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Ort: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Wien

The International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT) is the premier international forum for the presentation of research results in parallel computing. As a multi-disciplinary conference that brings together researchers from the hardware and software areas, PACT brings together researchers and practitioners in parallel systems to present ground-breaking research related to parallel systems ranging across instruction-level parallelism, thread-level parallelism, multiprocessor parallelism and large scale systems.

Keynote 1: “Build Watson: An Overview of DeepQA for The Jeopardy! Challenge”

The DeepQA project is aimed at illustrating how the advancement and integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval (IR), Machine Learning (ML), massively parallel computation and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) can greatly advance open-domain automatic Question Answering. An exciting proof-point in this challenge is to develop a computer system that can successfully compete against top human players at the Jeopardy! quiz show. Attaining champion-level performance Jeopardy! requires a computer to rapidly answer rich open-domain questions, and to predict its own performance on any given category/question.

Keynote 2: “Towards a Science of Parallel Programming”

In spite of more than 40 years of work on parallel programming, we have few insights into how to exploit the performance potential of multicore processors. In this talk, I will argue that this problem arises largely from the limitations of the program-centric abstractions like dependence graphs that we currently use to think about parallelism. I will then propose a novel data-centric abstraction called the operator formulation of algorithms, which reveals that a generalized form of data-parallelism called amorphous data-parallelism is ubiquitous in diverse applications ranging from mesh generation/refinement/partitioning to SAT solvers, maxflow algorithms, stencil computations and event-driven simulation.

Keynote 3: “Raising the Level of Many-Core Programming with Compiler Technology – meeting a grand challenge”

Today, an application programmer has to understand the desirable parallel programming idioms, manually work around potential hardware performance pitfalls, and restructure their application design in order to achieve their performance objectives on many-core processors. In this presentation, I will discuss why advanced compiler functionalities have not found traction with the developer communities, what the industry is doing today to try to address the challenges, and how the academic community can contribute to this exciting revolution.

The Nineteenth International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT)

PACT 2010 – The Nineteenth International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT) 2010-09-11 08:30:00 2010-09-15 17:30:00

[ Samstag, 11. September 2010 bis Mittwoch, 15. September 2010. ] Ort: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Wien

The International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT) is the premier international forum for the presentation of research results in parallel computing. As a multi-disciplinary conference that brings together researchers from the hardware and software areas, PACT brings together researchers and practitioners in [...]

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