From abdelhamid.bentaieb at gmail.com Sun Oct 5 23:19:48 2008 From: abdelhamid.bentaieb at gmail.com (Abdelhamid BENTAIEB) Date: Sun Oct 5 23:19:50 2008 Subject: How to buy AWESIM Message-ID: Hi every body, can someone plz tell me how to get the AWESIM commercial version ? official detributer ? conatcts .. thanks in advance From lgj at usenix.org Mon Oct 6 14:24:44 2008 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Mon Oct 6 14:24:46 2008 Subject: HotPar '09 Call For Papers Deadline Approaching Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: First USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar '09) March 30-31, 2009 Berkeley, CA, USA http://www.usenix.org/hotpar09/cfpb Sponsored by USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association Complete paper submissions due: October 17, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Colleague: The First USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar '09) Program Committee would like to remind you that the deadline to contribute to the refereed papers is quickly approaching. Paper titles and abstracts are due October 17, 2008. For more information and submission guidelines, please see http://www.usenix.org/hotpar09/cfpb HotPar '09 will bring together researchers and practitioners doing innovative work in the area of parallel computing. Multicore and multithreaded processors are the pervasive computing platform of the future. This trend is driven by limits on energy consumption in computer systems and the poor energy performance of conventional microprocessors. Parallel architectures can potentially mitigate these problems, but this new computer architecture will only be successful if languages, systems, and applications can take advantage of parallel hardware. Navigating this change will require new concurrency-friendly programming paradigms, new methods of application design, new structures for system software, and new models of interaction between applications, compilers, operating systems, and hardware. We request submissions of position papers that propose new directions for research or products in these areas, advocate non-traditional approaches to the problems engendered by parallelism, or potentially generate controversy and discussion. We encourage submissions from practitioners as well as from researchers. HotPar recognizes the broad impact of multicore computing and seeks relevant contributions from all fields, including application design, languages and compilers, systems, and architecture. We particularly encourage contributions containing highly original ideas that are likely to have a significant impact. All papers will be available online to registered attendees prior to the workshop and will be available online to everyone starting on March 30, 2009. The First USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar'09) will be held March 30-31, 2009, in Berkeley, CA, USA. We look forward to receiving your submissions! On behalf of the HotPar'09 Program Committee, Alexandra Fedorova, Simon Fraser University Jim Larus, Microsoft HotPar '09 Program Chairs hotpar09chairs@usenix.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: First USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar '09) March 30-31, 2009 Berkeley, CA, USA http://www.usenix.org/hotpar09/cfpb Sponsored by USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association Complete paper submissions due: October 17, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From dave at krahl.org Tue Oct 7 01:45:55 2008 From: dave at krahl.org (dave@krahl.org) Date: Tue Oct 7 01:45:57 2008 Subject: How to buy AWESIM References: Message-ID: On Oct 5, 8:19 pm, Abdelhamid BENTAIEB wrote: > Hi every body, > > can someone plz tell me how to get the AWESIM commercial version ? > official detributer ? conatcts .. > thanks in advance Awesim was developed in the early 1990's by Pritsker Corporation. They were purchased by FrontStep. Frontstep was purchased by Mapics. I would guess that Mapics owns the product, but have not heard of any new development in more than 10 years. The only reason that I can think of that you would want to use Awesim at this point is if you have an existing model. Even then, it may not run on current operating systems (but it might). If you are building new models, there are other better choices (like our product ExtendSim). davek From gfursin at gmail.com Fri Oct 10 05:06:07 2008 From: gfursin at gmail.com (Grigori Fursin) Date: Fri Oct 10 05:06:14 2008 Subject: CFP: SMART'09 - 1 month to the submission deadline; NEW PANEL INFO: Can machine learning help to solve the multicore code generation issues? Message-ID: <6dc13ef3-a882-41fa-9982-c191697dc2f9@u46g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd Workshop on Statistical and Machine learning approaches to ARchitecture and compilaTion (SMART'09) http://www.hipeac.net/smart-workshop.html January 25, 2009, Paphos, Cyprus (co-located with HiPEAC 2009 Conference) **** NEW PANEL INFORMATION **** Can machine learning help to solve the multicore code generation issues? **** NEW PUBLICATION INFORMATION **** Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming. ******************************************************************************** The rapid rate of architectural change and the large diversity of architecture features has made it increasingly difficult for compiler writers to keep pace with microprocessor evolution. This problem has been compounded by the introduction of multicores. Thus, compiler writers have an intractably complex problem to solve. A similar situation arises in processor design where new approaches are needed to help computer architects make the best use of new underlying technologies and to design systems well adapted to futureapplication domains. Recent studies have shown the great potential of statistical machine learning and search strategies for compilation and machine design. The purpose of this workshop is to help consolidate and advance the state of the art in this emerging area of research. The workshop is a forum for the presentation of recent developments in compiler techniques and machine design methodologies based on space exploration and statistical machine learning approaches with the objective of improving performance, parallelism, scalability, and adaptability. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Machine Learning, Statistical Approaches, or Search applied to * Feedback-Directed Compilation * Auto-tuning Programs + Language Extensions * Library Generators * Iterative Compilation * Dynamic Compilation/Adaptive Execution * Parallel Compiler Optimizations * Low-power Optimizations * Simulation * Performance Models * Adaptive Processor and System Architecture * Design Space Exploration * Other Topics relevant to Intelligent and Adaptive Compilers/ Architectures **** Paper Submission Guidelines **** Paper length - maximum 15 pages. Papers must be submitted in the PDF (preferably) or postscript formats using the workshop submission website: http://unidapt.org/dissemination/workshops/smart09 We suggest to use LNCS LaTeX templates that can be found at http://www.springeronline.com/lncs (go to "For Authors" and then "Information for LNCS Editors/Authors"). An informal collection of the papers to be presented will be distributed at the workshop. All accepted papers will appear on the workshop website. **** Important Dates **** Deadline for submission: November 7, 2008 Decision notification: December 19, 2008 Workshop: January 25, 2009 Program Chair: David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Organizers: Grigori Fursin, INRIA Saclay, France John Cavazos, University of Delaware, USA Program Committee: Saman Amarasinghe, MIT, USA Francois Bodin, CAPS Enterprise, France Calin Cascaval, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA John Cavazos, University of Delaware, USA Franz Franchetti, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Ari Freund, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel Grigori Fursin, INRIA Saclay, France Mary Hall, USC/ISI, USA Robert Hundt, Google, USA Michael O'Boyle, University of Edinburgh, UK David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Richard Vuduc, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA David Whalley, Florida State University, USA Panel: Can machine learning help to solve the multicore code generation issues? Chair: Francois Bodin, CAPS-Enterprise, France Participants: Marcelo Cintra, University of Edinburgh, UK Bilha Mendelson, IBM, Israel Lawrence Rauchwerger, Texas A&M University, USA Per Stenstrom, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden ==================================================== Grigori Fursin, INRIA, France http://unidapt.org