Workshop on the Science of Power Management

Agenda

 

 

Thursday, April 9, 2009

 

8:15-8:45

Continental Breakfast and Registration

8:45-9:20

Welcome and Introduction

Jeannette Wing (CISE Assistant Director, NSF)

Taieb Znati (CNS Division Director, NSF)

Krishna Kant (CRS Program Director, NSF)

Kirk Cameron (Organizer, Virginia Tech)

Kirk Pruhs (Organizer, University of Pittsburgh)

9:20-10:10

Digital Infrastructure in a Carbon-Constrained World

- Larry Smarr (UCSD)

10:10-10:40

A Science of Power Management

- Partha Ranganathan (HP)

10:40-11:10

Coffee Break

11:10-12:00

Data Center Power Mangement: Thoughts on the Future

- Dan Reed (Microsoft)

12:00-12:30

Architecting Energy Efficient Computing Platforms

- Rajesh Gupta (UCSD)

12:30-14:00

Box Lunch

14:00-14:30

On the Science of Speed Scaling From an Algorithmist's Viewpoint

- Kirk Pruhs (University of Pittsburgh)

14:30-15:30

Spotlight Talks

1. Design Space Exploration and Dynamic Thermal Management of Multi-core Processors

- Sarma Vrudhula (Arizona State University)

2. Stochastic Processors (or processors that do not always compute correctly by design)

- Rakesh Kumar (University of Illinois)

3. Power Management: A Battery's Perspective

- Song Ci (University of Nebraska‐Lincoln)

4. Multi-agent Approaches to Data Center Energy Management: A Research Agenda

- Jeff Kephart (IBM T.J. Watson)

5. Algorithms for Low-Power Management of On-Disk Data

- Michael Bender (SUNY Stony Brook)

6. Focus Area - User End Systems

- Ken Christensen (University of Southern Florida)

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-18:30

Breakout Session 1

19:00-21:00

Dinner Reception at Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery

(Directions on reverse)

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, April 10, 2009

 

8:15-8:45

Continental Breakfast

8:45-9:15

Briefings byprogram directors from NSF and other

federal agencies

9:15-10:30

Breakout Session 2

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-12:00

Breakout Session 3

12:00-1:00

Summaries of the breakout sessions:
-Software
-Hardware
-Physicals
-Networking
-Storage

 

Presentations by breakout leaders

Final remarks

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday Dinner Reception

Walking directions from workshop (point A) to Rock Bottom Restaurant (point B).

Note: 

Rock Bottom is located in the Ballston Common Mall.