Jamaica Project - Related Work
The aim of this document is to encapsulate into one single page
relavent work to the Jamaica project. Some attempts at organization
have been made. The sections are:
Books
All of the books below are available in IT 303, unless they have been
borrowed.
Architecture
- Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach
- by J. Hennessy and D. Patterson
- Parallel Computer Architecture - A Hardware/Software Approach
- by D. Culler, J. Singh, with A. Gupta
Compilers
- Advanced Compiler Design & Implementation
- by Steven S. Muchnick
- High Performance Compilers
For Parallel Computing
- by Michael Wolfe
- Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures
- by Randy Allen & Ken Kennedy
Operating System
- Modern Operating Systems
- by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Conferences
General
- EuroPar
- Sponsored by the ACM in cooperation with SIGPLAN, SIGARCH, SIGACT.
Paper submission by 30th January.
Conference 31st August to 3rd September
- PREP 2004
- EPSRC conference for research students
Paper submission by 23rd January
Conference April 5th-7th
Architecture
- PACT
- IEEE and ACM SIGARCH sponsored conference.
Paper submission by February 5th, 2005.
Conference September 5th to 9th
- Winter Simulation Conference
- IEEE and ACM SIGSIM sponsored conference.
Paper submission by April 1, 2004.
Conference December 5th to 8th.
- SC2004
- IEEE and ACM SIGARCH sponsored conference.
Paper submission by April 19th, 2004.
Conference November 6th to 12th
- HiPC
- IEEE and ACM SIGARCH sponsored conference.
Paper submission by May 3rd, 2004.
Conference December 19th to 22nd
- WHSO
- Workshop on Hardware Support for Objects and Microarchitectures
for Java (1st,
2nd)
Compilers
- Java Grande
- A fourm to explore the use of the Java programming language for
scientific and engineering computing and high-performance network
computing.
- Interpreters
Virtual Machines and Emulators
- ACM conference, part of PLDI.
Paper submission by March 12th.
Conference June 7th.
- LCPC
- Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing.
- OOPSLA
- ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems,
Languages, and Applications.
- VM ('04 - previously
JVM)
- Usenix conference.
Work-in-progress paper submission by March 7th.
Conference May 6th-7th.
JVM '01,
JVM '02
- Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
- IEEE Computer Society published conference. 2004 conference
Operating Systems
- Nothing to list yet
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Journals
ACM Journals
- ACM
Computing Surveys (lead time ~2years)
- These comprehensive, readable tutorials and survey papers give
guided tours through the literature and explain topics to those who
seek to learn the basics of areas outside their specialties. The
carefully planned and presented introductions in Computing Surveys (CSUR)
are also an excellent way for professionals to develop perspectives on,
and identify trends in complex technologies. Recent issues have covered
image understanding, software reusability, and object and relational
database topics.
- ACM
Transactions on Computer Systems (lead time ~2years)
- ACM Transactions on Computer
Systems (TOCS) publishes the newest findings of the computing
research field. Papers published in TOCS are theoretical and
conceptual explorations of operating systems, distributed systems and
networks. Readers will find design principles, case studies and
experimental results in specification, processor management, memory and
communication management, implementation techniques and protocols. TOCS
also discusses security and reliability, and offers experience-based
papers on all these topics.
- ACM
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (lead
time ~2years)
- ACM Transactions on
Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) is a new CAD
publication emphasizing a computer science/engineering orientation. TODAES
contains a varied array of article formats, including research papers,
tutorial and survey papers, as well as short technical notes. Let this
new reference tool be your pulse to the rapidly changing field of
design technology of electronic systems.
- ACM
Transactions on Mathematical Software (lead time ~2years)
- As a scientific journal, ACM
Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS) documents the
theoretical underpinnings of numeric, symbolic, algebraic, and
geometric computing applications. It focuses on analysis and
construction of algorithms and programs, and the interaction of
programs and architecture. Algorithms documented in TOMS are
available as the Collected
Algorithms of the ACM in print, on microfiche, on disk, and online.
- ACM
Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (lead time
~2years)
- Systems modeling and computer simulation are powerful tools for
understanding, and ACM
Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) is a
primary source for research on all aspects of these two areas.
