8:00 - 6:00 Workshop on Optimizations for DSP and Embedded Systems (ODES-6)

Organizers: Tom Vander Aa (IMEC) and Jagadeesh Sankaran (TI)

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8:00 - 12:00 Dynamo Rio and VMware Tutorial

Using the DynamoRIO Dynamic Tool Platform

The DynamoRIO tool platform was first released to the public in June 2002 and has since been used by many researchers to develop systems ranging from taint tracking to prefetch optimization. VMware is now releasing updated versions of DynamoRIO's Tool API to the academic community. This tutorial will present the DynamoRIO tool platform and describe how to use its API to build custom tools that utilize dynamic code manipulation for instrumentation, profiling, analysis, optimization, introspection, security, and more.

The first part of the tutorial will focus on the challenges of building a runtime tool platform like DynamoRIO. The second part will present DynamoRIO's API, which abstracts away the details of the underlying infrastructure and allows the tool builder to concentrate on analyzing or modifying the application's runtime code stream. We will also seek feedback on how we can improve the DynamoRIO API. The complexity of building a dynamic tool platform is an obstacle to development of runtime tools. We hope that releasing DynamoRIO will facilitate dynamic tool creation.

• Derek Bruening is a member of the security team at VMware. He holds a PhD from MIT, where he was the primary author of DynamoRIO.
• Timothy Garnett holds a MEng from MIT and has been a key contributor to DynamoRIO since the beginning. He is also now at VMware.

8:00 - 12:00 Workshop on Exploiting Parallelism with Transactional Memory and Other Hardware-Assisted Methods (EPHAM)

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8:00 - 12:00 Open-64 Workshop

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1:30 - 6:00 Practical Phoenix Tutorial

1:30 - 6:00 Workshop on Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing Architectures and Compiler Technology (EPIC-7)

1:30 - 6:00 Workshop on Software Tools for Multi-Core Systems (STMCS)

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