MULTIPROG 2011 - Fourth Workshop on Programmability Issues for Heterogeneous Multicores (MULTIPROG-2011)

Fourth Workshop on

Programmability Issues for Heterogeneous Multicores
(MULTIPROG-2011)

To be held in conjunction with:
the 6th International Conference on
High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC)
Heraklion, Crete, Greece, January 23, 2011

Computer manufacturers have already embarked on the multi-core roadmap, promising to add more and more cores/hardware threads on a chip: many-cores are on the horizon. This shift to an increasing number of cores and heterogeneous architectures has placed new burdens on the programming community. Until now, software has been developed with a single processor in mind and it needs to be parallelized and optimized for accelerators such as GPUs to take advantage of the new breed of multi-/many-core computers. As a result, progress in how to easily harness the computing power of multi-core architectures is in great demand.

The fourth edition of the MULTIPROG workshop aims to bring together, and cause fruitful interaction between, researchers interested in programming models and their implementation and in computer architecture, with special emphasis on heterogeneous architectures. A wide spectrum of issues are central themes for this workshop such as what the future programming models should look like to accelerate software productivity, how compilers, run-times and architectures should support these new programming models, innovative algorithm and data structure development, and heterogeneous embedded, accelerated systems.

MULTIPROG is intended for quick publication of early results, work-in-progress, etc, and is not intended to prevent later publication of extended papers. We will prioritize papers addressing cross-cutting issues and that provide thought-provoking insights into the main themes. Proceedings with accepted papers will be made available at the workshop.

This year, for the first time, two AMD Best Paper Awards will be presented to the two most outstanding papers presented at MULTIPROG-2011. Each winner will receive a high-end ATi graphics card sponsored by AMD.

Topics of interest

Papers are sought on topics including, but not limited to:

Multi-core architectures
Architectural support for compilers/programming models
Processor (core) architecture and accelerators, in particular GPUs
Memory system architecture
Performance, power, temperature, and reliability issues
Heterogeneous computing
Algorithms and data structures for heterogeneous systems
Applications for heterogeneous computing and real-time graphics
Programming models for multi-core architectures
Language extensions
Run-time systems
Compiler optimizations and techniques
Benchmarking of multi-/many-core architectures
Tools for discovering and understanding parallelism
Tools for understanding performance and debugging
Case studies and performance evaluation
Important dates

Abstract Submission: October 12, 2010 (extended!)
Submission deadline: October 12, 2010 (extended!)
Notification to authors: November 28, 2010
Final version of accepted papers: TBA
Paper submission

Submitted papers should use the LNCS format and use a maximum of 14 pages. Manuscript preparation guidelines can be found at the LNCS web site (ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/, for both Latex and Word). Please check that (i) pages are numbered, and (ii) graphs etc. remain legible when printed in black and white.

In order to submit your paper please go to http://multiprog.ac.upc.edu/hotcrp11.

Organizers

Eduard Ayguade UPC/Barcelona Supercomputing Center Spain eduard[at]ac.upc.edu
Benedict R. Gaster Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) USA benedict.gaster[at]amd.com
Roberto Gioiosa Barcelona Supercomputing Center Spain roberto.gioiosa[at]bsc.es
Lee Howes Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) USA lee.howes[at]amd.com
Per Stenstrom Chalmers University of Technology Sweden pers[at]chalmers.se
Osman Unsal BSC-Microsoft Research Centre Spain osman.unsal[at]bsc.es
Program committee

Ben Bergen LANL USA
Manuel Chakravarty U. of New South Wales Australia
Mats Brorsson KTH Sweden
Marcelo Cintra U. of Edinburgh UK
Pascal Felber U. of Neuchatel Switzerland
Guang Gao U. of Delawere USA
Roberto Giorgi U. of Siena Italy
Hakan Grahn Blekinge Institute of Technology Sweden
Tim Harris Microsoft Research Cambridge UK
Wen-mei Hwu U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign USA
Mike Houston AMD USA
Paul Kelly Imperial College of London UK
Mikel Lujan U. of Manchester UK
Tim Mattson Intel Research USA
Simon McKintosh-Smith U. of Bristol UK
Avi Mendelson Microsoft Israel
Nacho Navarro UPC/BSC Spain
Dimitris Nikolopoulos FORTH-ICS Greece
Andy Pimentel U. of Amsterdam The Netherlands
Oscar Plata U. of Malaga Spain
Yanos Sazeides U. of Cyprus Cyprus
Andre Seznec INRIA/IRISA France
Nir Shavit Tel Aviv U. Israel
John E. Stone U. of Illinois USA