HeteroPar 2023

Keynote speaker: Mehdi Goli, VP Research & Development, Codeplay Software

Title: Building software for the next generation of heterogeneous systems

Abstract: For many compute-intensive problems today, such as large language models (LLM) or large-scale scientific simulations, heterogeneous computing is inevitable to meet the demands of these applications. Programming heterogeneous systems is already challenging, as different types of accelerators and architectures, including the increasingly popular RISC-V, needed to be considered. Yet, hardware vendors have begun to add even more specialized functional units to accelerators, making the accelerators themselves more heterogeneous, and further increasing the complexity of programming heterogeneous systems. Examples for such specialized functional units include matrix processing units (e.g., Intel AMX or Nvidia tensor cores) or processing-in-memory capabilities. Some of the key problems for compute intensive applications would be to enable developers and domain experts to build software for the next generation of heterogeneous systems and to make best use of the systems capabilities without having to re-engineer when porting the application. I will delve into these challenges and look at how traditional approaches to writing software are unable to exploit the capabilities of heterogenous exa-scale systems.

Short bio: Mehdi is VP of R&D, responsible for leading impactful, influential, and innovative research and development projects, ensuring Codeplay remains a leading independent provider of AI and HPC enablement. He joined Codeplay in 2017 as a Senior Software Engineer in AI Parallelisation and he was the Team Lead of Eigen, SYCL-BLAS, and Nvidia backend for Intel oneMKL and oneDNN. He is also a member of the Technical Advisory Board for Intel oneMKL. Before joining Codeplay, he was a research associate at the University of West of Scotland for 2 years working with Codeplay through Knowledge Transfer Program (KTP) to deliver the VisionCPP framework. Prior to that, he completed his PhD in Parallel Computing at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen (2015), during which he was a Research Assistant in Parallel Computing at IDEAS Research Institute, working on the ParaPhrase project.

HeteroPar will be held on August 28, 2023 (full day workshop) at the St. Raphael Resort in Limassol, Cyprus (collocated with Euro-Par 2023). HeteroPar'2023 will be primarily in-person event, but some provisions to present, attend and interact online will also be provided.

Registration: At least one author must register to the workshop to present the paper and to have it published in the final LNCS proceedings (see Euro-Par'23 registration page for details).

Pre-final version: Feel free to prepare a pre-final version of your manuscript to be distributed during the conference and upload it to EasyChair as soon as possible. Please consider: i) the reviews while preparing the final version; ii) strictly adhere to the LNCS style; and iii) the page limit is 12 pages (long paper). The PDFs of accepted papers will be collected from EasyChair to assemble a password-protected zip download from the Euro-Par website.

Camera-ready: Accepted papers that are presented at the workshop, will be published in a revised form in a special Euro-Par Workshop Volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series after the Euro-Par conference. All the camera-ready copies of papers for Springer should be provided by 16th of September (a couple of weeks after the conference). The papers should be submitted in PDF, following the Springer LNCS format . Paper length must not exceed 12 pages (including references).