CALL FOR PAPERS

3nd full-day Workshop on Highly Parallel Processing on a Chip (HPPC)

August 25, 2009, Delft, The Netherlands
                 http://www.hppc-workshop.org/

to be held in conjunction with the 15th International European
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), August
25-28, 2009, Delft, The Netherlands.
                 http://europar2009.ewi.tudelft.nl/

AIMS AND SCOPE

The decline in the growth of single-processor performance, the growing
concerns with energy consumption, and the still exponential increase
in transistors per chip as per Moore's law, will open the scene for
single-chip processors with a substantial amount of parallelism to
meet the demands for extremely high performance, reliability, and
controlable power consumption in all areas of computing. The major
challenge for the coming years will be the design of architectures
supporting manageable programming abstractions to allow the mainstream
programmer to take advantage of the processing power promised by the
technological developments.

HPPC, the third workshop in the series, co-located with the EuroPar
conference, is *the* workshop dedicated to addressing all aspects of
highly parallel processing on a chip, be it in existing or emerging
multi-core designs, or in bold, new proposals for architectures,
programming models, languages and libraries for managing and
exploiting massive levels of parallelism on a chip.  Particular
emphasis is on the interaction between hardware, architecture
(processors, on-chip networks, cache and memory system), programming
models and languages, and algorithms as well as applications in need
of significant amounts of single-chip parallelism. The workshop will
be conducted in an informal atmosphere, stressing interaction and
discussion between presenters and audience.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
- hardware techniques (e.g. power saving, clocking, fault-tolerance)
- processor core architectures (homogeneous and heterogeneous)
- special purpose processors (accelerators, GPUs)
- on-chip memory and cache (or cache-less) organization, and interconnects
- off-chip memory, I/O, and multi-core interconnects
- overall system design (resource allocation and balancing)
- programming models (e.g. PRAM, BSP, data parallel, vector, transactional)
- languages and software libraries
- implementation techniques (e.g. multi-threading, work-stealing)
- support and performance tools, performance evaluation
- parallel algorithms and applications
- migration of existing codebase
- teaching of parallel computing

for/on highly parallel multi-core systems.

SUBMISSION

Authors are encouraged to submit original, unpublished research or
overviews addressing issues in the design and application of highly
parallel multi-core processors as outlined above. Papers should be
limited to 10 pages, and typeset in the Springer LNCS style (for
details, see www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Accepted papers
that are presented at the workshop, will be published in revised form
in a special Euro-Par Workshop Volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS) series AFTER the Euro-Par conference.

The proceedings of the first HPPC workshop appeared in Springer LNCS
Volume 4854.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please see the workshop www-page: http://www.hppc-workshop.org

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of manuscripts: Friday, 5th June, 2009
Notification of acceptance: Monday, 20th July 2009
Date of workshop: Tuesday 25th August, 2009
Deadline for final version (post-proceedings): September, 2009
Delft, The Netherlands.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Martti Forsell, VTT, Finland
Jesper Larsson Traff, NEC Laboratories Europe, NEC Europe Ltd, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Marc Daumas, University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France
Martti Forsell, VTT, Finland
Peter Hofstee, IBM, USA
Chris Jesshope, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ben Juurlink, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
Christoph Kessler, University of Linkping, Sweden
Dominique Lavenier, IRISA - CNRS, France
Ville Leppnen, University of Turku, Finland
Radu Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Lasse Natvig, NTNU, Norway
Geppino Pucci, University of Padova, Italy
Jesper Larsson Trff, NEC Laboratories Europe, NEC Europe Ltd, Germany
Uzi Vishkin, University of Maryland, USA

CONTACT INFO

Email: ch...@hppc-workshop.org

SPONSORS

VTT
NEC
Euro-Par

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