A4MMC 2011 - A4MMC 2011 2nd Workshop on Applications for Multi-and Many-Core Processors

The Applications for Multi and Many Cores Processors (A4MMC) workshop, held in conjunction with the 38th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2011), focuses entirely on application case studies. With A4MMC, we aim to provide a forum where multi and many core application designers can exchange knowledge, insights and discoveries, and discuss their latest research advances. Further, by collocating A4MMC with ISCA, we aim to directly expose the software community's findings, requirements, and problems to a select audience of top computer architecture researchers. We believe we offer an ideal opportunity for software and hardware researchers to communicate and debate on how to find the right balance between these two sides of the "multi-core revolution".
We encourage authors working on all aspects of applications for multi/many core platforms to submit their unpublished research work. The topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

Applications and algorithms case-studies
Application implementation and optimization on MMCPs
Evaluation and/or implementation of new algorithms on MMCPs
Porting and parallelization strategies
MMCP-aware algorithms
Programming Models and Tools
Evaluations of "classical" parallelization paradigms on MMCPs
Evaluations of existing MMCP programming models
Comparisons of application implementations using different MMCP programming models
Compilers, debuggers, profilers

Performance and Power Analysis
Methodologies, Metrics, and Benchmarking
Comparative studies of MMCPs architectures, focusing on performance, efficiency, and/or power-consumption
Evaluating and tuning application power-footprints
Power-efficient MMCP algorithms

We invite two types of submissions:

Full papers - not exceeding 12 pages, LNCS format, providing application analysis, a presentation of the used algorithms and specific design or implementation techniques, as well as the performance evaluation and/or analysis of the application on the target platform(s). Ideally, papers will indicate essential requirements and/or useful features that should be included in the next generation of hardware for improving application performance, platform efficiency, and/or programming productivity.

Short papers - not exceeding 4 pages (plus 1 additional page for bibliography/annexes only), LNCS format, discussing work in progress for interesting applications. Application analysis and promising parallelization strategies/techniques/models should be included. Preliminary performance results are appreciated, but not mandatory.

For any accepted paper, at least one author is expected to attend the workshop and present the paper.

The organizing committee aims to publish the A4MMC accepted papers in a volume of post-proceedings for multiple ISCA workshops (LNCS) or in a special journal issue. Discussions are in progress. More on this topic will be announced asap.

Important dates
The deadline for both full and short papers is April 16th 2011, 23:59:59 PM CET (check http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.ht... for other time zones). Author notifications are due on April 29th, 2011, and the final versions of accepted papers are expected not later than May 15th, 2011.