31st December 1996

/parallel/

Nothing new added this month - I was busy writing a paper. The entries below were posted to the newsgroups and added in January but have deadlines in December, oops.

/parallel/events/rtspp

Workshop on Runtime Systems for Parallel Programming (RTSPP) Call for papers for IPPS97 workshop being held on 1st April 1997 at Geneva, Switzerland. Topics: Techniques to reduce the tension between portability and efficiency in runtime systems; Relationship between runtime systems and programming models; Interfaces between compiler-generated code and runtime systems; Operating system support for runtime systems; Performance evaluation of runtime systems; The design and implementation of runtime systems for high-speed networks; The design and implementation of thread systems; Runtime systems for distributed shared memory; Extensibility and adaptability in runtime systems; and others. Deadlines: Papers: 6th December 1996; Notification: 10th January 1997; Camera-ready papers: 3rd February 1997. See also http://www.cs.vu.nl/~rtspp

/parallel/events/ppopp97

Sixth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 97) by Vladimir Kotlyar <vladimir@CS.Cornell.EDU> Call for papers for symposium being held from 18th-21st June 1997 at Alexis Park Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Sponsored by ACM. Topics: Design and implementation of parallel programming languages and systems; programming experience with parallel programming languages and systems; restructuring compilers and program manipulation systems for parallel systems; environments, debuggers, monitoring tools and operating system support for parallel programming; the relationship between parallel programming languages, compilers and machine architecture; performance aspects of parallel programming systems; and experiences in using parallel programming to solve applications problems and others. Deadlines: Papers: 13th December 1996; Notification: 28th February 1997; Camera-ready papers: 31st March 1997. See also http://www.tc.cornell.edu/PPoPP/