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Fault-Tolerant Spaceborne Computing Employing New Technologies, 2011

The Fourth Workshop on
Fault-Tolerant Spaceborne Computing Employing New Technologies, 2011

CSRI Building
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
May 24-25, 2011 (working groups May 23 and 26)

Organized by: JPL, Sandia, LANL, USC/ISI, OGA

lick here for the schedule. For reference, here are the links to the 20102009 and 2008 conference archives.

Organizers

Larry Bergman, JPLHeather Quinn, LANL
Erik DeBenedictis, SandiaSteve Crago, USC/ISI
Marti Bancroft, ConsultantLaney Kidd, Sandia
Richard Stempien, MITRERafi Some, JPL

ANOUNCEMENT

This is advance notice of and issue a call for participation for the fourth space computing workshop, May 24-25, 2011, with working group sessions May 23 and 26, in Albuquerque. Details will appear on this website as time progresses.

Like previous years, the topic will be R&D for next generation spacecraft computing systems, including hardware, software, and cross-cutting issues such as trust.

SOLICITATION FOR PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS

This year, the workshop will include a mix of contributed and invited presentations and papers. The organizers have begun to get commitments from some speakers for invited talks. However, the organizers are issuing through this page an invitation for talks or written papers consistent with the objectives above. If you would like to make a presentation or submit a paper for review, please respond via e-mail to any of the organizers and include a semi-formal proposal.

WORKING GROUPS AND SOLICITATION FOR OTHER WORKING GROUPS

We will have working groups as in past years. Some working groups have been organized already and we are soliciting ideas and participation in organizing others:

  • Software, including middleware and real time operating systems — Larry Bergman and Marti Bancroft POCs.
  • Fault tolerance for space, including system level mitigations — Larry Bergman POC.
  • Trust for space — Heather Quinn and Laney Kidd, POCs.
  • Architecture for space — Erik DeBenedictis and Terry Cooney, POCs.
  • Flight qualification, testing, and experimental validation — Larry Bergman, POC.

The conference has a capacity for up to about another four working groups, and we are soliciting ideas and organizers. If you would like to propose a working group, please contact one of the organizers.

ASSOCIATED USER GROUP AND SOLICITATION FOR USER GROUPS

The workshop organizers have been approached by the Maestro/Tilera user group about holding one of their twice-yearly meetings in conjunction with the space computing conference. The organizers are soliciting other communities of interest that may be interested in meeting in conjunciton with the workshop.

ATTENDENCE AND REGISTRATION FEE

Attendance is by invitation only. If you are in the industry and would like an invitation, please call Erik DeBenedictis (505) 284-4017 or e-mail erikdebenedictis@sandia.gov. We are charging a $155 registration fee to all attendees. This fee has been set to cover the cost of food due principally to gifting regulations pertaining to government participants. Register at the Sandia Webpay website at https://cfwebprod.sandia.gov/cfdocs/ccpwa/ and selecting “Fault-Tolerant Spaceborne Computing Using New Technologies 2011” as the event name.

SENSITIVE INFORMATION

The workshop will include information at various levels of senstitivity.

  • Some sessions on the schedule will indicate the information is sensitive (i. e. export controlled and proprietary). Attendees not eligible to receive specific information will be asked to leave the meeting room as needed.
  • There will be Government session that may be attended by only Government, FFRDC, and SETA employees.
  • While the entire workshop is by invitation only, there may be additional invitation-only sessions not posted on the Internet.

FOREIGN NATIONALS

Foreign nationals will require a badge to enter DOE facilities. Foreign nationals should contact the conference sponsors immediately about a badge and should plan on stopping at the Sandia badge office about 1/2 mile away before first entering DOE premises.

ACCOMMODATIONS

The associated hotel is is the Sheraton at Menaul and Lousiana. Please go to this website: http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/res?id=1104149734&key=AA80E or Call the Sheraton directly 505-881-0000. Group name “SNL Spaceborne Computing Workshop.” Rate: $81 per night.

DIRECTIONS

The workshop will be held at several locations:

  • We expect all evening activities to be at a hotel in the uptown area of Albuquerque.
  • Except as noted above, open portions of the workshop will be held at Sandia’s Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI) building on 1450 Innovation Parkway, Albuquerque, NM 87123 (map below). This facility is outside of Kirtland Air Force Base; visitors please do not try to enter Kirtland Air Force Base as you will probably not succeed and it will cause quite a delay. US Citizens may go directly to the CSRI building; foreign nationals will need to make arrangements for a badge and then go to the badge office.
  • Closed portions of the workshop will be held in other buildings at Sandia; meet at the CSRI building for directions.

