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From: Sabine Rathmayer <maiers@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Subject: CFP: HIPS'97
Organization: Munich University of Technology
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:55:23 +0100
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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

                   Second International Workshop on

                High-Level Parallel Programming Models
                     and Supportive Environments
                              (HIPS'97)

                    to be held in conjunction with

           11th International Parallel Processing Symposium

                           April 1-5, 1997
                         University of Geneva
                         Geneva, Switzerland

                             Sponsored by

                   IEEE Technical Computer Society
              Technical Committee on Parallel Processing

                         in cooperation with
                             ACM SIGARCH
                         University of Geneva
    European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)
         Swiss Special Interest Group on Parallelism (SIPAR)
                           SPEEDUP Society

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              For a WWW version of this CFP please see
           http://wwwbode.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~hips
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IPPS'97

The 11th annual International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS'97)
will be held April 1-5, 1997 at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
The symposium is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical
Committee on Parallel Processing and will be held in cooperation with
ACM SIGARCH.  IPPS'97 is a forum for engineers and scientists from
around the world to present the latest research findings in all 
aspects of parallel processing. 
For detailed information please see: http://cuiwww.unige.ch/~ipps97.

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HIPS'97
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 held 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 
(but not limited to) the following:

   * Concepts and languages for high-level parallel programming.
   * Concurrent object-oriented programming.
   * Automatic parallelization and optimization.
   * High-level programming environments.
   * Performance analysis techniques and tools.
   * Implementation techniques for high-level programming models.
   * Distributed shared memory.
   * Architectural support for high-level programming models.

HIPS'97 will consist of the presentations of submitted research
articles, short presentations and discussions of ongoing projects, and
an invited talk.

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Authors' Instructions

To submit an original research article, send an electronic version of
your complete manuscript in postscript format to:
hips@informatik.tu-muenchen.de.  Please make sure that the postscript
file is viewable using the "ghostview" tool. Papers must not exceed 15
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 15, 1996. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by
December 31, 1996. Camera-ready papers are due January 31, 1997. The
research articles will presumably be published by IEEE CS Press.
Proceedings will be available at HIPS'97 and through the publisher
thereafter.

In order to submit a short project description, send an electronic
version of a two-page abstract to: hips@informatik.tu-muenchen.de.

Please include your postal address, e-mail address, telephone and fax
numbers with any submission.

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Workshop Organizer

Hermann Hellwagner
Lehreinheit fuer Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation /
Parallelrechnerarchitektur (LRR)
Institut fuer Informatik, Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM)
Arcisstra<DF>e 21, D - 80290 Muenchen, Germany
Email: hellwagn@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Phone: +49-89-289-22386, Fax: +49-89-289-28232

Organization Committee

Rudolf G. Hackenberg, Michael Oberhuber, Sabine Rathmayer; LRR-TUM
Email: hips@informatik.tu-muenchen.de

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Program Committee

Arndt Bode, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Helmar Burkhart, Universitaet Basel, Switzerland
John Carter, University of Utah, USA
Michel Cosnard, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
Karsten Decker, Swiss Center for Scientific Computing, Switzerland
Ian Foster, Argonne National Lab, USA
Michael Gerndt, Research Centre (KFA) Juelich, Germany
Hermann Hellwagner, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Tony Hey, University of Southampton, UK
Francois Irigoin, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France
Pete Keleher, University of Maryland, USA
Carl Kesselman, California Institute of Technology, USA
Ulrich Kremer, Rutgers University, USA
Thierry Priol, INRIA, France
Howard A. Sholl, University of Connecticut, USA
Klaus E. Schauser, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Bernard Tourancheau, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France

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Important Dates

November 15, 1996: Paper Submission Deadline
December 31, 1996: Paper Review Decisions Mailed
January 31,  1997: Camera-ready Manuscript Due

