On 22-24 January in Manchester, the HiPEAC conference will once again bring together the best minds in computer architecture and compilation to help exploit the enormous potential of new computing paradigms, while minimizing the risks. Three keynote talks, 27 workshops, eight tutorials and 33 papers over the three-day conference will explore the technology behind everything from connected cars to the next generation of supercomputers.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is at the heart of this major international event. The number and range of workshops in which BSC researchers are involved is testament to the centre’s expertise in a wide variety of areas, from high-performance heterogeneous architectures to multicores for smart mobility.
Professor Mateo Valero, director of BSC, co-founder and first coordinator of HiPEAC, commented: ‘The HiPEAC conference is a key event on the computing systems calendar. Our contribution demonstrates that BSC is at the heart of this vibrant community, with workshop keynote talks, workshops and tutorials on themes such as cyber-physical systems, exascale computing and data centres.’
Among the events featuring BSC researchers are the following:
22 January
- Keynote talk by Marc Casas at WAPCO, the Workshop on Approximate Computing
- Keynote talk by Antonio Peña at the launch of the Heterogeneity Alliance
- Talk by Jaume Abella named ‘A Practical Methodology to Tightly Upperbound Contention in COTS Multicores’ in the SAFURE: Safety And Security By Design For Interconnected Mixed-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems workshop
- A tutorial by Leonardo Bautista named ‘Easy and Efficient Multilevel Checkpointing for Extreme Scale Systems’
- Paul Carpenter will present the following paper: ‘Main Memory in HPC: Do We Need More, or Could We Live with Less?’ (Darko Zivanovic, Milan Pavlovic, Milan Radulovic, Hyunsung Shin, Jogpil Son, Sally A. McKee, Paul M. Carpenter, Petar Radojković, Eduard Ayguadé)
23 January
- MCS: Integration of mixed-criticality subsystems on multi-core and manycore processors – Francisco Cazorla will be chairing a session and giving the talk ‘Timing Modeling in Multicore Based Real-Time Systems: Early Estimations and Hardware Performance Monitor Support’
- ExascaleHPC: the ExaNoDe, ExaNeSt, EcoScale, and EuroEXA projects – BSC Computer Science Director Eduard Ayguadé is on the organising committee, Paul Carpenter will be giving a presentation on the EuroEXA project and Babis Chalios will present work undertaken during the ExaNoDe project
- HeLP-DC: Workshop on Heterogeneous and Low-Power Data Center technologies – Antonio Peña will give a talk titled ‘Automatic Frequency Scaling for Embedded Co-processor Acceleration’
24 January
- MULTIPROG: Programmability and Architectures for Heterogeneous Multicores is co-organized by Ferad Zyulkyarov and features a presentation by Martí Torrents on resource utilisation in a disaggregated datacentre architecture.
- Xavier Martorell and Carlos Álvarez are on the programme committee for the SHiP-CPS: Software/Hardware platforms for Cyber-Physical Systems workshop. This workshop features work undertaken by the AXIOM project, in which BSC participates.
HiPEAC18 will also once again feature HiPEAC’s tailored recruitment support provided by BSC’s Xavier Salazar, helping companies find candidates with the specialist skills to deliver the computing systems of the future. For the first time, the conference will also feature a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Student Day, with the aim of preparing the next generation of computer scientists who will ensure Europe’s enduring competitiveness.
For further information, visit the HiPEAC website: hipeac.net/2018/manchester
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About HiPEAC
Since 2004, the HiPEAC (High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation) project has provided a hub for European researchers in computing systems; today, its network, the biggest of its kind in the world, numbers around 2000 specialists. The project offers training, mobility support and dissemination and recruitment services, along with numerous networking facilities to its members. The latest incarnation of the project, HiPEAC 5, began on 1 December 2017 and is delivered by 13 partners, led by Ghent University. It is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 779656.
HiPEAC organizes four networking events per year: the HiPEAC conference, two Computing Systems Weeks and a summer school. The HiPEAC conference attracts around 600 participants, and the 2018 edition is organized by the University of Manchester. The following organizations are generously supporting the conference: Arm, DeepMind, Atos, Samsung, AXIOM, Barco, dividiti, Embedded Computing Specialists, Kaleao, Polly Labs, Springer, Sundance, SYSGO, Thales, and Think Silicon.
Visit www.hipeac.net for more information about the project.
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