http://pasco2010.imag.fr/contest.html
21st-23rd July 2010
PASCO 2010 Programming Challenge
http://pasco2010.imag.fr/
Call for Participation
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Since the 80s and during the 90s a lot of parallel algorithms was
proposed for computer algebra. Thus, 30 years after few computer
algebra system are able to exploit modern parallel architectures
multi-core, cluster and GPUs. The International Workshop on Parallel
and Symbolic Computation (PASCO) is a series of workshops dedicated to
the promotion and advancement of parallel algorithms and software in
all areas of symbolic mathematical computation. The pervasive ubiquity
of parallel architectures and memory hierarchy has led to the
emergence of a new quest for parallel mathematical algorithms and
software capable of exploiting the various levels of parallelism: from
hardware acceleration technologies (multi-core and multi-processor
system on chip, GPGPU, FPGA) to cluster and global computing
platforms. To push up the limits of symbolic and algebraic
computations, beyond the optimization of the application itself, the
effective use of a large number of resources -- memory and general or
specialized computing units -- is expected to enhance the performance
multi-criteria objectives: time, energy consumption, resource usage,
reliability. This year the PASCO 2010 workshop organize two
programming challenges on ones of the most fundamental algorithms
arising in computer algebra and providing rich opportunities for high
performance computing. The two problems are matrix multiplication and
gcd computations. Instances of the problems are given on the web site.
The competition will take place live during the PASCO 2010
workshop. The results of the competition will be presented as part of
the PASCO 2010 program. All participating teams will run their program
on a selected set of the problems. The rule of the game is available
on the PASCO 2010 workshop site
[http://pasco2010.imag.fr/contest.html]. We strongly encourage all
developers of parallel program or developers of parallel computer
algebra system tools to participate in the competition. Teams are
invited to send a declaration of participation as soon as possible by
sending a mail to the PASCO 2010 conference organizers at
pasco2010@imag.fr with the following information:
* The name of the team and the contact information (name, email
address, institution or company) of each team member willing to
participate to the PASCO 2010 programming contest;
* The name of the contact person (interlocutor and team
representative).
Accounts will be created on machine to allow teams to prepare their
competition.
Important dates
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Team declaration of participation: 19 July 2010
Preparation of the team: From 18 June until 20 July (remotely)
Final preparation day: Wednesday 21 July 2010 at the Conference location
Face to face challenge: Thursday 22 July 2010
Publication of the results during the Conference banquet.
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