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HeteroPar will be held on August 27, 2024 (full day workshop) at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, Spain (collocated with Euro-Par 2024).

Welcome

The 22nd International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms (HeteroPar 2024) will be held on August 27, 2024 as a full-day workshop at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, Spain.
For the 15th time, HeteroPar is organized in conjunction with the Euro-Par annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel computing.

Workshop scope

Heterogeneity is emerging as one of the most profound and challenging characteristics of today's parallel environments. From the macro level, where networks of distributed computers composed of different node architectures are interconnected with potentially heterogeneous networks, to the micro level, where deeper memory hierarchies and different accelerator architectures are increasingly common, the impact of heterogeneity on all computing tasks is rapidly increasing. Traditional parallel algorithms, programming environments and tools designed for older homogeneous multiprocessors will at best achieve a small fraction of the efficiency and potential performance that we should expect from parallel computing in tomorrow's highly diverse and mixed environments. New ideas, innovative algorithms, and specialised programming environments and tools are needed to efficiently exploit these new and diverse parallel architectures. The workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers working on algorithms, programming languages, tools, and theoretical models aimed at efficiently solving problems on heterogeneous platforms.


Topics to be covered include but are not limited to:

  • Heterogeneous parallel programming paradigms and models

  • Languages, libraries, and interfaces for heterogeneous parallel programming models

  • Performance models and their integration into the design of efficient parallel algorithms for heterogeneous platforms

  • Parallel algorithms and scheduling for heterogeneous and/or hierarchical systems, including manycores and hardware accelerators (e.g. FPGAs, GPUs, AI accelerators)

  • Parallel algorithms for efficient problem solving on heterogeneous platforms (e.g. numeri- cal linear algebra, nonlinear systems, fast transforms, computational biology, data mining, artificial intelligence, multimedia)

  • Applications and software engineering for heterogeneous parallel systems

  • Algorithms, models and tools for energy and/or multi-objective optimization on heterogeneous platforms

  • Integration of parallel and distributed computing on heterogeneous systems

  • Experience of porting parallel software from supercomputers to heterogeneous platforms

  • Fault tolerance of parallel computations on heterogeneous platforms

  • Algorithms, models and tools for grid, desktop grid, cloud, and green computing that include heterogeneous computing aspect

Authors are encouraged to submit original, unpublished research or overviews on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms, namely addressing the topics referred above.

Paper submission

Paper submission deadline: May 20 , 2024 - AoE (hard deadline)
Authors notification: June 17, 2024
Camera Ready Deadline: July 1, 2024
Easychair submission page

Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit papers electronically, through EasyChair. The papers should be submitted in PDF, following the Springer LNCS format . Paper length must not exceed 12 pages (including references). All submitted manuscripts will be checked for originality by Springer iThenticate (papers that show an insufficient originality might be rejected without a review).

Workshop Proceedings: Accepted papers that are presented at the workshop, will be published in a revised form in a special Euro-Par Workshop Volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series after the Euro-Par conference.

Journal Special Issue: Authors of selected papers accepted for presentation at HeteroPar'2024 will be invited to submit a revised and extended version of their work to a special issue of Wiley's Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience journal.

Keynote Speaker

Keynote speaker: José Cano


Title: Accelerating AI at the Edge: The Power of Efficient Hardware-Software Co-Design


Abstract: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly a key component within Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications for a number of domains, including computer vision, natural language processing, and scientific computing. At the same time, executing DNN models on edge devices may allow secure computation and lower energy consumption and cost, but to become practical performance must improve dramatically. This is due to the significant demands introduced by emerging DNN models in terms of both memory and compute and the reduce availability of them in constrained edge devices. In this talk I will introduce the Glasgow Intelligent Computing Laboratory (gicLAB) and give an overview of our current and future research, with an emphasis on Hardware/Software co-design approaches to efficiently deploy and run AI/ML applications on constrained edge devices.


Short bio:

José Cano is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, where he leads the Glasgow Intelligent Computing Laboratory (gicLAB) within the Systems Research Section (GLASS) and is also deputy Head of GLASS. His research interests are in the broad areas of Computer Architecture, Computer Systems, Compilers, Machine Learning, and Security. His current research is mainly focused on Hardware/Software co-design approaches to efficiently deploy AI/ML applications on constrained edge devices. José is currently Principal Investigator at the University of Glasgow on the EU’s Horizon Europe project dAIEDGE, and Co-Investigator on the UKRI "Digital Security by Design" projects AppControl and Morello-HAT. He was Principal Investigator on the UK’s PETRAS project MAISE. He has obtained >£500K as a project PI, >£850K as a project Co-I, and >£75K from five personal grants. He is a senior member of the IEEE and ACM research societies and a member of the HiPEAC, dAIEDGE and PETRAS networks of excellence.

Workshop Program
TBD

Information for Authors

HeteroPar will be held on August 27, 2024 (full day workshop) at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, Spain (collocated with Euro-Par 2024). HeteroPar'2024 will be an in-person event.

Registration: At least one author must register to the workshop to present the paper and to have it published in the final LNCS proceedings (see Euro-Par'24 registration page for details).

Pre-final version: Feel free to prepare a pre-final version of your manuscript to be distributed during the conference and upload it to EasyChair as soon as possible. Please consider: i) the reviews while preparing the final version; ii) strictly adhere to the LNCS style; and iii) the page limit is 12 pages (long paper). The PDFs of accepted papers will be collected from EasyChair to assemble a password-protected zip download from the Euro-Par website.

Camera-ready: Accepted papers that are presented at the workshop, will be published in a revised form in a special Euro-Par Workshop Volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series after the Euro-Par conference. All the camera-ready copies of papers for Springer should be provided by TBDth of TBD (a couple of weeks after the conference). The papers should be submitted in PDF, following the Springer LNCS format . Paper length must not exceed 12 pages (including references).

Contact Information

Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí

quintana@disca.upv.es

Departamento de Informática de Sistemas y Computadores
Universitat Politècnica de València
Spain



Manuel F. Dolz

dolzm@uji.es

Departament d'Enginyeria i Ciència dels Computadors
Universitat Jaume I de Castelló