[hpc-announce] CFP ASHES 2012: Second International Workshop on Accelerators and Heterogeneous Exascale Systems

[Krishnamoorthy, Sriram]

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                The Second International Workshop on
          Accelerators and Heterogeneous Exascale Systems
                          (ASHES 2012)

                 held in conjunction with the
                      26th International
     Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2012)

                 Shanghai, China, May, 2012

         http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ashes/2012/
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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As we look beyond the petascale era, accelerators and other heterogeneous
parallel systems such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), FPGAs, and upcoming
integrated heterogenous processing cores are expected to play a preeminent 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. This workshop focuses on understanding the
implications of accelerators on the architectures and programming environments
of future systems. It seeks to ground accelerator research through studies of
application kernels or whole applications on such systems, as well as tools and
libraries that improve the performance or productivity of applications trying
to use these systems.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners
who are involved in application studies for accelerators and other heterogeneous
systems, to learn the opportunities and challenges in future design trends for
HPC applications and systems.

SUBMISSIONS
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We are soliciting contributions in areas including but not limited to:

 * Characterizing strategies for implementing and optimizing HPC applications
  for accelerators.

 * Techniques for optimizing kernels for execution on GPUs and future
  heterogeneous platforms.

 * Modeling of applications running on heterogeneous HPC systems.

 * Implication of workload characterization in heterogeneous design issues.

 * Benchmarking and performance evaluation for accelerator units.

 * Tools and techniques to assist application development for accelerators and
  heterogeneous processors.

 * System software techniques to abstract application domain-specific
  functionalities for accelerators.

Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 8 single-spaced double-column pages using
10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including
figures, tables, and references. See the style templates for details.

 * Latex: http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip
 * Word:  http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip

Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ashes2012

Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality,
correctness and clarity.

SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE
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The best papers of AsHES 2012 will be included in a Special
Issue on Applications for the Heterogeneous Computing Era of
the International Journal of High Performance Computing
Applications, edited by Pavan Balaji and Satoshi Matsuoka.

IMPORTANT DATES
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 * Submission Deadline:         December 7th,   2011
 * Author Notification:         January  30th,  2012
 * Camera-ready Deadline:       February 19th,  2012

ORGANIZERS
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STEERING COMMITTEE
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Jiayuan Meng           Argonne National Laboratory   (co-chair)
Pavan Balaji           Argonne National Laboratory   (co-chair)
Satoshi Matsuoka       Tokyo Institute of Technology

GENERAL CHAIR
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Pavan Balaji           Argonne National Laboratory

PROGRAM CHAIRS
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Yunquan Zhang          Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jiayuan Meng           Argonne National Laboratory

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
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Zhou Lei               Shanghai University
Sriram Krishnamoorthy  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

WEB CHAIR
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Gregory Diamos         NVIDIA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Hong An                University of Science and Technology of China, China
David Bader            Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Yifeng Chen            Peking University, China
Wenguang Chen          Tsinghua University, China
Xiaobing Feng          Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
Renato Ferreira        Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Torsten Hoefler        National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA
Kenli Li               Hunan University, China
Yutong Lu              National University of Defense Technologies, China
Naoya Maruyama         Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Dimitris Nikolopoulos  University of Crete/FORTH, Greece
Anand Raghunathan      Purdue University, USA
P. Sadayappan          Ohio State University, USA
Xipeng Shen            College of William and Mary, USA
Bronis de Supinski     Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Vinod Tipparaju        Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Thomas F. Wenisch      University of Michigan, USA


JOURNAL EDITORS
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Pavan Balaji           Argonne National Laboratory
Satoshi Matsuoka       Tokyo Institute of Technology

WEBSITE
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http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ashes/2012/

CONTACT
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Please send any queries about the AsHES workshop to ashes12-chairs at mcs.anl.gov<mailto:ashes12-chairs at mcs.anl.gov>