CFP for ALTA 08

[anwarg]

Workshop on Architectures and Languages for Throughput Applications
(ALTA 2008 )
http://www.sei.buaa.edu.cn/alta08/

Sunday June 22nd, Beijing, China

[ Held in conjunction with the 2008 International Symposium on
Computer Architecture (ISCA-35), http://isca2008.cs.princeton.edu/ ]


Submitted papers will be considered to be published on one or more
special issues of journals or newsletters highlighting "Best of ISCA
2008 Workshops".
Workshop Theme

Throughput-oriented applications are attracting broader interest
because of the proliferation of multi- and many-core CPUs and GPUs.
The reasons are many-fold. Increasing software-exposed parallelism is
necessitated by power-constrained design. Moreover, the emphasis on
visual quality in entertainment-oriented applications is driving
demand on client platforms. Finally, the pre-existing demands for
compute cycles in high-performance computing is challenged by the
changing programming and optimization landscape found in highly
integrated multi-core devices.

This workshop seeks an interdisciplinary set of commercial and
academic researchers and practitioners working at the frontiers of
throughput oriented programming models, applications, and
architectures. These include, but are not limited to:

- Multi-core and many-core CPU and GPU architecture
- Proposed architectural enhancements for throughput computing
- Power considerations for throughput-oriented designs
- Data-parallel or collection-oriented programming models
- GPU programming models
- Domain specific languages
- Algorithmic techniques for implementing key building blocks for
throughput computing algorithms
- Selected application case studies on throughput computing
architectures, including (but not limited to)
- Gaming/Graphics
- Computational finance
- Seismic processing
- Image/Video/Signal processing
- Machine learning
- Web search and services

The workshop will combine a set of peer-reviewed submissions and
invited talks.

Submission of contributions
Interested authors are expected to submit a full paper (not to exceed
8 pages), following the formatting instructions at
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/.
Please e-mail submissions to anwar....@intel.com.

Copies of papers will be made available at the workshop.