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                                 IFIP WG10.3
                            WORKING CONFERENCE ON
                         PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS FOR
                    MASSIVELY PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

                             April 25 - 29, 1994
                      Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland


		  PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION FORM
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Massively parallel systems with distributed resources will play a very
important role for the future of high performance computing.  One of
the current obstacles of these systems is their difficult programming.
The proposed conference will bring together active researchers who are
working on ways how to help programmers to exploit the performance
potential of massively parallel systems. The working conference will
consist of sessions for full and short papers, interleaved with poster
and demonstration sessions.

The Conference will be held April 25 - 29, 1994 at the Centro Stefano
Franscini, located in the hills above Ascona at Lago Maggiore, in the
southern part of Switzerland.  It is organized by the Swiss Scientific
Computing Center CSCS ETH Zurich. The conference is the forthcoming
event of the working group WG 10.3 of the International Federation for
Information Processing (IFIP) on Programming Environments for Parallel
Computing.  The conference succeeds the 1992 Edinburgh conference on
Programming Environments for Parallel Computing.


Format of the Working Conference
--------------------------------

Each day of the conference will be devoted to a specific theme in
programming environments for massively parallel systems. Two sessions
in the morning and one in the afternoon will contain in-depth technical
presentations. Then a critical review of the state-of-the-art of the
day's theme will be given. This talk will also summarize open
questions in the field under discussion.  After that small working
groups will be formed.  Each group will focus on one of the most
pressing problem of that day's theme, and will try to work out a
scenario to solve that problem.  The findings of these small working
groups will be presented informally in the late afternoon.  The evening
is open for open-ended discussions.


Topics
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-- Parallel program specification and transformation
-- Tools for parallel algorithms and applications development
-- Interprocess communication and parallel I/O
-- Application engineering and parallel debugging


Sponsors
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Swiss National Science Foundation
NEC Corporation


Conference Chair
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K. M. Decker
CSCS-ETH Zurich
Via Cantonale
CH-6928 Manno, Switzerland
e-mail: decker@cscs.ch


Organization Committee
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K. Mafli                                R.M. Rehmann (Chairperson)
CSCS-ETH Zurich                         CSCS-ETH Zurich
Via Cantonale                           Via Cantonale
CH-6928 Manno, Switzerland              CH-6928 Manno, Switzerland
e-mail: mafli@cscs.ch                   e-mail: rehmann@cscs.ch
phone:  +41 (91) 50 8240
fax:    +41 (91) 50 6711

Program Committee
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Francoise Andre, IRISA, France
Thomas Bemmerl, Intel Corporation, Germany
Arndt Bode, Technical University Munchen, Germany
Helmar Burkhart, University Basel, Switzerland
Lyndon J. Clarke, University of Edinburgh, UK
Michel Cosnard, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
Karsten M. Decker, CSCS-ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Thomas Fahringer, University of Vienna, Austria
Claude Girault, University P. et M. Curie Paris, France
Anthony J. G. Hey, University of Southampton, UK
Roland N. Ibbett, University of Edinburgh, UK
Nobuhiko Koike, NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Peter B. Ladkin, University of Stirling, UK
Juerg Nievergelt, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Edwin Paalvast, TNO-TPD, The Netherlands
Gerard Reijns, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Eugen Schenfeld, NEC Research Institute, Princeton, USA
Clemens-August Thole, GMD, Germany
Owen Thomas, GMD, Germany
Marco Vanneschi, University of Pisa, Italy
Francis Wray, Cambridge, UK


Program
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SUNDAY, APRIL 24
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14.00-18.00     Registration
18.00-19.00     Welcome cocktail
20.00           Dinner

MONDAY, APRIL 25
================

Day's topic:    Parallel program specification and transformation

09.00-09.30     Karsten M. Decker
                Welcome and Introduction
09.30-10.00     Tom MacDonald and Zdenek Sekera
                The Cray Research MPP Fortran Programming Model
10.00-10.30     B. Bacci, M. Danelutto and S. Pelagatti
                Resource Optimization via Structured Parallel Programming
10.30-11.00     V. A. Serebriakov, A. N. Bezdushny and C. G. Belov
                SYNAPS/3 -- An Extension of C for Scientific Computations

                Coffee Break

11.30-11.50     Z. Lin, S. Zhou and W. Li
                The Pyramid Parallel Programming System
11.50-12.20     S. N. McIntosh-Smith, B. M. Brown and S. Hurley
                Intelligent Algorithm Decomposition for Parallelism with Alfer

                Lunch

14.00-14.30     Christoph W. Kessler
                Symbolic Array Data Flow Analysis and Pattern Recognition in
                Dense Matrix Computations
14.30-14.50     Mark R. Gilder, Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy and John R. Punin
                A GUI for Parallel Code Generation
14.50-15.10     Fabrice Kordon
                Formal techniques based on Nets, Object Orientation, and
                Reusability for Rapid Prototyping of Complex Systems
15.10-15.30     Thomas Brandes and Falk Zimmermann
                Adaptor -- A Transformation Tool for HPF Programs

