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                          CALL FOR PAPERS

                            POHLL 2006

                           Workshop on 
  Performance Optimization for High-Level Languages and Libraries


               Full-Day Workshop in conjunction with

    20th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
                           (IPDPS 2006)

                           April 29, 2006

        Rodos Palace Resort Hotel, Rhodes Island, Greece


            Submit papers through the EDAS submission system
                   (http://edas.info/Conferences.cgi)

                      Deadline: December 27, 2005


The complexity of software development has led to many efforts aimed
at raising the level of abstraction for the programmer. This includes
both object-oriented general-purpose approaches as well as
domain-specific languages and libraries. While performance
considerations are not paramount for all domains, there are many
domains where high performance is essential. This workshop aims to
bring together researchers from different domains, who have addressed
performance optimization issues in the context of high-level
languages/libraries and problem solving environments, to share their
successes as well as the challenges they face.

Submissions are invited on topics including, but not limited to:

    * program synthesis to facilitate the development of
      high-performance programs for specific application domains such
      as signal processing, computational chemistry, etc.

    * compile/runtime techniques for scalable implementation of
      "high-productivity" high-performance languages like Chapel,
      Fortress, X10

    * compiler techniques for optimization of high-level mathematical
      languages like MATLAB.

    * compile/runtime techniques for scalable implementations of
      parallel global-address space languages and libraries, such as
      Co-Array Fortran, Global Arrays, OpenMP, SHMEM, Titanium, UPC
      etc.

    * development of high-performance implementations of algorithms
      (e.g. FFT) for a variety of architectures, by exploiting special
      structural properties of the algorithms.

    * automatic optimization of library implementations together with
      the optimization of programs that use them.

    * efficient synthesis of recursive linear algebra codes that
      exploit deep memory hierarchies in current computer systems.

    * problem solving environments for high-performance computing
      applications

    * high-performance computing with object-oriented and
      component-based frameworks

This workshop will be of interest to researchers and graduate students
in several areas such as compilation technology, domain-specific
languages, library development, problem-solving environments, etc.

The format of this full-day workshop will include invited speakers and
presentations of contributed papers. All submitted papers will be
peer-reviewed by the program committee, with help from other external
reviewers.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: 	December 27, 2005 midnight (Pacific time)
Decision Notification:		January  17, 2006
Camera-Ready Version:		February 1, 2006 (very strict deadline)
Hotel cut-off date:		TBA
IPDPS 2006 Dates:		April 25--29, 2006
POHLL 2006 Date:		April 29, 2006


Submission Information

Authors should submit and register their paper by December 27, 2005
midnight Pacific time through the EDAS submission system at 
http://edas.info/Conferences.cgi

All submission will be reviewed. Submissions should be in PDF format
(alternatively in level 2 PostScript format) no more than 8 pages
long. Papers must be formatted in IEEE style, for which LaTeX and Word
style files are available.  Authors should make sure that the
submission can be viewed using ghostscript and will print on standard
letter size paper (8.5" x 11").

IEEE CS Press will publish the IPDPS symposium and workshop abstracts
as a printed volume. The complete IPDPS symposium and workshop
proceedings will also be published by IEEE CS Press as a CD-ROM disk.

Organizers of POHLL 2006

General/Program Co-Chairs

    * Gerald Baumgartner, Louisiana State University
    * J. (Ram) Ramanujam, Louisiana State University
    * P. (Saday) Sadayappan, The Ohio State University

Program Committee

    * Eduard Ayguade, Universitat de Politecnica de Catalunya
    * Gerald Baumgartner, Louisiana State University
    * David Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    * Daniel Chavarria Miranda, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    * Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee
    * Robert van de Geijn, The University of Texas at Austin
    * John Gilbert, University of California, Santa Barbara
    * Jeremy Johnson, Drexel University
    * Ricky Kendall, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    * Calvin Lin, The University of Texas at Austin
    * John Mellor-Crummey, Rice University
    * Jarek Nieplocha, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    * David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    * Keshav Pingali, Cornell University
    * Marcus Pueschel, Carnegie Mellon University
    * J. (Ram) Ramanujam, Louisiana State University
    * P. (Saday) Sadayappan, The Ohio State University
    * Rob Schreiber, Hewlett Packard Laboratories
    * Rich Vuduc, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    * Trey White, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    * Qing Yi, The University of Texas at San Antonio


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