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

描述：该合同是为了支持美国-埃及？多核和异构处理器软件开发研讨会？，将于2009年6月22日至24日在埃及开罗举行。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度，多核、多核和异构处理器技术正变得广泛可用和使用。然而，软件却落后了，有了这些新的特殊处理器体系结构，传统的顺序编程方法就不再适用了。系统和应用软件要赶上这些硬件的发展还有很长的路要走，全世界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。该研讨会将汇集美国计算机科学家和工程师，他们是现代处理器架构问题的领导者，他们了解系统软件和应用软件需求，埃及科学家则专注于软件工程和开发，以应对新的软件挑战。研讨会参加者将包括美国著名的研究人员和精选的学生。埃及的参与者将包括来自IBM埃及、艾因沙姆大学、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管理局（NARSSS）的科学家。拟议的研讨会将由位于埃及开罗的IBM高级研究中心共同主办。为了确保成功，将在讲习班结束几个月后举行一次后续重点会议，以监测计划中的合作（如联合提案撰写）的促进进展。智力优势：这些优势包括确定新的操作系统和编程语言的研究方向，通过将来自美国和埃及的专家和学生聚集在一起的高度协作框架来应对新的多核/异构处理器挑战。由此产生的交互可能会导致对新的编程模型的实用建议，在操作系统/运行时系统中纳入的新功能，将现有软件应用程序迁移到多核系统的方法。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的研究人员和学生积极参与，包括双方的妇女。这次研讨会将是一个让新一代科学家探索共同工作和理解全球科学文化差异的机会。该项目由国际科学与工程办公室和计算与通信基础部共同资助。

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behind, and with this new array of exotic processor architectures, traditional sequential programming methods are no longer applicable.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.