Third Workshop on Productivity and Performance in High-End Computing (P-PHEC)

to be held in conjunction with the
12th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-2006)
in Austin, Texas
Sunday, February 12, 2006

The goal of this workshop is to examine productivity issues and the metrics used to measure them, in the context of high-end computing (HEC) systems, and to provide a forum for research addressing productivity in high-end computing systems.

The peak performance of processors has been increasing at an exponential rate, typically doubling every eighteen months. However, this increase in processing capability has not resulted in a corresponding improvement in system productivity for high-end applications and systems. In addition to traditional performance metrics, the productivity of a system is governed by other metrics such as application development time, time to solution, performance portability, robustness, and ease of both correctness validation and performance tuning. With both the range and the complexity of high-end applications continuing to increase, factors other than raw performance are becoming more important to the High-End Computing system user.

Workshop Proceedings in PDF (1.97 MB)

Topics

Following is a partial list of topics upon which papers are solicited:

1. Methods, approaches and tools for increasing productivity and/or reducing usage complexity of high-end applications and systems.
2. Productivity metrics: measures of productivity (development and usage) in HEC systems and experiments to validate these measures.
3. Analysis and characterization of HEC workloads and workflows and their distinct requirements.
4. Impact of HEC system properties on time-to-solution or other productivity metrics.
   • The impact of programming models, programming methodologies and programming tools on software productivity for HEC.
   • The impact of HEC system architecture, reliability, robustness and accessibility on productivity.
5. Case studies of productivity measurements and experiments on HEC applications and systems.

Dates and Submissions

Submissions due: Jan 5, 2006
Author Notifications: Jan 6, 2006
Final Papers Due: Jan 20, 2006
Workshop Date: Sunday, Feb 12, 2006

Papers should not exceed 15 pages, with double-spaced 11pt size fonts in Adobe PDF format. Please e-mail papers to rajamony@us.ibm.com with the subject: "HPCA Productivity Workshop"

Program Committee

Nick Nystrom (PSC)
Philip Johnson (Univ. of Hawaii)
Ram Rajamony (IBM, Program Chair)
Vijay Saraswat (IBM)
Larry Votta (Sun)

If you have any questions, e-mail rajamony@us.ibm.com

Information about PPHEC-1 (2004)

Information about PPHEC-2 (2005)