CFP: session on reproducible research @ HiPEAC CSW/ACM ECRC in Paris

[gfu...@gmail.com]

Dear colleagues,

 

We are happy to announce second thematic session on reproducible research
in computer engineering that will be held at the spring HiPEAC computing week
in Paris on the 2nd and 3rd of May, co-located with ACM ECRC 2013.

Based on your feedback and suggestions from the first thematic session,

we are starting building an academic and industrial workgroup interested in:

 

1) setting up practical public repository and infrastructure to share
and reproduce experimental results from the community

 

2) sharing common benchmarks, codelets, data sets, tools, interfaces,
predictive models, etc

 

3) preparing common experimental methodology including statistical evaluation
and predictive modeling

 

4) pushing forward new publication model where experimental
results are validated by the community before being published
(similar to conferences and journals in statistics, machine learning,
biology, etc) - the main challenge is how to enable validation or experiments
across multiple ever-changing architectures, tools, benchmarks and data sets

 

If you would like to give a short 10-15 min. talk to share your ideas, 
practical experience or need for such collaborative approaches (both
in industry and academia), please send me a title and a few sentences
on possible discussions (grigori...@inria.fr).
Since the space is very limited, please get in touch as soon as possible
to be sure that we can reserve a time slot for your talk.

 

As the main outcome of this session, we would like to prepare an
online document summarizing all ideas and possible actions (roadmap)
to make computer engineering reproducible. We hope to restore
attractiveness of computer engineering for new students and engineers
making it less ad-hoc and more scientific.

 

We will have 2 sub-sessions during HiPEAC event:

 

1) Thursday 2nd of May (14:00 - 15:30) - main workgroup meeting,
talks and discussions.

 

2) Friday 3rd of May (11:00 - 12:30) - tutorial on the 3rd generation
of cTuning public repository and plugin-based infrastructure
(Collective Mind) to crowdsource characterization and tuning of computer
systems. We will release codelets and benchmarks (CPU, OpenMP, CUDA, OpenCL),
data sets, plugins for off-line and on-line auto-tuning, run-time adaptation
and modeling from our previous research, application for Android mobiles to
demonstrate online collection and analysis of performance data from multiple users,
and a new interactive interface for LLVM and GCC.

 

Registration and participation is free for everyone interested in this topic,
including non-HiPEAC members!

 

More information is available at:
* http://www.hipeac.net/csw/paris13
* http://cTuning.org

 

Looking forward to your participation,
Grigori

 

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Grigori Fursin, PhD
Senior Research Scientist, INRIA, France
http://cTuning.org/lab/people/gfursin