MSEPT 2012 - International Conference on Multicore Software Engineering, Performance, and Tools (MSEPT'12)

This conference aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to tackle the multicore software challenge. We address a broad spectrum of topics from small-scale systems to large-scale parallel systems, from writing new applications to reengineering legacy applications. We also aim to stimulate discussions between academia and industry to get a better understanding of the software engineering problems and how they can be solved. We welcome contributions making connections between software engineering and other fields, which show how improvements in those fields lead to improvements in software engineering. The conference also addresses software engineering researchers who have not worked in multicore before - but who have the knowledge and expertise to address software engineering challenges posed by multicore. We solicit original, previously unpublished papers of current research.
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Frameworks and libraries for multicore software
GPUs: programming and tools, OpenCL, CUDA, compilers, run-time systems
Parallel patterns
Parallel software architectures
Modeling techniques for multicore software
Software components and composition
Programming models for multicore
Testing and debugging of parallel applications
Verification techniques for multicore software
Software reengineering for parallelism
Performance tuning and auto-tuning
Development environments and tools for multicore software
Tools and techniques for homogeneous/heterogeneous multicore systems
Compiler techniques and auto-parallelization on multicore
Process models for multicore software development
Parallelism in multicore clusters and distributed systems using multicore
Energy issues in multicore programming
Data management on multicore
Software issues at the interface with multicore hardware and operating systems
Multicore software issues in scientific computing
Multicore software on mobile and embedded devices
Experience reports
In addition to full papers, we accept short papers with position statements (4 pages) on any of the above topics.