and panels, to solve the problem of the new challenges of parallel and multi-core programming:
- Use high level programming languages;
- Use tools developed to do the work of parallelling the code;
- Raise the level of abstraction of the problem.
These three points of view are defended by Kunle Olukotun (Stanford University), Mauricio Bareternitz (Intel) and Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), respectively.