                Coffee Break

16.00-16.20     Review of the day
16.20-18.30     Working groups
18.30-19.00     Summary presentations of the working groups
20.00           Dinner

TUESDAY, APRIL 26
================

Day's topic:    Tools for parallel algorithms and applications development

09.00-09.30     D. A. Burgess, P. I. Crumpton and M. B. Giles
                A parallel framework for unstructured grid solvers
09.30-10.00     Manish Parashar, Salim Hariri, Tomasz Haupt and Geoffrey C. Fox
                A Model for Software Development in a Heterogeneous High
                Performance Computing Environment
10.00-10.30     M. Fruscione, P. Flocchini, E. Giudici, S. Punzi, P. Stofella
                Parallel Computational Frames: an approach to parallel
                application development based on message passing systems

                Coffee Break

11.00-11.30     Karsten M. Decker, Jiri J. Dvorak and Rene M. Rehmann
                A Knowledge-Based Scientific Parallel Programming Environment
11.30-11.50     Didier Buchs, Daniel Monteiro, Fabrice Mourlin and Denis Brunet
                Parallel Distributed Algorithm Design through Specification
                Transformation: The Asynchronous Vision System
11.50-12.20     Helmar Burkhart and Stephan Gutzwiller
                Steps Towards Reusability and Portability in Parallel
                Programming

		Lunch

14.00-14.30     C. Clemencon, A. Endo, J. Fritscher, A. Muller, R. Ruhl 
                and B. J. N. Wylie
                An Environment for Portable Distributed Memory Parallel
                Programming
14.30-15.00     L. Clarke, R. Fletcher, S. Trewin, A. Bruce, G. Smith
                and S. Chapple
                Reuse, Portability and Parallel Libraries
15.00-15.30     Gregory V. Wilson
                Assessing the Usability of Parallel Programming Systems: The
                Cowichan Problems

                Coffee Break

15.50-16.10     Duane Szafron and Jonathan Schaeffer
                Experimentally Assessing the Usability of Parallel Programming
                Systems
16.10-16.40     F. Wollenweber, S. Barros, D. Dent, L. Isaksen and G. Robinson
                Experiences with Parallel Programming Tools

                Break

17.00-17.20     Review of the day
17.20-18.30     Working groups
18.30-19.00     Summary presentations of the working groups
20.00           Dinner

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27
===================

Day's topic:    Interprocess Communication and Parallel I/O

09.00-09.20     Lyndon Clarke, Ian Glendinning and Rolf Hempel
                The MPI Message Passing Interface Standard
09.20-09.50     Hubertus Franke, Peter Hochschild, Pratap Pattnaik, Marc Snir
                An Efficient Implementation of MPI
09.50-10.10     Marc Aguilar and Beat Hirsbrunner
                POST: A New Postal Delivery Model for Parallel Heuristic
                Programming
10.10-10.30     N. Signes, J.-P. Bodeveix, D. Plaindoux, F. Cabestre
                and C. Percebois
                Asynchronous Backtrackable Communications in the SLOOP
                Object-Oriented Language

                Coffee Break

11.00-11.30     Steven A. Moyer and V. S. Sunderam
                A Parallel I/O System for High-Performance Distributed
                Computing
11.30-12.00     Rajesh Bordawekar and Alok Choudhary
                Language and Runtime Support for Parallel I/O

                Lunch

14.00           Excursion and Conference Dinner

THURSDAY, APRIL 28
==================

Day's topic:    Application engineering

09.00-09.30     Peter Thanisch, Michael G. Norman, Cristina Boeres
                and Susanna Pelagatti
                Locality in Scheduling Models of Parallel Computation
09.30-10.00     M. Cannataro, G. Spezzano and D. Talia
                A Load Balancing Algorithm for Massively Parallel Systems
10.00-10.30     Y. Seo, T. Kamachi, Y. Watanabe, K. Kusano, K. Suehiro
                and Y. Shiroto
                Static Performance Prediction in PCASE: a Programming
                Environment for Parallel Supercomputers

                Coffee Break

11.00-11.20     Traian Muntean
                Generic Construction of Virtual Machines within ParX Parallel
                Operating System Kernel
11.20-11.50     R. Bruce Irvin and Barton P. Miller
                A Performance Tool for High-Level Parallel Programming
                Languages
11.50-12.10     Xavier-Francois Vigouroux
                Implementation of a Scalable trace analysis tool

                Lunch

14.00-14.30     Anna Hondroudakis and Rob Procter
                The Design of a Tool for Parallel Program Performance Analysis
                and Debugging
14.30-15.00     W. I. Williams, T. Hoel and D. Pase
                The MPP Apprentice
15.00-15.20     Alain Fagot and Jacques Chassin de Kergommeaux
                Optimized record-replay mechanism for RPC-based parallel
                programming
15.20-15.40     Thomas Kunz
                Abstract Debugging of Distributed Applications

