PMAM 2012 - 2012 International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores

The 2012 International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores
to be held in conjunction with
PPoPP 2012
25-29 February, 2012
New Orleans, Louisiana
Introduction
Rapid advancements in multicore and chip-level multi-threading technologies open new challenges and make multicore systems a part of the computing landscape. From high-end servers to mobile phones, multicores and manycores are steadily entering every single aspect of the information technology.
However most programmers are trained in sequential programming, yet most existing parallel programming models are prone to errors such as data race and deadlock. Therefore to fully utilise multicore and manycore hardware, parallel programming models that allow easy transition of sequential programs to parallel programs with good performance and enable development of error-free codes are urgently needed.
This workshop is dedicated primarily to gather researchers and practitioners addressing the main challenges and share experiences in the emerging multicore and manycore software engineering and distributed programming paradigm. This workshop aims to provide a discussion forum for people interested in programming environments, models, tools and applications specifically designed for parallel multicore and manycore hardware environments.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline : December 9, 2011 (extended to December 19, 2011)
Notification of acceptance : January 3, 2012
Camera-ready papers due : January 13, 2012
Objectives, scope and optics of the workshop
The program committee cordially invites any novel research ideas in (but not limited to) the following topics:
multicore and manycore programming models and systems
multicore and manycore software engineering
performance and utilisation metrics
performance analysis, efficiency and effectiveness
experiments of massively multicore / manycore systems and clusters
automated parallelization and compilation techniques
debugging and runtime optimizations tools for multicore / manycore applications
parallel applications and benchmarks on multicore / manycore systems
power saving metrics, protocols and benchmarks of multicore / manycore systems and clusters
Names and contacts of key organizers
Organization co-chairs
Minyi Guo
Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
guo-my at cs dot sjtu dot edu dot cn
Zhiyi Huang
University of Otago, New Zealand
hzy at cs dot otago dot ac dot nz
Programme Committee (to be extended)
Kunal Agrawal, Washington University, USA
Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University, China
Dongrui Fan, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
Kenneth Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand
Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, University of Lyon, France
Mark Moir, Sun Microsystems / Oracle, USA
Mariusz Nowostawski, University of Otago, New Zealand
Mark Utting, Waikato University, New Zealand
Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia
Manuscript submission
Papers reporting original and unpublished research results and experience are solicited. All paper submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair.
Papers should be up to 10 pages long in standard ACM two-column conference format (preprint mode, with page number and the 9pt template). Templates for ACM format are available for Microsoft Word, and LaTeX at here.
Authors must register and submit their paper through the online submission system. If you have problems accessing the system, e-mail your submission to:
pmam2012 at cs dot otago dot ac dot nz
Proceedings
All accepted papers will be included in conference proceedings of PPoPP 2012, which will be published by ACM Press.
Registration
Information about registration at PPoPP 2012 main website.
Contact Us
For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please send your request or enquiry to:
pmam2012-AT-cs.otago.ac.nz