HEART 2012

Call for Papers
The 3rd International Workshop on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies -- HEART2012 -- Okinawa, Japan May 30 - June 1, 2012 (http://www.isheart.org)

Topics
The 3rd International Workshop on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies (HEART) is a forum to present and discuss new research on accelerators and the use of reconfigurable technologies for high-performance and/or power-efficient computation. Submissions are solicited on a wide variety of topics related to the acceleration for high-performance computation, including but not limited to:


 * Architectures and systems:
 * Novel systems/platforms for efficient acceleration based on FPGA, GPU, CELL/B.E and other devices
 * Heterogeneous processors/systems for scalable, high-performance, high-reliability and/or low-power computation
 * Reconfigurable/configurable hardware and systems including IP-cores, embedded systems, SoCs and cluster/grid/cloud computing systems for scalable, high-performance and/or low-power processing
 * High-performance custom-computing processors/systems
 * Novel architectures and device technologies that can be applied to efficient acceleration, including many-core architectures, NoC architectures, 3D-stacking technologies and optical devices


 * Software and applications:
 * Novel applications for efficient acceleration systems/platforms, and custom computing
 * Compiler techniques and programming languages for efficient acceleration systems/platforms, including many-core processors, GPUs, FPGAs and other reconfigurable/custom processors
 * Run-time techniques for acceleration, including Just-in-Time compilation and dynamic partial-reconfiguration
 * Performance evaluation and analysis for efficient acceleration
 * High-level synthesis and design methodologies for heterogeneous, reconfigurable and/or custom processors/systems.

Submissions
We will accept regular and short papers for oral and poster presentation, respectively. All the accepted regular papers will be published in the post-proceedings that will be published as a special issue of ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News (CAN) and will also be available in ACM Digital Library. By submitting your work to the HEART2012 workshop, you grant permission for ACM to publish the material in print and digital formats in ACM's Computer Architecture News and the ACM archive. The short papers will be included in the workshop handout distributed at the workshop. One of the authors must attend the workshop and present their work as a condition of publication.

All papers must be no more than 6 pages (two columns, US letter size, 10 points for main body text) in length and prepared in PDF format. For double-blind review, manuscripts must NOT identify authors; names of authors, affiliations, e-mail addresses and self-references should be blanked out. Papers that identify authors may be rejected without review. Full formatting and submission instructions are available at the HEART2012 web-site.

For more information, please visit (http://www.isheart.org/).

Keynote Speach
In addition to the presentation of accepted papers, we will also have two keynote lectures by: and one industrial talk by:
 * Dr. Tsuyoshi Hamada, Deputy Director of the Nagasaki
 * Advanced Computing Center, Nagasaki University, Japan
 * Prof. Jurgen Becker, Chief Higher Education Officer,
 * Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
 * Tokyo Keiki Inc.
 * A coarse-grained dynamically reconfigurable device company

FPGA Design Contest
Moreover, we will hold the FPGA design-contest "Connect6 Revenge" on 30 May, 2012, http://www.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/~yoshiki/FPGA/Contest_eng/index.php, in conjunction with the technical committee on reconfigurable Systems (RECONF) of IEICE, Japan. The awards ceremony of the contest will be held at the welcome reception on 30 May. Contest participants are required to register by following instructions at this page.

Committees

 * Workshop Co-chairs:
 * Hideharu Amano, Keio University, JP
 * Wayne Luk, Imperial College London, UK


 * Program Co-chairs:
 * Walid Najjar, University of California Riverside, US
 * Yukinori Sato, JAIST, JP
 * David Thomas, Imperial College London, UK


 * Publication Co-chairs:
 * Yuichiro Shibata, Nagasaki University, JP
 * Hironori Nakajo, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, JP


 * Publicity Co-chairs:
 * Yoshiki Yamaguchi, University of Tsukuba, JP
 * Khaled Benkrid, the University of Edinburgh, UK
 * Qiang Liu, Tianjin University, CN


 * Finance Chair:
 * Kentaro Sano, Tohoku University, JP


 * Local Arrangement Chair:
 * Yasunori Osana, University of Ryukyu, JP


 * Design Contest Co-chairs:
 * Tomonori Izumi, Ritsumeikan University, JP
 * Minoru Watanabe, Shizuoka University, JP


 * Program Committee:
 * Ali Akoglu, University of Arizona, USA
 * Philip Brisk, University of California, Riverside, USA
 * Florent de Dinechin, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, FR
 * Yajun Ha, National University of Singapore, SG
 * Martin Herbordt, Boston University, USA
 * Yohei Hori, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, JP
 * Paolo Ienne, EPFL, CH
 * Tomonori Izumi, Ritsumeikan University, JP
 * Nachiket Kapre, Imperial College London, UK
 * Dirk Koch, University of Oslo, NO
 * Herman Lam, University of Florida, USA
 * Philip Leong, University of Sydney, AU
 * Tsutomu Maruyama, University of Tsukuba, JP
 * Smail Niar, University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis, FR
 * Miquel Pericás, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JP
 * Gregory Peterson, University of Tenessee, USA
 * Hayden Kwok-Hay So, University of Hong Kong, HK
 * Yiannis Sourdis, Chalmers University of Technology, SE
 * Henry Styles, Xilinx, USA
 * Bharat Sukhwani, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
 * Thomas D. VanCourt, Akamai Technologies, USA
 * Wim Vanderbauwhede, Glasgow University, UK
 * Minoru Watanabe, Shizuoka University, JP
 * Stephan Wong, Delft University of Technology, NL
 * Masato Yoshimi, Doshisha University, JP
 * Chiwai Yu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, HK