Proceedings of the 1st international forum on Next-generation multicore/manycore technologies

It is our honour to inaugurate the First International Forum on Next-Generation Multicore/Manycore Technologies (IFMT '08) in Cairo, Egypt. This is the first of an anticipated series of forums on multicore/manycore technologies that we plan to hold annually, hopefully, in a different country each year. The era of multicores is already with us and it is clear that, over the next few years, it will be necessary to understand both how to build and how to program these highly parallel processors. Many new ideas are needed if the potential of these systems is to be harnessed to provide continually increasing computing power for a wide range of applications. The Forum will provide an ideal opportunity for those working in the area to exchange and develop ideas.