8th International Workshop on
High-Level Parallel Programming Models and
Supportive Environments

held in conjunction with

Nice, France, April 22 2003

Program for HIPS 2003

Scope:

HIPS 2003 is a full-day workshop to be held at the IPDPS 2003 focusing on high-level programming of parallel and grid architectures. 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.

One of the keys for a (commercial) breakthrough of parallel processing and grid computing are high-level programming models that allow to produce truly efficient application, as only they allow a wide range of users in a broad spectrum of application domains to fully exploit the capabilities and resources of these architectures. However, current implementations of high-level programming models often suffer from low performance, from the lack of corresponding high-level development tools, e.g. for performance analysis, and from restricted applicability. 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.

Topics of interest:

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

• Concepts and languages for parallel and Grid programming

  • Concurrent object-oriented programming
  • Component-based programming
  • Mobile agents
  • Web services
  • Hybrid programming, e.g. OpenMP/MPI, components/MPI
  • Extensions to traditional programming models, e.g. MPI and OpenMP

• Supportive techniques for environments and testbeds

  • Architectural and communication support
  • Grid system support
  • Runtime systems
  • Integration into local environments
  • Compiler techniques

• Tools for high-level parallel programming

  • System monitoring
  • Performance contracting, analysis, and optimization
  • Automatic performance analysis support

Papers should describe the interaction of high-level programming models with compilers, run time systems, and hardware support.

Please note that there will be a separate workshop on Testing and Debugging for Parallel Systems (PADTAD) .

Schedule and Submission Procedure:

Papers due:	November 18th, 2002
Author notification:	January 9th, 2003
Camera-ready final papers due:	January 29th, 2003 (very strict deadline)
IPDPS conference:	April 22nd - April 26th, 2003
HIPS workshop:	April 22nd, 2003

To the HIPS 2003 submission server .

All accepted papers will be published by IEEE CS-Press in separate HIPS 2003 proceedings.

Committees:

Workshop Chairs

Michael Gerndt	Technische Universität München, Germany
Martin Schulz	Cornell University, USA

Steering Committee

Rudolf Eigenmann	Purdue University, USA
Michael Gerndt	Technische Universität München, Germany
Frank Müller	North Carolina State University, USA
Martin Schulz	Cornell University, USA

Program Committee

Prof. Eduard Ayguadé	European Center for Parallelism of Barcelona Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Luc Bougé	Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
Thomas Brandes	GMD, Germany
Andrew Chien	University of California at San Diego and Entropia, USA
Rudolf Eigenmann	Purdue University, USA
Michael Gerndt	Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Hironori Kasahara	Waseda University, Japan
Craig Lee	The Aerospace Corp.
Calvin Lin	University of Texas at Austin, USA
David Lowenthal	University of Georgia, USA
Emilio Luque	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Beniamino Di Martino	Seconda Universita' di Napoli
Allen Malony	University of Oregon, USA
Jose Moreira	IBM Research, USA
Frank Mueller	North Carolina State University, USA
Omer F. Rana	Cardiff University, UK
Alexander Reinefeld	ZIB Berlin, Germany
Martin Schulz	Cornell University, USA
Xian-He Sun	Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Mary Thomas	Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA
Michael Voss	University of Toronto

This event is supported by:

	.	IEEE Computer Society IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing
	.	IST Working Group on Automatic Performance Analysis: Real Tools

Previous HIPS Workshops:

• 7th HIPS 2002, April 15th 2002, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.
• 6th HIPS 2001, April 23rd 2001, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• 5th HIPS 2000, May 1st 2000, Cancun, Mexico.
• 4th HIPS 1999, April 12th 1999, San Juan, Puero Rico, USA.
• 3rd HIPS 1998, March 30th 1998, Orlando, FL, USA.
• 2nd HIPS 1997, April 1st, 1997, Geneva, Switzerland.
• 1st HIPS 1996, April 16th, 1996, Honolulu, HI, USA.