Call for Papers: HIPS 2001
HIPS 2000 is a full-day workshop to be held at the IPDPS 2000 focusing on high-level programming of parallel architectures ranging from networks of workstations to massively-parallel machines. Its goal is to bring together researchers working in the areas of applications, computational models, language design, compilers, system architecture, and programming tools to discuss new developments in programming such systems.
With the advent of the de facto standards Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) and Message Passing Interface (MPI), parallel programming using the message-passing style has reached a certain level of maturity. However, in terms of convenience and productivity, this parallel programming style is often considered to correspond to assembler-level programming of sequential computers.
One of the keys for a (commercial) breakthrough of parallel processing, therefore, are high-level programming models that allow to produce truly efficient code. Along this way, languages and packages have been established that are more convenient than explicit message passing and allow higher productivity in software development; examples are High Performance Fortran (HPF), OpenMP, thread packages for shared memory-based programming, and Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) environments.
Yet, current implementations of high-level programming models often suffer from low performance of the generated code, from the lack of corresponding high-level development tools, e.g. for performance analysis, and from restricted applicability, e.g. to the data parallel programming style. This situation requires strong research efforts in the design of parallel programming models and languages that are both at a high conceptual level and implemented efficiently, in the development of supportive tools, and in the integration of languages and tools into convenient programming environments. Hardware and operating system support for high-level programming, e.g. distributed shared memory and monitoring interfaces, are further areas of interest.
This workshop provides a forum for researchers and commercial developers to meet and discuss the various hardware and software issues involved in the design and use of high-level programming models and supportive environments. Original submissions are invited in all areas relevant to this theme.
Papers should describe the interaction of high-level programming models with compilers, run time systems, and hardware support.
| Papers due: | November 2nd, 1999 |
| Author notification: | December 10th, 1999 |
| Camera-ready final papers due: | January 17th, 2000 |
| IPDPS conference: | May 1st - May 5th, 2000 |
| HIPS workshop: | May 1st, 2000 |
Martin Schulz, schulzm@in.tum.de, 18th May 2000.
