Panel Tools and Libraries

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Panel Tools and
Libraries

• Leader Jack Dongarra

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Panelist

• Bill Gropp
• Senior Computer Scientist, Argonne National
  Laboratory
• Kathy Yelick
• Professor, Computer Science Division, UC,
  Berkeley
• Sanjay Kale
• Professor, Computer Science Dept, University of
  Illinois U/C
• John McCalpin
• Principal Scientist, AMD
• David Bader
• Associate Professor, Georgia Tech, College of
  Computing
• Bruce Greer
• Principal Engineer, Intel Corp, Manager of Math
  Kernel Library

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Questions to Consider for the
Tools Libraries Panel

• Is Manycore the next CB radio or is it for
  real?
• What will Multicore do to the computing
  ecosystem?
• Can innovative algorithmic techniques exploit the
  opportunities and address the challenges of
  multi-core?
• How will programming models and supporting system
  software change to accommodate the unique
  properties and peculiarities of multi-core
  structures?
• Where will the parallelism come from?
• Hw/Sw/Compiler/OS?
• Is a single programming model the right solution?
• Do we have to use all those 1024 cores?