Call For Papers
             Workshop on Managed Many-Core Systems (MMCS'09)
                http://www.cercs.gatech.edu/mmcs09/
                     co-located with ASPLOS'09
                March 7th  2009 -  Washington, DC

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 stacks, to allow applications to make
effective use of the computational power of these architectures.

This workshop addresses software challenges in 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 that introduce and argue 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 benchmarks


Relevant Dates:
Position Papers due:                    February 9th, 2009
Notification to Authors:                February 23th, 2009
Final program available at website:     March 1st, 2009

Submission guidelines to be found at http://www.cercs.gatech.edu/mmcs09/


General Chair
Dilma Da Silva, IBM TJ Watson Research Center

Program Co-Chairs
Milan Milenkovic, Intel
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech

Program Committee 
Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Labs 
Muli Ben-Yehuda, IBM Haifa Lab 
Dilma Da Silva, IBM Research 
Peter Dinda, Northwestern University 
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 
Jack Lange, Northwestern University 
Milan Milenkovic, Intel 
Himanshu Raj, Microsoft 
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech 
Michael Swift, University of Wisconsin 
Vanish Talwar, HP Labs 
Dongyan Xu, Purdue University