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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
8th Workshop on
PARALLEL/HIGH-PERFORMANCE OBJECT-ORIENTED SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING (POOSC'09)
July 7, 2009
at the
EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING (ECOOP'09)
July 6-10, 2009, Genova, Italy
http://www.ccs3.lanl.gov/poosc
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 C++ is considered
suspect, primarily because of real or perceived loss of performance.
On the other hand, various factors practically dictate the use of
language features that provide higher level abstractions than do C
or older FORTRAN standards. These include increasingly complex
physics models, numerical algorithms, and hardware--deep memory
hierarchies, exponentially-increasing numbers of processors, and the
advent of multi-core, many-core, and accelerated heterogeneous
processors.
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:
* alternatives or extensions to mainstream object-oriented
languages (e.g. C++, Java);
* performance issues and their realized or proposed resolution;
* issues specific to handling or abstracting parallelism,
including the handling or abstraction of
heterogeneous/multicore/accelerated microarchitectures;
* higher level languages (e.g. domain specific languages) or their
embedding into OO languages to support parallelism or specific
tasks in scientific computing
* frameworks and tools for object-oriented scientific computing;
* proposed or realized solutions to problems hindering acceptance
of object-oriented scientific computing;
* grand visions (of relevance).
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.
NOTE: Full papers are not required for acceptance/presentation, but
they are strongly encouraged.
For authors of accepted presentations who require justification for
travel the organizers can provide official letters of invitation.
PUBLICATION
Full papers accepted to the workshop will be published as a workshop
proceedings in the ACM Digital Library.
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 [email protected].
IMPORTANT DATES
* April 8, 2009: Initial submissions due;
* May 8, 2009: Notification of acceptance;
* May 20, 2009: ECOOP early registration deadline;
* Jun 15, 2009: Final versions of materials to be distributed due;
* Jul 7, 2009: Workshop.
ORGANIZATION
This workshop is a joint organization by Los Alamos National
Laboratory, USA; and the Technical University of Regensburg,
Germany.
FURTHER INFORMATION
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/poosc
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Wolfgang Bangerth email: [email protected]
www: http://www.math.tamu.edu/~bangerth/
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