BeBOP Reading Group

Meeting Times

All meetings are held in 606 Soda except where noted.

BeBOP: Fridays, 12:30--2p

Bibliographies

Some bibliographies (in BibTeX format) of relevant readings as we collect them:

Prior Reading Lists

2001

For Tuesday, June 18, 2002

Tuning overview: optimizing matrix multiply
PowerPoint | HTML | PDF
The optimizing matrix multiply challenge.

For Tuesday, February 19, 2002

"Iterative Compilation in a Non-Linear Optimization Space." [PostScript] [PDF] (PACT 2000)
T. Kisuki, P.M.W. Knijnenberg, M.F.P. O'Boyle.
The authors advocate search-based compilation techniques. (Note: The fonts in the PostScript version display a little more clearly than those in the PDF version.)

For Monday, February 4, 2002

"Improving Performance of Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication" [PostScript] [PDF] (SC 1999)
A. Pinar, M. Heath.
This paper discusses reordering techniques for creating dense block structure in sparse matrices. The reordering problem is formulated as a traveling salesman problem.
(Note: The fonts in the PostScript version display a little more clearly than those in the PDF version.)

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