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Call FOR PAPERS AND TOOL DEMOS

Second International Workshop on Parallel Software
Tools and Tool Infrastructures (PSTI 2011)

Held in Conjunction with ICPP 2011,
The 40th International Conference on Parallel Processing

Taipei, Taiwan, September 13-16, 2011

http://www.psti-workshop.org

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BACKGROUND

The advent of multicore and manycore systems requires that programmers understand how to design, write and debug parallel programs effectively. The increased complexity of multi-threaded parallel programming on multicore platforms requires more insight into program behavior, and necessitates the use of tools that can support programmers in migrating existing software to multicore platforms, and in writing new multi-threaded parallel software. Programmers need increasingly sophisticated methods for instrumentation, measurement, analysis and modeling of applications. To help software developers embrace the multicore revolution, we need both sophisticated tools to support parallel software development, and an extensible tool infrastructure that promotes integration of existing and new tools, and simplifies information exchange and access.


TOPICS

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

* Static and dynamic analysis tools
* Instrumentation, measurement, analysis, and modeling of applications
* Analysis and visualization tools for assisting programmers with parallel software design
* Active testing tools
* Applications profiling and performance analysis
* Data visualization and analysis infrastructures for interaction of tools


PAPER SUBMISSION

Submissions should be formatted according to the IEEE standard double-column format with a font size 10 pt or larger and are limited to 10 pages in length. Submissions should represent original, substantive research results. At least one author of every accepted paper is required to attend the conference in order for the paper to be included in the final proceedings. Proceedings of the workshop will be published in electronic format and will be available at the conference.

Please use the PSTI2011 CMT webpage at 

https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/PSTI2011/

to submit your paper. 

TOOL DEMONSTRATION SESSION

In addition to a regular paper session we plan to hold a tool demonstration session during the workshop in which tool developers can demonstrate features and functionality of their software tools. A submission for the tool demo session should include a short description of the tool (max. 5 pages) to be sent to fuerling@nm.ifi.lmu.de by April 11th, 2011. 


KEY DATES

Submission Deadline:          April 11, 2011
Notification of Acceptance:    June  6, 2011
Final Papers Due:              June 27, 2011


ORGANIZATION

Karl Fuerlinger, LMU Munich, Germany
Josef Weidendorfer, TU Munich, Germany
Karen L. Karavanic, Portland State University, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Daniel Becker, German Research School for Simulation Sciences, Germany
Rainer Buchty, Karlsruhe University, Germany
Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Barbara Chapman, University of Houston, USA
Brett Estrade, University of Houston, USA
Michael Gerndt, TU München, Germany
Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, University of Utah, USA
Sascha Hunold, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
Heike Jagode, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
William Jalby, UVSQ/Exascale Coputing Research, France
Christof Klausecker, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Andreas Knüpfer, TU Dresden, Germany
Sungdo Moon, Samsung
Esmond Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Andres Marquez, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Philip Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratry, USA
David Skinner, NERSC Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Jie Tao, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Nathan Tallent, Rice University, USA
Carsten Trinitis, TU München, Germany
Yi-Ping You, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan


FURTHER INFORMATION

See our website at http://www.psti-workshop.org