Multicore's "programmability gap" refers to the mismatch between traditionally sequential software development and today's multicore and accelerated computing environments. New parallel languages break with the conventional HPC programming paradigm by offering high-level abstractions for control and data distribution, thus providing direct support for the specification of efficient parallel algorithms for multi-level system hierarchies based on multicore architectures. Together with the emergence of architecture-aware compilation technology, these developments signify important contributions to bridging this programmability gap.

Last year's "Bridging Multicore's Programmability Gap" workshop examined up-and-coming languages such as Chapel, X-10 and Haskell and their approaches to bridging the gap. The foci of this year's workshop are on user experience in using new languages for challenging applications in a multicore environment, the progress made in the area of the accelerated computing software development lifecycle, as well as new compilation and programming environment technology supporting emerging languages.

Organizers

B. Scott Michel (The Aerospace Corporation)
Hans Zima (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Nehal Desai (The Aerospace Corporation)

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Workshop Schedule

		Speaker and Topic
8:45 AM	9:00 AM	Introductory remarks
9:00 AM	10:00 AM	Kathy Yelick, NERSC
10:00 AM	10:30 AM	Morning Break
10:30 AM	11:15 AM	Brad Chamberlain, Cray
11:15 AM	12:00 PM	Bob Numrich, MSI
12:00 PM	1:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	2:15 PM	Piyush Mehrota, NASA Langley
2:15 PM	3:00 PM	Eric Stahlberg, Wittenberg University and OSC and OpenFPGA
3:00 PM	3:30 PM	Afternoon Break
3:30 PM	4:30 PM	Thomas Sterling, LSU