CALL FOR PAPERS

Third Workshop on Programmability Issues for Multi-Core Computers
(MULTIPROG-2010)

Held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on High-Performance 
and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC) 
Pisa, Italy, January 24, 2010

Workshop website: http://multiprog.ac.upc.edu/

Goal of the Workshop
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Computer manufacturers have already embarked on the multi-core roadmap, promising 
to double the number of processors on a chip every other year, and many-cores are 
on the horizon. This shift to an increasing number of cores and heterogenoeus 
architectures has placed new burdens on the programming community. Until now, 
software has been developed with a single processor in mind and it needs to be 
parallelized (and optimized for accelerators such as GPUs) to take advantage of 
the new breed of multi-/many-core computers. As a result, progress in how to 
easily harness the computing power of multi-core architectures is in great demand.

The third edition of the MULTIPROG workshop aims to bring together, and cause 
fruitful interaction between, researchers interested in programming models and 
their implementation and in computer architecture with the common interest in 
advancing our knowledge how to simplify the task of parallelization of software 
for multi-core platforms. A wide spectrum of issues are central themes for 
this workshop such as what the future programming models should look like to 
accelerate software productivity and how it should be implemented at the 
runtime, the compiler, and the architecture level.  

MULTIPROG is intended for quick publication of early results, work-in-progress, 
etc, and is not intended to prevent later publication of extended papers. We 
will prioritize papers addressing cross-cutting issues and that provide
thought-provoking insights into the main themes. Proceedings with accepted papers 
will be made available at the workshop. Selected papers will appear on a special
issue of Transactions on HiPEAC, after a new review process.

Topics of interest
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Papers are sought on topics including, but not limited to:
    * Multi-core architectures
          o Architectural support for compilers/programming models
          o Processor (core) architecture and accelerators (GPUs, ...)
          o Memory system architecture
          o Performance/power issues
    * Programming models for multi-core architectures
          o Language extensions
          o Run-time systems
          o Compiler optimizations and techniques
          o Tools for discovering and understanding parallelism
    * Benchmarking of multi-/many-core architectures

Organizers
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Eduard Ayguade	UPC and Barcelona Supercomputing Center	Spain	(eduard[at]ac.upc.edu)
Roberto Gioiosa	IBM Research - Watson			USA	(rgioios[at]us.ibm.com)
Per Stenstrom	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden 	(pers[at]chalmers.se)
Osman Unsal	BSC-Microsoft Research Centre		Spain	(osman.unsal[at]bsc.es)

Important dates
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Abstract Submission: October 9, 2009
Extended Submission Deadline: October 18, 2009
Notification to authors: November 27, 2009
Final version of accepted papers: December 18, 2009

Paper submission
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Submitted papers should use the LNCS format and should be 12 pages maximum. Manuscript 
preparation guidelines can be found at the LNCS web site. Please check that (i) pages are 
numbered, and (ii) graphs etc. remain legible when printed in black and white. Additional 
information about paper submission will be available through the workshop website.

Program commitee
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Mohammad Ansari University of Manchester, UK
Francois Bodin, CAPS Entreprise, France
Mats Brorsson, KTH, Sweden
Magnus Ekman, NVIDIA, USA
Pascal Felber University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Guang Gao University of Delaware, USA
Maria Garzaran, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Roberto Giorgi, University of Siena, Italy
Tim Harris Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Stefanos Kaxiras, Univ of Patras, Greece
Mikel Lujan, University of Manchester, UK
Milo Martin, University of Pennslyvania, USA
Ami Marwoka, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Avi Mendelson, Microsoft, Israel
Dimitris Nikolopoulos, FORTH-ICS, Greece
Oscar Plata, University of Malaga, Spain
Andre Seznec, INRIA/IRISA, France<
Nir Shavit Tel Aviv University, Israel
Peng Wu, IBM Research Watson, USA