Call for Papers
 
                              HIPS 2004

                     9th International Workshop on
              High-Level Parallel Programming Models and
                        Supportive Environments

                        held in conjunction with
          IPDPS 2004, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, April 26 2004

          Title, author list, and an abstract due by December 1.
               NEW (FINAL) SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 5

           [web site: http://cca-forum.org/ipdps-workshop/]

Scope:

HIPS 2004 is a full-day workshop to be held at the IPDPS 2004 focusing
on high-level programming of component architectures for parallel and
grid computing.  Its goal is to bring together researchers working in
the areas of applications, computational models, language design,
compilers, system architecture, and programming tools to discuss new
developments in programming component-based systems.  While this
year's workshop focuses on component-based programming, contributions
on other high-level programming models and supportive environments for
parallel and distributed systems are equally welcome.


One of the keys for the advancement of parallel processing are the
existence of high-level programming models and abstractions that allow
one to more easily produce truly efficient applications across a range
of parallel architectures.  The adoption of a component programming
model offers the promise of increased programmer specialization through
a clear separation of the boundaries between program elements.  This
clear separation enhances the opportunity for software reuse as well as
the enhancing the opportunity for unit testing.  However, current
implementations of component-based system for high-performance computing
often suffer from restricted applicability (limiting reuse), from the
lack of corresponding high-level development tools (e.g., performance
analysis and debugging), and from poor performance.  This situation
requires strong research efforts in the design of parallel programming
models and languages supporting component-based systems 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.


Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: 

- Concepts and languages for parallel and Grid computing
    - Component programming models
    - Refactoring of existing applications into components
    - Data Parallel CORBA
    - Language interopability
    - Concurrent object-oriented programming 
    - Mobile agents 
    - Web services 
    - Hybrid programming, e.g. OpenMP/MPI, components/MPI 
    - Extensions to traditional programming models, e.g. MPI and OpenMP 

- Supportive techniques for component environments and testbeds 
    - Architectural and communication support 
    - Grid system support 
    - Runtime systems 
    - Integration into local environments 
    - Compiler techniques 

- Tools for high-level parallel programming 
    - System monitoring 
    - Performance contracting, analysis, and optimization 
    - Automatic performance analysis support 

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


Schedule and Submission Procedure:

Papers due (NO EXTENTIONS):      December 5, 2003
Author notification:             January 8th, 2004
Camera-ready final papers due:   January 23rd, 2004 (very strict deadline)
IPDPS conference:                April 26th - April 30th, 2004
HIPS workshop:                   April 26th, 2004

Title, author list, and an abstract are requested by December 1.
Papers, not exceeding 8 pages in IEEE style, are due by December
5, 2003.  Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF or
Postscript format (PDF preferred) to crasmussen@lanl.gov.  All
accepted papers will be published by IEEE CS-Press in separate HIPS
2004 proceedings.


Committees:

 Workshop Chair

    Craig Rasmussen       Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

 Steering Committee
    
    Rudolf Eigenmann      Purdue University, USA  
    Michael Gerndt        Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany  
    Frank Mueller         North Carolina State University, USA  
    Martin Schulz         Cornell University, USA  

 Program Committee

    Rob Armstrong         Sandia National Laboratory, USA
    Eduard Ayguade        European Center for Parallelism, Barcelona 
                            Technical University of Catalonia, Spain  
    David Bernholdt       Oakridge National Laboratory, USA
    Barbara Chapman       University of Houston, USA
    Rudolf Eigenmann      Purdue University, USA  
    Michael Gerndt        Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany  
    Hironori Kasahara     Waseda University, Japan  
    Daniel S. Katz        Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
    Craig Lee             The Aerospace Corp, USA
    Emilio Luque          Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain  
    Bernd Mohr            Research Centre Juelich, Germany
    Frank Mueller         North Carolina State University, USA  
    Steve Parker          University of Utah, USA
    Craig Rasmussen       Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
    Matthew Sottile       Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
    Sameer Shende         University of Oregon, USA  
    Martin Schulz         Cornell University, USA