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1 Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Forschungsuniversität gegründet 1825 Working group meeting Software engineering for parallel systems Leipzig, Germany May 11, 2008 Dr. Victor Pankratius [slides updated translated into English after the meeting]

Leipzig, Germany May 11, 2008 Dr. Victor Pankratius http://www.

2 Report on activities Since foundation in November, 2007 Web site, mailing list Acquisition of new members from academia and industry Identification of relevant topics WG supports organization of International Workshop on Multicore Software Engineering Plan: continue with series of workshops on this topic Meanwhile: 40 international members 30 from academia, 10 from industry [updated June 9, 2008] 2

International Workshop on Multicore Software Engineering Plan: continue with series of workshops on

3 Report on activities National distribution of working group members 3

4 Report on activities [updated June9, 2008, after meeting] International distribution of working group members 4

5 Report on activities Working group mentioned in the following publications along with call for participation Victor Pankratius, Walter F. Tichy. Die Multicore-Revolution und ihre Bedeutung für die Softwareentwicklung To appear in Objektspektrum 2008 Victor Pankratius Aufruf zur Teilnahme am Arbeitskreis Software Engineering für parallele Systeme To appear in Softwaretechnik Trends,

Die Multicore-Revolution und ihre Bedeutung für die Softwareentwicklung To appear in

6 Report on activities Walter Tichy, Victor Pankratius. Herausforderung Multikern-Systeme Software Engineering 2008, München Feb2008 Distribution of flyers during the SE2008 conference in Munich. direct marketing 6

Engineering 2008, München Feb2008 Distribution of

7 Report on activities Members of steering committee support preparations for a multicore program in the German Science Foundation DFG-Schwerpunkt Multicore A preparatory meeting took place at the Technical University of Munich on May 2, 2008 Ongoing work 7

Foundation DFG-Schwerpunkt Multicore A preparatory meeting took

8 Report on activities Book project Goal: Make multicore accessible to broad audience State-of-the-art in Multicore architecture Multicore software engineering Applications, operating systems, languages, compiler Experience reports Publisher: Taylor & Francis, USA Editors: Ali-Adl Tabatabai, Victor Pankratius, Walter F. Tichy Now: Call for Book Chapters Find authors / experts who want to contribute 8

compiler Experience reports Publisher: Taylor & Francis, USA Editors: Ali-Adl Tabatabai, Victor

9 Discussion A selection of topics Multicore architectures Engineering issues of multicore processors Architectural features that may enhance the parallel performance Caching Parallel patterns Frameworks and libraries for multicore software Modeling techniques Parallel software architectures Software components and composition Programming languages/models for multicore software Compilers for parallelism Run-time issues such as garbage collection or thread scheduling Ways of specifying or hinting at parallelism Testing and debugging parallel applications Parallel algorithms and data structures Software reengineering for parallelism Transactional Memory Autotuning Operating system support, scheduling Visualization tools Development environments for multicore software Process models for multicore software development Experience reports from research or industrial projects 9

for parallelism Run-time issues such as garbage collection or thread scheduling Ways of specifying or hinting at parallelism Testing and debugging parallel applications Parallel algorithms and data

10 Discussion Goals Mid-term, long-term What should we work on? Option: split up in sub-groups Which results when? 10

11 Next meeting End of 2008 Proposals? ToDO 11

Multi-GPU Load Balancing for Simulation and Rendering

Multi-GPU Load Balancing for Simulation and Rendering Multi- Load Balancing for Simulation and Rendering Yong Cao Computer Science Department, Virginia Tech, USA In-situ ualization and ual Analytics Instant visualization and interaction of computing tasks