held in conjunction with
March 30 - April 3, 1998
Orlando, Florida
IPPS/SPDP'98
HIPS'98
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Program Committee
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HIPS'98 is a full-day workshop to be held at the IPPS/SPDP 1998 focusing on high-level programming of networks of workstations 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.
John Carter from the University of Utah, well known for his contributions in the field of distributed shared memory systems, will give an overview of the current status of programming massively parallel systems with global address space.
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 which are more convenient than explicit message passing and allow higher productivity in software development; examples are High Performance Fortran (HPF), thread packages for shared memory-based programming, and Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) 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. Papers are invited in areas such as the following:
Papers should describe the interaction of high-level programming models with compilers, run time systems, and hardware support. Specialized papers on the lower implementation levels of programming models might fit also very well into other workshops, e.g. RTSPP; see http://www.ippsxx.org/ipps98/ipps98cfp.html.
In 1998, the Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (SPDP) will join the International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS) to hold a combined event referred to as IPPS/SPDP 1998. It will be held March 30 - April 3, 1998 at the Delta Orlando Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA. With continued sponsorship from the Technical Committee on Parallel Processing, the symposium remains the committee's primary forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in the field. For detailed information please refer to WWW: http://www.ippsxx.org/ipps98/ipps98cfp.html.
To submit an original research article, send an electronic version of your complete manuscript in postscript format to: hips98@fz-juelich.de. Please make sure that the postscript file is viewable using the "ghostview" tool. Papers must not exceed 17 double-spaced pages of text, including title, author(s), abstract, five key words, figures, tables, and references, and using 12-point type on 8.5x11-inch pages.
All manuscripts will be reviewed. Manuscripts must be received by November 1, 1997. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by December 20, 1997. Camera-ready papers are due January 31, 1998. The research articles will be published by IEEE CS Press. Proceedings will be available at HIPS'98 and through the publisher thereafter.
Please include your postal address, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers with any submission.
Contact: hips98@fz-juelich.de
on Monday, March 30, 1998
Session 1, 9:00 – 10:00: Invited Presentation Distributed Shared Memory: Past, Present and Future J. Carter Session 2, 10:30 – 12:30: Distributed Shared Memory Constructive and Adaptable Distributed Shared Memory J. Bataller, J. Bernabeu-Auban ViC*: A Compiler for Virtual-Memory C* A. Colvin, Th. H. Cormen Parallel and Distributed Programming with Pthreads and Rthreads B. Dreier, M. Zahn, Th. Ungerer Session 3, 14:00 – 16:00: Data Parallelism Language Bindings for a Data-Parallel Runtime B. Carpenter, G. Fox, X. Li, Y. Wen, G. Zhang ZPL's WYSIWYG Performance Model B.L. Chamberlain, S. Choi, E.CH. Lewis, C. Lin, L. Snyder, W.D. Weathersby A Graph-Based Framework for the Definition of Tools Dealing with Sparse and Irregular Distributed Data Structures S. Chaumette, J.-M. Lepine, F. Rubi Session 4, 16:30 – 18:30: Implementation and Optimization Techniques Implementing Automatic Coordination on Networks of Workstations Ch. Weiss, J. Knopp, H. Hellwagner Improving Performance of Multi-Dimensional Array Redistribution on Distributed Memory Machines M. Guo, Y. Yamashita, I. Nakata Further Results for Improving Loop Interchange in Non-Adjacent and Imperfectly Nested Loops T.-Ch. Huang, Ch.-M. Yang
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