Topic 9

Parallel and Distributed Programming

Description

Developing parallel or distributed applications is a hard task and it requires advanced algorithms, realistic modeling, efficient design tools, high performance languages and libraries, and experimental evaluation. This topic provides a forum for presentation of new results and practical experience in this domain. It emphasizes research that facilitates the design and development of correct, high-performance, portable, and scalable parallels program.

Related to these central needs, we also welcome contributions that assess methods for reusability, performance prediction, large-scale deployment, self-adaptivity, and fault-tolerance.

Focus

• Innovative languages (for instance Chapel, Fortress, X10, co-array Fortran, etc.), and parallel compilers,
• Development and debugging tools for parallel programs. Performance analysis,
• Models for parallelism (CGM, LogP, etc.) their design and their implementation,
• Parallel program paradigms, their evaluation and their comparison, (thread, data vs. task parallelism, etc. ),
• Large-scale experiments and validation of parallel applications,
• Methodological aspects of developing, optimizing and validating parallel programs (formalisms, semantics, specification, design, transformations, verification, etc.),
• Domain specific libraries and languages (e.g. for simulation, irregular or unstructured domain, computational geometry),
• Software reusability (for instance through component or libraries like MPI).

Organization

Global Chair	Local Chair
Luc Moreau School of Electronics & Computer Science University of Southampton United Kingdom	Emmanuel Jeannot INRIA Lorraine Villers les Nancy, France
Vice Chair	Vice Chair
George Bosilca Innovative Computing Laboratory University of Tennessee Department of Computer Science Knoxville, USA	Antonio J. Plaza Computer Science Department University of Extremadura Cáceres, Spain
Vice Chair	Vice Chair
Alexey Lastovetsky School of Computer Science and Informatics University College Dublin Dublin, Ireland	Simon Miles School of Electronics & Computer Science University of Southampton United Kingdom
Vice Chair
Juri Papay Electronics Computer Science OMII United Kingdom