The 2010 Workshop on Component-Based High Performance Computing (CBHPC 2010)

25-29 October 2010, Brussels, Belgium
Collocated with Grid 2010


http://compframe.org/cbhpc2010/



Call for Papers


Component and framework technology is mainstream for desktop
environments, but has lagged in the high-performance computing (HPC)
community. The reasons for this stem partly from a general lack of
awareness of component concepts in the community, but mostly from
the fact that desktop component models sacrifice performance for
ease-of-use. In addition, HPC uniquely requires component-based
support for patterns special to parallel computing, such as the
massively parallel single program multiple data pattern. Beyond the
special requirements of HPC, component concepts promise to provide
the same benefits as they do in the mainstream: participation by
10's or 100's of developers and the ability to support the software
complexity that the simulation of natural phenomena demand. Likewise,
with multi-core architecture becomes the norm and cloud computing
gaining popularity, understanding requirements unique to HPC will
enable a new class of commercial HPC applications.

Following the success of past HPC-GECO and CompFrame workshop series,
the fifth installment of the workshop, CBHPC 2010, aims to bring
together the developers and users of such technologies, and to build
an international research community around these issues. This year's
workshop focuses on the role of component and framework technologies
in high-performance and scientific computing, and on high-level,
component-based and innovative programming tools and environments
to efficiently develop high performance applications and exploit
them both on individual massively parallel systems and on the Grid.


Topics of Interest

CBHPC welcomes submissions dealing with high-level and component-based
approaches to HPC and Grid Computing:

* Component models and frameworks
* Component-based platforms for Grid, Clouds and large-scale facilities
* Programming environments and paradigms
* Analysis and comparison of existing programming approaches
* Design patterns for HPC and Grid applications
* Integration of different distributed/Grid/HPC programming frameworks
* Tools and Environments for Coupling of Parallel Application codes
* Application-level and support-level management of performance, QoS,
faults, dynamicity, architecture heterogeneity
* Application-level QoS contract description and enforcement
* Advanced middleware systems as a device to efficiently exploit Grid
resources (e.g. high-bandwidth, innovative networks) in high-level
programming environments
* Case studies and experiments of large and geographic scale
high-level HPC applications, large-scale data/analysis
* Applicability of software engineering techniques for restructuring
and integration
* High-level approaches for emerging HPC architectures, including clusters
of reconfigurable computing units, multicore processors, and other hybrid,
hardware accelerator techniques such as GPGPU, cell processors, and FPGA.
* Approaches to component composition, development, deployment, repositories,
debugging, and testing for components in HPC environments


Submissions Guidelines and Workshop Proceedings

CBHPC welcomes two types of submissions:

1. Full papers of up to 10 pages which include work not already
published or under review for publication in other workshops,
conferences of journals.
2. Extended abstracts of up to 4 pages
describing work in progress, which is intended to foster discussions
of the emerging trends in the component-based HPC and exchange
of recent ideas as well as on-going applications.

Submissions are accepted only electronically, in PDF format, and
must conform to the IEEE style. Full papers may not exceed 10 pages
and extended abstracts of work in progress should be no more than
4 pages long including all figures, tables, references, and
supplementary material. Information for authors and reference style
files are available here. Papers and abstracts must be submitted
via the Easychair system (link to be added).

All full papers and extended abstracts will be reviewed by multiple
program committee members. Accepted papers will be published together
with the main conference.



Important dates

* Full paper or extended abstract submission: 5 July 2010
* Notification of acceptance: 19 July 2010
* Camera-ready papers and extended abstracts: 02 August 2010
* Workshop: 25-29 October 2010 (one day, t.b.d. by Grid 2010)



Committees General Co-Chairs:

* Gabrielle Allen, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
* Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


Steering Committee:

* Rob Armstrong, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
* David E. Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
* Marco Danelutto, Universita di Pisa, Italy
* Vladimir S. Getov, University of Westminster, UK
* Christian Perez, INRIA, France
* Masha Sosonkina, Ames Laboratory, USA


Program Committee:

* Gabrielle Allen, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
* Rosa Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center - CSIC, Spain
* Purushotham Bangalore, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
* Francoise Baude, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
* David E. Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
* Francisco de Carvalho Junior, Universidade Federal do Ceara Brazil
* Massimo Coppola, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, CNR, Italy
* Marco Danelutto, Universita di Pisa, Italy
* Kosta Damevski, Virginia State University, USA
* Wael R. Elwasif, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
* Vladimir S. Getov, University of Westminster, UK
* Sergei Gorlatch, Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Germany
* Madhu Govindaraju, Binghamton University, USA
* Fabrice Huet, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
* Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Fang Liu, Indiana University, USA
* Stefan Muszala, Tech-X Corporation, USA
* Christian Perez, INRIA, France
* Thierry Priol, INRIA, France
* Rainer Schmidt, Austrian Research Centers, Austria
* Masha Sosonkina, Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University, USA
* Jean-Bernard Stefani, INRIA, France
* Rainer Stotzka, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany
* Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, USA
* Nanbor Wang, Tech-X Corporation, USA

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Thilo Kielmann
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/