updas 2010 - 2nd Workshop on Ultra Performance and Dependable Acceleration Systems

The 2nd Workshop on Ultra Performance and
Dependable Acceleration Systems
November 2010

held in conjunction with ICNC'10
Hiroshima, Japan

PURPOSE AND SCOPE
The latest accelerators such as GPUs, Cell/B.E., and emerging many-core architectures are very exciting hardware components because of their potential for drastic performance improvement on ultra performance systems. In order to achieve their peak performance, not only their hardware architectures but also software aspects of computational model, operating system, middleware and support tools play important roles. Moreover, dependability is a challenging issue for ultra performance systems and complicated systems with accelerators.

In this workshop, we focus on state-of-the-art issues of hardware architecture, system software, operating system and other related topics for the ultra performance systems and computer systems with accelerators. This workshop welcomes paper submissions about state-of-the-art research, practical implementations, benchmarking of ultra performance and dependable acceleration systems.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

Accelerators for high-performance computing
Program distribution to accelerators
Multi/Many-core architecture for accelerating computation
Dependable environment on accelerators
Operating systems for accelerators
Programming Support tools and programming models for accelerators
Benchmarks for performance and dependability of parallel programming
Embedded systems with accelerating architectures
Practical implementations with accelerating architectures
Network on Chip for accelerating architectures

The workshop also aims at providing a forum for researchers and engineers from academia and industry, as well as work-in-progress papers or case studies related to the issues.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
People who would like to participate in this event are invited to submit a paper (or an extended abstract) to the workshop general chair via email (updas_at_comp.is.uec.ac.jp*1). Submitted papers should follow the IEEE conference format and must not exceed 6 pages in length. Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Papers that are excessively long may be rejected without review.

*1: please replace "_at_" to "-AT-"
Short papers about 2-3 pages for "work-in-progress" research are also welcome. In that case, please indicate that in your submitting mail.

All accepted papers will be included in conference proceedings of ICNC'10, which will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and automatically included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. At least one author of an accepted paper must register at the conference site and present the paper at the workshop.

We are possibly considering a plan to support a part of travel expense.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission Jul. 10, 2010
Acceptance notification Aug. 15, 2010
Camera-ready Sep. 10, 2010

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chair
Tsutomu Yoshinaga, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Program Chair
Kenji Kise, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Publication, Finance and Local Arrangements Chair
Hironori Nakajo, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Publicity Chair
Daisuke Takahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Masato Yoshimi, Doshisha University, Japan
Web Manager
Takefumi Miyoshi, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Program Chair
Kenji Kise, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Program Vice Chair
Takefumi Miyoshi, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Members
Aaron Smith, Microsfot Research, USA
Atsushi Kubota, Hiroshima City University, Japan
Keiji Kimura, Waseda University, Japan
Masato Yoshimi, Doshisha University, Japan
Naoya Maruyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Shinpei Kato, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Takahiro Katagiri, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Takuya Araki, NEC Corp., Japan
Tomoaki Tsumura, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Tor M. Aamodt, University of British Columbia, Canada
Toshinori Sato, Fukuoka University, Japan
Yuichiro Shibata, Nagasaki University, Japan