Call for papers: First Workshop on Software Tools for Multi-Core Systems (STMCS)

STMCS: First Workshop on Software Tools for Multi-Core Systems (STMCS)

http://www.isi.edu/~kintali/stmcs06/

March 26, 2006
Manhattan, New York, NY
in conjunction with IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO)
http://www.cgo.org/

Submission deadline: February 3, 2006, 11:59PM PDT

Program Schedule is here

Venue : Computer Science building of Columbia University on the northeast corner of campus

Call for papers

The drive towards multi-core systems is being led by technology advances such as increasing chip densities and lower design costs of replicated functionality as compared to today's increasingly complex high-end microprocessors. As multi-core systems are already being sold and deployed, the goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss what software tools -- from operating systems and virtual machines on up to programming models -- must be developed to make effective use of the computational power of these new architectures.

The format of the workshop will be a full day, with a set of invited talks, presentations selected from the submissions, and a panel discussion or posters to complete the schedule.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Programming models

Managing heterogeneity

Relationship to other parallel computing strategies (embedded and high-end)

Impact on applications

O/S and Run-time management

Virtual machines

Binary translation

Performance tuning

Important dates and deadlines

Submission: February 3, 2006, 11:59PM PDT
Acceptance: February 24, 2006
Final version: March 10, 2006

Program committee

Mary Hall (chair), USC/ISI

David Callahan, Microsoft
Michael Hind, IBM
Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford University
Scott Mahlke, University of Michigan
Rodric Rabbah, MIT
Byoungro So, Intel

Submission guidelines

Submissions should be extended abstracts or position papers of 2-4 pages, double-column, in 11-point font. Include the list of authors and their affiliations, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, email addresses and the name of the corresponding author. Please send submissions by the deadline to: Mary Hall via email at mhall@isi.edu.