Topic 1: Support Tools and Environments
Description
Despite an impressive body of research, parallel and distributed
computing remains a complex task prone to subtle software issues that
can affect both the correctness and the performance of the
computation. This track focuses on tools and techniques to tackle that
complexity. We encourage submissions that address any of the many
challenges of parallel and distributed computing, including, but not
limited to, scalability, programmability, portability, correctness,
reliability, performance and energy efficiency.
This topic aims to bring together tool designers, developers, and
users to share their concerns, ideas, solutions, and products for a
wide range of platforms. We will particularly value contributions with
solid theoretical foundations and with experimental validations on
production-level parallel and distributed systems. We encourage
submissions that detail novel program development tools and
environments that address the expected complexity of exascale
systems.
Focus
- Debugging and correctness tools
- Hybrid shared memory and message passing tools
- Instrumentation and monitoring tools and techniques
- Code development tools targeting issues such as refactoring
- Programming environments, interoperable tool environments
- Integration of tools, compilers and operating systems
- Performance and reliability analysis (manual and automatic)
- Energy efficiency and savings tools
- Performance and code structure visualization
- Testing and analysis tools
- Computational steering
- Automatic code generation
- Tool infrastructure and scalability
- Tool evaluations and comparisons in production environments
- Tools for extreme-scale systems
- Tools for homogeneous and heterogeneous multi/many-core processors
- Tools and environments for clusters, clouds, and grids
Topic Committee
Global Chair
Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Local Chair
José Cunha, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal
Further Members
Bernd Freisleben, University of Marburg, Germany
Tomàs Margalef, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Anthony Danalis, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA