Newsgroups: comp.parallel,comp.arch,comp.programming.threads
From: haines@icase-f.icase.edu (Matt Haines)
Subject: Reminder ** JPDC Special Issue **
Organization: ICASE/NASA Langley
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 18:56:12 GMT
Message-ID: <48vroc$c6u@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>

********************************  REMINDER  *****************************

                           Papers Due Dec 1, 1995

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                               Call for Papers

                            Special Issue of the
                Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
                                     on

                     Multithreading for Multiprocessors

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Papers are solicited for a special issue of the Journal of Parallel and
Distributed Computing (JPDC) on Multithreading for Multiprocessors to be
published in October 1996.

Recently, lightweight threads have received much attention in the area of
parallel and distributed computing as a mechanism for supporting various
levels of parallelism, for enabling dynamic load balancing, for supporting
virtual processors, and for providing latency tolerance capabilities. In
light of this increasing demand for lightweight threads, many new systems
have been designed to support threads in a parallel and distributed
environment, and several committees, including POSIX, are currently working
on standardization efforts for threads and thread-based computer systems.

This special issue will include a set of original articles from both
industry and academia that represents the current state-of-the-art in
multithreaded multiprocessor systems for parallel and distributed computing.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

   * Hardware/Operating System support for lightweight threads
   * Multithreaded systems supporting fine- and medium-grain parallelism
   * Standardization efforts for multithreaded systems
   * Simulation of multithreaded systems
   * Efficiency issues for multithreaded systems
   * Performance prediction/analysis for multithreaded systems
   * Multithreaded runtime systems for languages and applications
   * Languages supporting parallel multithreaded execution

Authors should follow the JPDC manuscript format as described in the
Information for Authors at the end of each issue of JPDC. Five copies of
complete double-spaced manuscripts should be sent to either one of the two
co-guest editors by December 1, 1995. Electronic submissions, PostScript
only, are encouraged. Authors will be notified of the final publication
decision by March 1, 1996. Only original, unpublished work will be
considered; manuscripts resembling any previously published work in a
journal are unacceptable.

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                              Co-Guest Editors:
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                             Dr. Matthew Haines
                         Computer Science Department
                       University of Wyoming, Box 3682
                          Laramie, WY 82071 U.S.A.
                             Tel: (307) 766-2440
                             Fax: (307) 766-4036
                          Email: haines@cs.uwyo.edu

                             Dr. Piyush Mehrotra
                               ICASE, MS 132C
                        NASA Langley Research Center
                        Hampton, VA 23681-0001 U.S.A.
                             Tel: (804) 864-2188
                             Fax: (804) 864-6134
                             Email: pm@icase.edu

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