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From: Sabine Rathmayer <maiers@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Subject: CFP: HIPS'97 High-Level Programming Models and Supportive Environments
Organization: Munich University of Technology
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 14:26:40 +0200
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CALL FOR PAPERS

                      Second International Workshop on

                        High-Level 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 Theoratical Computer Science (EATCS)
            Swiss Special Interest Group on Parallelism (SIPAR)
                              SPEEDUP Society

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                                   * IPPS'97
                                   * HIPS'97
                            * Authors' Instructions
                             * Workshop Organizers
                              * Program Committee
                               * Important Dates

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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 refer to WWW:
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 fr Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation /
Parallelrechnerarchitektur (LRR)
Institut fr Informatik, Technische Universitt Mnchen (TUM)
Arcisstrae 21, D - 80290 Mnchen, 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,
Germany
Email: hips@informatik.tu-muenchen.de

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Program Committee

Arndt Bode, Technische Universitt Mnchen, Germany
Helmar Burkhart, Universitt 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) Jlich, Germany
Hermann Hellwagner, Technische Universitt Mnchen, 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
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

