The 24th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques

October 18-21, The Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco, CA, USA

ABOUT PACT

PACT aims to bring together researchers from architecture, compilers, applications and languages to present and discuss innovative research of common interest.

Keynotes:

Brain-Inspired Computing

Dharmendra S. Modha, IBM.

Tuesday, October 20, 8:30-9:30am

Cosmology and Computers:

HACCing the Universe

Salman Habib, Argonne National Laboratory

Wednesday, October 21, 8:30-9:30am

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

Sun Oct 18: Workshops	Mon Oct 19	Tue Oct 20	Wed Oct 21
08:00 Registration	08:00 Welcome - Empire	08:30 5: Keynote - Empire	08:30 Keynote - Empire
09:00 Session	08:30 1A: GPUs - Cypress 1B: Algorithms - Empire	09:30 Break	09:30 Break
10:30 Break	10:00 Break	10:00 6A: Compilers - Cypress 6B: Caches - Empire	09:40 ACM SRC Presentations 10:45 ACM SRC and Best paper Award
11:00 Session	10:30 2A: Profiling - Cypress 2B: Architecture - Empire	11:30 Lunch	11:00 Break
12:30 Lunch	11:30 Lunch	13:00 7A: Resilience - Cypress 7B: Caches - Empire	11:10 9A: Compilers - Cypress 9B: Modeling - Empire
14:00 Session	14:00 3A: Lang&Comp - Cypress 3B: Memory - Empire	15:00 Break	12:40 Safe Travels See you next year in Haifa!
15:30 Break	15:00 Break	16:00 Posters & ACM SRC
16:00 Session	15:30 4: Best Papers - Empire
	18:30 Reception - Starlight Room	18:00 Gala - Empire

FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The Paper
BSSync: Hardware Support for ML Workloads with Bounded Staleness Consistency Models, by Joo Hwan Lee, Jaewoong Sim and Hyesoon Kim
Won the Best Paper Award

POSTER SESSION

WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS (Sunday, October 18th)

Data‐Flow Execution Models for Extreme Scale Computing (DFM 2015) - Full Day

Software Tools and Techniques for HPC, Clouds, and Server-Class SoCs - Full Day

SW Stacks for Next-Gen Production Codes - Full Day

Software Development Environments for High-Performance Computing - Full Day

rCUDA - Make your heterogeneous cluster more flexible with remote GPU virtualization - Afternoon

Algorithmic Specification, Tools and Algorithms for Programming Heterogeneous Platforms - Afternoon

LOCATION INFORMATION

PACT 2015 will be held in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel on Union Square in downtown San Francisco. San Francisco is the cultural, commercial and financial center of Northern California and a worldwide famous tourist destination. SF it known for its mild year long climate, fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of architecture, and landmarks including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, the former prison on Alcatraz Island, and its Chinatown district.

Besides a high quality professional experience, attending PACT 2015 can become a memorable family vacation.

October is one of the best times of the year to visit the Bay Area, as it combines hot beach weather with world famous culinary and artistic events. Nearby attractions include:

CONTACTS

General Chair: Costin Iancu, Katherine Yelick

Program Chair: Marc Snir

Workshops Chair: Jason Mars

ACM SRC Chair: Khaled Ibrahim

Finance Chair: Yili Zheng

Publications Chair: Cindy Rubio-Gonzalez