High Performance Embedded Computing
Software Initiative (HPEC-SI)

HPEC-SI DEVELOPMENT WORKING GROUP (February 25, 2004, Wednesday)
APPLIED RESEARCH WORKING GROUP and VSIPL FORUM (February 26, 2004, Thursday)

MINUTES

LOCATION: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
Room S2-616
For directions see
http://www.ll.mit.edu/about/visitor.html

ORGANIZERS:

HPEC-SI Development Working Group Co-Chairs
Mark Richards (mark.richards@gtri.gatech.edu)
James Lebak (jlebak@ll.mit.edu)

HPEC-SI Prototypes Working Group Co-Chairs
Bob Bond (rbond@ll.mit.edu)
Ken Flowers (kflowers@mc.com)

HPEC-SI Advisory Board
Jeremy Kepner (kepner@ll.mit.edu)

ATTENDANCE:
Attendance is open to all U.S. Citizens.
If you plan on attending (in person or telecon) please send e-mail to:
kepner@ll.mit.edu

AGENDA:

Wednesday, Feb 25, 2004
(VSIPL FORUM VSIPL++ SPEC WALK THROUGH)
09:00-09:30 BREAKFAST
09:30-10:00 Walk Through Overview/Known Issues (Lebak MIT-LL) PDF / PPT
............-IO Block, Split/Interleave, C VSIPL Limitations, subview type
10:00-05:00 Spec Walk Through PDF / PPT

Review section 1: Dan Campbell, Ken Cain
...Domains and domain operations (pp. 15-26)
...Blocks and Views (pp. 27-68)
...Complex numbers (p. 69)

Review section 2: Randy Judd, Steve Paavola
...Mathematical integral, real, complex, and boolean functions (pp. 71-125)

Review section 3: Bill Harrod, Dave Leimbach
...Matrix and vector functions (pp. 126-137)
...Linear system solvers (pp. 137-163)

Review section 4: Sharon Sacco, Jamie Kenny
...Selection, generation, manipulation (pp. 165-173)
...Random number generation (pp. 175-177)
...Signal processing (pp. 179-203)

Thursday, Feb 26, 2004
Thursday, Feb 26, 2004
(DEVELOPMENT WORKING & APPLIED RESEARCH WORKING GROUP)
09:00-09:30 BREAKFAST
09:30-10:00 HPEC-SI Overview (Kepner MIT-LL)
10:00-10:30 Demo and Eval Status (Pancoast LMCO & Cottel SPAWAR) PDF / PPT
10:30-12:00 VSIPL++ Implementation
...........-VSIPL++ v0.7 implementation status (Oldham CODESOURCERY) PDF /PPT
...........-Status of VSIPL++ compilation (Leimbach MSTI)
...........-IO Block spec (Campbell GTRI / Cain Mercury / Brian MITRE)
...........-Writeup of VSIPL Core Plus Workarounds (Campbell GTRI/ Judd SPAWAR / Sroka MITRE)
12:00-01:00 LUNCH
01:00-01:30 PETE Replacement plan (Rutledge LINCOLN)PDF / PPT
01:30-02:00 Recomended Parallel Scoping Mechanism (Rutledge LINCOLN)
02:00-02:30 Parallel Distribution User support functions (Cain, Paavola, Kinney)
02:30-03:00 BREAK
03:00-05:00 TBD