Tentative Agenda

 

IFIP WG 2.5 Business meeting

June 1-2, 2004

 
Marvin Center, Room 307

George Washington University

800 21st St. NW

Washington, DC, USA

 

 

Tuesday June 1

 

08:15   Continental breakfast

Social (accompanying persons invited to meet and discuss plan for week)

 

Opening ...

 

09:15   Opening and welcome

Review of the agenda

Minutes of last meeting

 

09:30   Review of WG 2.5 Handbook project (Einarsson)

 

10:30   Status of membership

Nominations of new members

 

10:45   Break

 

Technical Presentations ...

 

11:00   Ian Reid (NAG Ltd), Experiences developing basic math libraries for the AMD64

architecture (see abstract below)

 

12:00   Lunch

            No formal lunch planned.  Members patronize local restaurants.

 

WG  Business …

 

14:00   Review of WG 2.5 Aims and Scope statement

 

14:30   Review of WG 2.5 Technical Projects

 

15:30   Plans for 2005 WG 2.5 Meeting/Workshop in Hong Kong (Mu)

 

16:30   Adjourn

 

19:00   Informal group dinner at local restaurant

 

 

Wednesday June 2

 

08:15   Continental Breakfast

 

Working Group Business ...

 

09:00   Proposal for WoCo9 (Pool)

           

10:00   Membership

            - Vote on new members

             - Discussion of future nominees for membership

 

10:15   Break

 

10:45   Discussion of Future Meetings

            - Future meetings of WG 2.5: 2006 and beyond

            - Other future meetings of interest

- Sessions to be organized by WG 2.5

 

11:00   New business

     

11:30   Adjournment

 

 

13:00   Excursion

            Meet bus at Marvin Center

 

 


Abstracts

 

Experiences developing basic math libraries for the AMD64 architecture

Ian Reid, NAG Ltd.

 

AMD's departure from the Intel model for 64-bit (i.e. IA64) computing necessitated the building of a whole “eco-system” to support developers. NAG has been working with AMD over recent years to deliver the math infrastructure for the AMD64 architecture. This has been an extremely successful collaboration which is ongoing and which continues to deliver exceptional results in terms of both accuracy and performance.

This talk looks at the experiences and results of the work to produce two math libraries: libm, which includes a range of low-level routines such as the trigonometric functions; and ACML (AMD Core Math Library) which currently includes the BLAS, LAPACK and a range of FFTs. We look at the approaches taken, tools employed and the various lessons learned along the way. We also look at some of the results, both in terms of accuracy and performance with comparisons where appropriate.

[The speaker, although not directly involved in the development, has been the NAG project coordinator throughout, has been involved in many of the technical discussions and has even contributed occasionally! He also holds a PhD in computer arithmetic.]