Call For Papers
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Immediately Preceding:
12th European Conference on
Object-Oriented Programming
Brussels, Belgium, July 20–24, 1998
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Workshop
PARALLEL OBJECT-ORIENTED
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
Organizers
Federico Bassetti, Kei Davis, Dan
Quinlan
Numerical Analysis and Parallel
Computing
CIC-19, MS B256
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
{fede,kei,dquinlan}@lanl.gov
While object-oriented programming is being embraced in industry,
particularly in the form of C++ and to an increasing extent Java, its
acceptance
by the parallel scientific programming community is tentative at best.
In this latter domain performance is invariably of paramount importance,
where even the transition from FORTRAN 77 to C is incomplete, primarily
because of performance loss. On the other hand, three factors together
practically dictate the use of language features that provide better
paradigms for abstraction: increasingly complex numerical algorithms,
application requirements, and hardware (e.g. deep memory hierarchies).
This workshop seeks to bring together practitioners and researchers in
this emerging field to `compare notes' on their work. The emphasis is on
identifying specific problems impeding greater acceptance and widespread
use of object-oriented programming in scientific computing, and
proposed and implemented solutions to these problems, though
`experience' papers are welcome if they present a lesson to be learned.
Work-in-progress descriptions are welcome.
Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
• tried or proposed programming language alternatives to C++;
• performance issues and their realized or proposed
resolution;
• issues specific to handling or abstracting parallelism;
• specific points of concern for progress and
acceptance of object-oriented scientific computing;
• existing, developing, or proposed software.
Submission Procedure:
Prospective authors are invited to submit a five-page abstract in
uuencoded, gzipped postscript.
Submission and e-mail correspondence to: poosc98@c3.lanl.gov
Authors’ Schedule:
Submission of Abstract: March 27, 1998
Notification of Acceptance: May 4, 1998
Full Paper: July 3, 1998
Further Information:
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~fede/poosc98.html
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