CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Architecture-aware Simulation and Computing
(AASC'08)

As part of the 2008 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation
(HPCS 2008)

 and in conjunction with the 22nd European Conference on Modeling and Simulation
(ECMS 2008)

 Nicosia, Cyprus
June 3 - 6, 2008

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2008

Background

With multi- and many-core based systems, performance increase on the microprocessor side will continue according to Moore's Law, at least in the near future.  However, the already limited memory access is expected to get worse with multiple cores on a chip, and gets more complex because of the required hierarchies of cache memory.  In addition, the increasingly hybrid and hierarchical design of high-end systems, including accelerator components, is another obstacle for programming.  All mentioned issues will have a major impact on overall performance in future systems.

This means that compute and data intensive tasks can only benefit from the hardware’s full potential if both processor and architecture features are taken into account at all stages – from the early algorithmic design to the final implementation.

Areas of interest for workshop submissions include, but are not limited to:

• Hardware-aware, compute- and memory-intensive simulations of real-world problems from electrical, mechanical, civil, or medical engineering requiring parallel simulation techniques.
• Architecture-aware, and particularly multi-core-aware approaches for large-scale parallel simulations in both implementation and algorithm design, including scalability studies.
• Compiler techniques and code optimization strategies for parallel systems with multi-core processors.
• Tools for performance and cache behavior analysis (including cache simulation) for parallel systems with multi-core processors.
• Parallelization with appropriate programming models and tool support for multi-core and hybrid platforms.

If you have any questions about paper submission or the session, please contact the session organizers.

Important Dates:

Workshop Organizers

Michael Bader
Institut für Informatik - Technische Universität München
Germany
Phone:   +49 - 89 - 289 - 1 86 34
Fax:        +49 - 89 - 289 - 1 86 07
Email:  bader@in.tum.de, Michael.Bader@cs.tum.edu

Josef Weidendorfer
Institut für Informatik - Technische Universität München
Germany
Phone:   +49 89 289 18454
Fax:        +49 89 289 17662
Email: weidendo@cs.tum.edu

Technical Program Committee:

All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the session technical program committee members.

(International Program Committee to be announced shortly.)

If you have any questions about conference paper submission, please contact conference Program Chair: Waleed W. Smari, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469-0226, USA, Voice: (937) 229-2795, Fax: (937) 229-4529, Email: Waleed.Smari@notes.udayton.edu.  For information about the HPCS conference in general, please contact the General Chairs or consult the conference web site at http://cisedu.us/cis/hpcs/08/.

The Multi Conference web site is at http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2008/.