[ieeetcsc-discuss] CfP: Component-Based High-Performance Computing (CBHPC) 2008

[bernholdtde at ornl.gov]

            Component-Based High Performance Computing (CBHPC'08) Workshop
                    14-17 Oct. 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany

Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN
and held as a part of CompArch federated events 
(see http://comparch2008.ipd.uka.de/ for more info)

    http://www.di.unipi.it/~hpc-geco/ or http://www.compframe.org/

Important dates:
Abstract submission: 9 May 2008
Full paper or extended abstract submission: 16 May 2008
Notification of acceptance: 27 June 2008
Camera-ready papers and extended abstracts: 5 September 2008
Related software (optional): 11 July 2008

BACKGROUND 

CBHPC 2008 is the third joint event in the series of the 
HPC-GECO and CompFrame 2008 workshop series. This workshop focuses on the
role of component and framework technologies in high-performance and
scientific computing, and on high-level, component-based and
innovative programming tools and environments to efficiently develop
high performance applications and exploit them both on individual
massively parallel systems and on the Grid.

TOPICS

CBHPC welcomes submissions of two types dealing with high-level and
component-based approaches to HPC and Grid Computing:


The list of relevant topics includes, but is 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 Coupling of Parallel 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) in high-level
  programming environments
* Case studies and experiments of large and geographic scale
  high-level HPC applications, large-scale data/analysis
* Applicability of software engineering techniques for restructuring
  and integration
* High-level approaches for emerging HPC architectures, including
  clusters of reconfigurable computing units and multicore processors
* Approaches to development, deployment, repositories, debugging, and
  testing for components in HPC environments

SUBMISSIONS AND WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS

CBHPC welcomes two types of submissions:
1) Full papers of up to 12 pages which include work not already published
or under review for publication in other conferences of journals.  
2) Extended abstracts of up to 4 pages describing work in progress, which
is intended to foster discussions of the emerging trends in the
component-based HPC and exchange of recent ideas as well as on-going
applications.

Submissions are accepted only electronically, in PDF
format, and must conform to the ACM style. Full papers may not
exceed 12 pages and extended abstracts of work
in progress should be no more than 4 pages long
including all figures, tables, references, and supplementary material.  
Information for authors and reference style files are available at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
A link to the submission page will be posted at 
http://www.di.unipi.it/~hpc-geco/ or http://www.compframe.org/.

All full papers and extended abstracts will be reviewed by multiple
program committee members. Accepted submissions will be available in
digital form at the workshop.  Accepted full papers will be also
published through the ACM Digital Library after the workshop.  The
committee also plans to invite selected full papers from the workshop
to be extended and published as part of a journal special issue.

The organizers plan to distribute in electronic form to the attendees
additional material concerning the accepted works (e.g., software
tools, demos, and prototypes).  Interested authors should contact the
workshop chairs no later than July 11, 2008.


COMMITTEES

General Co-Chairs:
* Christian Perez, INRIA, France
* Masha Sosonkina, Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University, USA

Local Chair:
* Jan-Philipp Weiss, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Steering Committee:
* Rob Armstrong, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
* David E. Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
* Massimo Coppola, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, 
  CNR, Italy
* Marco Danelutto, Universita di Pisa, Italy
* Vladimir S. Getov, University of Westminster/CoreGRID, UK
* Aad van der Steen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Program Committee: to be announced