CALL FOR PAPERS
                              First Workshop on
                 Parallel Computing for Irregular Applications

                                       10 January 1999

                  To be held in conjunction with HPCA-5
 <http://trantor.cse.psu.edu/hpca5/>


                  OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE

                  Several types of irregularity need to be mastered in
                  order to execute efficiently large scale applications:
                     * Irregularity of the algorithms, which stems from
                       the complexity of data dependencies, leading to
                       unpredictable computation schemes (precedence task
                       graph, data transfers).
                     * Irregularity of the target hardware systems,
                       because of the variety of the available parallel
                       computers and of the emergence of heterogeneous
                       parallel systems such as networks of workstations
                       connected by high speed networks and used for
                       intensive computations.

                  The aim of this workshop is to give an opportunity to
                  researchers to present work in progress in the area of
                  runtime systems and compiling techniques to execute
                  efficiently parallel irregular applications. Topics of
                  interest include, but are not limited to:
                     * Parallel programming languages for irregular
                       applications.
                     * Runtime systems to cope with irregularity.
                     * Multithreaded environments and high-speed networks.
                     * Online scheduling.
                     * Shared data structures.
                     * Compilation techniques for irregular data
                      structures.

                  INTENDED AUDIENCE

                     * Researchers interested in one of the areas related
                       to efficient execution of parallel irregular
                       applications.
                     * Developers of time demanding applications.
                     * Designers of high performance computer
                       architectures.

                  DURATION

                  One day: sunday, Jan 10, 1999.


                  PAPER SUBMISSION

                  We sollicit extended abstracts, not to exceed 4
                  single-spaced pages. Return completed submission by
                  email to hpcia@imag.fr.

                  DEADLINES

                     * Extended abstract submission: november 1st.
                     * PC reviews due: november 23rd.
                     * Notification of acceptance: november 30th
                     * Final version of extended abstract due: december
                       15th

                  ACCEPTED FORMAT

                 Printable postscript.



                  INVITED SPEAKERS

                  P. Hatcher (University New Hampshire).
                  C.E. Leiserson (MIT).



                  PROGRAM COMMITTEE

                     * F. W. Burton (Simon Fraser University, Canada).
                     * M. Hermenegildo (University of Madrid, Spain).
                     * J.F. Méhaut (École Normale Supérieure, Lyon,
                       France).
                     * R.S. Nikhil (Compaq Cambridge Research Laboratory).
                     * S. Pande (University of Cincinnati USA).
                     * L. Rauchwerger (Texas A&M University).
                     * E.L. Zapata (University of Malaga, Spain).



                  ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

                  Jacques Chassin de Kergommeaux, Yves Denneulin, Thierry
                  Gautier, APACHE Group, IMAG, Grenoble, France.
                  {Jacques.Chassin-de-Kergommeaux, Thierry.Gautier,
                  Yves.Denneulin}@imag.fr



                  PROCEEDINGS

                  In order to favor the presentation of ongoing work, only
                  extended abstracts will be made available to the
                  participants on the WEB page of the workshop. In
                  addition, participants to the workshop will be invited
                  to write full papers describing their work for a special
                  issue of a scientific journal.



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