ISC 2011 paper titled “Experiments with the Fresh Breeze Tree-Based Memory Model” authored by Jack Dennis (MIT), Guang R. Gao, and Xiaoxuan Meng (Univ. of Delaware), won the prestigious Gauss Award.
Here is the abstract:
The Fresh Breeze memory model and system architecture is proposed as an approach to achieving significant improvements by supporting fine-grain management [...]

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by Roni Simonian, Ariadne
This Multicore Expo paper accompanies the class “ME820: Make your multicore program fail again” to be held on May 3, 2011 in San Jose, CA. Multicore Expo, May 2 to 4, will be held in conjunction with the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley 2011.
What makes debugging of multiprocess and multithread applications [...]

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by Nandan Tripathi and Amrit Singh, Freescale Semiconductor
This Multicore Expo paper accompanies the class “ME865: Analyzing Multi-threaded Applications—Identifying Bottlenecks on Multicore Systems” to be held on May 3, 2011 in San Jose, CA.
Abstract
Various aspects preventing applications from achieving theoretical maximum utilization of multicore resources include: operating system (scheduling, synchronization, etc.), application code (parallelization factor, [...]

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by Suzanne Rivoire, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, USA
The technique of scaling hardware performance through increasing the number of cores on a chip requires programmers to learn to write parallel code that can exploit this hardware. In order to expose students to a variety of multicore programming models, our university offered a breadth-first introduction [...]

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The 16th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) and 15th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2010) were held in Bangalore, India between January 9th and 14th. These are two premier conferences covering research in a wide range of topics in high-performance computer architecture and parallel programming.
There [...]

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by David Mackay
Libraries play an important role in threading software to run faster on Intel multi-core platforms.
Multi-core platforms are the default computer platforms sold throughout the world. On a multi-core platform there are multiple processors contained on a single chip. That is, each chip has multiple cores that are each [...]

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ParaPLoP 2010, a PLoP-style workshop on parallel programming patterns, will be March 30 - April 1 in Carefree, AZ. You are invited to submit a paper. Papers should describe one or more patterns, outline a pattern language, analyze previously published patterns, describe case studies of using patterns to develop parallel software, or present experience mining [...]

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The biennial ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) was held between Oct 11th and 14th, in Big Sky, MT. It is one of the world’s premier forums for researchers, developers, programmers, vendors and teachers of operating system technology.
42nd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-42) will be held in Newyork, NY from December 12th to 16th. [...]

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Papers listed here are either freely available on the web or obtained legally. Please respect the various copyright stipulations placed on these documents. If any author would like us to add or to remove their [...]

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Supercomputing (SC) conferences is one of the premier events that attracts researchers, scientists, computing center staff members, IT and data center management, application developers, computer manufacturing personnel, program managers, journalists and congressional staffers from industry, academia, and national labs all over the world. Established 21 years ago, the SC conference continues to grow steadily in [...]

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Prof. David A. Wood compiled a reading list for his Fall 2009, “Programming Current and Future Multicore Processors” course at University of Wisconsin, Madison. It has many papers and articles related to multicore programming. Here is the list of topics.
Introduction
Multicore processors
Pthreads
Locking and Threads
OpenMP
Cilk/TBB
Serialization Sets
MapReduce
Transactional Memory
Reading List
Thanks to Prof. Wood, the course website also has the [...]

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by Thom Holwerda
Most of us are probably aware of Singularity, a research operating system out of Microsoft Research which explored a number of new ideas, which is available as open source software. Singularity isn’t the only research OS out of Microsoft; they recently released the first snapshot of a new operating system, called Barrelfish. It [...]

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Special Issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing on “Data Intensive Computing” invites original unpublished research articles that describe recent advances and efforts in the design and development of data intensive computing, functionalities and capabilities that will benefit many applications.
Important Dates
Paper Submission : January 15, 2010
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection : May 31, 2010
Final Version of [...]

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The 2009 Symposium on Application Accelerators in HPC will be held in July (20th to 30th) in Urbana, IL.
“What do GPUs, FPGAs, vector processors and other exotic special-purpose chips have in common? They are advanced processor architectures that the scientific community is using to accelerate computationally demanding applications. While high-performance computing systems that use [...]

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Exploiting Concurrency Efficiently and Correctly — (EC)2 was held in June (26th and 27th) in conjunction with Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2009) conference in Grenoble, France. From the description of EC2, “Our ability to effectively harness the computational power of the next generation of multiprocessor and multicore architectures is predicated upon advances in programming languages [...]

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The 36th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA ‘09) was held in Austin, between June 20th and 24th. ISCA is generally viewed as the top-tier academic conference on Computer Architecture. Many of multicore related papers are available online in Research Papers page.
Some interesting multicore related papers:
* Architecting Phase Change Memory as a Scalable DRAM [...]

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The preliminary program for the annual Hot Chips conference says a lot about the state of the microprocessor industry both for what’s on it, and for what’s not.
All the top server CPU vendors–Advanced Micro Devices, IBM, Intel, Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems–will present on their latest or next-generation chips. Competition is expected to be intense between [...]

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Computers will have increasingly many cores (processors), but there is still no good programming framework for these architectures, and thus no simple and unified way for machine learning to take advantage of the potential speed up. In this paper, published at NIPS 2006 the authors develop a broadly applicable parallel programming method, one that is [...]

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Between April 6th and 8th, the first International Exascale Software Project (IESP) meeting was held. The workshop’s mission is to lay the foundation for Exascale computing by mobilizing the global open source software community to combine and coordinate their collective efforts far more efficiently and effectively than ever before. The IESP will hold a series [...]

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First Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar ‘09) was held on March 30th and 31st in Berkeley, CA. It was sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association. The brought together researchers and practitioners doing innovative work in the area of parallel computing. Multicore and multithreaded processors are the pervasive computing platform of the [...]

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