[HiPEAC-announce] SHCMP (Manycore) Workshop - with ISCA'08 in Beijing - Call for Papers

[Albert Cohen]

Call for Papers

2008 Workshop on Software and Hardware Challenges of Manycore Platforms
(SHCMP'08), Beijing, China, June 22, 2008, sponsored by ACM and IEEE,
co-located with ACM ISCA'08
http://hpc.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/research/cfp/shcmp08/index.html

Processors containing two or more cores are already shipping in volume
and, soon, most mainstream computers will contain manycore processors
containing 8 or more (possibly heterogeneous) cores. This shift to an
increasing number of cores will place new burdens on mainstream software
and will require new software tools for developing systems. In addition,
parallel computing has come a long way boosting the performance for
numerical scientific applications. However, today, mainstream
application programmers are challenged by facing a daunting task of
parallelizing general non-numerical applications and must have
reasonable knowledge of architecture, compilers, threading libraries and
multithreading, it is time to explore new technologies so that general
programs can be multithreaded efficiently and effectively for manycore
platforms. This workshop provides a forum for the presentation of
research on all aspects of software and hardware for developing
applications on manycore platforms. Areas of interest include but are
not limited to the following topics:
- New concurrency abstractions, language and development environments
  for mainstream parallel programming
- Compilers and runtime systems for manycore systems
- Manycore architecture and on-chip memory hierarchy design for manycore
  processors
- Software and hardware for transactional memory
- Speculative multithreading
- Application frameworks, design patterns, and domain-specific languages
  for developing manycore applications
- Data race detectors, debuggers, and performance analysis tools for
  manycore systems
- Software tools for discovering parallelism
- Software abstractions and tools for programming heterogeneous manycore
  systems
- Operating systems and virtual machines for manycore
- Simulation of manycore systems
 
Important Dates
- Paper Submission Deadline: April 18, 2008
- Paper Acceptance Notification: May 18, 2008
- Conference: June 22, 2008
 
Submission Guidelines
Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient
background material to make them accessible to the broader community. In
addition, we solicit
papers from practitioners describing problems and experiences building
tools for manycore systems. Full paper submissions should not exceed 10
pages in standard ACM conference format. Papers should be submitted
electronically through the workshop web site (to be set up). Proceedings
of accepted papers will be made available at the workshop and selected
papers will be published in the special issue of an International
Journal later. Submitted papers must not be simultaneously under review
for any other conferences, and authors should point out any substantial
overlap with their previously published or currently submitted work.
 
Committees
 
Steering Committee:
    Jesse Fang, Intel
    Guang R. Gao, University of Delaware
    Kei Hiraki, University of Tokyo
    Mateo Valero, UPC
    Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University, China
 
General Co-Chair:
    Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Intel
    Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University
 
Program Co-Chair:
    Xinmin Tian, Intel
    Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University
 
Program committee:
    Hong An, USTC
    Eduard Ayguade, UPC
    Aart Bik, Google Inc.
    Albert Cohen, INRIA
    Bronis R. de Supinski, LLNL
    Evelyn Dusterwald, IBM
    Xiaobing Feng, ICT
    Maurice Herlihy, Brown University
    Hironori Kasahara, Waseda University
    Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin
    Vivek Sarkar, Rice U