Bill McColl's post Sequential Computing Considered Harmful is an excellent summary
of today's situation (http://www.computingatscale.com). Sequential computing cannot go further. Major companies in the computing industry now recognizes the urgency of reorienting an entire industry towards massively parallel computing.
The trend is towards the increase of cores in processors and the need for scalable computing everywhere. But parallel and distributed programming is still dominated by low-level techniques
such as send/receive message passing. Thus high-level approaches should play a key role in the shift to scalable computing in every computer.
This workshop follows the first three HLPP workshops held in 2001, 2003 and 2005. It is aimed at:
- computer science researchers, practitioners, graduate students - scientific computing researchers, practitioners, graduate students - high-performance application developers (e.g. in DBMS, data-mining, parallel model checking,
virtual reality)
TOPICS
We welcome submission of original, unpublished papers in English on topics including (but not limited to) the following aspects of multi-core, concurrent, parallel, distributed, meta and grid computing:
- high-level algorithms for parallel, communication-efficient and external-memory computation - high-level programming models (BSP, CGM, LogP, MPM, etc.) and tools - high-level programming models, tools and algorithms for multi-threaded, reconfigurable and multi-core computing - parallel programming methodologies - algorithmic skeletons and constructive methods - performance models and performance evaluation - high level resource-aware approaches object, functional, logic, constraint programming (semantics and implementation) - verification of parallel and distributed programs - security in high-level approaches - applications using high-level languages and tools (scientific computing,
DBMS, model-checking, virtual reality, ...) - teaching experience with high-level tools and methods
Accepted papers should be presented at the workshop. Revised versions will be published in a special issue of an international journal (previous HLPP workshops were published in Parallel Processing Letters, World Scientific Publishing) provided revisions suggested by the referees are made.
IMPORTANT DATES
15 April 2007: Full paper due 28 May 2007:
Notification 2 July 2007: Camera-ready paper due 23-24 July 2007: Workshop 17 September 2007: Journal version due
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Manuel Chakravarty (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia) Murray Cole (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK) Alexandros Gerbessiotis (NJIT, USA) Sergei Gorlatch (Univ. of Muenster, Germany) Zhenjiang Hu (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) Christoph Kessler (Linkopings Universitet, Sweden) Herbert Kuchen (Univ. of Muenster, Germany) Rita
Loogen (Univ. of Marburg, Germany) Frederic Loulergue (Univ. of Orleans, France) Quentin Miller (Somerville College, Oxford, UK) Susanna Pelagatti (Univ. of Pisa, Italy) Alexander Tiskin (Univ. of Warwick, UK) Kazunori Ueda (Waseda University, Japan)
CHAIRS AND ORGANIZERS
Zhenjiang HU Information Processing Laboratory Department of Mathematical Informatics Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics The University of Tokyo
Frederic LOULERGUE Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orleans Faculty of Sciences Computer Science Department University of Orleans
PAST HLPP WORKSHOPS
HLPP 2005 was held in Coventry (July 4-5, 2005).
HLPP 2003 was held in Paris (June 16-18, 2003). Parallel Processing Letters (Volume 13, issue 3) contains 14 revised papers presented at the workshop.
HLPP 2001 was held in Orleans (March 26-27, 2001). Parallel Processing Letters (Volume 11,issue 4) contains 8 revised papers presented at the workshop.
We are pleased to announce the fourth Summer School on Finite Groups and Related Geometrical Structures.
This year the school will take place in Venice from September 5th to September 15th. The speakers will be
Donna Testerman from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
and
Gunter Malle from the University
of Kaiserslautern.
The arguments of the courses will be:
Subgroup structure and representations of semisimple algebraic groups
and
Subgroup structure and maximal subgroups of finite groups of Lie type.
We have reserved about 33 beds (in single or double room) at the Patriarch's Seminar Guesthouse (a beautiful palace at the entrance of the Grand Canal).
Prices are:
(per night, breakfast included)
30 euros for a bed in a room without
bathroom (there are 15 single rooms and 6 double rooms);
36 euros for a bed in a double room with bathroom (there are three rooms)
meals (lunch and dinner) are also available for 11 euros each.
Due to the International Film Festival, in this period it is quite difficult to find a hotel room in Venice and prices are much higher. So, if you wish to come, hurry up!
Looking forward to see you all again If you wish to participate, please contac Mario at the following
e-mail address
mainards at dimi . uniud . it
The organizers
Clara Franchi, Maria Silvia Lucido, Enrico Jabara, Mario Mainardis, John van Bon
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT
Programme name: Algebraic Lie Theory
Programme dates: 12/01/2009 - 26/06/2009
Organisers: Professor M Geck (University of Aberdeen), Professor A Kleshchev (University of Oregon), Professor
G Roehrle (University of Southampton)