ALCHEMY Workshop 2014
Held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2014)
Cairns, Australia, 10-12 June 2014

Proceedings

Loïc Cudennec, Paul Dubrulle, François Galea, Thierry Goubier and Renaud Sirdey. Generating Code and Memory Buffers to Reorganize Data on Many-core Architectures. (387)

Vítor Schwambach, Sébastien Cleyet-Merle, Alain Issard and Stéphane Mancini. Application-Level Performance Optimization: A Computer Vision Case Study on STHORM. (96)

Thierry Goubier, Damien Couroussé and Selma Azaiez. τC: C with Process Network Extensions for Embedded Manycores. (348)

Dkhil Ep.Jemal Amira, Xuankhanh Do, Stephane Louise, Dubrulle Paul and Christine Rochange. Self-Timed Periodic Scheduling For Cyclo-Static DataFlow Model. (359)

Call for papers (also on wikicfp)

Massively parallel processors are made of hundreds to thousands cores, integrated memories and a dedicated network on a single chip. They provide high parallel performance while drastically reducing power consumption. Manycore architectures are therefore expected to enter both HPC (cloud servers, simulation, big data..) and embedded computing (autonomous vehicles, signal processing, cellular networks..). In the first session of this workshop, held together with ICCS 2013, we presented several academic and industrial works that contribute to the efficient programmability of manycores. This year, we also focus on preliminary user feedback to see if today available manycore processors meet their expectations.
 

Topics (not limited to)

* Programming languages and paradigms targeting massively parallel architectures
* Advanced compilers for programming languages targeting massively parallel architectures
* Advanced architecture support for massive parallelism management
* Advanced architecture support for enhanced communication for CMP/manycores
* Shared memory, data consistency models and protocols
* New OS, or dedicated OS for massively parallel application
* Runtime generation for parallel programing on manycores
* User feedback on existing manycore architectures
  (experiments with Adapteva Epiphany, ARM big.LITTLE, Intel Phi, Kalray MPPA, ST STHorm, Tilera Gx, TSAR..etc)




Important dates (subject to modifications)

Full paper submission	January 31, 2014 (firm)
Notification of acceptance	February 26, 2014
Camera-ready papers	March 31, 2014
Author registration (ICCS)	February 24 - March 31, 2014
Participant early registration (ICCS)	February 24 - April 25, 2014
ALCHEMY session	June 10 - 12, 2014

Check out the ICCS important dates.



Submission

Papers should be formatted using the ICCS rules.
Please, note that papers must not exceed ten pages in length, when typeset using the Procedia format.

After the conference, selected papers will be invited for a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science.



 
Program Committee (to be extended)

Frédéric BONIOL, ONERA, France
Aparna CHANDRAMOWLISHWARAN, MIT, USA
Loïc CUDENNEC, CEA, LIST, France
Stephan DIESTELHORST, ARM Cambridge, UK
Aleksandar DRAGOJEVIC, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
José FLICH CARDO, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Guy GOGNIAT, Université de Bretagne Sud, France
Bernard GOOSSENS, Université de Perpignan, France
Vincent GRAMOLI, NICTA / University of Sydney, Australia
Jorn W. JANNECK, Lund University, Sweden
Michihiro KOIBUCHI, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Stéphane LOUISE, CEA, LIST, France
Vania MARANGOZOVA-MARTIN, Université Joseph-Fourier Grenoble, France
Marco MATTAVELLI, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Onur MUTLU, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Eric PETIT, Université de Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
Erwan PIRIOU, CEA, LIST, France
Antoniu POP, University of Manchester, UK
Erwan RAFFIN, CAPS entreprise, France
Mickaël RAULET, IETR / INSA de Rennes, France
Etienne RIVIERE, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Thomas ROPARS, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Osamu TATEBE, AIST / University of Tsukuba, Japan

Organizers
Loïc CUDENNEC, CEA, LIST, France
Stéphane LOUISE, CEA, LIST, France

Previous sessions

ICCS/Alchemy 2013, Barcelona, Spain

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