Call for Papers

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Parallelization of Sequential CodeIEEE Micro Twitter Icon



Submissions due: 27 January 2012?
Publication date: July/August 2012

For decades, the performance of all applications steadily improved with each new processor generation. The move to multicore broke this trend with sequential codes being the most negatively impacted. Many advocate manual parallelization, but even with new languages and tools, manual parallelization remains a complex, time-consuming, and error-prone process often requiring application and hardware expertise.  Automatic parallelization has not yet addressed the problem despite strong evidence that there exists sufficient "oracle parallelism" in most existing programs to keep processors busy for many generations of multicore to come. Of late, however, there has been there has been a spate of promising work improving the process of parallelizing sequential code. We seek original papers reporting on those efforts.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Hardware support for parallelization
  • Speculative multithreading
  • Compiler and OS support for parallelization
  • Language support
  • Analysis and transformation techniques
  • Case studies
  • Transactional memory
  • Tooling and interactive support for transformation,
  • Limit studies and oracle parallelism
  • Dealing with I/O and other external constraints

Submission procedure

Log onto IEEE CS Manuscript Central (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/micro-cs) and submit your manuscript.  Please direct questions to the IEEE Micro magazine assistant (micro-ma@computer.org).  For the manuscript submission, acceptable file formats include Microsoft Word and PDF. Manuscripts should not exceed 5,000 words including references, with each average-size figure counting as 150 words toward this limit. Please include all figures and tables, as well as a cover page with author contact information (name, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address) and a 200-word abstract. Submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere, and all manuscripts must be cleared for publication. Accepted articles will be edited for structure, style, clarity, and readability. For more information, please visit the IEEE Micro Author Center (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewmagazines/acmicro)

Important Dates

  • Submissions due: 27 January 2012
  • Author notification: 14 March 2012
  • Final version due: 17 April 2012
  • Publication: July-August 2012

Questions?

Contact Guest Editor David August