• Strategies for programming heterogeneous systems using high-level models such as OpenMP, OpenACC, low-level models such as OpenCL, CUDA;
• Methods and tools to tackle challenges in scientific computing at extreme scale;
• Strategies for application behavior characterization and performance optimization for accelerators;
• Techniques for optimizing kernels for execution on GPGPU, Intel® Xeon Phi™, and future heterogeneous platforms;
• Models of application performance on heterogeneous and accelerated HPC systems;
• Compiler Optimizations and tuning heterogeneous systems including parallelization, loop transformation, locality optimizations, Vectorization;
• Implications of workload characterization in heterogeneous and accelerated architecture design;
• Benchmarking and performance evaluation for accelerators;
• Tools and techniques to address both performance and correctness to assist application development for accelerators and heterogeneous processors;
• System software techniques to abstract application domain-specific functionalities for accelerators;

The proceedings of this workshop will be published electronically together with with IPDPS proceedings via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

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 latex or word for details.

Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity.

Submissions can be made at this link.

The best papers of AsHES 2016 will be included in a Special Issue on Topics on Heterogeneous Computing of the Elsevier International Journal on Parallel Computing (PARCO), edited by Sunita Chandrasekaran and Antonio J. Peña. This special issue is dedicated for the papers accepted in the AsHES workshop. The submission to this special issue is by invitation only (Link to Speical Issues List).

Paper Submission: Jan. 08, 2016 AoE

DEADLINE EXTENDED - Paper Submission: Jan. 15, 2016 AoE

FINAL DEADLINE EXTENSION - Paper Submission: Jan. 20, 2016 AoE

Paper Notification: Feb. 18, 2016

Camera-Ready Papers Due: Feb. 25, 2016