===================================================================== The Second International Workshop on Accelerators and Hybrid Exascale Systems (ASHES 2012) held in conjunction with the 26th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2012) Shanghai, China, May 25th, 2012 http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ashes/2012/ ===================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- As we look beyond the petascale era, accelerators such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and FPGAs, as well as upcoming integrated hybrid processing cores, are expected to play a preeminent role in architecting the largest systems in the world. While there is significant interest in these architectures, much of this interest is an artifact of the hype associated with them. This workshop focuses on understanding the implications of accelerators on the architectures and programming environments of future systems. It seeks to ground accelerator research through studies of application kernels or whole applications on such systems, as well as tools and libraries that improve the performance or productivity of applications trying to use these systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are involved in application studies for accelerators and other hybrid systems, to learn the opportunities and challenges in future design trends for HPC applications and systems. SUBMISSIONS ----------- We are soliciting contributions in areas including but not limited to: * Characterizing strategies for implementing and optimizing HPC applications for accelerators. * Techniques for optimizing kernels for execution on GPUs and future hybrid platforms. * Modeling of applications running on accelerators and hybrid HPC systems. * Implication of workload characterization in hybrid design issues. * Benchmarking and performance evaluation for accelerator units. * Tools and techniques to assist application development for accelerators and hybrid processors. * System software techniques to abstract application domain-specific functionalities for accelerators. Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See the style templates for details. * Latex: http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip * Word: http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ashes2012 Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity. SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE --------------------- The best papers of AsHES 2012 will be included in a Special Issue on Applications for the Heterogeneous Computing Era of the International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, edited by Pavan Balaji and Satoshi Matsuoka. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Submission Deadline: December 14th, 2011 * Author Notification: January 30th, 2012 * Camera-ready Deadline: February 19th, 2012 ORGANIZERS ---------- STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ Jiayuan Meng Argonne National Laboratory (co-chair) Pavan Balaji Argonne National Laboratory (co-chair) Satoshi Matsuoka Tokyo Institute of Technology GENERAL CHAIR ------------- Pavan Balaji Argonne National Laboratory PROGRAM CHAIRS -------------- Yunquan Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences Jiayuan Meng Argonne National Laboratory PUBLICITY CHAIRS ---------------- Zhou Lei Shanghai University Sriram Krishnamoorthy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory WEB CHAIR --------- Gregory Diamos NVIDIA PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Hong An University of Science and Technology of China, China David Bader Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Surendra Byna Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Yifeng Chen Peking University, China Wenguang Chen Tsinghua University, China Xiaobing Feng Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China Renato Ferreira Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Torsten Hoefler National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA Kenli Li Hunan University, China Yutong Lu National University of Defense Technologies, China Naoya Maruyama Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Dimitris Nikolopoulos University of Crete/FORTH, Greece Anand Raghunathan Purdue University, USA P. Sadayappan Ohio State University, USA Xipeng Shen College of William and Mary, USA Bronis de Supinski Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Vinod Tipparaju Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Thomas F. Wenisch University of Michigan, USA JOURNAL EDITORS --------------- Pavan Balaji Argonne National Laboratory Satoshi Matsuoka Tokyo Institute of Technology WEBSITE ------- http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ashes/2012/ CONTACT ------- Please send any queries about the AsHES workshop to ashes12-chairs@mcs.anl.gov