[SMF-RG] CFP: HPC-GECO/CompFrame Workshop at HPDC-15, 19-20 June'06

[Vladimir Getov]

Abstracts due            February 10, 2006

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 	   CALL FOR PAPERS : HPC-GECO - CompFrame Workshop

  Joint Workshop on HPC Grid programming Environments and COmponents
        and Component Frameworks for High Performance Computing
 	 Paris, 19-20 June 2006. In conjunction with HPDC-15

    Web URL: http://www.di.unipi.it/~hpc-geco/GECO-CompFrame06.html

HPC-GECO - CompFrame is a joint workshop on high-level programming
environments and component-based programming for HPC and Grid
Computing. The workshop will present results from two related research
lines: High-level approaches and Component Frameworks for Grid-enabled
HPC, and Component Frameworks in HPC. The Workshop is sponsored by the
FP6 Network of Excellence CoreGRID.

Component-based approaches to software development are beginning to
emerge in high-performance parallel and distributed computing. HPC
environments pose special challenges on designers and users of
component architectures. Grid-based HPC environments, which deal with
heterogeneous, dynamic and sparse sets of resources, pose an even more
daunting challenge to the deployment of HPC applications.

HPC-GECO/CompFrame is open to research works, both of theoretical and
experimental nature, on the mechanics and architecture of high-level
and component environments, on comparisons of current approaches and
results, on user experiences, prototypes and application case studies.

The workshop focuses on the impact of the programming / design
methodology on the software development process and on applications:
relevant metrics are programmability, scalability and manageable
complexity of applications, as well as fulfillment of application
requirements of high performance, fault tolerance, and the ability to
support dynamically adaptive behaviour.

Submissions are welcome of original contribution, not already
published or under simultaneous review; works will be reviewed by the
program committee. Workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE
together with HPDC-15 proceedings. See details on the workshop web
site.

Relevant topics for the workshop include but are not limited to :

  * Component models and frameworks
  * Component-based Grid Platforms
  * Programming environments and paradigms
  * Analysis and comparison of existing programming approaches
  * Integration of different distributed/Grid/HPC programming frameworks
  * Tools and Environments for Parallel Coupling of Application Codes
  * Application-level and support-level management of performance, QoS,
    faults, dynamicity, architecture heterogeneity
  * Application-level QoS contract description and enforcement
  * Advanced middleware systems as a device to efficiently exploit Grid
    resources (e.g. high-bandwidth, innovative networks)
  * Case studies and experiments of large/geographic scale high-level
    HPC applications, large-scale data/analysis
  * Applicability of software engineering techniques for restructuring
    and integration

Deadlines :
Abstract due		February 10, 2006
Full-Paper due 		February 17, 2006
Acceptance notification March 20, 2006
Camera-ready due 	April 10, 2006
Workshop date 		June 19-20, 2006

Workshop Co-Chairs :
  Rob Armstrong		Sandia National Laboratory, USA
  Marco Danelutto	Univ. of Pisa, Italy and
 			CoreGRID V.Institute on Programming Models Workshop 
Organization :
  Massimo Coppola	ISTI-CNR / CoreGRID, Pisa, Italy Publicity Chairs :
  David E. Bernholdt	Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
  Vladimir Getov		University of Westminster / CoreGRID, UK

Program Committee :
  Françoise Baude       INRIA Sophia Antipolis / CoreGRID, France
  James C. Browne       University of Texas, USA
  Denis Caromel 	       INRIA Sophia Antipolis / CoreGRID, France
  Nancy Collins 	       National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
  Alexandre di Costanzo INRIA / CoreGRID, France
  Tony Drummond 	       Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
  Wael R. Elwasif       Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
  Dennis Gannon 	       Indiana University, USA
  Tom Goodale 	       Cardiff University, United Kingdom
  Sergei Gorlatch       University of Muenster / CoreGRID, Germany
  Thilo Kielmann        Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / CoreGRID, The Netherlands
  Pierre Kuonen 	       University of Applied Sciences of Fribourg, Switzerland
  Domenico Laforenza    ISTI-CNR, Pisa / CoreGRID, Italy
  Boyana Norris 	       Argonne National Laboratory, USA
  Christian Perez       INRIA Rennes / CoreGRID, France
  Thierry Priol 	       INRIA Rennes / CoreGRID, France
  Jaideep Ray 	       Sandia National Laboratories, USA
  John Shalf 	       Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
  Masha Sosonkina       Ames Laboratory, USA
  Aad van der Steen     University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
  Marco Vanneschi       University of Pisa / CoreGRID, Italy
  Nanbor Wang 	       Tech-X Corporation, USA
  Shujia Zhou 	       NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
  Corrado Zoccolo       University of Pisa / CoreGRID, Italy