ESPM2'17: Opening Remarks
Author/Presenters
Event Type
Workshop
Accelerators
Deep Learning
Exascale
GPU
Parallel Application Frameworks
Parallel Programming Languages, Libraries, Models
and Notations
SIGHPC Workshop
System Software
TimeSunday, November 12th9am -
9:30am
Location505
DescriptionNext generation architectures and systems being
deployed are characterized by high concurrency, low
memory per-core, and multiple levels of hierarchy and
heterogeneity. These characteristics bring out new
challenges in energy efficiency, fault-tolerance and,
scalability. It is commonly believed that software has
the biggest share of the responsibility to tackle these
challenges. In other words, this responsibility is
delegated to the next generation programming models and
their associated middleware/runtimes. This workshop
focuses on different aspects of programming models such
as task-based parallelism (Charm++, OCR, X10, HPX, etc),
PGAS (OpenSHMEM, UPC, CAF, Chapel, UPC++, etc.), BigData
(Hadoop, Spark, etc), Deep Learning (Caffe, Microsoft
CNTK, Google TensorFlow), directive-based languages
(OpenMP, OpenACC) and hybrid MPI+X, etc. It also focuses
on their associated middleware (unified runtimes,
interoperability for hybrid programming, tight
integration of MPI+X, and support for accelerators) for
next generation systems and architectures. The ultimate
objective of the ESPM2 workshop is to serve as a forum
that brings together researchers from academia and
industry working in the areas of programming models,
runtime systems, compilation and languages, and
application developers.
