Second USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar ’10)
June 14-15, Berkeley, CA

Website: http://www.usenix.org/event/hotpar10/

Following the tremendous success of HotPar ’09, the Second USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar ’10) will once again bring together researchers and practitioners doing innovative work in the area of parallel computing. Multicore processors are the pervasive computing platform of the future. This trend is driven by limits on energy consumption in computer systems and the poor energy performance of conventional microprocessors. Parallel architectures can potentially mitigate these problems, but this new computer architecture will only be successful if languages, systems, and applications can take advantage of parallel hardware. Navigating this change will require new concurrency-friendly programming paradigms, new methods of application design, new structures for system software, and new models of interaction between applications, compilers, operating systems, and hardware.

Submissions

We request submissions of position papers that propose new directions for research of products in these areas, advocate non-traditional approaches to the problems engendered by parallelism, or potentially generate controversy and discussion. We encourage submissions from practitioners as well as from researchers. HotPar recognizes the broad impact of multicore computing and seeks relevant contributions from all fields, including application design, languages and compilers, systems, and architecture. We particularly encourage contributions containing highly original ideas that are likely to have a significant impact.

To ensure a productive workshop environment, attendance will be limited to 75 participants. Each potential participant should submit a position paper of five or fewer pages (not counting references). Papers will be selected based on the submission’s originality, technical merit, topical relevance, and likelihood of leading to insightful technical discussion at the workshop.

Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their paper at the workshop. Submission of the paper implies the author’s consent to present the paper if it is accepted. In addition to technical sessions, the workshop will feature panels of experts, invited talks, and ample time for “hallway” conversations.

To ensure low cost of attendance, the organizers have arranged for modest yet comfortable accomodations at a residence hall on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.

Important Dates

• Submissions due: January 24, 2010
• Notification to authors: Early March, 2010
• Electronic files of final papers due: April 27, 2010

Workshop Organizers

Program Co-Chair

• Geoff Lowney, Intel
• David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley

Program Committee

• Saman Amarasinghe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Andrew Brownsword, Electronic Arts
• Alexandra Fedorova, Simon Fraser University
• Matteo Frigo, Cilk Arts
• Maurice Herlihy, Brown University
• Jim Larus, Microsoft
• Michael McCool, RapidMind
• John Nickolls, NVIDIA
• David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Keshav Pingali, University of Texas at Austin
• Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford University
• Vivek Sarkar, Rice University
• Larry Snyder, University of Washington
• Michael Swift, University of Wisconsin.Madison
• Richard Vuduc, Georgia Institute of Technology

Steering Committee Chair

• Clem Cole, Intel

Steering Committee

• Jonathan Chew, Sun Microsystems
• Alva Couch, Tufts University
• Alexandra Fedorova, Simon Fraser University
• Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University
• Steve Johnson, MathWorks
• Norm Jouppi, HP
• Jim Laudon, Google
• Hank Levy, University of Washington
• Geoff Lowney, Intel
• David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley
• Eric Saxe, Sun Microsystems
• Leendert van Doorn, AMD