What do GPUs, FPGAs, vector processors and other exotic special-purpose chips have in common? They are advanced processor architectures that the scientific community is using to accelerate computationally demanding applications. While high-performance computing systems that use application accelerators are still rare, they will be the norm rather than the exception in the near future.

The first annual 2009 Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing (SAAHPC'09) will be held July 27-31, 2009, in Urbana, Illinois, to bring together developers of computing accelerators and end-users of the technology to exchange ideas and learn about the latest developments in the field. The Symposium is co-organized by NCSA and the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies (IACAT), both at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is co-sponsored by OpenFPGA.

SAAHPC builds upon two previous successful events: the 2008 Workshop on Programming Massively Parallel Processors and the 2005-2008 Reconfigurable Systems Summer Institute.

The Symposium will focus on the use of application accelerators in high-performance and scientific computing. Topics of interest include:

• novel accelerator processors, systems, and architectures
• integration of accelerators with high-performance computing systems
• programming models for accelerator-based computing
• languages and compilers for accelerator-based computing
• run-time environments, profiling and debugging tools for accelerator-based computing
• scientific and engineering applications that use application accelerators

Presentations from technology developers and the academic user community are invited. Submit extended abstracts of 2-3 pages to submit@saahpc.org by April 20, 2009. All submissions will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee and accepted submissions will be presented as either oral presentations or posters. Presentation materials will be made available online at www.saahpc.org.

Important Dates
Abstracts due: April 20, 2009
Presentation acceptance notification: May 18, 2009
Application Accelerators Symposium: July 27-31, 2009