MESSAGE FROM THE PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

In continuation of a successful series of events, the 4th symposium of the Many-core Applications Research Community (MARC) took place at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering (HPI) in Potsdam. On December 8th and 9th 2011, researchers from different fields presented their current and future work on many-core hardware architectures, their programming models, and the resulting research questions for the upcoming generation of heterogeneous parallel systems. While the Intel Single Chip Cloud Computer (SCC) serves as common research platform for most MARC members, other interesting research on next generation many-core platforms was also discussed on this event. The symposium focused on topics such as • Operating system support for novel many-core architectures • Virtualization solutions to deal with hardware limitations • Dealing with legacy software on novel many-core architectures • New approaches for leveraging on-die messaging facilities • Traditional and new programming models for novel many-core hardware • Concepts for runtime systems on novel many-core hardware • Performance issues with modern on-die messaging facilities and caching infrastructures This proceedings include 14 papers from 5 symposium sessions. Every paper was reviewed by at least three reviewers from the program committee, consisting of