Emphasizing discrete event simulation, this journal publishes
applications, reviews, and tutorials on such topics as combined,
distributed, and hybrid simulation, simulation and computer graphics,
process generators, and random number generation.
- ACM
Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (lead
time ~2years)
- The purpose of ACM
Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) is
to present research results on all aspects of the design, definition,
implementation, and use of programming languages and programming
systems.
The scope of TOPLAS includes: programming languages and their
semantics; programming systems (systems to assist the programming task,
such as compilers, runtime systems, and language environments); storage
allocation and garbage collection; languages and methods for writing
specifications; testing and verification methods; and algorithms
specifically related to the implementation of language processors.
BCS
- The
Computer Bulletin
- The Computer Bulletin is 'the voice of the BCS' and
publishes articles on all aspects of computing and IT.
Elsevier Computer Science
- Information
Sciences
- Information Sciences will publish original, innovative and
creative research results. A smaller number of timely tutorial and
surveying contributions will be published from time to time.
The journal is designed to serve researchers, developers, managers,
strategic planners, graduate students and others interested in
state-of-the art research activities in information, knowledge
engineering and intelligent systems. Readers are assumed to have a
common interest in information science, but with diverse backgrounds in
fields such as engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, computer
science, cell biology, molecular biology, management science, cognitive
science, neurobiology, behavioural sciences and biochemistry.
The journal publishes high-quality, refereed articles. It emphasizes a
balanced coverage of both theory and practice. It fully acknowledges
and vividly promotes a breadth of the discipline of Informations
Sciences.
- Journal
of Systems and Software (lead time ~6months)
- The Journal of Systems and Software publishes papers
covering all aspects of programming methodology, software engineering
and related hardware/software systems issues. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to, software systems, prototyping issues,
high-level specification techniques, procedural and functional
programming techniques, data-flow concepts, multiprocessing, real-time,
distributed, concurrent, and telecommunications systems, software
metrics, reliability models for software, performance issues, and
management concerns. The journal publishes research papers,
state-of-the-art surveys, and reports of practical experience. All
articles should consider the practical application of the ideas
advanced through case studies, experiments, or systematic comparisons
with other approaches already in practice. Occasionally, special issues
are devoted to topics of particular interest; proposals for such issues
are invited.
- Parallel
Computing
- Parallel Computing is an international journal presenting
the theory and use of parallel computer systems, including vector,
pipeline, array and fifth and future generation computers and neural
computers. Within this context the journal covers all aspects of
high-speed computing.
Parallel Computing features original research work, tutorial
and review articles as well as accounts of practical experience with
(and techniques for) the use of parallel computers. Contributions can
cover:
- Algorithm design for all types of parallel computers
- All aspects of the application of parallel computers,
including those to AI, CAD/CAM, databases, information retrieval, etc.
in industrial, business and office environments
- The impact of high-speed computation on current research, as
well as the advancement of knowledge
- Software engineering aspects relating to parallel computing
- Software for parallel computer systems including programming
languages, operating systems, utilities, libraries, etc.
- Networking technology for support of high-speed computing
via centralised file servers, output servers, interactive access
- Taxonomy, models and architectural trends of parallel
processing
- General hardware (architecture) concepts, new technologies
enabling the realisation of such new concepts as well as details of
commercially available systems
- Performance measurement results on state-of-the-art systems
- Peripheral devices for parallel (super-) computers.
Parallel Computing includes special issues on Applications.
Euromicro
- Journal
of Systems Architecture (lead time ~2years)
- The Journal of Systems Architecture is a journal covering
all aspects of system architecture design and implementation. It ranges
from the microarchitecture level via the system software level up to
the application-specific architecture level. Aspects such as dedicated
systems, high-performance systems, parallel and distributed
architectures as well as additional subjects in the computer and system
architecture area will fall within the scope of this journal.
Hardware as well as software design techniques, tools and performance
evaluation techniques will be discussed insofar as they are central to
the digital architecture design process. Technology will not be a main
focus, but its use and relevance to particular designs will be.
IEEE
- Computer
magazine
-
- Computers
and Digital Techniques (lead time ~6months to 1year)
- Computer architecture journal focussing on digital design.
- IEEE
Design and Test of Computers
- Computer architecture journal focussing on digital design.
- Micro (lead
time ~6months)
- Computer architecture journal.
