PPABS @ PPoPP'08

Workshop on Parallel Programming on Accelerator-Based Systems (PPABS)

held in conjunction with PPoPP'08

February 23, 2008, Salt Lake City, UT

Scope

Accelerator-based parallel architectures, including architectures based on heterogeneous multi-core processors, FPGAs and GPUs, are rapidly becoming mainstream components in high-end computing systems. While the potential of accelerators in addressing problems such as memory latency and bandwidth has long been recognized, accelerators present several challenges to programmers. Conventional parallel programming models and libraries, parallel algorithms, and system software need to be restructured and redesigned to exploit the architectural strengths of accelerators. This full-day workshop aims at bringing together researchers from academia and industry to discuss the latest developments in parallel programming models, languages, tools, system software and application development for accelerator-based architectures. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Programming models for accelerator-based architectures, including systems using FPGAs, GPUs, and heterogeneous multi-core architectures such as the Cell BE.
Compiler and runtime support for accelerator-based architectures, including support for scheduling and memory management.
Operating systems and virtualization for accelerator-based architectures.
Performance evaluation of accelerator-based architectures, in particular with relation to conventional shared-memory multiprocessors and clusters.
Performance analysis, profiling and debugging tools.
Application studies on accelerator-based systems.
Power and energy-efficiency of accelerator-based systems.
Productivity studies of programming on accelerator-based systems.

Schedule and Submissions

Papers due:	December 23, 2007
Author notification:	January 10, 2008
Final papers due:	TBA
PPABS workshop:	February 23, 2008

Submitted manuscripts should be formatted according to PPoPP'08 proceedings guidelines. The maximal length is 8 pages. Submissions must be in pdf format and should be emailed to .

Organizers

Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos	Virginia Tech
Jose E. Moreira	IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Calvin Ribbens	Virginia Tech

Program Committee

David Bader	Georgia Tech
Angelos Bilas	University of Crete
Wu-chun Feng	Virginia Tech
William D. Gropp	University of Illinois
Jakub Kurzak	University of Tennessee
Samuel Midkiff	Purdue University
Frank Mueller	North Carolina State University
Vivek Sarkar	Rice University
James Sexton	IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Bronis de Supinski	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jeffrey Vetter	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Clint Whaley	University of Texas at San Antonio

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