CALL FOR PAPERS

Fifth Workshop on Programmability Issues for Heterogeneous Multicores
(MULTIPROG-2012)

Held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on High-Performance 
and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC) 
Paris, France, January 23-25, 2012

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 add 
more and more cores/hardware threads on a chip: many-cores are on the horizon. This shift 
to an increasing number of cores and heterogeneous 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 fifth 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 special emphases on heterogeneous architectures. 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, how compilers, run-times and 
architectures should support these new programming models, innovative algorithm and data 
structure development, and heterogeneous embedded, accelerated systems.

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. Informal proceedings with accepted papers will be made available at the workshop. 

One AMD Best Paper Award will be presented to the most outstanding paper presented at 
MULTIPROG'12. The winner will receive a high-end ATi graphics card sponsored by AMD.

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, in particular GPUs
          o Memory system architecture
          o Performance, power, temperature, and reliability issues
    * Heterogeneous computing
	  o Algorithms and data structures for heterogeneous systems
	  o Applications for heterogeneous computing and real-time graphics
    * 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
          o Tools for understanding performance and debugging
	  o Case studies and performance evaluation

Organizers
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Eduard Ayguade 		UPC and Barcelona Supercomputing Center	Spain	(eduard[at]ac.upc.edu)
Benedict R. Gaster	Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)		USA 	(benedict.gaster[at]amd.com)
Lee Howes		Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)		USA	(lee.howes[at]amd.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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Extended Submission deadline: October 15, 2011
Notification to authors: December 12, 2011
Final version of accepted papers: December 27, 2011

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 is available through the workshop website.

Program commitee
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Ben Bergen, LANL, USA
Manuel Chakravarty, U. of New South Wales, Australia
Mats Brorsson, KTH, Sweden
Pascal Felber, U. of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Roberto Giorgi, U. of Siena, Italy
Hakan Grahn, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden	    
Tim Harris, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Paul Kelly, Imperial College of London, UK
Mikel Lujan, U. of Manchester, UK
Tim Mattson, Intel Research, USA
Simon McIntosh-Smith, U. of Bristol, UK
Avi Mendelson, Microsoft, Israel
Dimitris Nikolopoulos, FORTH-ICS, Greece
Andy Pimentel, U. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Oscar Plata, U. of Malaga, Spain
Yanos Sazeides, U. of Cyprus, Cyprus
Nir Shavit, MIT, USA
John E. Stone, U. of Illinois, USA