US-Egypt Workshop on Software Development for Multicore and Heterogeneous Processors, Cairo, Egypt, June 22-24, 2009

0854959ElghazawiDescription：该奖项旨在支持将于2009年6月22日至24日在埃及开罗举行的美埃多核和异类处理器软件开发研讨会。美国的组织者是Dr。Tarek El-Ghazawi，乔治华盛顿大学电气与计算机工程系，华盛顿特区。埃及的组织者是埃及开罗IBM先进技术中心的Hisham El-Shishiny博士和埃及开罗国家遥感和空间科学管理局主席Ayman El-Dessouki博士。由于前所未有的集成水平，多核、多核和异类处理器技术正变得广泛可用和使用。然而，软件正在落后，随着这种新的奇特处理器体系结构的出现，传统的顺序编程方法不再适用。系统和应用软件要跟上这些硬件发展还有很长的路要走，世界各地的计算机科学家和工程师以及应用科学家必须共同努力，缩小这一差距。研讨会将汇集美国计算机科学家和工程师，他们是此类现代处理器体系结构问题的领导者，了解系统软件和应用软件要求，埃及科学家专注于软件工程和开发，以应对新的软件挑战。研讨会的与会者将包括美国知名研究人员和精选的学生。埃及与会者将包括来自IBM埃及、Ain Sham大学、开罗大学、亚历山大大学、国家研究中心和国家遥感和空间科学局的科学家。拟议的研讨会将由设在埃及开罗的IBM高级研究中心共同主办。为确保取得成功，讲习班结束后几个月将举行一次以后续行动为重点的会议，以监测在联合提案撰写等计划中的协作方面取得的进展。智力优势：包括确定新的操作系统和编程语言的研究方向，以通过高度协作的框架将来自美国和埃及的专家和学生聚集在一起，以应对新的多核/异类处理器挑战。由此产生的互动可能会导致对新的编程模型、将被并入操作系统/运行时系统的新功能、将现有软件应用程序迁移到多核系统的方法的实际建议。通过利用此次研讨会和后续活动，将开展更广泛的合作，向埃及和/或美国的资助机构提出联合研究提案(S)。更广泛的影响：更广泛的影响在于，由于该领域顶尖专家的参与，拟议的研讨会有望产生创新的研究方向。研讨会将有美国和埃及研究人员以及包括双方女性在内的学生的积极参与。研讨会将是一个机会，让新一代科学家探索合作，了解全球科学文化的差异。该项目由国际科学与工程办公室和计算与通信基金会共同资助。

0854959ElghazawiDescription: This award is to support a US-Egypt ?Workshop on Software Development for Multicore and Heterogeneous Processors?, to be held in Cairo, Egypt, June 22 to 24, 2009. The U.S. organizer isDr. Tarek El-Ghazawi, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, DC. The Egyptian organizers are Dr. Hisham El-Shishiny, Advanced Technology Center, IBM, Cairo, and Dr. Ayman El-Dessouki, President, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt. Due to unprecedented levels of integration, multicore, manycore and heterogeneous processor technologies are becoming widely available and used. Software, however, is lagging behind, and with this new array of exotic processor architectures, traditional sequential programming methods are no longer applicable. Both systems and application software have a long way to catch with these hardware developments, and computer scientists and engineers as well as application scientists across the world must work together to close this gap. The workshop will bring together U.S. computer scientists and engineers who are leaders in the architectural issues of such modern processors and who are aware of system software and application software requirements with Egyptian scientists who are focused on software engineering and development to tackle the new software challenges. The workshop attendees will include U.S. prominent researchers and select students. Egyptian participants will include scientists from IBM Egypt, Ain Sham University, Cairo University, Alexandria University, the National Research Center, and the National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Science (NARSSS). The proposed workshop will be co-sponsored by the IBM Center for Advanced Studies at Cairo, Egypt. To ensure success, a follow-up focused meeting will be held a few months after the workshop in order to monitor the promote progress on the planned collaborations such as joint proposal writing. Intellectual merits: These include identifying new operating systems and programming languages research directions to cope up with the new multicore/heterogeneous processor challenge through a highly collaborative framework bringing together experts and students from US and Egypt. The resulting interactions may lead to practical suggestions for new programming models, new features to be incorporated in OS/run-time systems, methods to migrate existing software applications to multicore systems. Longer range collaboration will be enacted by using this workshop and follow up event to produce joint research proposal(s) to funding agencies in Egypt and/or the U.S. Broader impacts: The broader impact lies in the fact that the proposed workshop is expected to result in innovative research directions, due to the participation of top experts in the field. The workshop would involve active participation of U.S. and Egyptian researchers and students including women from both sides. The workshop will be an opportunity to get the new generation of scientists to explore working together and understanding the differences in the culture of science across the globe.This project is co-funded by the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations.