From P.H.Welch at kent.ac.uk Mon Jul 30 19:53:23 2018 From: P.H.Welch at kent.ac.uk (P.H.Welch) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 19:53:23 +0100 Subject: [C.CC USERS] CPA 2018 (Dresden, 19-22 Aug 2018) - Call for Participants Message-ID: ==================================================================== | | | Communicating Process Architectures (CPA) 2018 | | | | The 40th. WoTUG Conference on Concurrent and Parallel Systems | | | | Sunday (evening) 19th. - Wednesday (afternoon) 22nd. August 2018 | | | | http://wotug.cs.unlv.edu/cpa2018 E-mail: cpa2018 at wotug.org | | | | Host institute: Technische Universitat Dresden, Dresden, Germany | | | ==================================================================== This is the *Call for Participants* for CPA 2018. CPA 2018 will be held at Technische Universitat Dresden and is hosted by the Faculty of Computer Science. It starts on the evening of Sunday 19th. August and finishes after lunch on Wednesday 22rd. August. Conference sessions will take place at the Faculty. CPA is concerned with concurrency at all scales. It aims to bridge the gap between the mathematical theory of concurrency and its practical application to the design, implementation and validation of parallel applications for embedded, multicore and distributed computing systems. Further information on the themes for CPA can be found in the Call for Papers (now closed): http://wotug.cs.unlv.edu/render-template.php?id=46&file=call <<< NEW IN THIS CALL >>> * The list of accepted papers and Keynote talk is now available from: http://wotug.cs.unlv.edu/conference.php?id=46 Abstracts for all these items are included. <<< REMINDER >>> * CPA 2018 remains open for further proposals for mini-workshops and fringe presentations -- see: http://wotug.cs.unlv.edu/render-template.php?id=46&file=workshops http://wotug.cs.unlv.edu/render-template.php?id=46&file=fringes * Registration is open for CPA 2018: http://wotug.cs.unlv.edu/render-template.php?id=46&file=registration The registration fee has been set at EUR 400 (including VAT). This fee covers: - attendance at all conference, workshop and fringe sessions; - coffee/tea breaks, lunches and evening meals, including the conference dinner; - one copy of the Proceedings. Bed and breakfast accommodation is not provided from the registration fee. Special reservation of rooms for CPA participants has been made at: Guesthouse "Am Weberplatz" of Technische Universtaet Dresden https://tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/campus/gaestehaeuser/am_weberplatz?set_language=en Please see the Registration page for details. [NOTE: only a few rooms are still left and the CPA hold on those rooms expires on 31 July 2018, after which any remaining rooms will be open for public reservation.] * The registration page also gives details of student bursaries, sponsored by WoTUG. Bursaries will provide a discount of EUR 100 from the registration fee. * Proceedings will be published by IOS Press after the conference, with all delegates receiving a copy. Electronic (PDF) copies of all papers will be available to delegates at the conference. * We are pleased to announce that Professor Christian Mayr will present a Keynote Address at CPA 2018 with the following Title and Abstract: "SpiNNaker-2: a 10 Million Core Processor System for Machine Learning and Brain Simulation" In the EU flagship HBP, TU Dresden and University of Manchester jointly develop the SpiNNaker-2 processor platform for brain simulation. Characteristics of the SpiNNaker-2 system are 144 ARM cores per chip (including various numerical accelerators), for overall 10 Mio cores with 5PFLOPS CPU performance and 0.6ExaOPS deep learning acceleration. The chips are implemented in a 22nm FDSOI technology, running as low as 0.4V with the usage of our Adaptive Body Biasing methodology. The SpiNNaker-2 system combines highly efficient machine learning, bio-inspired signal processing at millisecond latency and ultra-low energy operation. Thus, besides the main usage as a neuroscience platform, SpiNNaker-2 opens up completely new avenues in areas such as tactile internet, autonomous driving and industry 4.0. Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Christian Mayr is Chair of Highly-Parallel VLSI-Systems and Neuromorphic Circuits at Technische Universitat Dresden, (https://tu-dresden.de/ing/elektrotechnik/iee/hpsn). Thank you for reading this Call. If you have any questions about the conference, please email us at or contact one of us directly (see below for the organising committee). Finally, we would be grateful if you would forward this call to colleagues who might like to know about CPA 2018 and may not otherwise discover it. Many thanks and we look forward to seeing you in historic Dresden! Professor Dr. Rainer Spallek (Host) Chair of VLSI Design, Diagnostics and Architecture Faculty of Computer Science, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany Dr.ir. Jan Broenink Associate Professor of Embedded Control Systems, University of Twente, The Netherlands Dr. Kevin Chalmers Senior Lecturer, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Professor Jan B??kgaard Pedersen Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA Professor Brian Vinter Head of High Performance Computing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Professor Peter Welch Emeritus Professor of Parallel Computing, University of Kent, UK