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PROGRAM

2nd Workshop on
Highly Parallel Processing on a Chip (HPPC 2008)

August 26, 2008, UAB-ULPGC, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

in conjunction with

the 14th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par)
August 26-29, 2008, UAB-ULPGC, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.


TUESDAY AUGUST 26, 2008

SESSION 1 - Paradigms and algorithms for CMPs

09:30-09:35 Opening remarks - Jesper Träff and Martti Forsell, NEC Europe, VTT
09:35-10:35 Keynote - Models for Parallel and Hierarchical On-Chip Computation - Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova
10:35-11:00 Optimized Pipelined Parallel Merge Sort on the Cell BE - Jörg Keller and Christoph Kessler, FernUniversität in Hagen, University of Linköping

11:00-11:30 -- Break --

SESSION 2 - Programming and execution environments

11:30-11:55 Towards an Intelligent Environment for Programming Multi-core Computing Systems - Sabri Pllana, Siegfried Benkner, Eduard Mehofer, Lasse Natvig, and Fatos Xhafa, University of Vienna, NTNU, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya
11:55-12:20 Adaptive Read Validation in Time-Based Software Transactional Memory - Ehsan Atoofian and Amirali Baniasadi, University of Victoria
12:20-12:45 Compile-time and Run-time Issues in an Auto-parallelisation system for the Cell BE Processor - Alastair Donaldson, Paul Keir, and Anton Lokhmotov, Codeplay Software, University of Glasgow, Imperial College London
12:45-13:10 A unified runtime system for heterogeneous multicore architectures - Cédric Augonnet and Raymond Namyst, LaBRI - INRIA Bordeaux

13:10-14:30 -- Lunch --

SESSION 3 - Hardware perspectives to future of on-chip computing

14:30-14:55 (When) Will CMPs hit the Power Wall? - Cor Meenderinck and Ben Juurlink, Delft University of Technology
14:55-15:55 Keynote - Building a concurrency and resource allocation model into a processor's ISA - Chris Jesshope, University of Amsterdam
15:55-16:00 Closing remarks - Jesper Träff and Martti Forsell, NEC Europe, VTT
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Submission:
June 13, 2008

Notification:
July 21, 2008

Workshop:
August 26, 2008

Final LNCS paper:
September, 2008

Registration:
via Euro-Par

Contact:
chair@hppc-
workshop.org
Sponsors:
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