CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
2008 ACM International Conference on
Computing Frontiers
May 5 - 7, 2008, Ischia, Italy
Sponsored by ACM - SIGMICRO
GENERAL CHAIR Alex Ramirez, UPC
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Gianfranco Bilardi, Università di Padova
Michael Gschwind, IBM TJ Watson
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
David Brooks, Harvard U.
Barbara Chapman, Houston U.
Fred Chong, UC Santa Barbara
Matteo Frigo, Cilk Arts
Guang R. Gao, U. Delaware
Kieran Herley, U. College Cork
Philippe Jorrand, CNRS
Ben Juurlink, TU Delft
Dave Kaeli, Northeastern U.
Alvin Lebeck, Duke U.
Hsien-Hsin Lee, Georgia Tech
Wei Li, Intel
Gabriel Loh, Georgia Tech
Sally McKee, Cornell U.
Bilha Mendelson, IBM Haifa Lab
Hiroshi Nakamura, U. Tokyo
Keshav Pingali, UT Austin
Victor Prasanna, USC
Geppino Pucci, U. Padova
Markus Pueschel, CMU
Larry Rudolph, MIT
Uli Ruede, U. Erlangen
Fabio Schifano, U. Ferrara
André Seznec, IRISA/INRIA
Gabriel Silberman, CA Labs
Dan Sorin, Duke
Michela Taufer, U. Delaware
Eli Upfal, Brown U.
Alex Veidenbaum, UC Irvine
FINANCE CHAIR
Carsten Trinitis, TU München
SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIR
Osman Unsal, BSC
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
Claudia Di Napoli, CNR
PUBLICITY CHAIR
Julita Corbalan, UPC
LIAISON CHAIR FOR ASIA
Hitoshi Oi, U. Aizu
REGISTRATION CHAIR
Monica Alderighi, INAF
PUBLICATION CHAIR
Sergio D'Angelo, INAF
WORKSHOPS AND WEB CHAIR
Greg Bronevetsky, LLNL
The increasing needs of present and future computation-intensive applications
have stimulated research in new and innovative approaches to the design and
implementation of high-performance computing systems. These challenging
boundaries between state of the art and innovation constitute the computing
frontiers, which must push forward and provide the computational support
required for the advancement of all science domains and applications. This
conference focuses on a wide spectrum of advanced technologies and radically
new solutions, and is designed to foster communication between the various
scientific areas and disciplines involved.
The technical program will include 3 keynote talks, a poster session on innovative
computing and technical sessions covering all areas of innovative computing
systems that extend the current frontiers of computer science and engineering and
that will provide advanced systems for current and future applications. The
conference also includes two workshops and a special session on FP7 Computing
Systems Projects.
Keynote Talks
Keshav Pingali, UT Austin, Data-parallel Abstractions for Irregular Programs
Valentina Salapura, IBM Watson, Scaling Up Next Generation Supercomputers
Raffaele Tripiccione, U Ferrara, JANUS: Reconfigurable High-Performance
Computing for Physics
Technical Session Topics
• Innovative Computing Platforms (Cell, GPGPU, FPGAs)
• Programming Models
• High-Performance Computing
• Microarchitecture for Low Power, High Reliability and New
Application Domains
• Innovative Design
• Innovative Compilation Techniques
• Innovative Systems
• Poster Session
Workshops and Special Session
Workshop on “Memory Access on Future Processors: A Solved Problem?”
Workshop on “Radiation Effects and Fault Tolerance in Nanometer Technologies”
A Special Session on the European Union’s Seventh Framework FP7 Computing
Systems Projects at Computing Frontiers 2008 will serve as the first public forum to
present all the accepted proposals in the first FP7 call.
Conference Venue
The conference will be held on the Mediterranean island of Ischia in the Gulf of
Naples. The conference hotel is the Hotel Continental Terme in the heart of
Ischia and features one of the largest and best equipped spas of the island.