The Lentedagen are an annual multi-day event, dedicated to a specific theme of current interest to the research community of IPA. This year's Lentedagen are dedicated to the subject Mult-Core Computing.

Multi-Core Computing

For decades the performance of computers increased exponentially over time by reducing the number of clock cycles per instruction (from about ten to well below one) and by increasing the clock frequency (from 100 KHz up to multiple GHz). With both trends are exhausted, the only path left to increase compute power is multicore computing. The semiconductor industry routinely proposes single ICs (chips) with up to 64 identical, programmable cores. Many (thousands) of these ICs can be combined to deliver up to 1 peta FLOPs (10^15 floating-point operations per second).

Hardware challenges are numerous, especially related to power consumptions. The fundamental multicore challenge, however, is how to organize an application such that all these cores can work together in a reasonably efficient way? This requires innovation on programming models, compilers, operating system technology, and (application-specific) software architectures. Many of these challenges will be addressed during the 2010 IPA Spring days.

The Springdays aim to provide an overview of research on Multi-Core Computing in and around IPA. Most speakers and talks are now confirmed, this webpage will be updated with titles and abstacts as they become available.

Program

The program was composed by Kees van Berkel (ST-Ericsson, TU/e), Andy Pimentel (Uva) and Michel Reniers (IPA, TU/e).

Wednesday April 21

Thursday April 22

Friday April 23