Topic 1. Support Tools and Environments

Despite an impressive body of research, parallel and distributed programming remains a complex task prone to subtle software issues that can affect both the correctness and the performance of the application. This topic focuses on tools and techniques to help tackling that complexity. We solicit contributions on tools and environments that address any of the many challenges of parallel and distributed programming related to programmability, portability, correctness, reliability, scalability, efficiency, performance and energy consumption.

This topic aims to bring together tool designers, developers, and users to share their concerns, ideas, solutions, and products for a wide range of parallel platforms. We particularly value contributions with solid theoretical foundations and with strong experimental validations on production-level parallel and distributed systems. We encourage submissions that detail novel program development tools and environments that address the expected complexity of exascale systems.

Focus

Debugging and correctness tools
Hybrid shared memory and message passing tools
Instrumentation and monitoring tools and techniques
Program development tools
Programming environments, interoperable tool environments
Integration of tools, compilers and operating systems
Performance and reliability analysis (manual and automatic)
Energy efficiency and savings tools
Performance and code structure visualization
Testing and analysis tools
Computational steering
Tool infrastructure and scalability
Tool evaluations and comparisons in production environments
Tools for extreme-scale systems
Tools for code modernization
Tools for homogeneous and heterogeneous multi/many-core processors
Tools and environments for clusters, clouds, and grids
Autotuning techniques and tools

Chairs

Global chair: Siegfried Benkner, Universität Wien, Austria
Local chair: Massimo Coppola, ISTI CNR, Italy
Chair: Franz Franchetti, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Chair: Michael Gerndt, Technische Universität München, Germany
Chair: Erwin Laure, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Chair: Nikos Parlavantzas, INSA Rennes and IRISA, France