Joint HPC-GECO/CompFrame'07 Workshop
                    21-22 Oct. 2007, Montreal, Canada

  sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN and held in conjunction with ooPSLA 2007

    http://www.di.unipi.it/~hpc-geco/ or http://www.compframe.org/

              Abstract Submission Deadline: 8 June 2007
                 Paper Submission Deadline: 15 June 2007

BACKGROUND 

HPC-GECO/CompFrame 2007 is the second joint event from the HPC-GECO
and CompFrame workshop series. This two day 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

Submissions are welcome of original works, which are not already
published or under review, dealing with high-level and component-based
approaches to HPC and Grid Computing. The list of relevant topics
includes, but is not limited to:

* Component models and frameworks
* Component-based Grid Platforms
* 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 and multicore processors
* Approaches to development, deployment, repositories, debugging, and
  testing for components in HPC environments
* Extending component definitions beyond interface syntax

WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS

All papers, which will be reviewed by the program committee, must not
have been already published or be under evaluation for publication in
other conferences of journals. Workshop proceedings will be published
through the ACM on CD-ROM and in the ACM Digital Library.  The
committee also plans to invite selected papers from the workshop to be
extended and published as part of a journal special issue.

COMMITTEES

General Co-Chairs:
* David E. Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
* Vladimir S. Getov, University of Westminster/CoreGRID, UK

Organizing Committee:
* Rob Armstrong, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
* Denis Caromel, INRIA, France
* Massimo Coppola, Universita di Pisa, Italy
* Marco Danelutto, Universita di Pisa, Italy
* Wael Elwasif, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
* Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA
* Madhu Govindaraju, Binghamton University, USA
* Jim Kohl, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
* Steve Parker, University of Utah, USA
* Rainer Schmidt, University of Vienna, Austria
* Masha Sosonkina, Ames Laboratory, USA
* Aad van der Steen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
* Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, USA
* Nanbor Wang, Tech-X Corporation, USA

Program Committee: to be announced