The 5th Annual MIT Student Workshop on Scalable Computing

Preliminary Program

August 8, 1995

  • 8:30-9:00 Breakfast and Registration
  • 9:00-10:30 Session 1
  • The FUGU Scalable Workstation Prototype
    Kenneth Mackenzie, Matthew Frank, Silvina Hanono, John Kubiatowicz, Victor Lee and Jon Michelson.
  • Efficient, Safe, Application-Specific Message Processing
    Dawson R. Engler and Deborah A. Wallach.
  • AVM: Application-Level Virtual Memory
    Dawson R. Engler and Sandeep K. Gupta.
  • Implementing I-structures at Cache Coherence Level
    Xiaowei Shen and Boon S. Ang
  • MATRIX: Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Computing
    Ethan Mirsky and André DeHon
  • A Reversible Computer Architecture
    Carlin Vieri.
  • 10:30-11:00 Break
  • 11:00-12:00 Invited Talk: CHARISMA: A Smart Look at Parallel File-Access
    Michael L. Best.
  • Portable Multibody Simulation Using MPI
    Ruaidhri O'Connor.
  • Parallel Algorithms for the Circuit Value Update Problem
    Keith H. Randall.
  • Addressing Partitioned Arrays in Distributed Memory Multiprocessors - the Software Virtual Memory Approach
    Rajeev Barua.
  • Optimized Hardware Architecture and Communication Protocols for Static Routing
    David Shoemaker.
  • 2:45-3:15 Break
  • 3:15-4:30 Session 3
  • Collecting Cyclic Distributed Garbage
    Umesh Maheshwari.
  • Safe Functional Abstractions in a Polymorphic, Imperative Language
    Shail Aditya.
  • Achieving Independence Efficiently and Securely
    Increasing Cross-Domain Call Batching Using Promises and Batched Control Structures
    Quinton Zondervan.
  • Rover: A Toolkit for Mobile Information Access
    Anthony D. Joseph, Joshua A. Tauber, and Alan deLespinasse.
  • 4:30-5:30 Break and Open Bar
  • 5:30-7:30 Dinner with after dinner speaker Prof. Alan Edelman
    ftchong@lcs.mit.edu