- Software
(lead time ~3months)
- Journal covering aspects of computer software.
- IEEE
Transactions on Computers
- Computer architecture journal
- IEEE
Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
-
- IEEE
Transactions on Software Engineering
-
Kluwer
- Journal
of Supercomputing (lead time ~2years)
- An International Journal of High-Performance Computer Design,
Analysis, and Use
Springer-Verlag Heidelberg
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- The series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS),
including its subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
(LNAI) and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI), has
established itself as a medium for the publication of new
developments in computer science and information technology
research and teaching - quickly, informally, and at a high
level.
SYS-CON
- Java
Developer's Journal
- Java Developer's Journal
is the world's premier independent, vendor-neutral print resource for
the ever-expanding international community of Internet technology
professionals using the Java programming language and the Java
development platform.
West World Publications
- Computer
Technology Review
- Computer
Technology Review serves the technology information needs
of Systems Integrators, VARs and OEMs, covering new and emerging
technologies across the entire spectrum of computer systems technology,
both hardware and software.
Wiley
- Concurrency:
Practice and Experience, Concurrency
and Computation: Practice and Experience
- Concurrency is seen in an increasing number of computing and
communication systems. We have tens of millions of clients on the World
Wide Web and many thousands of powerful nodes in high-end massively
parallel machines (MPP). One can project continued rapid progress
within ten years, Exaop performance from the Web and Petaflop
capabilities in closely coupled parallel machines. This leads to a
confusing rich choice of architectures with distributed memory PC
clusters or Web-based computers and shared memory MPPs. These are
enabled and coupled with corresponding boosts in wide-area network
performance and deployment with a blurring and convergence of computing
and communication. This hardware juggernaut is coupled to new languages
and programming paradigms, such as Java and VRML for the Web and
multithreading HPF and MPI for parallel systems. The combination of
concurrent digital and optical technology is expected to create a
Global Information Infrastructure (GII) that will enable new
applications, and open up a new set of communication and computer
software and architecture challenges. We need portable and scalable
(portable to the future and to hybrid heterogeneous world-wide systems)
solutions. This technology is being driven by and used in a wide range
of academic, research, and commercial application areas. This use is
producing a substantial amount of practical experience in those
problems that are enabled or enhanced by this amazing infrastructure.
There are also new computational methods, such as mobile agents,
cellular automata and massively parallel neural networks, which are
particularly suited to concurrent execution. There is a rapid growth in
both scientific (grand challenges) and information (national challenge)
applications that drive both the functionality and high performance of
the base technologies. These will impact academia, business, the homes
and education. New applications are also being opened up by advances in
human-computer interfaces with full immersive environments becoming
available, and tools to support those with disabilities broadening the
reach of the computer and communication revolution. This journal will,
therefore, focus on practical experience with the application of these
converging trends to solve real problems. In particular, themes of our
papers include:
- Concurrent solutions to specific problems in academia,
industry and society
- Concurrent algorithms and computational methods
- Programming environments, operating systems, tools,
concurrent languages, compilers, interpreters
- Performance prediction, analysis, models and results
- Applications, and algorithm and software technologies arising
from the World Wide Web including novel areas, such as education
- Unification of computing and communication; unification of
parallel and distributed computing
- Software:
Practice and Experience
- Software
- Practice and Experience is an internationally respected and
rigorously refereed vehicle for the dissemination and discussion of
practical experience with new and established software for both systems
and applications.
World Scientific
- Parallel
Processing Letters (PPL)
- Parallel
Processing Letters (PPL) aims to rapidly disseminate results on
a worldwide basis in the field of parallel processing in the form of
short papers. It fills the need for an information vehicle which can
convey recent achievements and further the exchange of scientific
information in the field.
People
- Todd C. Mowry
- Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Ken Kennedy
- Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University's Computer Science Department
- Lawrence
Rauchwerger
- Associate Professor at Texas A&M University.
Projects
Architecture
- Agassiz
- The Agassiz project includes several subprojects on superthreaded
architectures and parallelizing compilers.
- Cilk
- Cilk is a language for multithreaded parallel programming based
on ANSI C. Cilk is designed for general-purpose parallel programming,
but it is especially effective for exploiting dynamic, highly
asynchronous parallelism, which can be difficult to write in
data-parallel or message-passing style.
