Limassol, Cyprus
Nov 01-04, 2018

Dates & Deadlines:

PACT 2018 Information:

The 27th International Conference on
Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT18)
Limassol, Cyprus
November 01-04, 2018

PACT 2018 Main Conference

The PACT 2018 tutorials and workshops will be held Saturday November 3 and Sunday November 4 see the Tutorials and Workshops Schedule for details.
The PACT 2018 technical sessions will be held Thurdsay November 1 through Saturday November 3 at the conference hotel, the Mediterranean Hotel in Limassol, Cyprus.

PACT 2018 Main Conference Day 1 - Thursday, November 1, 2018
08:45-09:15	Registration
09:15-09:30	Opening Skevos Evripidou, Michael O’Boyle, Per Stenstrom Location: AEGEAN I
09:30-10:30	Keynote Keshav Pingali, University of Texas at Austin: "50 Years of Parallel programming: Ieri, Oggi, Domani*" Session chair: Michael O’Boyle, University of Edinburgh Location: AEGEAN I
10:30-11:00	BREAK
11:00-12:30	Session 1a: Emerging Applications & Systems Session chair: Kemal Ebcioglu, Global Supercomputing Location: AEGEAN I Massively Parallel Skyline Computation For Processing-In-Memory ArchitecturesLighting Presentation Vasileios Zois (University of California, Riverside), Divya Gupta (UPMEM, SAS), Vassilis J. Tsotras, Walid A. Najjar (University of California, Riverside), Jean-Francois Roy (UPMEM, SAS) Data Motifs: A Lens Towards Fully Understanding Big Data and AI Workloads Wanling Gao, Jianfeng Zhan, Lei Wang, Chunjie Luo, Daoyi Zheng, Fei Tang, Biwei Xie, Chen Zheng, Xu Wen, Xiwen He (ICT, CAS), Hainan Ye (BAFST), and Rui Ren (ICT, CAS) Performance Extraction and Suitability Analysis of Multi- and Many-core Architectures for Next Generation Sequencing Secondary Analysis Sanchit Misra (Intel Corporation), Tony Pan (Georgia Institute of Technology), Kanak Mahadik (Adobe Systems), George Powley, Priya N. Vaidya (Intel Corporation), Md. Vasimuddin (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Srinivas Aluru (Georgia Institute of Technology) Session 1b: Memory Systems Session chair: Vasileios Karakostas, National Technical University of Athens Location: AEGEAN III Synergistic Cache Layout for Reuse and CompressionLighting Presentation Biswabandan Panda (IIT Kanpur), Andre Seznec (INRIA Rennes) HyPart: A Hybrid Technique for Practical Memory Bandwidth Partitioning on Commodity Servers Lighting Presentation Jinsu Park, Seongbeom Park, Myeonggyun Han, Jihoon Hyun, Woongki Baek (UNIST) EAR: ECC-Aided Refresh Reduction through 2-D Zero Compression Jeongkyu Hong, Hyeonggyu Kim, Soontae Kim (KAIST)
12:30-14:00	LUNCH
14:00-15:30	Session 2a: Graph Processing Session chair: Leonel Sousa, University of Lisbon Location: AEGEAN I Log(Graph): A Near-Optimal High-Performance Graph Representation Maciej Besta, Dimitri Stanojevic, Tijana Zivic, Jagpreet Singh, Maurice Hörold, Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich) An Efficient Graph Accelerator with Parallel Data Conflict Management Lighting Presentation Pengcheng Yao, Long Zheng, Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Bingsheng He (National University of Singapore) GraphPhi: Efficient Parallel Graph Processing on Emerging Throughput-oriented Architectures Lighting Presentation Zhen Peng, Alexander Powell (College of William and Mary), Bo Wu (Colorado School of Mines), Tekin Bicer (Argonne National Laboratory), Bin Ren (College of William and Mary) Session 2b: Compiler Optimization Session chair: Lawrence Rauchwerger, Texas A&M Location: AEGEAN III Revealing Parallel Scans and Reductions in Recurrences through Function Reconstruction Peng Jiang (The Ohio State University), Linchuan Chen (Google), Gagan Agrawal (The Ohio State University) Compiler Assisted Coalescing Sooraj Puthoor (AMD, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Mikko H. Lipasti (University of Wisconsin-Madison) VW-SLP: Auto-Vectorization with Adaptive Vector WidthLighting Presentation Vasileios Porpodas (Intel), Rodrigo C. O. Rocha (University of Edinburgh), Luis F. W. Goes (PUC Minas)
