The 2009 Workshop on Component-Based High Performance Computing (CBHPC 2009)

Overview

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 fourth installment of the workshop, CBHPC 2009, 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 of two types 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
• 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 12 pages which include work not already published or under review for publication in other 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 ACM style. Full papers may not exceed 12 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 at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Papers and abstracts should be submitted via workshop submission page at (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbhpc09).

All full papers and extended abstracts will be reviewed by multiple program committee members. Accepted papers will be also published through the ACM Digital Library after the workshop. The committee also plans to invite selected full papers from the workshop to be extended and published as part of a journal special issue.

The organizers plan to distribute in electronic form to the attendees additional material concerning the accepted works (e.g., software tools, demos, and prototypes). Interested authors should contact the workshop chairs no later than 18 September 2009.

Important dates

• Abstract submission: 31 July 2009
• Full paper or extended abstract submission: 7 August 2009
• Notification of acceptance: 4 14 September 2009
• Camera-ready papers and extended abstracts: 2 October 2009
• Related software (optional): 18 September 2009

Committees

General Co-Chairs:

• Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center - CSIC, Spain
• Nanbor Wang, Tech-X Corporation, USA
  

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/CoreGRID, UK
• Christian Perez, INRIA, France
• Masha Sosonkina, Ames Laboratory, USA

Program Committee:

• Rob Armstrong, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
• Rosa Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center - CSIC, Spain
• Purushotham Bangalore, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
• Françoise Baude, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
• David E. Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Francisco de Carvalho Junior, Universidade Federal do Ceará Brazil
• Massimo Coppola, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, CNR, Italy
• Marco Danelutto, Universita di Pisa, Italy
• Kosta Damevski, Virginia State University, USA
• Wael Elwasif, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Vladimir S. Getov, University of Westminster, UK
• Madhu Govindaraju, Binghamton University, USA
• James Kohl, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• 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