Scientific Programming Journal (Published by IOS Press)
Special Issue on Software Development for Multi-Core Computing Systems
AIMS AND SCOPE: The improvement of single-processor performance by increasing clock rate and instructions-per-clock number has reached its technological limits. Increasing instead the number of processor cores per chip is one alternative that can yield better overall system performance and alleviate problems related to energy consumption, heat dissipation and design complexity. As a result we are now witnessing the emergence of multi-core processors in all markets from laptops and game consoles to servers and supercomputers. However, also from the software development perspective exploiting the full potential of multi-core computing systems is a highly complex and essentially open domain, at the moment forcing application developers to deal with numerous low-level details. Major research efforts are required to streamline the process of software development for multi-core computing systems.
The topics of the special issue include but are not limited to,
- programming models and languages
- hardware/software interface and interaction
- programming constructs for exposing and/or hiding memory system and processor heterogeneity
- compilers, runtime and operating systems
- algorithms and libraries
- parallelization and optimization strategies
- performance measurement, modeling, and prediction
- problem solving environments
- applications
- software engineering practices
for multi-core/many-core computing systems.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Authors should prepare their manuscripts following the format of the Scientific Programming Journal
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Submission: December 01, 2008
- Notification: January 26, 2009
- Final version of the paper: February 16, 2009
GUEST EDITORS: Sabri Pllana, , University of Vienna Jesper Larsson Träff, , NEC Laboratories Europe, NEC Europe Ltd.