CALL FOR PAPERS


Conference for Junior Researchers

Facing the Multicore Challenge


Heidelberg Academy of Sciences


March 17-19, 2010

Heidelberg, Germany


Call for Papers as PDF


Submission topics

Topics of interest for conference submissions include (but are not limited to):

  • Emerging hardware architectures (Multicore, GPUs, Cell, FPGAs, Accelerators, ...)

  • Parallel programming models, environments and languages (MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, OpenCL, PGAS, ...) for multicore computing
  • Parallelization strategies in hybrid and hierarchical setups
  • Hardware-aware computing and auto-tuning strategies

  • Heterogeneous computing, adaptive and reconfigurable computing

  • Mathematical modeling and design of parallel algorithms
  • Aspects of microprocessor technologies
  • Prospect of manycore technologies
  • Virtualization strategies and hardware transparency

  • Library and tool support

  • Scalability issues
  • Portability of software solutions
  • Performance analysis and modeling
  • Parallel data structures

  • Architecture-aware approaches for parallel numerical simulations, implementation and algorithm design

  • Compiler techniques and code optimization strategies for parallel systems

  • Memory behavior analysis and parallel data access

  • Efficient numerical methods

  • Practice and experience of multicore programming

  • Benchmarking results of scientific applications

  • Parallel applications (e.g. numerical simulation, image processing)
  • Multicore application studies
  • Interdisciplinary approaches and theoretical concepts


 Submission guidelines:

 Papers

You are invited to submit papers in Springer LNCS style of up to 12 pages describing recent work related to the conference theme. Submission must be in pdf format. Please follow the submission instructions. The submission should include the contact person's email address. Each paper will be reviewed by the program committee. All accepted papers will be published in the conference series of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. At least one of the author(s) of an accepted paper is expected to register for the conference and present the paper. In case of any questions please contact the conference organizers.

Short talks

Graduate students and Ph.D. students are encouraged to give a short talk on their current research project. Please follow the submission instructions.


Posters

If you would like to present a poster of your research work please submit your abstract, description or draft by following  the submission instructions. 


Conference proceedings

Conference proceedings will be published in printed form in the series “Akademiekonferenzen” of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.


In case of any questions, please contact the organizers by sending your request to info@multicore-challenge.org.