Workshop on Architectures and Languages for Throughput Applications(ALTA 2008 )
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Submitted papers will be considered to be published on one or more special issues of journals or newsletters highlighting "Best of ISCA 2008 Workshops".
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:
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.
Interested authors are expected to submit a full paper (not to exceed 8 pages), following the formatting instructions at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/. Please e-mail submissions to anwar.ghuloum@intel.com.
Copies of papers will be made available at the workshop.
Paper submission deadline: EXTENDED: April 21, 2008
Author notification: May 7, 2008
Final papers due: May 28, 2008