WPMVP 2019: Workshop on Programming Models for SIMD/Vector Processing 2019 Washingon DC, DC, United States, February 16-17, 2019 |
Conference website | https://ppopp19.sigplan.org/home/WPMVP-2019 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpmvp2019 |
SIMD processing is still a main driver of performance in general-purpose processor architectures besides multi-core technology. Both technologies increase the potential performance by factors, but have to be explicitly utilized by the software. To expose those different levels of parallelism in a productive and manageable way is still an active area of research. NVIDIA stirred the programming interface scene with the development of a simple yet efficient performance-oriented application programmer interface. OpenACC, OpenMP 4.0, OpenCL, Cilk+ and icpc are just examples for many choices available. Additionally, established optimizing compilers still improve significantly in unleashing the SIMD potential. Notable developments on the hardware side include relaxation of alignment requirements and more powerful scatter/gather and shuffle instructions. Recent developments include the introduction of 512-bit SIMD units in general purpose processors (AVX512) and new innovations as the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) for the ARMv8-A architecture or the NEC SX Aurora TSUBASA vector processors.
Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers must be no more than 8 pages in length. Authors are encouraged to use the ACM two-column format here. Each submission will receive at least three reviews from the technical program committee. The workshop uses double-blind review, which means that author identities are concealed.
Authors must register and submit the paper through online submission system, if you have problems accessing the system, e-mail your submission to wpmvp@lip6.fr.
List of Topics
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry to discuss issues, solutions, and opportunities in enabling application developers to effectively exploit SIMD/vector processing in modern processors. We seek submissions that cover all aspects of SIMD/vector processing. Topics of interests include, but are not restricted to:
- Programming models for SIMD/vector processing
- C/C++/Fortran extensions for SIMD (e.g., OpenMP, OpenACC, OpenCL, SIMD intrinsics)
- New data parallel or streaming programming models for SIMD
- Exploitation of SIMD/vector in Java, scripting languages, and domain-specific languages
- Compilers & tools to discover and optimize SIMD parallelism
- Case study, experience report, and performance analysis of SIMD/vector applications
- Design of algorithms specially suited to SIMD/vector architectures
Committees
Program Committee
- Corinne Ancourt, MINES ParisTech, France
- James Brodman, Intel, USA
- Marat Dukhan, Facebook, United States
- Jan Eitzinger, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Daniel Etiemble, University Paris 11, France
- Franz Franchetti, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Sebastian Hack, Saarland University, Germany
- Gabriele Keller, Data61, CSIRO (formerly NICTA) and UNSW, Australia
- Paul H J Kelly, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- Jose Moreira, IBM
- Angela Pohl, TU Berlin
- Ilie Gabriel Tanase, IBM Research, United States
- Sandra Wienke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Peng Wu, Huawei America Research Lab, United States
- Pablo de Oliveira Castro, University of Versailles, FranceJan Eitzinger, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Bertrand Le Gal, IMS Lab - Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux, France
- Sylvain Jubertie, Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orleans, France
Organizing committee
- Lionel Lacassagne, Sorbonne University — LIP6, France
- Jan Eitzinger, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Bertrand Le Gal, IMS Lab - Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux, France
- Sylvain Jubertie, Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orleans, France
Invited Speakers
- Coming soon...
Publication
WPMVP 2019 proceedings will be (normally) published in the ACM digital library.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to wpmvp@lip6.fr