[Omp] EWOMP'2004 European Workshop on OpenMP

[Laksono Adhianto]

	     EWOMP'2004 European Workshop on OpenMP
		     Oct 18-23, Stockholm, Sweden

		    http://www.imit.kth.se/ewomp04
			ewomp2004 at imit.kth.se

	       Call for papers, deadline: July 7, 2004

OpenMP is an Application Program Interface (API), which supports
shared-memory parallel programming in Fortran, C and C++ on all
architectures. It is a portable, scalable programming model that gives
programmers a simple and flexible interface for developing
shared-memory parallel applications. This series of workshops is
designed  as a  forum for  discussion  of the  latest developments  in
OpenMP, in its compilers, tools and applications. Participants should
have some basic knowledge of OpenMP programming in C/C++ or Fortran.

We continue the successful experience from last year's EWOMP with a
talk session and a lab session. After a two days "conventional"
workshop part with invited and contributed talks (OMPtalks), we want
to take the opportunity of having many OpenMP experts in the fields of
compilers, tools and applications on board, to altogether "get our
hands dirty" and do real work in a three days hands-on lab session
(OMPlab). In parallel to the OMPlab hands-on session, there is plenty
of time for additional working groups. It is up to the participants to
ignite controversies and lively discussions about OpenMP's present and
future. Any ideas are welcome.

This first part of the workshop continues the tradition of past
editions and similar events and will bring together users, developers
and researchers from academia, public and private research
institutions and industry to share information, experiences and
explore novel ideas around OpenMP. It will be an excellent opportunity
of meeting and discussing with experts in the field of OpenMP
programming and implementation.

In this year's EWOMP, we solicit papers from the same topics as in
previous workshops. However, we would like to extend the topics with
the use of OpenMP in embedded systems. The reason for this is that
parallel programming with shared memory is now entering the embedded
world. IP-cores from ARM (the MPcore) and MIPS (MIPS32 24K) have
multiprocessor capabilities and use cache coherence techniques
normally found only in high-end servers. ARM offers OpenMP in their
MPCore IP-block and researchers are beginning to look at performance
issues of using OpenMP for embedded applications.

Topics of interest include:
* Applications (development experiences, case studies, multiplatform
development and performance portability, comparisons with other
approaches such as MPI, mixed OpenMP/MPI programming, novel
application fields)
* Use of OpenMP in embedded systems
* Programming model (compilation and optimization techniques, proposal
for and evaluation of language extensions, runtime support)
* Tools (compilers, debuggers and performance analysis tools, OpenMP
implementations, benchmarking and performance studies)

Important dates:
July 5        Deadline for OMPtalks (~ 5 pages)
August 30     Notifications for authors
September 20  Final camera-ready papers are due.
September 20  End of early registration period.
October 11    End of late registration period.
October 11    Deadline for installing tools and
              applications for OMPlab.
October 18-20 EWOMP'04 part I: OMPtalks
October 21-23 EWOMP'04 part II: OMPlab

Please contact ewomp2004 at imit.kth.se for more information.

Program committee:
* Eduard Ayguade (Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
* Mats Brorsson (KTH, Sweden)  Workshop chair
* Mark Bull (Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
* Barbara Chapman (University of Houston, USA)
* Federico Massaioli, (CASPUR, Roma, Italy)
* Timothy Mattson (Intel)
* Dieter an Mey (Aachen University, Germany)
* Sanjiv Shah (Intel Americas Inc.)
* Per Oster (Centre for Parallel Computing, KTH, Sweden)