This edition of the MEDIAN Workshop will be co-located with DATE 2014, in Dresden, Germany, on March 28, 2014. The call for paper is now available (here), with all related information!
Looking forward to your submissions.
The deadline for the SI on MEDIAN @ MICPRO has been extended to Oct. 31st.
By projecting the increase in performance of the world’s top supercomputers (measured in floating-point operations per second, or FLOPS) the exa-scale level (1018 FLOPS) is likely to be reached by 2020. However, the goal is to obtain exa-FLOPS performance staying within a 20 Mega-Watt power envelope. This leads to a performance efficiency requirement of 50 GFLOPS/W, which is about 20 times higher than where we are today.
Moreover, a number of other issues need to be addressed to meet the so called “exascale challenge”. These include: processor architecture and extreme parallelism, memory bandwidth and capacity, programming models for high-concurrency, harder to manage I/O system, reliability and resiliency.
We invite researchers to submit contributions in current research topics which projected in the future will meet the exascale challenge.
The workshop’s focus is on the following areas:
• fault-tolerant and self-healing computing
• testing of large and complex systems
• dependability
• power and thermal management of multicore chips
• energy efficient computing
• emerging technologies
Groups and researchers are invited to submit an abstract, maximum one page,
explaining how their research will contribute to the exascale challenge.
Submissions should be sent as plain text, or as PDF attachments, by
e-mail to:
median-exascale@compute.dtu.dk
Authors of accepted contributions will be invited to present their ideas
at the workshop in the form of a 20/25 minute oral presentation.
Based on the availability of MEDIAN funding, a number of travel reimbursement
grants will be available and prioritized as follows:
1. Authors of accepted contributions
2. MEDIAN members
3. COST countries balancing
4. First-come, first-served basis
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline October 25, 2013
Acceptance notification November 1, 2013
Registration deadline November 27, 2013
WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
Alberto Nannarelli, Technical University of Denmark
Call for paper: pdf
The slides of the presentation by Ben Kaczer can be downloaded here.
A group picture in front of the Colosseum.
The program for the 1st MEDIAN Training School is now available here.
In the recent past a shift towards multi-core architectures has taken place to achieve high computational power, to postpone the end of Moore’s law, working at both technological and architectural levels. Such paradigm shifts imply new dependability issues and thus require a rethinking of design, manufacturing, testing, and validation of reliable next-generation systems.
These manufacturability and dependability issues will be resolved efficiently only if a cross-layer approach that takes into account technology, circuit and architectural aspects will be developed.
This special issue on Microprocessors and Microsystems (MICPRO), the Elsevier Embedded Hardware Design Journal focuses on new solutions for the design, validation, test and manufacturing of multi-core architectures in the nanotechnology era.
All authors who presented papers at MEDIAN Workshop 2013 are encouraged to submit a full version of their abstract papers to MICPRO for possible inclusion in this special issue. Additionally, high quality submissions within the scope of the special issue on Manufacturable and Dependable Multi-core Architectures at Nanoscale MEDIAN are welcome. Extended versions if papers published in conference proceedings must have at least 30% new content compared to the previously published material; please identify clearly the additional material in your submitted manuscript.
The topics of interest within the MEDIAN scenario include, but are not limited to:
All manuscripts are subject to standard rigorous review process of Microprocessors and Microsystems (MICPRO), the Elsevier Embedded Hardware Design Journal. Prospective authors should submit their manuscripts electronically via the Manuscript Central website. Authors should clearly identify their papers as submissions “SI: MEDIAN” when they reach the “Article Type” , also adding the information for the “Special issue on MEDIAN” on their manuscript and in the “Author’s Cover Letter”-field of the web submission form. The author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/micpro. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted to the via the Elsevier online system of the journal, available at http://ees.elsevier.com/micpro/.
Download the pdf of the Call for Papers.
The Special Issue of JETTA on Manufacturable and Dependable Multicore Architectures at Nanoscale (MEDIAN) is available here: http://link.springer.com/
The registration page for the International Training School (Sep. 16-18, 2013 @ Rome) is now available here.
The number of participants is not limited, and the school has no registration fee.
The MEDIAN COST Action will provide grants to cover the traveling and accommodation expenses and since the number of grants is limited, the registration process has two steps.
The deadile for submission to the 2nd Workshop on Manufacturable and Dependable Multicore Architectures at Nanoscale has been extended to March 22, 2013.
