MTAAP
Workshop on Multithreaded
Architectures and Applications
Held in Conjunction with the
International Parallel and
Distributed Processing Symposium
Luiz DeRose (Cray)
Jarek Nieplocha (PNNL)
Multithreading (MT) programming and execution
models are starting to permeate the high-end and mainstream computing scene.
This trend is driven by the need to increase processor utilization and deal
with the memory-processor speed gap. Recent and upcoming examples architectures
that fit this profile are Cray's XMT,
IBM Cyclops, and several SMT processors from Sun (UltraSparc
T1), IBM (Power6), Intel (Xeon with hyperthreading).
The underlying rationale to increase processor utilization is a varying mix of new
metrics that take performance improvements as well as better power and cost
budgeting into account. Yet, it remains a challenge to identify and
productively program applications for these architectures with a resulting
substantial performance improvement. This workshop intends to identify
applications that are amenable to MT and the MT programming and execution
models as well as the underlying architectures on which they can thrive. The
workshop seeks to explore programming frameworks in the form of MT languages
and libraries, compilers, analysis and debugging tools to increase the
programming productivity.
The first MTAAP workshop was held in Long Beach, California, March 30, 2007. MTAAP'07 program and slides.
The second MTAAP workshop was held in Miami, April 18, 2008. MTAAP'08 program and slides.