MULTIPROG 2020

Preliminary Program available!


The Thirteenth International Workshop on Programmability and Architectures for Heterogeneous Multicores

MULTIPROG-2020


To be held in conjunction with:

the 16th International Conference on

High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC)

Bologna, Italy, January 20, 2020


Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/multiprog


The ever-increasing number of cores and heterogeneity demanded by AI and HPC applications has placed new burdens on the programming community. Software needs to be parallelized and optimized for accelerators such as GPUs in order to take advantage of the new breed of multi-/many-core computers. As a result, progress in how to easily harness the computing power of multi-core architectures is in great demand.

The thirteenth edition of the MULTIPROG workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in programming models, runtimes, and computer architecture. The workshop's emphasis is on heterogeneous architectures and covers issues such as:

  • How can future parallel programming models improve software productivity?
  • How should compilers, runtimes and architectures support programming models and emerging applications?

MULTIPROG is intended for quick publication of early results, work-in-progress, etc., and is not intended to prevent later publication of extended papers. Informal proceedings with accepted papers will be made available at the workshop and online at the workshop’s web page https://sites.google.com/view/multiprog

Preliminary Program

10:00 Welcome and Keynote

  • Welcome by MULTIPROG organizers
  • Keynote: Carole-Jean Wu (Facebook AI Infrastructure Research and Arizona State University). Title: At-Scale Infrastructure Challenges for Machine Learning

11:30 Session 1: Full Papers

  • Streaming Computations with Region-Based State on SIMD Architectures, Stephen Timcheck and Jeremy Buhler [PDF].
  • Memory Power-Performance Trade-Off based on SW Task Mapping and Graph Transformation, Gereon Führ, José Aramburú, Rainer Leupers and Juan Fernando Eusse [PDF].
  • Using PHAST to port Caffe library: First experiences and lessons learned, Eduardo José Gómez-Hernández, Pablo Antonio Martínez-Sánchez, Biagio Peccerillo, Sandro Bartolini, José Manuel García and Gregorio Bernabé [PDF].

14:00 Session 2: Short and Position papers

  • Invited talk: Tobias Becker (Maxeler). Title: The LEGaTO Low Energy Toolset for Heterogeneous Computing
  • High-Performance Simultaneous Multiprocessing for Heterogeneous System-on-Chip, Kris Nikov, Jose Nunez-Yanez, Mohammad Hosseinabady, Rafael Asenjo, Andres Rodriguez and Maria Navarro [PDF].
  • Influence of Incremental Constraints on Energy Consumption and Static Scheduling Time for Moldable Tasks with Deadline, Jörg Keller and Sebastian Litzinger [PDF].
  • An OpenMP translator for GAP8 MPSoC. Reinaldo Agostinho de Souza Filho, Diego V. C. Nascimento and Samuel Xavier-de-Souza [PDF].

Topics of interest

Papers are sought on topics including, but not limited to:

  • Multi-core architectures
    • Architectural support for compilers/programming models
    • Processor (core) architecture and accelerators
    • Memory system architecture
    • Performance, power, temperature, and reliability issues
  • Heterogeneous computing
    • Architectures for heterogeneous systems
    • Applications for heterogeneous computing
  • Programming models for multi-core and heterogeneous architectures
    • Language extensions
    • Run-time systems
    • Compiler optimizations and techniques
  • Benchmarking of multi-/many-core and heterogeneous architectures
    • Tools for discovering and understanding parallelism
    • Tools for understanding performance and debugging
    • Case studies and performance evaluation

Preliminary dates

  • Submission deadline: November 1, 2019 November 15, 2019 (extended)
  • Notification to authors: December 10th, 2019

Paper submission

  • Regular research papers:​ Regular research papers should use LNCS format (up to 12 pages, not including references).
  • Short position papers:​ Short position papers should use LNCS format (4-6 pages, not including references). Papers in this category should explicitly indicate "Position Paper" as part of the title of their manuscript.

The authors of the accepted papers will be requested to provide the final version of their paper in ​LNCS format​. Please use the templates below:

  • LNCS Latex template: ​ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip
  • LNCS Word template: ​ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/word/splnproc1703.zip

Submission link: ​https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=multiprog2020

Program Committee

  • Christos Kotselidis, University of Manchester
  • Hans Vandierendonck, Queen’s University of Technology of Belfast
  • Pedro Trancoso, Chalmers University of Technology
  • Sasa Tomic, IBM Research
  • Trevor Carlson, NU Singapore
  • Vasilis Karakostas, NTUA
  • Avi Mendelson, Technion
  • Magnus Jahre, NTNU

Organizers