HotPar 2012 - 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism

The 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar '12) will bring together researchers and practitioners doing innovative work in the area of parallel computing. Multicore and multithreaded processors are pervasive, and core counts are increasing. This trend is driven by limits on energy consumption in computer systems and the poor energy performance of increasingly complex uniprocessors. Parallel architectures can potentially mitigate these problems, but larger core counts will be successful only if languages, systems, and applications can take advantage of parallel hardware. Navigating this change will require new parallel programming paradigms, new methods of application design, new structures for system software, and new models of interaction among applications, compilers, operating systems, and hardware.
Submissions
We request submissions of position papers that propose new directions for research or products in these areas, advocate non-traditional approaches to the problems engendered by parallelism, or potentially generate controversy and discussion. We encourage submissions from practitioners as well as from researchers. HotPar recognizes the broad impact of multicore computing and seeks relevant contributions in all fields, including application design, languages and compilers, systems, and architecture. We particularly encourage contributions containing highly original ideas that are likely to have a significant impact.
To ensure a productive workshop environment, attendance will be limited to 75 participants. Each potential participant should submit a position paper of five or fewer pages (not including references, which can be on extra pages). Papers will be selected based on the submission's originality, technical merit, topical relevance, and likelihood of leading to insightful technical discussion at the workshop.

The main body of each paper must be no longer than 5 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures and tables, but not including references; two-column format, using 10-point type and a text block 6.5" wide x 9" deep. Author names and affiliations should appear on the title page. Extra pages are only allowed for references.