15:30-16:00	BREAK
16:00-17:30	Session 3a: Parallelization Management Session chair: Fernando Quintao Pereira, Fedral University, Minas Gerais Location: AEGEAN I Stencil Codes on a Vector Length Agnostic Architecture Adrià Armejach (Barcelona Supercomputing Center / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Helena Caminal (Cornell University), Juan M. Cebrián (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Rekai González-Alberquilla (Arm), Marc Casas, Miquel Moretó (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Chris Adeniyi-Jones (Arm), Mateo Valero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) Maximizing System Utilization via Parallelism Management for Co-Located Parallel Applications Younghyun Cho, Camilo Andres Celis Guzman, Bernhard Egger (Seoul National University) MemoDyn: Exploiting Weakly Consistent Data Structures for Dynamic Parallel MemoizationLighting Presentation Prakash Prabhu (Google), Stephen R. Beard, Sotiris Apostolakis (Princeton University), Ayal Zaks (Intel / Technion), David I. August (Princeton University) Session 3b: Machine Learning Architectures Session chair: Pedro Trancoso, Chalmers University of Technology Location: AEGEAN III Architectural Support for Convolutional Neural Networks on Modern CPUs Animesh Jain, Michael A. Lauernzano (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Gilles Pokam (Intel), Jason Mars, Lingjia Tang (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) A Portable, Automatic Data Quantizer for Deep Neural Networks Young H. Oh (Sungkyunkwan University), Quan Quan, Daeyeon Kim, Seonghak Kim, Jun Heo (Seoul National University), Jaeyoung Jang (Sungkyunkwan University), Sung Jun Jung, Jae W. Lee (Seoul National University) E-PUR: An Energy-Efficient Processing Unit for Recurrent Neural Networks Lighting Presentation Franyell Silfa, Gem Dot, Jose Maria Arnau, Antonio Gonzalez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia)
18:00-19:00	RECEPTION and ACM SRC Poster Session Location: Ouzeri tis Mirtos
PACT 2018 Main Conference Day 2 - Friday, November 2, 2018
9:00-10:00	Keynote Bettina Heim, Microsoft: "Quantum Computing - Vision and Reality" Session chair: Michael O’Boyle, University of Edinburgh Location: AEGEAN I
10:00-10:30	BREAK
10:30-12:30	Best Paper Session Session chair: Per Stenstrom, Chalmers University of Technology Location: AEGEAN I Cost Effective Speculation with the Omnipredictor Lighting Presentation Arthur Perais (Qualcomm), André Seznec (Inria) Towards Concurrency Race Debugging: An Integrated Approach of Constraint Solving and Dynamic Slicing Long Zheng, Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Bingsheng He(National University of Singapore), Jingling Xue (University of New South Wales), Haikun Liu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) Optimizing Remote Data Transfers in X10 Lighting Presentation Arun T, V Krishna Nandivada (IIT Madras) Near-Side Prefetch Throttling: Adaptive Prefetching for High-Performance Many-Core Processors Wim Heirman, Kristof Du Bois, Yves Vandriessche, Stijn Eyerman, Ibrahim Hur (Intel Corporation)
12:30-13:30	LUNCH
