Workshop on Programming Models for Emerging Architectures

Third Workshop on
Programming Models for Emerging Architectures
(PMEA)

Co-located with the 20th International Conference on
Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT)
Galveston Island, Texas, USA, October 10, 2011

Current trends in computer architecture incorporate many cores into a single chip some of which can be specialized heterogeneous accelerators. This makes it difficult to program without knowledge of the underlying architecture. The workshop goal is to discuss improvements in programming models that allow to reduce the programmability gap for emerging architectures (e.g., manycore, heterogeneous computing, hierarchical computing, ...). On one hand, the programming model expressiveness can be increased to improve the productivity on such architectures. On the other hand, new runtime optimizations for existing programming models that allow a program to adapt better to the underlying resources are possible.

Topics of interest

Topics of interest to the workshop, in the context of new emerging architectures, include, but are not limited to:

Novel programming models and extensions to existing ones
Compiler, OS, and runtime support for emerging programming models
Architectural support for programming models
Programming relaxed memory models
Application cases for new programming models

Special Issue

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE).

Important dates

Submission deadline (Extended):	Jun. 27, 2011
Notification to authors:	Sep. 5, 2011
Final version of accepted papers:	Sep. 20, 2011

Submission guidelines

Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 10 pages (including figures and references), using a single column format and 10pt font. Manuscripts must be viewable by Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 7.0 or higher).

Please submit your paper here!

Organizers

Xavier Martorell		Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Rosa M. Badia		Centro Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas and Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Marc Gonzàlez		Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Eduard Ayguade		Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Yoav Etsion		Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Program Committee

Rafael Asenjo		Universidad de Malaga
David Bader		Georgia Institute of Technology
Kit Barton		IBM
Calin Cascaval		Qualcomm
David Castells		Uni. Autonoma de Barcelona
Brad Chamberlain		Cray Inc.
Tong Chen		IBM Research
Albert Cohen		INRIA
Bronis de Supinski		LLNL
Maria Jesus Garzaran		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ben Gaster		AMD
Isaac Gelado		CSL - Center for Reliable and High Performance Computing
Gabriele Jost		TACC
Sven Karlsson		TU Denmark
David Kirk		Nvidia
Tim Matson		Intel
Larry Meadows		Intel
Avi Mendelson		Microsoft
Jose Moreira		IBM Watson Research Lab
Raymond Namyst		INRIA
Dimitris Nikolopoulos		FORTH-ICS
Marc Snir		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ana Lucia Varbanescu		TU Delft