PACT

It is our pleasure to welcome you to the 19th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2010). Since its inception, PACT has been instrumental in bringing together researchers and practitioners in parallel systems. Over the past decade, parallelism has entered the mainstream with the broad adoption of multicore technologies and the PACT conference series has provided a forum for the discussion of leading edge parallel systems research in a broad range of disciplines from computer architecture and compilation technology.

The increased focus on exploiting parallelism was reflected in the record number of submissions we received -- this year, authors submitted a total of 266 papers. We also noticed with great satisfaction the broad reach that this conference has -- the conference attracted submissions from all 6 inhabited continents and a very appropriate modern update to the role of historic cross roads that our host city Vienna has played for two millennia.

We have assembled a strong technical program, with three invited keynote speakers, 46 contributed papers, and a diverse poster section. The contributed papers were selected from a set of 266 submissions, through a rigorous review process conducted by our Program Committee and assisted by more than 250 external reviewers.

To ensure the selection of the very best submitted papers, we used a two-round review process. In total, the PC members and external reviewers provided 918 reviews, or an average of significantly more than 3 reviews per paper, and four or more reviews for those papers that made it to the second review round. The program committee met on Saturday, May 22nd, in New York City. The program committee performed an outstanding job in selecting the very best 46 papers from the large number of high quality submissions, continuing the tradition of high selectivity that has been the hallmark of the PACT conference series with an acceptance rate of 17% of submitted papers.

Three distinguished keynote speakers, David Ferrucci, Wen-mei Hwu and Keshav Pingali provide a perspective on important recent developments in parallel systems. Finally, the technical program is complemented by two days of workshops and tutorials for further interaction and dissemination of research results which we added to enrich your experience at the 19th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques.