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.