PACT is a multi-disciplinary conference that brings together researchers from hardware and software areas to present ground-breaking research in parallel systems ranging across instruction-level parallelism, thread-level parallelism, multiprocessor parallelism and large scale systems. This award is to make travel scholarships available to students and universities not typically represented at PACT in order to improve the conference?s impact and outreach.
The nineteenth international conference on parallel architectures and compilation techniques (PACT) was held in Vienna, Austria, September 11--15, 2010. PACT is a multi-disciplinary conference that brings together researchers from the hardware and software areas to present ground-breaking research elated to parallel systems ranging across instruction-level parallelism, thread-level parallelism, multiprocessor parallelism and large scale systems. The student travel grant enabled 19 students to attend PACT 2010 in Vienna. These students and their universities are not typically represented at PACT, and the travel grant improved the conference’s impact and outreach. Attending a premier conference in the field of computing helped them to develop critical analysis of the presented concepts and interaction with peers and potential mentors. The Travel Grants were assigned in collaboration between PI Franz Franchetti and the PACT General Chair Valentina Salapura (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center). Intellectual Merit 19 graduate students from 14 US universities were able to attend a premier conference in parallel computing. This aided exposing today's students to the concepts of parallel computing, which plays an important role in advancing the state of computing. Broader Impact The PACT travel grant directly contributes to the better understanding and better skills of the supported students. Attending a conference enables them to polish their networking and communication skills.
