[Bioclusters] CfP: Emerging Parallel Architectures Workshop at ICCS 2009

[Bertil Schmidt (Assoc Prof)]

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                                  CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Workshop on "Using Emerging Parallel Architectures for Computational
Science"

                           http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/asbschmidt/   

 

                                  held in conjunction with the

International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2009) -
http://www.iccs-meeting.org/  

                          Baton Rouge, Louisiana, May 25-27, 2009

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The computing landscape has undergone significant transformation with
the emergence of more powerful processing elements such as GPUs, FPGAs,
Cell B.E., multi-cores, etc.  On the multi-core front, Moore's Law has
transcended beyond the single processor boundary with the prediction
that the number of cores will double every 18 months.  Going forward,
the primary method of gaining processor performance will be through
parallelism. Multi-core technology has visibly penetrated the global
market.

Accordingly to the latest Top500 lists the HPC landscape has evolved
from supercomputer systems into large clusters of dual or quad-core
processors. Furthermore, GPUs, FPGAs and heterogeneous multi-cores have
been shown to be formidable computing alternatives, where certain
classes of applications witness more than one order of magnitude
improvement over their GPP counterpart.  Therefore, future computational
science centers will employ resources such as FPGAs, GPUs and Cell
architectures to serve as co-processors to offload appropriate
compute-intensive portions of applications from the servers.  

 

This workshop provides a forum for exploring the capabilities of
emerging parallel architectures to accelerate computational science
applications. Papers are being sought on a wide variety of topics
related to the field of using emerging parallel architectures for
computational science including but not limited to:

 

* Application studies on emerging architectures such as GPUs, FPGAs and
Cell B.E.

* Parallel algorithms and methodologies on emerging architectures

* Languages, models, tools, and compilation techniques for emerging
architectures 

* Hybrid computer systems consisting of a combination of GPUs, FPGAs,
etc.

* Use of emerging architectures in clusters, grids and supercomputers

 

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Submission Guidelines:

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Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original,
unpublished research and recent developments. All accepted oral papers
will be printed in the conference proceedings published by
Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The
submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to the
rules of LNCS (for LNCS formatting information see
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0,
00.html). 

Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper. PostScript and source versions of your
paper must be submitted electronically through the ICCS paper submission
system: http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2009/papers/upload.php (choosing
the "Using Emerging Parallel Architectures for Computational Science"
workshop). 

Note that papers must not exceed ten pages in length, when typeset using
the LNCS format. A paper without figures can be around 5500 words
maximally.

 

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Important Dates:

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* Full paper submission:
December 20, 2008

* Acceptance notification:
February 2, 2009               

* Camera ready papers:
February 15, 2009

* Early registration opens:
February 2, 2009

* Early registration ends:
March 15, 2009

 

 

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Workshop Co-Chairs: 

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* Bertil Schmidt, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
asbschmidt at ntu.edu.sg, http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/asbschmidt/  

* Douglas Maskell, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
asdouglas at ntu.edu.sg, http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/asdouglas/   

 

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Program Committee:

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* Manfred Schimmler (University of Kiel, Germany) 

* David Luebke (NVIDIA, USA) 

* Simon See (SUN Microsystems)

* Neil Bergmann (University of Queensland, Australia) 

* Philip Leong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 

* Heiko Schroder (RMIT, Australia) 

* Alexandros Stamatakis (TU Munich, Germany) 

* Dominique Lavenier (IRISA, France) 

* Tarek El-Ghazawi (George Washington University, USA) 

* Jaroslaw Zola (Iowa State Uni, USA) 

* Michela Taufer (University of Delaware, USA) 

* Rick Goh (IHPC, Singapore) 

* Scott Emrich (University of Notre Dame, USA) 

* Ananth Kalyanaraman (Washington State University, USA) 

* Shi Haixiang (NTU, Singapore) 

* Gerrit Voss (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany and NTU, Singapore) 

* Weiguo Liu (NTU, Singapore) 

* Malcolm Low (NTU, Singapore)