Agenda
Time Topic Presenter(s)
Wednesday, February 27th  (Note: Presentations in Adobe PDF Format) 
0900 Introduction: Introduction: History, VSIPL resources, Agenda for this meeting Mark Richards (Georgia Tech)
0930 VSIPL Design Principles James Lebak (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Tutorials
1000 Structure of VSIPL Programs James Lebak (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
1015 BREAK  
1030 Memory Concepts and Data:
blocks, views, admit/release, data spaces, data types
Randy Judd (US Navy SPAWAR)
1130 Interfacing to VSIPL

VSIPL MPI and MPI/RT Interoperability paper

Tony Skjellum (MPI Software Technology)
1200 LUNCH  
1300 VSIPL Functional Content & Profiles
Linear Algebra  |  Signal Processing
Sharon Sacco (SKY Computers) & Win Smith (DNA Computing)
1430 BREAK  
1500 Example Application Walk-through: Sonar Beamformer (good vs. bad code) Click here for complete example Randy Judd (US Navy SPAWAR)
1600 TASP VSIPL Reference Implementation Randy Judd (US Navy SPAWAR)
1615 TASP VSIPL Test Suite Dan Campbell (GTRI)
1630 Open Discussion  
1700 ADJOURN  
Thursday, February 28th
User Experiences
0900 VSIPL Performance James Lebak (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
0930 High Performance VSIPL Implementations Carl Ecklund (MCCI)
1000 Common VSIPL Programming Pitfalls Gary Boudreaux (MPI Software Technology)
1100 Open Discussion  
BREAK & Product Overview Poster Session
1130 Invited Vendors:
CSPI
MCCI
DNA Computing Solutions
DY 4 Systems
Mercury Computers
MPI Software Technology
SKY Computers
Spectrum Signal Processing
Company Representatives
1230 Future Development:
Forum plans, related programs
Mark Richards (Georgia Tech)
1300 ADJOURN  

SPEAKERS

  • Dr. Mark Richards, Co-Chair of the VSIPL Forum and a Principal Research Engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute
  • Dr. James Lebak, Co-Chair of the VSIPL Forum and a Member of the Technical Staff at the M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory
  • Mr. Randy Judd, developer of the TASP VSIPL publicly available reference implementation and editor of the VSIPL API document, and a scientist at the U.S. Navy SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego
  • Mr. Dan Campbell, developer of the TASP VSIPL compliance test suite and a Research Engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute
  • Dr. Sharon Sacco, Manager of the Algorithms Group at SKY Computers
  • Dr. Win Smith, Chief Technical Officer of DNA Computing Solutions and author of the IEEE Press book Handbook of Real-Time Fast Fourier Transforms
  • Dr. Anthony Skjellum, President of MPI Software Technology, Inc. and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Mississippi State University.
  • Mr. Carl Ecklund, Technical Director of Management Communications & Control, Inc. (MCCI)
  • Mr. Gary Boudreaux, VSI/Pro Product Manager at MPI Software Technology, Inc.