[hpc-announce] Deadline Extended until November 5th! [CFP] MULTIPROG-2018: 11th International Workshop on Programmability and Architectures for Heterogeneous Multicores

[Miquel Pericas]

On 2017-09-27 17:23, Miquel Pericas wrote:
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> ---------------
>
> The Eleventh International Workshop on
> Programmability and Architectures for Heterogeneous Multicores 
> (MULTIPROG-2018)
>
> To be held in conjunction with:
> the 13th International Conference on
> High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC)
> Manchester, UK, January 24, 2018
>
> Workshop website: http://research.ac.upc.edu/multiprog/
>
> Goal of the Workshop
> --------------------
>
> Computer manufacturers have embarked on the many-core roadmap, 
> promising to add
> more and more cores/hardware threads on their chips. The 
> ever-increasing number
> of cores and heterogeneity in architectures has placed new burdens on the
> programming community. Software needs to be parallelized and optimized 
> for
> accelerators such as GPUs in order 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 eleventh edition of the MULTIPROG workshop aims to bring together 
> researchers
> interested in programming models, runtimes, and computer architecture. 
> The
> workshop's emphasis is on heterogeneous architectures and covers 
> issues such as:
>
>     * How can future parallel programming models improve software 
> productivity?
>
>     * How should compilers, runtimes and architectures support 
> programming
>       models and emerging applications?
>
>     * How to design efficient data structures and innovative algorithms?
>
> MULTIPROG is intended for quick publication of early results, 
> work-in-progress,
> etc., and is not intended to prevent later publication of extended 
> papers.
> Informal proceedings with accepted papers will be made available at 
> the workshop
> and online at the workshop’s web page 
> http://research.ac.upc.edu/multiprog/.
>
>
> Topics of interest
> ------------------
> Papers are sought on topics including, but not limited to:
>     * Multi-core architectures
>         o Architectural support for compilers/programming models
>         o Processor (core) architecture and accelerators, in 
> particular GPUs
>         o Memory system architecture
>         o Performance, power, temperature, and reliability issues
>     * Heterogeneous computing
>         o Algorithms and data structures for heterogeneous systems
>         o Applications for heterogeneous computing and real-time graphics
>     * Programming models for multi-core architectures
>         o Language extensions
>         o Run-time systems
>         o Compiler optimizations and techniques
>     * Benchmarking of multi-/many-core architectures
>         o Tools for discovering and understanding parallelism
>         o Tools for understanding performance and debugging
>         o Case studies and performance evaluation
>
>
> Important dates
> ---------------
> Paper submission: November 5, 2017 AOE [extended deadline]
> Author notification: November 27, 2017
>
>
> Paper submission
> ----------------
> MULTIPROG accepts contributions of regular research papers describing 
> early research on emerging topics.
> When preparing your submission please adhere to the following format 
> specification:
>
> Papers should preferably use LNCS format (up to 12 pages, not
> including references). Single column (up to 12-Pages) or double column 
> (up to
> 6-pages) formats are also accepted.
>
> The authors of the accepted papers will be requested to provide the final
> version of their paper in LNCS format. Please use the templates below:
>
> * LNCS Latex template: 
> ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip
> * Word template: 
> ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/word/splnproc1110.zip
>
> Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=multiprog2018
>
>
> Organizers
> ----------
> Miquel Pericàs            Chalmers University of Technology Sweden   
> miquelp[at]chalmers.se
> Vassilis Papaefstathiou FORTH-ICS Greece   vaspap[at]chalmers.se
> Oscar Palomar             University of Manchester UK       
> oscar.palomar[at]manchester.ac.uk
> Ferad Zyulkyarov          Barcelona Supercomputing Center Spain    
> ferad.zyulkyarov[at]bsc.es
>
>
> Program committee
> ------------------
> Avi Mendelson           Technion Israel
> Christos Kotselidis     University of Manchester UK
> Dong Ping Zhang         eBay USA
> Hans Vandierendonck     Queen’s University Belfast UK
> Pedro Trancoso          University of Cyprus Cyprus
> Trevor E. Carlson       National University of Singapore Singapore
> More to be added
>
> Workshop site
> -----------------
> http://research.ac.upc.edu/multiprog/