POINTS OF CONTACT

  • Erik DeBenedictis, Sandia, erikdebenedictis@sandia.gov, (505) 284-4017
  • Marti Bancroft, MBC, marti at dragonsden dot com
  • Larry Bergman, JPL, Larry.A.Bergman at jpl dot nasa dot gov
  • Steve Crago, USC/ISI, crago at isi dot edu
  • Laney Kidd, Sandia, mckidd at sandia dot gov
  • Heather Quinn, LANL, hquinn at lanl dot gov
  • Rafi Some, JPL, raphael dot r dot some at jpl dot nasa dot gov
  • Richard Stempien, MITRE, rstempie at mitre dot org

Original files at http://itrs.org/ar/spacecomputing/spc11.

Alternate source /ar/spacecomputing/spc11

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Space Computing

Fault-Tolerant Spaceborne Computing Employing New Technologies, 2010

The Third Workshop on…
Fault-Tolerant Spaceborne Computing Employing New Technologies, 2010

CSRI Building
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
May 25-26, 2010 (working groups May 24 and 27)

Organized by: JPL, Sandia, MITRE


Click here for the schedule. For reference, here are the links to the 2009 and 2008 conference archives.

Organizers

Larry Bergman, JPLRichard Stempien, MITRE
Erik DeBenedictis, Sandia

Steering Committee

Marti Bancroft, MBC ConsultingLarry Bergman, JPLErik DeBenedictis, Sandia
Robert Habbit, SandiaAJ Kleinosowski, BoeingHeather Quinn, LANL
Raphael Some, JPLRichard Stempien, MITRE

OVERVIEW AND VISION

Microelectronics advances due to Moore’s Law make it feasible to put much more computing power into embedded systems and hence into space. However, effectively utilizing the increased computing power requires changes in architecture and software and may require reconsideration of radiation hardening issues. This workshop is to serve as a forum for coordinating R&D activities that will enable embedded computing applications to make effective use of new computing technology.

The 2010 workshop is focusing on the following specific issues:

  1. Architecture: Does it make sense to develop a Common Space borne Supercomputer Architecture for the U.S space community (NASA, DoD, DoE, IC)?
  2. Software: What additional software R&D is needed to accommodate emerging multi-core processors and other changes in the underlying hardware?
  3. Fault Tolerance: What additional fault tolerance issues are introduced by advancing computer technology?
  4. IP for Space: Is it feasible to develop and share IP modules compatible with a “plug and play” IP standard across the US Space community? (IP refers to logic designs in FPGAs and ASICs.)
  5. Memory: There will be a special working group on memory advances applicable to space, such as 3D stacking and radiation hardening.
  6. Component trust: What are the vulnerabilities in a spacecraft to using untrusted components and what mitigations are possible?
  7. Other: The organizers are open to participants supplying ideas for other working groups.

The main conference days will be Tuesday and Wednesday, May 25 and 26, 2010.

Working groups will take place on the Monday and Thursday of that week.

ATTENDANCE AND REGISTRATION FEE

Attendance is by gracious invitation only. If you are in the industry and would like an invitation, please call Erik DeBenedictis (505) 284-4017 or e-mail erikdebenedictis@sandia.gov. We are charging a $150 registration fee to all attendees. This fee has been set to cover the cost of food due principally to gifting regulations pertaining to government participants. Register at the Sandia Webpay website at https://cfwebprod.sandia.gov/cfdocs/ccpwa/ and selecting “Fault-Tolerant Spaceborne Computing Using New Technologies 2010 ” as the event name.

SENSITIVE INFORMATION

The workshop will include information at various levels of senstitivity.

  • Some sessions on the schedule will indicate the information is sensitive (i. e. export controlled and proprietary). Attendees not eligible to receive specific information will be asked to leave the meeting room as needed.
  • There will be Government session that may be attended by only Government, FFRDC, and SETA employees.
  • While the entire workshop is by invitation only, there may be additional invitation-only sessions not posted on the Internet.

FOREIGN NATIONALS

Foreign nationals will require a badge to enter DOE facilities. Foreign nationals should contact the conference sponsors immediately about a badge and should plan on stopping at the Sandia badge office about 1/2 mile away before first entering DOE premises.

ACCOMMODATIONS

The hotel accommodations will be a the Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown Hotel, click here to learn more about the event and to book, modify, or cancel a reservation at a group rate until May 19, 2010. All Monday activities and the banquet Tuesday night will be at the Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown Hotel in the uptown area of Albuquerque. The hotel has a directions page.

