Call For Papers
             Workshop on Managed Many-Core Systems (MMCS'08)
                     co-located with HPDC'08
                June 24th, 2008 -  Boston, Massachusetts
                     www.cercs.gatech.edu/mmcs08

Multi-core architectures (e.g. quad-cores) are now mainstream
and many research projects are exploring a future where multi-cores have
evolved into many-cores architectures with hundreds to thousands of
cores. This future requires a thorough rethinking of programming models
and their supporting software stack to allow applications to make
effective use of the computational power of these architectures.

This workshop will address challenges in managed homogeneous and
heterogeneous many-core systems. Current approaches to resource
management and virtualization are based on small-scale SMP architectures,
and they fall short in terms of high-end scalability and support for
heterogeneity and fine-grain parallelism. We aim at assessing new needs
and their corresponding approaches, abstractions, and mechanisms for
resource management issues such as scheduling, synchronization, caching,
power management, and system monitoring.

We welcome both technical papers, describing ongoing research and
preliminary insights, and position papers introducing and arguing for
novel views.

Topics of interest include:
* hypervisor structuring for many-core platforms
* power management for many-core systems
* support for heterogeneous cores
* resource management in large scale systems
* deployment of specialized cores as accelerators
* specialized execution domains (e.g., I/O)
* operating system abstractions for many-core platforms
* driver applications and benchnmarks


Relevant Dates:
Position Papers due:                    April 8th, 2008
Notification to Authors:                May 1st, 2008
Final program available at website:     May 23rd, 2008

Submission guidelines
Submissions should adhere to the ACM format
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates)
and submitted through https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/hpdc/


General Chair
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech

Program co-chairs
Dilma Da Silva, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Milan Milenkovic, Intel

Program Committee
Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Labs
Jeffrey Chase, Duke University
Dilma Da Silva, IBM Research
Peter Dinda, Northwestern University
Elmootazbellah (Mootaz) Elnozahy, IBM Research
Alexandra Fedorova, Simon Fraser University
Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida
Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Tech
Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales, Australia
Ravi Iyer, Intel
Orran Krieger, VMware
Mark Lewin, Microsoft
Milan Milenkovic, Intel
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech
Michael Swift, University of Wisconsin
Vanish Talwar, HP Labs
Jeffrey Vetter, Oak Ridge National Labs
Richard West, Boston University
Dongyan Xu, Purdue University
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