International Workshop on Multicore Software Engineering (IWMSE)

Proceedings available at the IEEE Digital Library
Proceedings at ACM Digital Library

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Aims & Scope

With the emergence of multicore computers, software engineers face the challenge of parallelizing performance-critical applications of all sorts. Compared to sequential applications, our repertoire of tools and methods for cost-effectively developing reliable, fault tolerant, robust parallel applications is spotty. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners with diverse backgrounds in order to advance the state of the art in software engineering for multi/manycore parallel applications.

Where & When

Vancouver, Canada

The Westin Bayshore Hotel
1601 Bayshore Drive
Vancouver, BC V6G 2V4, Canada

Monday, May 18, 2009

co-located with the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering, May 16-24, 2009

Keynote

The State of Parallel Programming
Burton J. Smith, Technical Fellow, Microsoft

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Parallel programming has a bad reputation, and deservedly so. If nothing improves, software development may be the province of a brave few, with disastrous consequences for the field of computing as a whole. The key problem is parallel mutation of state. We must solve this problem to liberate programming from the von Neumann style. The talk will describe our current knowledge of the problem and suggest how we might proceed from here.

Bio

Burton J. Smith, Technical Fellow for Microsoft Corporation, works with various groups within the company to help define and expand efforts in the areas of parallel and high performance computing. Before joining Microsoft in December 2005 he co-founded Cray Inc., formerly Tera Computer Company, where he variously served as its chief scientist, a member of the board of directors, and its chairman until 1999. Before that, Smith spent six years with Denelcor, Inc. and three years at the Institute for Defense Analyses Supercomputing Research Center.

In 2003, Smith received the Seymour Cray Award from the IEEE Computer Society and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He received the Eckert-Mauchly Award in 1991 given jointly by IEEE and ACM and was elected a fellow of each organization in 1994. Smith attended the University of New Mexico, where he earned a BSEE degree, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned SM, EE, and Sc.D degrees.

Program

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Topics

The workshop is aimed at making parallelism available to a wide range of applications using systematic software engineering methodology. We seek a broad variety of work that furthers the knowledge and understanding of the software engineering and parallel systems communities as a whole, continues a significant research dialog, or pushes the architectural boundaries of multicore software. We solicit original, previously unpublished papers of current or work-in-progress research. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: