International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores (PMAM 2013)

Introduction

Rapid advancements in multicore and chip-level multi-threading technologies open new challenges and make multicore systems a part of the computing landscape. From high-end servers to mobile phones, multicores and manycores are steadily entering every single aspect of the information technology.

However most programmers are trained in sequential programming, yet most existing parallel programming models are prone to errors such as data race and deadlock. Therefore to fully utilise multicore and manycore hardware, parallel programming models that allow easy transition of sequential programs to parallel programs with good performance and enable development of error-free codes are urgently needed.

This workshop is dedicated primarily to gather researchers and practitioners addressing the main challenges and share experiences in the emerging multicore and manycore software engineering and distributed programming paradigm. This workshop aims to provide a discussion forum for people interested in programming environments, models, tools and applications specifically designed for parallel multicore and manycore hardware environments.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline : November 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance : December 1, 2012
Camera-ready papers due : January 1, 2013

Objectives, scope and optics of the workshop

The program committee cordially invites any novel research ideas in (but not limited to) the following topics:

• multicore and manycore programming models and systems
• multicore and manycore software engineering
• performance and utilisation metrics
• performance analysis, efficiency and effectiveness
• experiments of massively multicore / manycore systems and clusters
• automated parallelization and compilation techniques
• debugging and runtime optimizations tools for multicore / manycore applications
• parallel applications and benchmarks on multicore / manycore systems
• power saving metrics, protocols and benchmarks of multicore / manycore systems and clusters

Names and contacts of key organizers

Organization co-chairs

Minyi Guo
Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
guo-my at cs dot sjtu dot edu dot cn

Zhiyi Huang
University of Otago, New Zealand
hzy at cs dot otago dot ac dot nz

Programme Committee (to be extended)

• Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University, China
• Dongrui Fan, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
• Kenneth Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand
• Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, University of Lyon, France
• Mark Moir, Oracle Labs, USA
• Mariusz Nowostawski, University of Otago, New Zealand
• Mark Utting, Waikato University, New Zealand

Manuscript submission

Papers reporting original and unpublished research results and experience are solicited. All paper submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair. Papers must not exceed 10 pages in standard ACM two-column conference format (preprint mode, with page number and the 9pt template). Templates for ACM format are available for Microsoft Word, and LaTeX at here.

Authors must register and submit their paper through the online submission system. If you have problems accessing the system, e-mail your submission to:
pmam2013 at cs dot otago dot ac dot nz

Proceedings

All accepted papers will be published by the ACM Digital Library.

Registration

Information about registration at PPoPP 2013 main website.

Contact Us

For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please send your request or enquiry to:
pmam2013 at cs dot otago dot ac dot nz