- ClearSpeed / Advance
- A New, High-Performance, Low-Power, Floating-Point Embedded
Processor for Scientific Computing and DSP Applications. Made up of a
large number of Processing Elements (PEs) comprising ALU,MAC,FPU,
Register file, I/O and SRAM.
- Hydra
- The Stanford Hydra Single-Chip Multiprocessor project (publications).
- Multiplex
- The Multiplex Project proposes a novel architecture for future
billion-transistor chips.
- Multiscalar
- Understanding program behavior, observing phenomenon, and
developing novel architectural and microarchitectural techniques to
exploit it.
- M-Machine
- The M-Machine project explores new computer architectures that
match semiconductor technology trends by more efficiently exploiting
increased circuit density through multi-ALU processing nodes and by
minimizing and carefully managing required global communications to
reduce the performance impact resulting from increasing wire delays.
- Niagra
- The Niagara product, what Sun calls a "radical" design, will have
8 processor cores per chip and each core will support 4 software
threads. Niagara will truly be a milticore chip on Viagra. The sun link
contains information on their 'throughput' computing stratedgy, their
2-core chip, as well as there rational for the SMT approach. (http://www.theregister.com/content/3/32390.html)
- PicoChip
- There PC102 chip recently launced contains some 400+ 16 bit
processors, connected by a patented interconnect network on chip. Used
in processing 3G base station tasks.
- Raw
- The Raw Architecture Workstation (Raw) is a simple,
wire-efficient architecture that scales with increasing VLSI gate
densities.
- Speculative
Processors
- The interest of this project is to research on novel
micro-architectural paradigms that can boost the performance limits of
current dynamically-secheduled processors.
- Stampede
- The STAMPede project is investigating the architectural,
compiler, and OS support necessary to effectively exploit single-chip
multiprocessors.
- Thread-Level
Speculation Systems for Multiprocessors
- The project's goal is to take a software-centric view on the
speculative execution model on shared-memory multiprocessors problem,
using as little hardware support as possible to implement this
speculation system.
- Top 500 Supercomputers
- The TOP500 project was started in 1993 to provide a reliable
basis for tracking and detecting trends in high-performance computing (Ad's corner).
Compilers
- Agassiz
- The Agassiz project includes several subprojects on superthreaded
architectures and parallelizing compilers.
- Classpath
- GNU Classpath is a set of essential libraries for supporting the
Java language.
- HARPOON
- High ARithmetic Performance Object-Oriented Numerics.
- High Performance
Java
- Research at Indiana University
- Jikes
RVM
- The Jikes Research Virtual Machine (publications,
presentations,
user's
guide, API)
Operating System
- JDistro
- A desktop in pure Java
- JNode
- A new Java Operating System
- JX
- JX is a Java operating system that focuses on a flexible and
robust operating system architecture. The JX system is developed as an
open source system by the University of Erlangen
and Siemens Corporate Technology.
- Janos
- The Janos project's objective is to develop a principled local
operating system for active network nodes, oriented to executing
untrusted Java bytecode. The primary focus is resource management and
control, with secondary objectives of information security,
performance, and technology transfer of broadly and separately useful
software components.
The Janos Project is primarily sponsored by DARPA as part of the Active
Networks program, with additional support from Novell, Compaq, and
the University of Utah.
Research groups
Architecture
- HPCAG Chalmers
- Hardware and software design methods for mainstream
high-performance computer systems to meet the performance and real-time
demands of emerging applications in e.g. telecommunications,
information processing, multimedia, and process control in a
cost-effective way.
- I-ACOMA
- A group focused on new processor, memory, and system technologies
and organizations to build novel computer architectures.
- Waikato Warp Group
- A group focussed on overcoming the cost and complexity of
parallel software.
Compilers
- CRPC
- At CRPC sites across the nation, computer scientists,
mathematicians, and engineers are working to make parallel computation
accessible to industry, government, and academia and to educate a new
generation of technical professionals.
Operating Systems
- The Flux Research Group
- The Flux Research Group works in software systems.
Our interests and work cover many areas, including both local
and distributed operating systems, networking, component-based
systems, programming and non-traditional languages, compilers,
information and resource security, and even a pinch of software
engineering and formal methods.