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      Autumn School

    The Autumn School will be held on: 7-8 October 2008 - Free attendance.

    To register go to Apply

    Location:
           7 October 2008 - Auditorium (USI)
           8 October 2008 - SI-003 (Informatics Building, USI)
           Lugano, Via G. Buffi 13 [MAP]



    Self-adaptive, dynamically reconfigurable systems offer the promise of making actually efficient and effective the potential processing power that will be housed on next-generation chips and that risks remaining under-exploited for large segments of applications. By tuning parallelism at run-time to the requirements of the application, one can envision overcoming the low exploitation of resources that often undermines the performances of high-performance chips, at the same time optimizing such aspects as power consumption, capacity of survival to faults. Etc. Yet, to achieve such end one must set up suitably designed and compiled software, extracting parallelism and providing efficient and robust concurrency management, while simultaneously reconfigurable hardware architectures must be devised to support a self-adaptive, highly parallel mode of operation.

    The AETHER-MORPHEUS Autumn School will provide attendants with insight into innovative software and tools for concurrency management and into architectures for self-adaptivity and reconfiguration, based on research carried out in European projects AETHER and MORPHEUS. Further details on the technical program are given below.

    The School targets in particular PhD students interested in the new and challenging field of self-adaptive and reconfigurable systems. Besides formal lectures, some practical activities are planed as well. For PhD student who ask to obtain credits from the Autumn school, assignments will be set up and evaluated.


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    Schedule

    1st Day: School
     Tuesday, October 7, 2008: time 8:00 - 18:00, Location: Auditorium, USI (Universita della Svizzera Italiana), Lugano, Via G. Buffi 13
    •   8.15: Registration
    •   8.45: Welcome and Introduction (Coordinators: Christian/Philippe)
    •   9.00: Keynote 1: C.Gamrat
    Software aspects: Toolchain and System Software
    •   10.00: Talk 1: C. Jesshope, "AETHER: µthreaded run-time environment for adaptive programming"
    •   11.30: Coffee Break
    •   12.00: Talk 2: P. Millet (Thales), "MORPHEUS: MORPHEUS Global Toolset overview"
    •   13.30: Lunch Break
    •   14.45: Talk 3: C.Grelck (University of Hertfordshire) "AETHER SP3 The S-NET environment"
    •   16.30: Coffee Break
    Exploitation of reconfigurability and Chip Design: The hardware aspects
    •   17.00: Talk 4: F. Campi (ST) "Implementation of heterogeneous multi-core processors"
    •   18.30: Closing

    2nd Day: School
     Wednesday, October 8, 2008: time 8:00 - 12:00, Location: SI-003 (Informatics Building), USI (Universita della Svizzera Italiana), Lugano, Via G. Buffi 13

    •   8.30: Talk 5: J.-M. Philippe (CEA LIST), M.Danek (UTIA) "AETHER SP1 Design of adaptive hardware using run-time reconfigurable devices"
    •   10.00: Coffee Break
    •   10.30: Talk 6: S. Whitty, H. Sahlbach (TU Brauschweig) and C. Batariere (Thales) "MORPHEUS: Application Scenarious"
    •   12.00: End of AMWAS 08 School: Final comments (Coordinators)
     

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    Background

    The AETHER - MORPHEUS Workshop - Autumn School (AMWAS) is based on inter / multidisciplinary studies; academic disciplines involved include Pervasive Computing, Reconfigurable Computing, Theory of Computing, and Distributed computing.


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    Assignments

    For PhD students who need to obtain credits from the Autumn school, assignments will be set up and graded (pass/fail) so that attendees can gain credit through their postgraduate schools.


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    Certificates and ECTS

    Certificates of attendance (separately, to the School and to the Workshop) will be provided upon request. For School students who have gone through their Assignment, the certificate will provide also an indication of the evaluation passed and of the Credits (ECTS) corresponding to the School (1.5 ECTS).


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    Participation

    For Autumn School the attendance is free. It includes participation in all lectures and as well course materials, welcome receptions and lunches and coffee breaks. The free attendance does not cover the accomodation aggreement, dinner, and travel.

    In order to access teaching materials present on AMWAS extranet you have to register. To register go to Apply


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    Accommodation

      Accommodation

        Accommodations can be found in nearby hotels.

       The list of the hotels are:

        At Lugano-Central

        Other information about the region is available at the following links:

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