STMCS 2008

STMCS: Third Workshop on Software Tools for MultiCore Systems http://web.mit.edu/rabbah/www/conferences/08/stmcs/

April 6, 2008 Boston, MA

in conjunction with the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO). http://www.cgo.org/

The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss the impact of the multicore architecture paradigm on the software stack with emphasis on new workloads, programming models, compilers, runtime systems, and tools for performance and functional debugging. The workshop will also discuss the impact of multicores on teaching and education.

Topics of interest -- The workshop provides a venue to bring together researchers and practitioners working on enabling technology for multicore systems. Original research contributions or position statements are solicited in areas including but not limited to the following:

* Applications and workloads for multicores * Programming models for implicit and explicit parallelism * Assisted parallelization * Relationship to other parallel computing domains (embedded and HPC) * O/S and runtime systems for multicores * Multicore virtualization * Managing heterogeneity in multicores * Performance tuning of parallel workloads * Debugging parallel software Important Dates ---   * Submission:     February 15, 2008 (Friday), 5:00PM Eastern * Acceptance:    March  3, 2008 * Final version: March 17, 2008

Submission guidelines - To encourage submissions that can foster a good forum for discussion, we are allowing the following submission formats:

* Idea paper: describes forward looking ideas with new insights that depart from mainstream research related to multicores. Idea papers offer novelty rather than technical completeness.

* Position paper: explains and justifies a certain point of view (e.g., multicores will fail, new languages are or are not     needed, only a few software companies will survive, etc.)

* Technical paper: describes ongoing research methodologies with preliminary results and insights.

Submissions should adhere to the ACM format. Idea and position paper submissions should not exceed 2 pages. Technical paper submissions should not exceed 6 pages.

Please send submissions by the deadline to wstmcs@gmail.com. Include a complete list of authors, their affiliations and contact information (e.g., address, telephone number, and email address), and please identify the corresponding author with your submission.

Program committee -   * Rodric Rabbah (chair), IBM Research

* John Mellor-Crummey, Rice * Mattan Erez, UT Austin * Mary Hall, USC/ISI * Edward Lee, UC Berkeley * Timothy Mattson, Intel * Lakshmi Renganarayana, IBM Research * Peter Sweeney, IBM Research * William Thies, MIT

Past chair --   * Mary Hall, USC/ISI

Past workshops --   * STMCS-2007: http://www.isi.edu/~mhall/stmcs07/ * STMCS-2006: http://www.isi.edu/~mhall/stmcs06/

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