Workshop on Large-Scale Parallel Processing: Practice and Experience

Of particular interest are papers that identify and analyze novel ideas rather than providing incremental advances in the following areas:

• Large-scale systems: exploiting parallelism at large-scale, the coordination of large numbers of processing elements, synchronization and communication at large-scale, programming models and productivity

• Novel architectures and experimental systems : the design of novel systems, the use emerging technologies such as Non-Volatile Memory, Silicon Photonics, application-specific accelerators and future trends.

• Monitoring, Analysis, and Modeling: tools and techniques for gathering performance, power, thermal, reliability, and other data from existing large scale systems, analyzing such data offline or in real time for system tuning, and modeling of similar factors in projected system installations.

• Multi-core: utilization of increased parallelism on a single chip, the possible integration of these into large-scale systems, and dealing with the resulting hierarchical connectivity.

• Energy Management: Techniques, strategies, and experiences relating to the energy management and optimization of large-scale systems.

• Applications: novel algorithmic and application methods, experiences in the design and use of applications that scale to large-scales, overcoming of limitations, performance analysis and insights gained.