Elektronica en Informatiesystemen

Heterogeneity is emerging as one of the most profound and challenging

characteristics of today's parallel environments. From the macro level,

where networks of distributed computers, composed by diverse node

architectures, are interconnected with potentially heterogeneous networks,

to the micro level, where deeper memory hierarchies and various accelerator

architectures are increasingly common, the impact of heterogeneity on all

computing tasks is increasing rapidly. Traditional parallel algorithms,

programming environments and tools, designed for legacy homogeneous

multiprocessors, can at best achieve on a small fraction of the efficiency

and potential performance we should expect from parallel computing in

tomorrow's highly diversified and mixed environments. New ideas, innovative

algorithms, and specialized programming environments and tools are needed to

efficiently use these new and multifarious parallel architectures. The

workshop is intended to be a forum for researchers working on algorithms,

programming languages, tools, and theoretical models aimed at efficiently

solving problems on heterogeneous platforms.

Authors are encouraged to submit original, unpublished research or overviews

on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous

Platforms. Manuscripts should be limited to 10 pages in Springer LNCS style

sheet and submitted through the EasyChair Conference System:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=heteropar2012

Accepted papers that are presented at the workshop will be published in

revised form in a special Euro-Par Workshop Volume in the Lecture Notes in

Computer Science (LNCS) series after the Euro-Par conference.

The topics to be covered include but are not limited to:

    * Heterogeneous parallel programming paradigms and models;

    * Languages, libraries, and interfaces for diㄦent heterogeneous 

      parallel programming models;

    * Performance models and their integration into the design of

      efficient parallel algorithms for heterogeneous platforms;

    * Parallel algorithms for heterogeneous or hierarchical systems,

      including manycores and hardware accelerators (FPGAs, GPUs, etc.);

    * Parallel algorithms for efficient problem solving on

      heterogeneous platforms (numerical linear algebra, nonlinear

      systems, fast transforms, computational biology, data mining,

      multimedia, etc.);

    * Software engineering for heterogeneous parallel systems;

    * Applications on heterogeneous platforms;

    * Integration of parallel and distributed computing on

      heterogeneous platforms;

    * Experience of porting parallel software from supercomputers to

      heterogeneous platforms;

    * Fault tolerance of parallel computations on heterogeneous

      platforms;

    * Algorithms, models and tools for grid, desktop grid, cloud, and

      green computing.

Program Chair

   * Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

Steering Committee

   * Domingo Gimenez, University of Murcia, Spain

   * Alexey Kalinov, Cadence Design Systems, Russia

   * Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland

   * Yves Robert, Ecole Normale SupГ©rieure de Lyon, France

   * Leonel Sousa, INESC-ID/IST, TU Lisbon, Portugal

   * Denis Trystram, LIG, Grenoble, France

Program Committee

   * Jacques Mohcine Bahi, University of Franche-ComtГ©, France

   * Jorge Barbosa, Faculdade de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

   * Olivier Beaumont, INRIA Futurs Bordeaux, LABRI, France

   * FranГ§ois Bodin, CAPS, France

   * Cristina Boeres, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil

   * George Bosilca, ICL, UTK, US

   * Alejandro Duran, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

   * Pierre-Francois Dutot, ID-IMAG, France

   * Toshio Endo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

   * Edgar Gabriel, Univesity of Houston, US

   * Shuichi Ichikawa, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

   * Emmanuel Jeannot, INRIA, France

   * Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

   * Hatem Ltaief, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

   * Pierre Manneback, Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium

   * Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

   * Wahid Nasri, Ecole Superieure des Sciences et Techniques de Tunis,

Tunisia

   * Nacho Navarro, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

   * Dana Petcu, University of Timisoara, Romania

   * Serge Petiton, CNRS/LIFL and INRIA, France

   * Antonio J. Plaza, University of Extremadura, Spain

   * Enrique Quintana, Universidad Jaime I, Spain

   * Vladimir Rychkov, University College Dublin, Ireland

   * Mitsuhisa Sato, University of Tsukuba, Japan

   * H. J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA

   * Antonio M. Vidal, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain