590G - Stream Architectures & Languages
Winter 2005

Tuesdays 12:30-1:20
Allen Center 503

This seminar will cover stream-oriented languages and architectures, as well as languages that have been used for configurable computing.

We will use the PACT03 Tutorial and the 2003 Workshop on Streaming Systems as the starting point, adding and deleting according to our own interests:
http://www.cag.lcs.mit.edu/streamit/talks/pact03tutorial/
http://cag.lcs.mit.edu/wss03/

Overview - Models and Applications

• Mark Horowitz Stanford University Scaling Computers: Why Streaming is Interesting
• Edward Lee, UC Berkeley Streaming Models of Computation in the Ptolemy Project
• Streaming Languages - Stanford Web Site with lots of links: http://graphics.stanford.edu/streamlang/

Schedule

• January 11 – Imagine Architecture [Andrew Schwerin]
  Programmable Stream Processors. IEEE Computer, pages 54-62, August 2003.
  Stream Processors: Programmability with Efficiency, ACM Queue, Vol. 2, No. 1, March 2004, pages 52-62.
  Mark Horowitz Workshop Talk: Scaling Computers: Why Streaming is Interesting
  Billy Dally Workshop Talk: Stream Processor Architecture
  Web Site: http://cva.stanford.edu/imagine/index.html
  
  
• January 18 – Brook, Stream C [Ben Ylvisaker]
  Imagine Stream Programming: http://cva.stanford.edu/imagine/project/imagine_stream_programming.html
  Brook Web Site and Spec: http://merrimac.stanford.edu/brook/
  Dally Brook Lecture

• January 25 – Merrimac (Streaming Supercomputer) [Brian Van Essen]
  Merrimac: Supercomputing with Streams, Supercomputer '03
  Web Site: http://merrimac.stanford.edu/architecture

• February 1 – Vectors and Streams [Andrew Putnam]
  Overcoming the Limitations of Conventional Vector Processors, C. Kozyrakis, D. Patterson. ISCA 2003.
  Christos Kozyrakis (Stanford Workshop Talk): Perspectives on Streaming
  Steve Scott (Cray) Workshop Talk: Vectors as Stream Processors
  IRAM Web Site: http://iram.cs.berkeley.edu/

• February 8 – The StreaMIT Language[Martha Mercaldi]
  StreamIt: A Language for Streaming Applications, 2002 International Conference on Compiler Construction.
  StreamIt Language Specification, Version 2.0
  StreamIt Cookbook
  Web Site: http://cag.lcs.mit.edu/streamit/
  

• February 15 – Score (Berkeley) [Douglas Low]
  A Streaming Multi-Threaded Model, MSP-3, 2001
  Andre DeHon (Caltech) Workshop talk: SCORE: A Scalable Compute Model for Spatial Computing
  SOC 2002 PowerPoint Talk
  

• February 22 – Tripps and Streams [Steve Swanson]
  Universal Mechanisms for Data-Parallel Architectures, MICRO 2003
  Steve Keckler (UTexas) Workshop Talk: Mechanisms for Streaming Architectures
  

• March 1 – Single-Assignment C [Lucas Kreger-Stickles]
  Mapping a Single Assignment Programming Language to Reconfigurable Systems, Supercomputing, 2002.
  Web Site: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/cameron/
  

• March 8 – R-Stream Compiler Project (Resevoir Labs) [Andrew Petersen]
  Web Site: http://www.reservoir.com/r-stream.php
  

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