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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
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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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
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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.
Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality,
correctness and clarity.
SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE
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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
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* Submission Deadline: December 7th, 2011
* Author Notification: January 30th, 2012
* Camera-ready Deadline: February 19th, 2012
ORGANIZERS
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STEERING COMMITTEE
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Jiayuan Meng Argonne National Laboratory (co-chair)
Pavan Balaji Argonne National Laboratory (co-chair)
Satoshi Matsuoka Tokyo Institute of Technology
GENERAL CHAIR
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Pavan Balaji Argonne National Laboratory
PROGRAM CHAIRS
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Yunquan Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jiayuan Meng Argonne National Laboratory
PUBLICITY CHAIRS
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Zhou Lei Shanghai University
Sriram Krishnamoorthy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
WEB CHAIR
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Gregory Diamos NVIDIA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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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
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Pavan Balaji Argonne National Laboratory
Satoshi Matsuoka Tokyo Institute of Technology
WEBSITE
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CONTACT
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Please send any queries about the AsHES workshop to ashes12-chairs@mcs.anl.gov