13:30-15:00	Session 4a: Runtime Session chair: Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano Location: AEGEAN I Mage: Online Interference-Aware Scheduling in Multi-Scale Heterogeneous Systems Lighting Presentation Francisco Romero (Stanford University), Christina Delimitrou (Cornell University) GMOD: A Dynamic GPU Memory Overflow Detector Lighting Presentation Bang Di, Jianhua Sun, Hao Chen (College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University), Dong Li (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Merced) On-The-Fly Workload Partitioning for Integrated CPU/GPU Architectures Younghyun Cho (Seoul National University), Florian Negele (ETH Zurich), Seohong Park, Bernhard Egger (Seoul National University), Thomas R. Gross (ETH Zurich) Session 4b: Storage Systems Session chair: André Seznec, INRIA Location: AEGEAN III 3D-XPath: High-Density Managed DRAM Architecture with Cost-effective Alternative Paths for Memory Transactions Sukhan Lee (Seoul National University), Kiwon Lee (Samsung), Minchul Sung (Seoul National University), Mohammad Alian (UIUC), Chankyung Kim, Wooyeong Cho, Reum Oh, Seongil O (Samsung),Jung Ho Ahn (Seoul National University), Nam Sung Kim (Samsung) Attributed Consistent Hashing for Heterogeneous Storage SystemsLighting Presentation Jiang Zhou, Yong Chen (Texas Tech University) DART: Distributed Adaptive Radix Tree for Efficient Affix-based Keyword Search on HPC Systems Lighting Presentation Wei Zhang (Texas Tech University), Houjun Tang, Suren Byna (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Yong Chen (Texas Tech University)
15:00-21:00	Excursion Location: Omodos village, Limassol https://omodosvillage.com https://www.cyprusisland.net/villages/omodos-village
PACT 2018 Main Conference Day 3 - Saturday, November 3, 2018
9:00-10:00	Keynote Natalie Enright Jerger, University of Toronto: "Architecting Chiplet-Based Systems" Session chair: Per Stenstrom, Chalmers University of Technology Location: AEGEAN I
10:00-10:30	BREAK
10:30-11:20	ACM Student Research Competition Presentations Session chair: Pedro Trancoso, Chalmers University of Technology Location: AEGEAN I
11:20-13:20	Session 5a: Programming Models & Compilers Session chair: Bilha Mendelson, Optitura Location: AEGEAN I ComP-Net: Command Processor Networking for Efficient Intra-kernel Communications on GPUs Michael LeBeane (AMD/ UT Austin), Khaled Hamidouche, Brad Benton (AMD), Mauricio Breternitz (Instituto Universitario de Lisboa), Steven K. Reinhardt (Microsoft), Lizy K. John (UT Austin) Cimple: Instruction and Memory Level Parallelism DSL Vladimir Kiriansky, Haoran Xu, Martin Rinard, Saman Amarasinghe (MIT CSAIL) Automatic Identification and Annotation of Tasks in Structured Programs Lighting Presentation Pedro Ramos, Gleison Mendonça, Guilherme Leobas (UFMG), Divino César, Guido Araújo (Unicamp), Fernando Magno Quintão Pereira (UFMG) Cost-Driven Thread Coarsening for GPU kernels Lighting Presentation Prithayan Barua, Jun Shirako, Vivek Sarkar (Georgia Institute of Technology) Session 5b: Memory and Acceleration Session chair: Adrià Armejach, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Location: AEGEAN III Transactional Pre-abort Handlers in Hardware Transactional Memory Sunjae Park (Georgia Institute of Technology), Christopher J. Hughes (Intel), Milos Prvulovic (Georgia Institute of Technology) In-DRAM Near-Data Approximate Acceleration for GPUs Amir Yazdanbakhsh (Georgia Institute of Technology), Choungki Song (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Jacob Sacks (Georgia Institute of Technology), Pejman Lotfi-Kamran (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)), Nam Sung Kim (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign), Hadi Esmaeilzadeh (University of California - San Diego) Biased Reference Counting: Limiting Atomic Operations in Reference CountingLighting Presentation Jiho Choi, Thomas Shull, Josep Torrellas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Hybrid Optimization/Heuristic Instruction Scheduling for Programmable Accelerator Codesign Lighting Presentation Tony Nowatzki (UCLA), Newsha Ardalani (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Jian Weng (UCLA), Karthikeyan Sankaralingam (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
13:20-13:30	Awards Presentation Session Chair: Kemal Ebcioglu, Global Supercomputing Location: AEGEAN I
13:30	Adjourn