1. Support Tools and Environments

Description
   Despite an impressive body of research, parallel and distributed computing remains a complex task prone to subtle software issues that can affect both the correctness and the performance of the computation. The increasing demand to distribute computing over large-scale parallel and distributed platforms, such as grids and large clusters, often combined with the use of hardware accelerators, overlaps with an increasing pressure to make computing more dependable. To address these challenges, the parallel and distributed computing community continuously requires better tools and environments to design, program, debug, test, tune, and monitor parallel programs. This topic aims to bring together tool designers, developers, and users to share their concerns, ideas, solutions, and products covering a wide range of platforms, including homogeneous and heterogeneous multicore architectures. We will particularly value contributions with solid theoretical foundations and experimental validations on production-level parallel and distributed systems. This year, we encourage submissions proposing intelligent monitoring and diagnosis tools and environments, which can exploit behavior knowledge to detect programming bugs or performance bottlenecks and help ensure correct and efficient parallel program execution.

Focus
* Automatic code generation 
* Debugging (off-line, on-line, threads)
* Computational Steering
* Evaluation of tools
* Hybrid shared memory and message passing tools
* Instrumentation and monitoring tools and techniques
* Integration of tools, compilers and operating systems
* Testing and analysis tools
* Tools and environments for clusters and grids (programming, job submission,
   administration)
* Tools and environments for homogeneous and heterogeneous multi/many-core
   processors (Cell, GPUs, CMPs, MPSoCs, etc.) 
* Performance and Reliability Analysis (manual and automatic)
* Programming Environments, interoperable tool environments
* Visualization (program flow, data) 
      
Topic Committee     
    
Global Chair
Omer Rana Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Local Chair
Giandomenico Spezzano ICAR-CNR, Italy 

Members
Michael Gerndt Technical University of Munich, Germany
Daniel S. Katz University of Chicago, United States of America