Section: Scientific Foundations

Motivations

Multicores have become mainstream in general-purpose as well as embedded computing in the last few years. The integration technology trend allows to anticipate that a 1000's cores chip will become feasible before 2020. On the other hand, while traditional parallel application domains, e.g. supercomputing and transaction servers, are taking benefit from the introduction of multicores, there are very few new parallel applications that have emerged during the last years.

In order to allow the end-user to benefit from the technology break through, new architectures have to defined for the 2020's many-cores, new compiler /code generation techniques have to be proposed as well as new performance prediction/guarantee techniques.