| Title | (Invited Paper) Programming Multicore SIMD Architectures |
| Author | Reiji Suda (The University of Tokyo, Japan) |
| Abstract | A General introduction to SIMD and multi-threading programming. |
| Title | (Invited Paper) Designing and Optimizing Compute Kernels on Nvidia GPU's |
| Author | *Damir Jamsek (IBM Research Division, United States) |
| Keyword | GPU, NVIDIA |
| Abstract | The availability of high performance compute capability in NVIDIA GPUs has expanded their use in CAD environments. We will describe the basic compute models including host/device programming models, device multi-thread programming models, as well optimization and performance tuning techniques |
| Title | (Invited Paper) Parallelizing Fundamental Algorithms such as Sorting on Multi-core Processors for EDA Acceleration |
| Author | Masato Edahiro (System IP Core Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation/Department of Computer Science, University of Tokyo, Japan) |