POAT2024

Special Session:
Performance Optimization and Auto-Tuning of Software on Multicore/Manycore Systems (POAT)

In conjunction with IEEE MCSoC-2024 (Dec 16-19, 2024, Days Hotel & Suites by Wyndham Fraser Business Park, Kuala Lumpur)

Multicore/manycore processors (CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, etc.), have become commonplace today and are used in a wide range of systems, from smartphones to supercomputers. Their architectures and configurations are diversifying and becoming increasingly complex. Performance optimization of programs on these state-of-the-art processors is becoming an increasingly significant challenge.
This special session in MCSoC covers the general topic of performance optimization on multicore/manycore systems “Performance” here could be not only computation speed, but also power efficiency, quality of computation (accuracy), and so on. Furthermore, this session hopes to discuss auto-tuning as an important technology for dealing with the complexity and diversity of multicore/manycore systems.
POAT is an extended successor to the special session formerly known as Auto-Tuning for Multicore and GPU (ATMG) (2012-2022).

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Performance optimization of software on manycores: for computational speed, energy efficiency, accuracy, etc.
  • Quantum computing using manycores (quantum circuits simulators, quantum inspired annealing, etc.)
  • Mixed-precision computation and precision-tuning on manycores systems
  • Thread-parallelization / SIMD-vectorization on manycores systems
  • Auto-tuning and automatic code generation for manycores systems
  • Application of AI-accelerator (or AI-oriented extensions on processors) to general-purpose computations
  • Code porting and benchmarking between different manycore systems
  • Tools / programming models / languages for performance on manycore systems
  • Challenges for heterogeneity on manycore systems
  • Manycores on FPGAs

Submission

All contributions should be original, not published elsewhere, or intended to be published during the review period. Electronic Paper submission should not exceed 8 double-column IEEE format pages, including figures and references. Papers should be formatted as close as possible to the final format -double column, single-spaced, and Times or equivalent font of minimum, 10pt size. The acceptable format is PDF only. Any other file format and manuscripts received in hard-copy form will not be processed. Please use IEEE Formats for paper formatting.

Download the IEEE manuscript Templates (.doc OR Latex) for Conference Proceedings https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Every submitted paper will be evaluated by at least three reviewers (Single-blind peer review) in technical quality, originality, significance to the symposium, and organization. We encouraged authors to proofread and spell-check their papers before submission. The 17th IEEE MCSoC 2024 proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, which will be included in the Computer Society Digital Library CSDL and IEEE Xplore. All CPS conference publications are also submitted for indexing to EI’s Engineering Information Index, Compendex, ISI Thomson’s Scientific and Technical Proceedings, ISTP/ISI Proceedings, and ISI Thomson. Note: MCSoC does not accept abstract-only submissions.

Avoiding Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism:

Papers should not have plagiarized material and should not have been submitted to any other conference simultaneously (double submission).

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Preprent Papers (e.g. arXiv):

We conform to the IEEE Preprint Policy. Because preprint papers are not peer-reviewed, we don't consider them as previous works. As long as you follow the policy, we don't prohibit you from submitting your papers that have preprints to POAT2024.

Submission System

Submit your paper online here: https://edas.info/N32038

Important Dates (AoE)

  • Full Paper Submission: June 18, 2024 (extended, FINAL), May 25, 2024 (extended), April 30, 2024
  • Acceptance Notification: July 20, 2024
  • Camera-ready Paper: July 31, 2024
  • Event Date: December 16-19, 2023

Program

TBD

Previous Events

  • POAT2023, Singapore, December 18-21, 2023.
  • ATMG2022, Penang, Malaysia, December 19-22, 2022.
  • ATMG2021, Singapore, December 19-22, 2021.
  • ATMG2020 (Canceled due to COVID-19 travel restrictions)
  • ATMG2019, Singapore, October 1-4, 2019.
  • ATMG2018, Hanoi, Vietnam, September 12-14, 2018.
  • ATMG2017, Seoul, Korea, September 18-20, 2017.
  • ATMG2016, Lyon, France, September 21-23, 2016.
  • ATMG2015, Turin, Italy, September 23-25, 2015.
  • ATMG2014, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, September 23-25, 2014.
  • ATMG2013, Tokyo, Japan, September 26-28, 2013.
  • ATMG2012, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, September 20-22, 2012.

Committee

Program Chair:
Norihisa Fujita (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Program Vice-Chair:
Tetsuya Hoshino (University of Nagoya, Japan)

Program Committee:
Beau Johnston (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
David Defour (Université de Perpignan, France)
Kazuhiko Komatsu (Tohoku University, Japan)
Masahiro Nakao (RIKEN R-CCS, Japan)
Roman Iakymchuk (Umeå University, Sweden)
Satoshi Ohshima (Kyusyu University, Japan)
Takeshi Fukaya (Hokkaido University, Japan)

Contact Person:
Norihisa Fujita (Centetr for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan)
E-mail: fujita (at) ccs.tsukuba.ac.jp (Please replace "at" by @.)