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======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 6th Workshop on UnConventional High Performance Computing 2013 (UCHPC 2013) August 27/28, 2013, Aachen, Germany held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2013, August 26 - August 30, 2013 Aachen, Germany uchpc13.cs.tum.edu ======================================================================== Submission deadline: May 31, 2013 Background ---------- Recent issues with the power consumption of conventional HPC hardware results in both new interest in accelerator hardware and in usage of mass-market hardware originally not designed for HPC. The most prominent examples are GPUs, but FPGAs, DSPs and embedded designs are also possible candidates to provide higher power efficiency, as they are used in energy-restriced environments, such as smartphones or tablets. The so-called "dark silicon" forecast, i.e. not all transistors may be active at the same time, may lead to even more specialized hardware in future mass-market products. Exploiting this hardware for HPC can be a worthwhile challenge. As the word "UnConventional" in the title suggests, the workshop focuses on hardware or platforms used for HPC, which were not intended for HPC in the first place. Reasons could be raw computing power, good performance per watt, or low cost in general. To address this unconventional hardware, often, new programming approaches and paradigms are required to make best use of it. A second focus of the workshop is on innovative, (yet) unconventional new programming models. To this end, UCHPC tries to capture solutions for HPC which are unconventional today but could become conventional and significant tomorrow, and thus provide a glimpse into the eventual future of HPC. Topics ------ The goal of the workshop is to present latest research in how hardware and software (yet) unconventional for HPC is or can be used to reach goals such as best performance per watt. UCHPC also covers according programming models, compiler techniques, and tools. Thus, suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to the following: * Innovative use of hardware and software unconventional for HPC * HPC applications or visualizations in connection with HPC on GPUs (GPGPU), using GPUs embedded on processor dies (as found in AMD Fusion/APUs, NVidia Denver, Intel Ivy Bridge), Intel's MIC and SCC, low power/embedded processors (including DSPs, Adapteva Epiphany), FPGAs (e.g. Convey), Tilera's tile-based many-core processors, IBM Cell BE, accelerators, visualization cards, etc. * Cluster/Grid solutions using unconventional hardware, e.g. clusters of game consoles, nodes using GPUs, Low Power/Embedded Processors, MPSoCs, new many-cores from Intel and/or ARM designs, Mac Minis/AppleTVs, FPGAs etc. * Heterogeneous computing on hybrid platforms * Work on and use of new programming models and paradigms needed to support unconventional hardware, and hybrid/hierarchical combinations with more conventional systems. Examples are OpenACC, OpenCL, Cilk+, and task-based approaches for heterogeneous systems * Performance and scalability studies in HPC using unconventional hardware * Reconfigurable computing for HPC * Performance modeling, analysis and tools for HPC with unconventional hardware * New or adapted/extended (parallel) programming models for HPC with unconventional hardware Best Paper Award ---------------- The first time for UCHPC, there will be a best paper award. For the winner, we have a special surprise: some hardware present related to UCHPC sponsored by AMD. Paper Submission, Registration, and Publication ----------------------------------------------- Workshop papers must not exceed *ten* single-spaced, single-column pages using LNCS proceedings style. Submission implies that at least one author will register for the workshops at Euro-Par 2013 and present the paper in the workshop session, if accepted. Upload your submission to our submission server in PDF format: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uchpc13 It must not be simultaneously submitted to the main conference or any other publication outlet. For the workshop, we will prepare handouts with the revised papers. These will be published after the conference in the workshop proceedings of Euro-Par 2013, part of the LNCS series of Springer. Important Dates --------------- May 31, 2013 : Submission deadline July 8, 2013 : Notification of acceptance August 15, 2013 : Camera ready, revised papers due August 27/28 : UCHPC'13 Workshop UCHPC'13 International Program Committee ---------------------------------------- David A. Bader, Georgia Tech, US Michael Bader, Technische Universität München, DE Denis Barthou, Universite de Bordeaux, FR Alex Bartzas, National Technical University of Athens, GR Lars Bengtsson, Chalmers University of Technology, SE Jens Breitbart, KIT, DE Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, Democritus University of Thrace, GR Karl Fuerlinger, LMU, DE Dominik Goeddeke, TU Dortmund, DE Georg Hager, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE Frank Hannig, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE Anders Hast, Uppsala University, SE Rainer Keller, Hochschule für Technik, Stuttgart, DE Gaurav Khanna, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, US Harald Koestler, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE Manfred Mücke, University of Vienna, AT Andy Nisbet, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Ioannis Papaefstathiou, Technical University of Crete, GR Bertil Schmidt, University Mainz, DE Ioannis Sourdis, Chalmers University of Technology, SE Josef Weidendorfer, Technische Universität München, DE Jan-Philipp Weiss, COMSOL, SE Stephan Wong, Delft University of Technology, NL Ren Wu, AMD, US Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CN Peter Zinterhof jun., University of Salzburg, AT UCHPC'13 Steering Committee --------------------------- Lars Bengtsson, Chalmers University of Technology, SE Anders Hast, Uppsala University, SE Josef Weidendorfer, Technische Universität München, DE Jan-Philipp Weiss, COMSOL, SE Ren Wu, AMD, US UCHPC'13 Workshop Organizers ---------------------------- Jens Breitbart, KIT, DE Anders Hast, University in Gävle, SE Josef Weidendorfer, Technische Universität München, DE Further Information ------------------- See the UCHPC'13 website at http://uchpc13.cs.tum.edu ======================================================================== -- -- Dr. Josef Weidendorfer, Informatik, Technische Universität München TUM I-10 - FMI 01.06.055 - Tel. 089 / 289-18454 ******************************************************************************** The hpc-announce mailing list has been setup to have a common mailing list to share information with respect to upcoming HPC related events. 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