The goal of the session, held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2010 on August 30th, 2010 in Ischia – Naples, Italy, is to present latest research in how hardware and software (yet) unconventional for HPC is/can be used to reach given goals such as best performance/watt, with according programming models, compiler techniques and tools. Thus, suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to the following:

• Innovative use of hardware and software unconventional for HPC
• HPC applications or visualizations in connection with HPC on GPUs (GPGPU), IBM Cell, Low Power Processors, FPGAs, Visualization cards etc.
• Cluster/Grid solutions using unconventional hardware, e.g. clusters of PS3s, GPUs, Low Power Processors, FPGAs etc.
• Performance and scalability studies in HPC using unconventional hardware
• Reconfigurable Computing for HPC
• Performance modeling, analysis and tools for HPC with unconventional hardware
• New or adapted/extended (parallel) programming models for HPC with unconventional hardware

The submission deadline is June 14th, and the full call for papers along with further information and submission instructions can be found at http://uchpc10.cs.tum.edu.