[Haskell] Workshop on Advances in Message Passing (AMP) - Submission Deadline March 20, 2010

[Greg Bronevetsky]

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                   Workshop on Advances in Message Passing (AMP)
                     Languages, Compilers, and Run-time Support
at the SIGPLAN 2010 Conference on Programming Language Design and 
Implementation
                                 June 6, 2010
                                Toronto, Canada

                                CALL FOR PAPERS
                          Submission: March 20, 2010
                          Notification: April 25, 2010
                          Final paper: May 16, 2010
                      http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/cding/amp
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As feature sizes in electronics grow smaller, physical issues such as 
bounds on the speed of light, pin counts and 2-dimensional network 
layouts threaten to constrain improvements in communication bandwidth 
and latency even as increasing core counts improve compute performance. 
The resulting limitations force application and system developers to 
explicitly optimize communication locality and timing sensitivity by 
using explicit communication primitives such as point-to-point 
sends/receives, puts/gets and collective operations such as broadcast. 
Today message passing is supported by a wide variety of APIs, including 
run-time libraries such as MPI, network interfaces such as TCP/IP and 
Internet protocols such as HTTP.  However, relatively little attention 
has been paid to the connection between message-passing runtimes and 
programming languages and compilers.

Programming a message-passing system involves the fundamental tasks of 
computation partitioning, data partitioning, and data communication.  It 
poses a distinct set of challenges in the analysis, transformation, and 
support of such programs.  Significant advances have been made in the 
areas programming languages, compiler support, and run-time systems for 
message passing programs. Such progress can be accelerated by 
integrating and sharing ideas, results, and tools, enabling new parallel 
programming techniques and improving the performance and maintainability 
of scientific applications as well as collaboration software.

The AMP workshop brings together researchers in academia, industry and 
government research institutes to discuss the shared challenges and 
present state-of-art research results.  It aims to become a focused 
forum on subjects in the interaction of programming language, program 
analysis, and run-time support of message passing systems.  The topics 
of interest include but are not limited to
   o algorithms and applications
   o parallel languages and programmability studies
   o compiler and run-time techniques for improving locality, 
scalability, and reliability
   o performance, testing, and debugging tools
   o program analysis tools for message passing programs
   o programming constructs to improve the usability of message-passing
AMP is soliciting both position papers (3 pages) and research papers (10 
pages) that report previously unpublished work. Papers must be PDF files 
in ACM proceedings format, printable on US Letter and A4 paper 
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm, 9 pt template).

ORGANIZERS:
    Greg Bronevetsky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
     greg at bronevetsky.com
    Chen Ding, University of Rochester
     cding at cs.rochester.edu
    Sven-Bodo Scholz, University of Hertfordshire
     S.Scholz at herts.ac.uk
    Michelle Strout, Colorado State University
     mstrout at cs.colstate.edu