SICSA 2012 - Comparative parallel implementations on (networks of) multi-cores of selected challenge applications

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Deadline: February 06, 2012 | Date: June 08, 2012

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CALL FOR PAPERS

SICSA MULTICORE CHALLENGE

Programming Language Support for Multicore Parallelism

Special Issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/sicsawiki/index.php/SpecialIssueCPE

The SICSA Multicore Challenge, which aims to assess current

programming language support for multicore parallelism, has been

running since 2010. The aim of the challenge is to compare and

contrast different implementation techniques for harnessing multicore

parallelism, across a range of programming languages and systems. So

far, participants have contributed programming solutions to two

specific parallel problems. Challenge Phase I concerned a text-file

concordance generator. Phase II concerned a planetary n-body

simulator. Precise specifications of both problems are given at:

http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/sicsawiki/index.php/MultiCoreChallenge

We now invite submissions to a special issue of the journal

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1532-0634

Submissions should describe a particular approach, or a set of related

approaches, to solving one or both of the parallel challenges. Of

particular interest are: (i) the program performance, (ii) performance

portability, and (iii) the programmer productivity, of the methods and

implementation techniques used to address each problem. A recommended

paper structure is provided at

http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/sicsawiki/index.php/PaperTemplate

Although we anticipate that existing SICSA Multicore Challenge

participants will submit papers, we also welcome papers from people,

who have not been able to attend the workshops, or engage fully in the

challenge activities to date. In particular, we encourage new

contributors to upload information on their implementations onto the

Wiki. All papers will be judged impartially on merit and relevance by

a reviewing panel assembled for this special issue. Prior levels of

participation will not impact the refereeing process.

Instructions for SICSA Multicore Challenge 2012 special issue

* The editors of the special issue are

Hans-Wolfgang Loidl hw.ac.uk> and

Jeremy Singer glasgow.ac.uk>.

* Papers will be refereed by members of the reviewing panel shown below.

* Please submit your full paper to Manuscript Central

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cpe

as "SICSA Multicore Challenge 2012 special issue".

* The submitted papers must be original work describing

implementations of one or both SICSA Multicore Challenge

problems. The work must not be published anywhere else nor

under any simultaneous consideration in any other venue.

* There is a 30 page max length limit (12 point single

space, inclusive of figures and tables).

* The notification will include reviewer comments from

3 expert referees in the area.

* Wiley has Latex templates at

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291532-0634/homepage/la_tex_class_file.htm

and we anticipate that most authors will make use of

these. Either Latex or Word will be accepted.

* Important dates:

. Submission of full papers: February 6, 2012

. Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2012.

. Revised Camera-ready Papers: May 11, 2012.

. Final Decisions: June 8, 2012.

. Papers are expected to appear within 4 months of final acceptance.

REVIEWING PANEL

Hans-Wolfgang Loidl (co-chair, Heriot-Watt University)

Jeremy Singer (co-chair, University of Glasgow)

Greg Michaelson (Heriot-Watt University)

Paul Cockshott (University of Glasgow)

Kevin Hammond (St Andrews University)

Tim Harris (Microsoft Research)

Murray Cole (University of Edinburgh)