[hpc-announce] Call For Papers - COSMIC 2015

[Pavlos Petoumenos]

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                                 CALL FOR PAPERS

   COSMIC: international workshop on Code OptimiSation for MultI and many Cores

                            held in conjunction with the
      International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) 2015

            Website: http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/cosmic/cosmic15

               San Francisco Bay Area, CA    February 8, 2015
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*** Important Dates
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2014, Anywhere on Earth
Author Notification: January 7, 2015
Workshop: February 8, 2015

Many-core architectures such as mobile SOCs or GPGPUs are quickly becoming the
norm in computing devices and consumer electronics. The community sees this
development as an essential step in sustaining the exponential growth of
performance in an energy efficient way, but at present there is no consensus
on how software can make best use of it. Developing parallel applications
often starts with an existing sequential implementation. A key problem is how
to discover the parallelism potentially available and then convert it into a
form that can be exploited. Once we have a parallel implementation, its
performance and energy efficiency largely depend on how it is mapped to the
available hardware. Given that hardware is increasingly diverse and
heterogeneous, and that in the era of dark silicon energy efficiency affects
the availability of hardware, how can this re-mapping be best achieved.
Solutions to these two problems form the core topic of COSMIC'15. Research
papers on innovative techniques and experience papers on insights obtained by
experimenting with real-world systems and applications are both welcome.

*** TOPICS OF INTEREST:
This workshop aims at examining different solutions to these problems and
includes (but is not limited to):

- programming languages and models
- compilers and tools
- runtime systems
- operating systems
- binary translation
- combinations of the above

for homogeneous, heterogeneous multi-core and many-core based systems.

Regular research papers and work-in-progress short papers are welcome.

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General Co-Chairs
      Zheng Wang, Lancaster University
      Pavlos Petoumenos, The University of Edinburgh

Program Chair
      Hugh Leather, The University of Edinburgh

Program Committee
      Tianshi Chen, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
      Huimin Cui, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
      Mikel Luján, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
      Xavier Martorell, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
      Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
      Ozcan Ozturk, Bilkent University, Turkey
      Barry Porter, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
      Jeremy Singer, Glasgow University, United Kingdom
      Chronis Xekalakis, Nvidia, CA, USA
      Ayal Zaks, Intel, Israel



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