NSF Workshop on Research Directions in the Principles of Parallel Computing

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA

Investigators

Abstract

A one day workshop on "Research Directions in the Principles of Parallel Computing" is scheduled on June 28, 2012 at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, PA. The workshop will bring together researchers from academia and industry to inform, discuss, and initiate collaborations on understanding the key research challenges in the foundations of parallel computing, and directions to possibly address these challenges. The emphasis of the workshop is on theoretical approaches to parallel computation and how to bridge these approaches with practice. It will be held the day after the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), which is to be held June 25-27, 2012 also at CMU. The workshop will address several issues described in NSF's Advanced Computing Infrastructure Strategic Plan including, but not limited to, computational models, programming languages, rethinking the canonical computing "stack" and new algorithmic paradigms. The workshop will consist of approximately 20 invited speakers who will be asked to present their thoughts on "what are three big research challenges in the principles of parallel computing". Attendance to the workshop is open to all students, faculty and industry researchers at no charge (as space permits). The output of the workshop will be a public report documenting the discussions. It is hoped this report and other interactions at the workshop will have broad impact on future directions of research in the theory and practice of parallel computation.