From: nikola@prosun.first.gmd.de (Nikola Serbedzija)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: Massively Parallel Programming Models (MPPM)
Date: 24 Dec 92 01:00:15 GMT
Expires: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 08:00:00 GMT
Organization: GMD-FIRST, D-1000 Berlin 10


               CALL FOR PAPERS AND/OR PARTICIPATION


                       Working Conference on

               MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROGRAMMING MODELS:

             Suitability, Realization, and Performance


                       September 20-23, 1993
          Glienecke Hunting Palace, Berlin, Germany

        Organized in Cooperation with IEEE Computer Society
                 and Gesellschaft fuer Informatik


The next generation of supercomputers will be massively parallel,
distributed memory MIMD architectures with thousands or ten thousands
of nodes. User acceptance demands that such systems should be
programmable in an appropriate, easy-to-use, application-oriented style
which, nevertheless, ensures the highest possible program efficiency.
The currently dominating message-passing programming paradigm hardly
meets those requirements. One approach to avoid explicit message passing
in the program is the use of run time libraries that carry out the
communication. Another, architectural solution is the virtual shared
memory that provides the user with a shared memory programming paradigm,
hiding the actual message passing in the bowels of the system. The
current problem with virtual shared memory is unsatisfactory performance.
A better solution could be to have a parallelizing compiler that is
smart enough to take a sequential program, partition it into
communicating processes with the goal of optimal workload distribution,
and inserts the required inter-process communication constructs. At this
point in time it is very much debated whether such a compiler will ever
be feasible. Last but not least, novel, more appropriate programming
models for massively parallel systems may evolve that will avoid the
difficulties with the existing paradigms.

The purpose of the working conference is to bring together computer
architects, software engineers, and supercomputer users with experience
in highly parallel applications and discuss what is needed from the
user point of view and how to meet the user demands. Another question
is how efficiently can the envisioned solutions be implemented.
Experiences with prototype implementations of virtual shared memory
systems, parallelizing compilers, and existing as well as novel
programming models should be presented, discussed, and evaluated.
Therefore, equal time will be dedicated to the presentation of papers
and discussions. This will hopefully lead to a consensus as to what
the appropriate programming model(s) for massively parallel systems
should be. The proceedings (papers and summaries of discussions) will
be published as a book in the Springer LNCS Series.

Participation in the working conference is by invitation. Please apply
-- with or without an interesting paper.

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                           Conference Data


Short Title:        Working Conference on Massively Parallel
		    Programming Models (MPPM)

Location:           Berlin, Germany, Glienicke Hunting Palace

Time:               September 20-23, 1993

Conference Fee:     $ 650   for non-members of IEEE or GI
                    $ 500   for members of IEEE-CS or GI

How to apply:       Please send an extended abstract to one of the
		    program chairpersons or one of the program committee
		    members no later than February 1, 1993.

Notification date:  You will be notified whether your papers has
		    been accepted before April 1, 1993.

Paper due:          A preliminary version of the paper must be submitted
		    no later than August 1, 1993. This version will be
		    copied and distributed to the participants. The size
		    of the paper is limited to 10 pages (single-spaced,
		    in Time or similar font of 10 points or larger) The
		    precise format instructions will be sent with the
		    acceptance notification.



Program Committee:
		   Prof. Wolfgang K. Giloi, Co-Chairman
                   Prof. Stefan Jahnichen, Co-Chairman
                   Dr. Bruce D. Shriver, Co-Chairman

                   Arvind, MIT, U.S.A.
                   Guang Gao, McGill University, Canada
                   Erol Gelenbe, Universite de Paris, France
                   John Gurd, University of Manchester, UK
                   Anthony Hey, University of Southampton, UK
                   William Jalby, INRIA and University of Rennes, France
                   Ted Lewis, Oregon State University
                   Mario Tokoro, Sony, Japan
                   Roland Vollmar, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
                   Hans Zima, U. Wien, Austria


Addresses:
		   Professor Wolfgang K. Giloi
		   GMD FIRST
                   Rudower Chausee 5
                   Building 13.7
                   1199 Berlin-Adlershof
                   Germany
                   Phone: 49-30-6704-2659
                   Fax:   49-30-6704-5610
                   e-mail: w.giloi@compmail.com

                   Professor Stefan Jahnichen
                   TU-Berlin
                   Institut fur Angewandte
                   Informatik, Softwaretechnik
                   FR 5-6
                   Franklinstrasse 28/29
                   D-1000 Berlin 10
                   Phone: 49-30-314732-31
                   Fax:   49-30-314734-88
                   e-mail: jaehn@cs.tu-berlin.de

                   Dr. Bruce D.  Shriver
                   17 Bethea Drive
                   Ossining, NY 10562
                   U.S.A.
                   Phone and fax: 1-914-941-9181
                   e-mail: b.shriver@compmail.com