DIRECTIONS

The workshop will be held at several locations:

  • All evening activities will be at the Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown Hotel in the uptown area of Albuquerque.
  • Except as noted above, open portions of the workshop will be held at Sandia’s Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI) building on 1450 Innovation Parkway, Albuquerque, NM 87123 (map below). This facility is outside of Kirtland Air Force Base; visitors please do not try to enter Kirtland Air Force Base as you will probably not succeed and it will cause quite a delay. US Citizens may go directly to the CSRI building; foreign nationals will need to make arrangements for a badge and then go to the badge office.
  • Closed portions of the workshop will be held in other buildings at Sandia; meet at the CSRI building for directions.

The original files are here http://itrs.org/ar/spc10.

Alternate source /ar/spc10

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Space Computing

Fault-Tolerant Spaceborne Computing Employing New Technologies, 2009

The Second Workshop on…
Fault-Tolerant Spaceborne Computing Employing New Technologies, 2009

CSRI Building
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
May 26-29, 2009

Organized by: JPL, Sandia, MITRE

Steering Committee

Andrew Keys, NASARichard Linderman, AFRL
Bob Habbit, SandiaVaughn Standley, NNSA
Marti Bancroft, MBC

Organizers

Larry Bergman, JPLRichard Stempien, MITRE
Erik DeBenedictis, Sandia

ARCHIVED MATERIALS

  • Presentations (original link http://www.cs.sandia.gov/CSRI/Workshops/2009/FaultTolerantSpaceborne/ apparently not active anymore), where authors have consented to public posting.

ORIGINAL CONFERENCE MATERIAL

The original files are here: http://itrs.org/ar/spc09.

Alternate source /ar/spc09

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Space Computing

Fault-Tolerant Spaceborne Computing Employing New Technologies

The First Workshop on…
Fault-Tolerant Spaceborne Computing Employing New Technologies

CSRI Building
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
May 28-30, 2008

Organized by: JPL, Sandia, MITRE, Aerospace, UIUC, AFRL

Organizing Committee:

Joseph Bannister, AerospaceKen Hunt, AFRL
Larry Bergman, JPLRavi Iyer, UIUC
Erik DeBenedictis, SandiaZbigniew Kalbarczyk, UIUC
John DeMello, AFRLKwok Kee Ma, Sandia
Robert Habbit, SandiaRichard Stempien, MITRE

ARCHIVED MATERIALS

  • Vision and findings document edited from the original findings at the workshop
  • Presentations (original link http://www.cs.sandia.gov/CSRI/Workshops/2008/FaultTolerantSpaceborne/ apparently not active anymore), where authors have consented to public posting
  • There is a password-protected “SharePoint” available for attendees. Contact erikdebenedictis@sandia.gov for a password.

ORIGINAL CONFERENCE MATERIAL

The original files are here: http://itrs.org/ar/spc08.

Alternate source /ar/spc08

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Advanced supercomputing

Frontiers of Extreme Computing 2007

A conference at the Chaminade Executive Conference Center in Santa Cruz, California, October 21-25, 2007. Experts representing computer and computational science met to create a comprehensive picture of future computing. Original files are here. Original files are here: http://itrs.org/ar/fec07.

Alternate source /ar/fec07

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Advanced supercomputing

Supercomputing 2006 Tutorial

This is a file associated with a tutorial at Supercomputing 2006 conference by Erik DeBenedictis, David Keyes, and Peter Kogge. The original files are here. The original files are here http://itrs.org/ar/SC06/SC06.pdf.

Alternate source //ar.zettaflops.org/SC06 /ar/SC06/SC06.pdf

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Advanced supercomputing

Frontiers of Extreme Computing 2005

A conference at the Chaminade Executive Conference Center in Santa Cruz, California, October 23-27, 2005. Experts representing computer and computational science met to create a comprehensive picture of future computing. Original files are here: http://itrs.org/ar/fec05.

Alternate source /ar/fec05

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Advanced supercomputing

Supercomputing 2005 Tutorial

This is a file associated with a tutorial at Supercomputing 2005 by Erik DeBenedictis, David Keyes, and Peter Kogge. The original files are here http://itrs.org/ar/SC05/M09.pdf.

Alternate source //ar.zettaflops.org/SC05 /ar/SC05/M09.pdf

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Advanced supercomputing

The Path to Extreme Supercomputing

A workshop held on October 12, 2004 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, attended by about 30 people. The original files are here: http://itrs.org/ar/PES.

Alternate source /ar/PES