Workshop on Architectures and Languages for Throughput Applications

(ALTA 2008 )

Held in conjunction with the 2008 International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-35)

Sunday June 22nd, Beijing, China




Programme:
Person
From
Session
Invited Talk Session
Chuck Moore
AMD
Accelerated Computing in the Multi-core Era
Havard Bjerke
CERN
High Throughput Computing for CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Michael Shebanow
NVIDIA
GPU Computing: Pervasive Massively Multithreaded Processors
Douglas Carmean
Intel
TBD
Weiwu Hu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
A Brief Introduction to Loongson Processors (Abstract)
Sun Chan
Simplight Electronics
Towards a sequential programming model for a multi-threaded architecture
Paper session
Gabriel Loh
Georiga Tech
The Cost of Uncore in Throughput-Oriented Many-Core Processors
Paul Peng
Intel
SEE: A Scalable Execution Environment for Heterogeneous Processing Architectures
Wing-Yee Lo, Jiqiang Song, Daniel Pak-Kong Lun, Wan-Chi Siu
Simplight Electronics
SIMD Throughput Bottleneck Improvement Using Vector Load/Store and Configurable SIMD Support
Changhai Zhao, Xiaohua Shi, Haihua Yan, and Lei Wang
Beihang University
Exploiting Coarse-Grained Data Parallelism in Seismic Processing
Oscar Hernandez, Lei Huang, Barbara Chapman
University of Houston
Experiences Tuning an OpenMP Application
 
Workshop Theme

Throughput-oriented applications are attracting broader interest because of the proliferation of multi- and many-core CPUs and GPUs. The reasons are many-fold. Increasing software-exposed parallelism is necessitated by power-constrained design. Moreover, the emphasis on visual quality in entertainment-oriented applications is driving demand on client platforms. Finally, the pre-existing demands for compute cycles in high-performance computing is challenged by the changing programming and optimization landscape found in highly integrated multi-core devices.

 

This workshop seeks an interdisciplinary set of commercial and academic researchers and practitioners working at the frontiers of throughput oriented programming models, applications, and architectures. These include, but are not limited to:

Topics of Interest

l        Multi-core and many-core CPU and GPU architecture

l        Proposed architectural enhancements for throughput computing

l        Power considerations for throughput-oriented designs

l        Data-parallel or collection-oriented programming models

l        GPU programming models

l        Domain specific languages

l        Algorithmic techniques for implementing key building blocks for throughput computing algorithms

l        Selected application case studies on throughput computing architectures, including (but not limited to)

n        Gaming/Graphics

n        Computational finance

n        Seismic processing

n        Image/Video/Signal processing

n        Machine learning

n        Web search and services

 

The workshop will combine a set of peer-reviewed submissions and invited talks.

Program Chair

Anwar Ghuloum (anwar.ghuloum@intel.com) Intel Corporation

Program Committee

Douglas Carmean  Intel Corporation

Tom Conte        North Carolina State University

Mike Houston     AMD

Michael McCool   RapidMind Inc.

Michael Garland  Nvidia

Sun Chan         Simplight Nanoelectronics

Xiaohua Shi      Beihang University

Organizers

Anwar Ghuloum (anwar.ghuloum@intel.com) Intel Corporation

Gansha Wu (gansha.wu@intel.com) Intel Corporation

Michael Liao (michael.liao@intel.com) Intel Corporation

Josh Fryman (joshua.b.fryman@intel.com) Intel Corporation

Call For Paper