                Coffee Break

16.00-16.20     Review of the day
16.20-17.30     Working groups
17.30-18.00     Public Talk in Italian:
                Marco Vanneschi, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
                Modelli architetturali e di programmazione per calcolatori a
                parallelismo massiccio: una introduzione
18.00-19.00     Summary presentations of the working groups / 
                Demonstration session
20.00           Dinner

FRIDAY, APRIL 29
================

09.00-09.20     F. Guidec and J.-M. Jezequel
                Design of a Parallel Object-Oriented Linear Algebra Library
09.20-09.40     F. Desprez
                A Library for Coarse Grain Macro-Pipelining in Distributed
                Memory Architectures
09.40-10.00     Francois Breant and Jean-Francois Peyre
                An Improved Massively Parallel implementation of Colored
                Petri-Nets Specifications
10.00-10.20     F. Baiardi, D. Ciuffolini, A.M. Lomartire, D. Montanari 
                and G. Pesce
                A Tool for Parallel System Configuration and Program Mapping
                based on Genetic Algorithms

                Coffee Break

10.50-11.10     Georg Stellner, Arndt Bode, Stefan Lamberts and Thomas Ludwig
                Simulating a Paragon XP/S on a Network of Workstations
11.10-11.30     B. Bacci, E. Chiti, M. Danelutto and M. Vanneschi
                Evaluating the VLIW-in-the-large Computing Model
11.30-11.50     Vicent Cholvi-Juan and Jose M. Bernabeu-Auban
                Implementing an N-Mixed Memory Model on a Distributed Memory
                System

                Lunch

14.00           Checkout


                             GENERAL INFORMATION
                             ===================

Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland
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Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verita, located in the scenic hills
above Ascona, with a beautiful view on Lago Maggiore, has excellent
conference and housing facilities for about sixty participants.
Monte Verita enjoys a sub-alpine/Mediterranean climate with mean
temperatures between 15 and 18 C in April.

Conference Fee
--------------

                        until April 1,1994      until April 15, 1994

Students                CHF     900.-           CHF     1'100.-
Non-Students            CHF   1'200.-           CHF     1'400.-



The conference fee covers all expenses, such as registration, local
accommodations, all meals, coffee breaks, welcome cocktail, handouts, and one
copy of the conference proceedings. The expenses for a social event with a
conference dinner are also covered.

There is a small number of scholarships available for the conference. The
purpose of the scholarships is primarily to allow speakers from Universities
with limited travel budgets to come to the conference. Other participants can
apply also for scholarships by writing a short CV (10 lines max) and the
reasons for financial support. If we do not need all scholarships for
speakers we will distribute them among the other participants.

Accommodation and Registration
-----------------------------

Accommodation has been arranged within the conference center, Centro
Stefano Franscini. There are 26 twin rooms and 10 single rooms
available. As we have only limited number of rooms available
accompanying persons are not possible.

Delegates are required to register as soon as possible using the
attached registration form. They will receive instructions how the
payment must be made.

Confirmation of registration will be sent to participants after
receipt of the registration form and payment.


Local Facilities
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Facilities for reading/writing e-mails are available in the
conference center.


Access
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The closest airport to Centro Stefano Franscini is Lugano-Agno which
is connected to Zurich, Geneva and Basle and many other cities in
Europe by air. Centro Stefano Franscini can also be reached
conveniently by train from any of the three major airports in
Switzerland to Locarno by a few hours scenic trans-alpine train
ride. It can also be reached from Milano in less than three hours. A
time-table with trains from Geneva, Zurich, and Milano can be
obtained by anonymous ftp from pobox.cscs.ch as
/pub/SeRD/IFIP94/HowToReach.ps.


Registration Form
-----------------
The registration form attached and the program is also available by
anonymous ftp from pobox.cscs.ch as
/pub/SeRD/IFIP94/{Program.ps,Registration.ps}.


For more information, send email to ifip94@cscs.ch


                                 IFIP WG10.3
                            WORKING CONFERENCE ON
                         PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS FOR
                    MASSIVELY PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

                             April 25 - 29, 1994
                      Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland


                              REGISTRATION FORM
                              =================

To be returned before April 1 to:
        CSCS-ETH Zurich, IFIP 94, K. Mafli
        Via Cantonale, CH-6928 Manno, Switzerland
        Fax: +41 91 50 6711   e-mail: mafli@cscs.ch


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Non-Students                     1'400.-- CHF             1'200.-- CHF
Students                         1'100.-- CHF               900.-- CHF

Conference including registration, accommodation, all meals, handouts,
proceedings, social events, coffee breaks and welcome cocktail.

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| Dr. Rene M. Rehmann                            phone:   +41 (91) 50 8234 |
| Section of Research and Development (SeRD)     fax  :   +41 (91) 50 6711 |
| Swiss Scientific Computing Center CSCS         email:   rehmann@cscs.ch  |
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