Introduction

To fully utilise multi-core environments a transition from sequential programming models towards parallel programming techniques is necessary. Techniques from distributed and parallel processing are making their way into the new multi-core developers toolsets. Many of the techniques used traditionally for parallel programming are also being used now on multi-cores. Apart obvious similarities, there are also fundamental differences, between multi-core and grid technologies. Multi-core systems rely on true Shared Memory rather than distributed memory systems, where latencies are measured in micro- and nanoseconds instead of milliseconds.

This workshop is dedicated primarily to gather researchers and practitioners addressing the main challenges in the newly emerging multi-core software engineering and distributed programming paradigm. This workshop aims to provide a discussion forum for people interested in programming environments and models specifically designed for parallel multi-core hardware environments.

The program committee cordially invites any novel research ideas in the following range of subjects:

• multi-core programming models
• multi-core software engineering
• performance and utilisation metrics
• performance analysis, efficiency and effectiveness
• multi-cores: similarities and usefulness of shared memory and distributed memory models
• message passing and applicability of known and established distributed programming models to multi-core systems
• massively multi-core systems: the challenges and opportunities
• automated parallelisation of existing code

Authors are invited to submit original papers not previously published nor submitted in parallel to any other publication for conference, workshop or journal. Papers should be up to 8 pages long, double column and follow the IEEE manuscript guidelines provided by PDCAT2008 web site. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Authors must register and submit their paper through the online submission system. If you have problems accessing the system, e-mail your submission to mariusz at nowostawski.org.

Workshop Organizers (tentative list)

Mariusz Nowostawski, Information Science Department, University of Otago and World45,
mariusz at nowostawski.org

Ariel Hendel, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems, USA,
ariel.hendel at sun.com

Prof. WeiMin Zheng, Institute of High Performance Computing, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China,
zwmdcs at tsinghua.edu.cn