Glas List: [glas] CfP: Parallel/High-Performance OO Scientific Computing at ECOOP 2006

From: Wolfgang Bangerth (bangerth_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-15 19:14:29

This may be of interest to some of you. Toon already gave a link to this 
conference, but here is the full Call for Participation:

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                             CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                                6th Workshop on
   PARALLEL/HIGH-PERFORMANCE OBJECT-ORIENTED SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING (POOSC'06)
                                  July 3 or 4
                                     at the
        EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING (ECOOP 2006)
                         Nantes, France, 3-7 July 2006

While object-oriented programming is being embraced in industry, 
particularly in the form of C++ and to an increasing extent Java and 
Python, its acceptance by the parallel scientific programming community is 
still tentative. In this latter domain performance is invariably of 
paramount importance, where even the transition from FORTRAN 77 to C is 
incomplete, primarily because of real or perceived loss of performance. 
On the other hand, various factors practically dictate the use of language 
features that provide better paradigms for abstraction: increasingly 
complex numerical algorithms, application requirements, and hardware (e.g. 
deep memory hierarchies, numbers of processors, multi-core processors, 
communication and I/O); and the need for user-level fault tolerance.

This workshop seeks to bring together practitioners and researchers in 
this growing field to `compare notes' on their work. The emphasis is on 
identifying specific problems impeding greater acceptance and widespread 
use of object-oriented programming in scientific computing; proposed and 
implemented solutions to these problems; and new or novel approaches, 
techniques or idioms for scientific and/or parallel computing. 
Presentations of work in progress are welcome.

Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

* tried or proposed programming language alternatives to C++;
* performance issues and their realized or proposed resolution;
* issues specific to handling or abstracting parallelism;
* specific points of concern for progress and acceptance of
      object-oriented scientific computing;
* existing, developing, or proposed software;
* frameworks and tools for scientific object-oriented computing;
* schemes for user-level fault tolerance;
* grand visions (of relevance and substance).

The workshop will consist of a sequences of presentations each followed by 
a discussion session.  The workshop will conclude with an overall 
discussion. We expect the majority of the participants to give 
presentations.

For authors of accepted presentations who require justification for travel 
the organizers can provide official letters of invitation.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts, papers, or 
presentations (slides) in ASCII, PDF, postscript, or PowerPoint. 
Submitted materials will be distributed at the workshop.  Submission and 
email correspondence to poosc06_at_lanl.gov.

AUTHORS' SCHEDULE

Apr 1, 2006:  Submissions due;

May 1, 2006:  Notification of acceptance;

Jun 16, 2006:  Final materials to be distributed due;

July 3 or 4, 2006:  Workshop.

FURTHER INFORMATION

http://www.c3.lanl.gov/poosc06/

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