6th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS'01) Call for Participation (postscript version of the program) ( online proceedings, Springer LNCS volume 2026, ISBN 3-540-41944-6) ( April 23, 2001, San Francisco, California, USA) Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. Held in conjunction with the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2001) ( April 23-27, 2001, San Francisco, California, USA ) Prior HIPS Workshops 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 2002

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Program, Monday April 23, 2001

8:00-8:30 - Invited Talk: What will be the semantics of shared memory programming?
Assaf Schuster (TECHNION - Israel Institute of Technology)

8:30-10:00 - Session 1, chaired by Frank Mueller, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

• High-Level Data Mapping for Clusters of SMPs
  Siegfried Benkner(University of Vienna), Thomas Brandes(German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD))

• Integrating Task and Data Parallelism by means of Coordination Patterns
  Manuel Diaz(University of Malaga), Bartolome Rubio, Enrique Soler, Jose M. Troya

• Using Loop-Level Parallelism to Parallelize Vectorizable Programs
  D. M. Pressel(U.S. Army Research Laboratory), J. Sahu, K. R. Heavey

10:00-10:30 - Break

10:30-12:00 - Session 2, chaired by Thomas Brandes, German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD)

• A Generic C++ Framework for Parallel Mesh Based Scientific Applications
  Jens Gerlach(GMD-First), Peter Gottschling and Uwe Der

• DSM-PM2: A portable implementation platform for multithreaded DSM consistency protocols
  Gabriel Antoniu(LIP, ENS Lyon), Luc Bouge

• Implementation of a Skeleton-based Parallel Programming Environment Supporting Arbitrary Nesting
  Remi COUDARCHER(LASMEA, France), Jocelyn SEROT, Jean-Pierre DERUTIN

12:00-13:15 - Lunch (on your own ?)

13:15-14:15 - Invited Talk: Using PRAM Algorithms on a Uniform Memory Access Shared-Memory Architecture
David A. Bader (University of New Mexico, USA)

14:15-15:00 - Break

15:00-17:00 - Session 3, chaired by Luc Bougé, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France

• Supporting Soft Real-time Tasks and QoS on the Java Platform
  James C. Pang(Redback Networks), Gholamali C. Shoja(University of Victoria, BC, Canada), Eric G. Manning

• Evaluating the XMT Parallel Programming Model
  Dorit Naishlos(University of Maryland), Joseph Nuzman, Chau-Wen Tseng, Uzi Vishkin

• DEPICT: a topology-based debugger for MPI programs
  Simon Huband(University of Western Australia), Chris McDonald

• Correcting Errors in Message Passing Systems
  Jan B. Pedersen(University of British Columbia), Alan Wagner

Description

HIPS'01 is a full-day workshop to be held at the IPDPS 2001 focusing on high-level programming of networks of workstations, computing clusters, and of massively-parallel machines. Its goal is to bring together researchers working in the areas of applications, language design, compilers, system architecture, and programming tools to discuss new developments in programming such systems.

In recent years, several standards have emerged with an increasing demand for support for parallel and distributed processing. On one hand, message-passing frameworks, such as PVM, MPI, and VIA, provide support for basic communication. On the other hand, distributed object standards, such as CORBA and DCOM, provide support for handling remote objects in a client-server fashion but also ensure certain guarantees for the quality of services.

The key issues for the success of programming parallel and distributed environments are high-level programming concepts and efficiency. In addition, other quality categories have to be taken into account, such as scalability, security, bandwidth guarantees, and fault tolerance, just to name a few.

Today's challenge is to provide high-level programming concepts without sacrificing efficiency. This can only be achieved by carefully designing for those concepts and by providing supportive programming environments that facilitate program development and tuning.

Past results in parallel computing on one side and distributed systems on the other side present opportunities for an increased transfer of knowledge between the areas. In particular, cluster computing presents a promising framework for parallel computing where advances from distributed systems can be utilized. Achievements in the area of automated performance analysis and performance modeling for parallel systems, on the other hand, may contribute to advances in performance analysis of distributed systems.

Future directions also include alternatives to current standardization practices, for example, by replacing client-server protocols with decentralized ones that may be more suitable for distributed systems. In addition, successful programming models, such as the shared-memory paradigm, should be investigated for new trends like cluster computing.

Papers should describe the interaction of high-level programming models with compilers, run time systems, and hardware support. Original submissions are invited in all areas relevant to this theme. Appropriate topics include (but are not restricted to):

• Concepts and languages for high-level parallel programming
• Concurrent object-oriented programming
• Distributed objects and components
• Structured parallel programming (skeletons, patterns, ...)
• Software engineering principles for parallel systems
• Automatic parallelization and optimization
• High-level programming environments
• Automated performance analysis and performance modeling
• Debugging techniques and development tools
• Distributed shared memory
• Implementation techniques for high-level programming models
• Operating system support for runtime systems and other middleware
• Architectural support for high-level programming models
• Guarantees for Quality of Service in distributed environments
• Security of communication for distributed execution
• Fault tolerance in network computing

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

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