Charm++ parallel programming system

[Phil Miller <mille121 AT illinois.edu>]

2011 Workshop on Asynchronous and Adaptive Parallel Programming

http://charm.cs.illinois.edu/charmworkshop

April 18-20, 2011

Hosted by the Parallel Programming Laboratory
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Parallel applications tend to be complex and hard to debug.
Programmers need good programming models, compilers, and other tools
to ease their burden. For the new generation of multi-physics and
multi-scale applications, developers would like to concurrently
compose multiple modules, possibly written in a range of languages and
paradigms. Charm++ and AMPI address these issues, supporting a
programming approach that enhances programmer productivity while
achieving good performance. An adaptive runtime system automates such
necessities as load balancing, fault tolerance, check pointing,
dynamic job resizing, and performance instrumentation. The
message-driven approach supports concurrent composition of modules,
while higher level notations support commonly used communication
patterns with high productivity.

Join us for a discussion of emerging techniques and technologies for
parallel programming.

Call For Abstracts:

Authors are invited to submit abstracts or short papers describing
research and development in the broad themes of parallel processing
emphasized by Charm++ and AMPI, including message-driven execution,
automated resource management, and compositionality. Some specific
topics of interest include:

 * Parallel Computing Algorithms and Applications
 * Tools and Techniques for Performance Analysis and Tuning
 * Parallel Discrete Event Simulation techniques and applications
 * Parallel libraries and frameworks
 * Extensions and new features in Charm++
 * Tools and Techniques for application Development and Debugging
 * Massively parallel processing on future machines
 * Fault Tolerance and Resilience
 * Novel parallel programming models and abstractions
 * Adaptive runtime systems
 * Runtime management of power, energy, and heat

Submissions should be in the form of extended abstracts up to 3 pages
or short papers up to 8 pages. The presentations will be posted at the
Workshop website, but there will be no published proceedings. Authors
are encouraged to publish them in other conferences.

Please send submissions to Esteban Meneses 
(emenese2 AT illinois.edu)
 by
the deadline below.

Important dates:

* Submissions due: February 11, 2011
* Notification of acceptance: February 18, 2011
* Workshop: April 18-20, 2011

Early submission is welcome and will expedite the reviewing process.
Authors of early submissions will be notified of their acceptance as
soon as possible.

Please post this announcement to local distribution lists and forward
it to other interested parties.