W6 Designing for Embedded Parallel Computing Platforms: Architectures, Design Tools, and Applications
General Co-Chairs:
João Cardoso, Universidade do Porto, PT (Contact João Cardoso)
Cristina Silvano, Politecnico Milano, IT (Contact Cristina Silvano)
Dimitrios Soudris, National Technical University of Athens, GR (Contact Dimitrios Soudris)
Architectures Posters Session Chairs:
Maurizio Palesi, Kore University, IT
Design Tools Posters Session Chairs:
Chantal Ykman-Couvreur, IMEC, BE
Applications Posters Session Chairs:
Giampaolo Agosta, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Panel Session Chairs:
Georgi Gaydadjiev, Chalmers University of Technology, SE
Web and Posters Submission Chairs:
Sotirios Xydis, Politecnico di Milano, IT (Contact Sotirios Xydis)
Publicity Chairs:
Maurizio Palesi, Kore University, IT
Webpage: http://conferenze.dei.polimi.it/depcp/
Workshop Description:
Embedded computing is shifting to multi/many-core designs to boost performance due to unacceptable power consumption and operating temperature increase of fast single-core CPU’s. Hence, embedded system designers are increasingly faced with several big challenges, namely: the support for a variety of concurrent applications, and the platform heterogeneity. These challenges lead to the following significant design issues:
- How can applications that exploit the underlying (parallel) architecture be written without burdening the application designer?
- What does the application designer really need to know of the underlying architecture?
- What tools are needed to efficiently map applications and what part of the mapping process should/could be automated?
- How should we design and optimize the underlying architectures?
This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners actively working on architectures, design tools, and applications for embedded parallel computing platforms to address these questions and related issues.
The call for papers (CFP) for the upcoming workshop to be held in conjunction with DATE 2013 is available here.
Topic Areas:
The workshop will have three main topic areas:
- Architectures: on the most relevant problems arising during the design exploration and optimization of many/multi core architectures.
- Design tools: on the state-of-the-art of tool development, showing where we are now and the directions we need to move in.
- Applications: on the analysis, development, modification and integration of applications with respect to parallel computing platforms.
Submission Instructions:
Submission of posters are invited based on the instructions included in the Call for Posters and covering the topics of the three workshop sessions. In addition to the poster sessions, there will be a short presentation time for introducing the posters during the workshop. Poster submissions should either be a 150-200 word abstract or in the form of the poster itself (in an A4 or US Letter size format) and should clearly identify the relevant session (architectures, design tools, or applications). A workshop digest based upon the one-page abstract and one-page poster will be distributed to all participants of the workshop. Note that the posters presented at the DATE workshops are NOT disseminated through the official DATE proceedings or through any other formal channels, such as, for example, the IEEExplore or the ACM Digital Library.
Posters will be published online on this web page.
Important Dates:
Posters submission deadline: Friday, January 25, 2013.
Notification of acceptance: Tuesday, February 5, 2013.
Preliminary Programme
| Time | ID | Session |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | Opening Session General Co-Chairs: | |
| 08:45 | Morning Session on Many-Core Architectures and Compilers | |
| 08:45 | 1093 | Invited Talk: “Multiprocessor Systems for H.264/AVC video encoding: A platform approach” Author(s): Sri Parameswaran - University of New South Wales, AU |
| 09:45 | 1094 | Invited Talk: “C Compilation in the Dark Age of Many-Core Programming” Author(s): Marcel Beemster - ACE Associated Compiler Experts, NL |
| 10:30 | Architectures - Posters Session - Coffee Break (Posters program will be posted online) Monday and Friday morning and afternoon coffee breaks will be located in the Salle de Reception. On Tuesday-Thursday the breaks will be located in the Exhibition Hall. Morning and afternoon (with the exception of Thursday afternoon which is a 30 minute break) coffee breaks on Tuesday-Thursday are extended breaks and will run for 60 minutes (coffee points will be open for the first 30 minutes only) from the start time indicated in the programme.: | |
| 11:00 | Embedding High Performance Computing: A supercomputer in your pocket or ultra low power exaflop design? Panel Organiser and Moderator: Panelists: Bringing together experts from embedded computing and high-performance computing, this panel is organized to open the discussion about the common research challenges and synergies in these two areas, which have been recently magnified by the increasing ubiquity of many-cores and heterogeneity across the whole computing spectrum.: | |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break Buffet meal: | |
| 13:00 | Afternoon Session on Design Tools and Applications for Many-Core Architectures | |
| 13:00 | 1095 | Invited Talk: “The role of runtime system management in dynamic execution environments”, Dionisios Pnevmatikatos, Technical University of Crete, Greece. |
| 14:00 | 1096 | Panel on: "Lessons learnt from European Projects: 2PARMA, COMPLEX, DESYRE, ERA, FASTER, MADNESS, PARAPHRASE, REFLECT, SMECY and TERAFLUX " Panel Organizer and Moderator(s): Georgi Gaydadjiev - Chalmers University of Technology, SE Panelist(s): William Fornaciari - Politecnico di Milano, IT Philipp A. Hartmann - OFFIS, DE Stephan Wong - TU Delft, NL Dionisios Pnevmatikatos - Technical University of Crete, GR Luigi Raffo - Università di Cagliari, IT Kevin Hammond - University of St. Andrews, UK Zlatko Petrov - Honeywell, CZ Francois Pacull - CEA, FR Roberto Giorgi - Università di Siena, IT This panel is organized to present and discuss final outcomes and lessons learnt from the following on-going EU funded projects: 2PARMA (PARallel PAradigms and Run-time MAnagement techniques for Many-core Architectures, www.2parma.eu/ ), COMPLEX (COdesign and power Management in PLatform-based design space Exploration, http://complex.offis.de/), DeSyRe (DeSyRe: on-Demand System Reliability http://www.desyre.eu/), ERA (Embedded Reconfigurable Architecture, www.era-project.eu/ ), FASTER (Facilitating Analysis and Synthesis Technologies for Effective Reconfiguration www.fp7-faster.eu/), MADNESS (Methods for predictAble Design of heterogeneous Embedded Systems with adaptivity and reliability Support, www.madness project.org/), PARAPHRASE (Parallel Patterns for Adaptive Heterogeneous Multicore Systems, http://paraphrase-ict.eu/ ) REFLECT (Rendering FPGAs to Multi-Core Embedded Computing, www.reflect-project.eu/), SMECY ( Smart Multicore Embedded Systems, www.smecy.eu and TERAFLUX (Exploiting Dataflow Parallelism in Teradevice Parallelism www.teraflux.eu). |
| 15:00 | European Projects Parallel Demos Session - (Demos program will be posted online) - Coffee Break Monday and Friday morning and afternoon coffee breaks will be located in the Salle de Reception. On Tuesday-Thursday the breaks will be located in the Exhibition Hall. Morning and afternoon (with the exception of Thursday afternoon which is a 30 minute break) coffee breaks on Tuesday-Thursday are extended breaks and will run for 60 minutes (coffee points will be open for the first 30 minutes only) from the start time indicated in the programme.: | |
| 15:30 | Design Tools and Application -- Posters Session (Posters program will be posted online) | |
| 16:30 | Final Wrap up |
