CACHES 2011 - CACHES 2011 : The First International Workshop on Characterizing Applications for Heterogeneous Exascale Systems

As we look forward to the exascale era, heterogeneous parallel machines are expected to play a massive role in architecting the largest systems in the world. While there is significant interest in these architectures, much of this interest is an artifact of the hype associated with them. Such hype is often resulted from the study of a set of computation kernels. However, without understanding the behavior of detailed kernels or even entire applications on these architectures, it is unclear how future systems would be designed based on these architectures.

For heterogeneous parallel machines to truly be a successful High Performance Computing platform, it is important that we obtain a complete picture of HPC applications and learn the opportunities and challenges these architectures raise. This workshop aims at providing a platform where the characteristics of computational kernels and applications, and how different software stacks impact them, are presented to the research community to guide future heterogeneous HPC system designs.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are involved in application characterizations for heterogeneous exascale systems, to discuss their ongoing research as well as future trends in these designs.