As Moore's Law evolves into Moore's Core, most hardware vendors are faced with the new reality of reduced single processor-core performance, and the need for efficient utilization of many parallel streams. This single-core performance barrier, and the need to effectively use multi-cores, will apply to every computer user, not just to advanced users and researchers!

Join us in Shanghai, China, March 27-28 for a innovative workshop, http://www.gelato.org/etws/ , where attendees will explore both the advantages and disadvantages of 100+ core systems. Topics will include:

* Multi-threading and associated debugging and performance analysis tools
* Compilers and run-time systems
* Programming models
* Transactional memory
* Parallel libraries
* Performance analysis, debugging, and tuning tools
* Workload characterization
* Heterogeneous multi-core systems
* RAS with 100+ cores
* How to manage and take advantage of a Non-Uniform Core CPU

The goal is to identify strategies with the greatest potential and solidify long-term industry/research collaborative relationships for the purpose of solving these complex problems. This workshop is architecture neutral and will be held on the Fudan Zhangjiang campus (Shanghai, China) March 27-28, 2008.

Confirmed keynote speakers are Wen-Mei Hwu (University of Illinois) and Rob Schreiber (HP). If you are interested in presenting, or have a topic and/or a speaker you want to recommend, please contact Andrew E. Schuh, aschuh [at] gelato.org. Attendees requiring a VISA invitation letter should also contact Andrew.

Registration opens Monday, February 4, 2008

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Mark K. Smith, Managing Director
The Gelato Federation