PMAM 2010

Introduction

Rapid advancements in multicore and chip-level multi-threading technologies open new challenges and make multicore systems a part of the computing landscape. From high-end servers to mobile phones, multicores are steadily entering every single aspect of the information technology.

However most programmers are trained in sequential programming, yet most existing parallel programming models are prone to errors such as data race and deadlock. Therefore to fully utilise multicore hardware, parallel programming models that allow easy transition of sequential programs to parallel programs with good performance and development of error-free codes are urgently needed.

This workshop is dedicated primarily to gather researchers and practitioners addressing the main challenges and share experiences in the emerging multicore software engineering and distributed programming paradigm, and in addition, to provide a discussion forum for people interested in programming environments, models, applications and tools specifically designed for parallel multi/many-core hardware environments.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline : August 2, 2010 (extended to August 10, 2010)
Notification of acceptance : September 1, 2010
Camera-ready papers due : September 20, 2010

Topics of interest

The program committee cordially invites any novel research ideas in (but not limited to) the following range of subjects:

• multicore programming models and systems
• multicore software engineering
• performance and utilisation metrics
• performance analysis, efficiency and effectiveness
• multicores: similarities and usefulness of shared memory, distributed memory and hybrid models
• message passing and applicability of known and established distributed programming models to multicore systems
• massively multicore systems: the challenges and opportunities
• automated parallelisation of existing code
• debugging and runtime optimizations tools for multicore applications
• parallel applications and benchmarks on multicore systems
• power saving metrics, protocols and benchmarks of multicore systems and multicore clusters

Program Chair

Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand

Programme Committee (to be extended)

• Kunal Agrawal, Washington University, USA
• Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University, China
• Dongrui Fan, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
• James Goodman, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
• Kenneth Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand
• Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, University of Lyon, France
• Mark Moir, Sun Microsystems / Oracle, USA
• Mariusz Nowostawski, University of Otago, New Zealand
• Mark Utting, Waikato University, New Zealand
• Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia

Manuscript submission

Papers reporting original and unpublished research results and experience are solicited. All paper submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair.

Papers should be up to 8 pages long, double column and follow the IEEE manuscript guidelines. Suitable templates can be found here:

• Word Template (ZIP)
• LaTeX Package (ZIP)

Authors must register and submit their paper through the online submission system. If you have problems accessing the system, e-mail your submission to:
pmam2010 at cs dot otago dot ac dot nz

Proceedings

All accepted papers will be included in conference proceedings of PDCAT 2010, which will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and automatically included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. The proceedings will also be cited by Engineering Information (EI). At least one author of an accepted paper must register at the conference site and present the paper at the workshop. For no-show authors, their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference and their affiliations will receive a notification.

Selected best papers would be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Supercomputing.

Registration

Information about registration at PDCAT 2010 main website.

Contact Us

For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please send your request or enquiry to:
pmam2010 at cs dot otago dot ac dot nz