PECS 2021: The 1st Workshop on Performance and Energy-efficiency in Concurrent Systems |
Website | https://pecs-workshop.github.io/2021/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pecs2021 |
Abstract registration deadline | January 15, 2021 |
Submission deadline | January 20, 2021 |
Acceptance notification | February 14, 2021 |
Camera Ready Submission | February 22, 2021 |
1st Workshop on Performance and Energy-efficiency in Concurrent Systems (PECS 2021)
Concurrent systems, based on (distributed) multi/many-core processing units, are the nowadays reference computing architecture. The continuously-growing level of hardware parallelism they offer has lead these platforms to play a central role at any scale, ranging from data centers, to personal (mobile) devices.
Optimizing performance and/or energy efficiency when running complex software stacks on top of these systems is paramount or even imperative. On the other hand, this is extremely challenging due to multiple aspects, like data dependencies or resource sharing (and interference) among application threads, as well as VMs. Furthermore, hardware accelerators like GPGPUs or FPGAs introduce a level of heterogeneity that can potentially offer further opportunities for combined gain in performance and energy efficiency, if properly exploited by concurrent software.
The goal of PECS is to establish a venue for both academia and industry experts and practitioners, to discuss about challenges, perspectives and opportunities given by researching on scalable, energy-efficient and secure software deployed on top of modern (heterogeneous) parallel computing architectures.
Link to PECS website: https://pecs-workshop.github.io/
List of Topics
The workshop accepts papers from both academia and industry experts and practitioners in all aspects of performance assessment, modeling, optimization, and energy efficiency in concurrent systems, including (but not limited to) the following ones:
- Parallel and concurrent programming frameworks
- Heterogeneous computing
- Runtime environments for HPC or daily usage software
- Shared and concurrent data structures
- Data management and services
- Non-blocking synchronization
- Operating Systems
- Virtualization support
- Networking functions
- Security
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full papers of up to 8 pages including references
- Work-in-progress papers of up to 4 pages including references
Papers are required to be submitted via the EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pecs2021
Articles must use the ACM conference format. Presented papers will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. Adhering to ACM guidelines for conferences, PECS requires that at least one author of each accepted paper attends (in person or remote) the workshop and presents the paper.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission (required for all papers) | Jan 15, 2021 |
Paper Submission | Jan 20, 2021 |
Paper Notification of Acceptance | Feb 14, 2021 |
Camera-Ready Version | Feb 22, 2021 |
Workshop | Apr 19 or Apr 20, 2021 |
Committees
Program Committee
- Pierangelo di Sanzo, La Sapienza, Italy
- Alessandro Pellegrini, National Research Council, Italy
- Paolo Romano, INESC-ID, Portugal
- Diego Didona, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
- Philip A. Wilsey, University of Cincinnati, United States
- Eric Rutten, INRIA, France
Organizing committee
- Romolo Marotta, UNIVAQ, Italy
- Francesco Quaglia, Tor Vergata, Italy
Venue
The workshop is co-located with ACM/SPEC ICPE 2021 (https://icpe2021.spec.org/), April 19 or 20, 2021, Rennes, France.
Contact
pecs2021[at]easychair.org