[HiPEAC-announce] [CfP] First International Forum on Next-Generation, Multicore/Manycore Technologies (IFMT'08)

[Ian Rogers]

First International Forum on Next-Generation Multicore/Manycore 
Technologies IFMT'08
Nov 24-25, 2008, Cairo, Egypt


With the tremendous advances in process technology and the
non-scalability of complex monolithic designs, multicore architecture
is becoming the design of choice for high-end machines to embedded
devices. The number of cores per chip is expected to grow, even to
double, every two years. Although these advances are providing us with
a lot of opportunities, they are also giving us a lot of design
challenges, such as bandwidth requirement, power (both static and
dynamic), memory wall, parallelization, etc.

This forum aims to provide an avenue to foster communication among
academia and industry in all aspects of next-generation multicore
technologies, such as the Cell BE processor. Authors are invited to
submit high quality papers representing their original work in (but
not limited to) the following topics targeting muticore/manycore
processors:

* Parallel Programming Models
* Specific applications
* Performance modeling and analysis
* Memory management and models (including software caching and prefetching)
* Thread management and Thread-level speculation (including scheduling 
and load-balancing)
* Cache hierarchy design
* Interconnection and network on chip
* Power-aware design
* Simulation tools
* Compilation techniques
* Homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures
* Security issues

Dates
Paper Submission Deadline:                11 July, 2008
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 15 August, 2008
Camera-ready copy due:                      20 September, 2008

Contact US
For any further information or queries, please contact the conference 
secretary: Shaimaa Yehia (shyehia at eg.ibm.com)

Conference URL:  http://www.ifmt.org/
Local Organizers:
IBM Center for Advanced
Studies in Cairo

General Co-Chairs
Ian Watson, Manchester University, UK
Hisham El-Shishiny, IBM Center for Advanced Studies, Egypt

Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs
Ahmed El-Mahdy, Alexandria University, Egypt
Hossam Aly Fahmy, Cairo University, Egypt

Technical Program Committee:
Michael Perrone, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Virginia Tech, USA
Pedro Medeiros, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Fadi Sibai, UAE University, UAE
Mazen Saghir, AUB, Lebanon
Leila Ismail, UAE University, UAE
Hironori Kasahara,Waseda University, Japan
Seinosuke Narita, Waseda University, Japan
Ian Rogers, Manchester University, UK
David Albonesi, Cornell University, USA
Jayaprakash Pisharath, Intel Corporation, USA
Sandhya Dwarkadas, University of Rochester, USA
Michael Huang, University of Rochester, USA
Salwa Nassar, Electronics  Research Institute, Egypt
Alaa Alameldeen, Intel Corporations, USA
Mohamed Zahran, City University of NY, USA
Sami Yehia, Thales Research and Technology, France
Michael J. Flynn, Stanford University, USA
Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Bill Scherer III, Rice University, USA
Khaled Nabil Salama, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Elmootazbellah Elnozahy, IBM Austin Research Center, USA
Pradip Bose, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Peter Hofstee, IBM system and Technology Group, USA
Tarek El-Ghazawi, The George Washington University, USA
Reda Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, University of Connecticut, USA
Chuck Moore, AMD, USA
David A. Bader, Georgia Tech, USA

Finance and Registration Chair:
Salwa Nassar, Electronics Research Institute, Egypt

Local Committee Chair:
Mohamed Saad El Sherif, Electronics Research Institute, Egypt

Publication and Web Chair:
Ian Rogers, Manchester University, UK

Publicity Chair:
Michael Perrone, IBM Watson Research Center, USA

Conference Secretary:
Shaimaa Yehia,    IBM, Egypt
Local Organizers: IBM Center for Advanced Studies in Cairo
IEEE GOLD EGYPT Electronics Research Institute, Egypt