The FHPC workshop
aims at bringing together researchers exploring uses of functional (or
more generally, declarative or high-level) programming technology in
application domains where large-scale computations arise naturally and
high performance is essential. Such computations would typically -- but
not necessarily -- involve execution on highly parallel systems ranging
from multi-core multi-processor systems to graphics accelerators
(GPGPUs), reconfigurable hardware (FPGAs), large-scale compute clusters
or any combination thereof. It is becoming apparent that radically new
and well founded methodologies for programming such systems are required
to address their inherent complexity and to reconcile execution
performance with programming productivity. The aim of the meeting
is to enable sharing of results, experiences, and novel ideas about how
high-level, declarative specifications of computationally challenging
problems can serve as highly transparent, maintainable, and portable
code that approaches (or even exceeds) the performance of
machine-oriented imperative implementations. Each FHPC workshop
proposes a particular theme for applications where high-performance
computing and/or functional programming technology can be applied. For
FHPC 2013, the theme is "Large-Scale Simulation", traditionally one of
the main driving forces behind supercomputing.
A large fraction of
compute cycles in supercomputers worldwide is spent on simulation tasks,
for various engineering tasks, drug design and other medical
simulations, and in different natural science domains. Declarative
languages have potential to radically change development practice and
workflow for simulation software in these areas. Hence, we particularly
encourage submission of application-oriented contributions in the area
of simulation.
As a general rule, while proposing the theme, the
workshop welcomes submissions from all relevant application domains as
well as those describing general work on the theory and practice of
declarative high-performance computing.Proceedings:
Accepted papers will be published by the ACM and will appear in the ACM Digital Library.
- Submission Deadline: 14 June 2013 (anywhere on earth)
- Author Notification: 11 July 2013
- Final Papers Due : 25 July 2013
Submitted papers must be in portable document format (PDF), formatted according to the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines (2 column, 9pt format). See http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm for more information and style files. The page limit is 12 pages. Submission deadlines and page limit are firm.
The FHPC workshops adhere to the ACM SIGPLAN policies regarding programme committee contributions and republication. Any paper submitted must adhere to ACM SIGPLAN's republication policy. PC member submissions are welcome, but will be reviewed to a higher standard.
http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Review
http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/RepublicationTravel Support:
Student attendees with accepted papers can apply for a SIGPLAN PAC grant to help cover travel expenses. PAC also offers other support, such as for child-care expenses during the meeting or for travel costs for companions of SIGPLAN members with physical disabilities, as well as for travel from locations outside of North America and Europe. For details on the PAC programme, see its web page (http://www.sigplan.org/PAC.htm).Programme Committee:
Umut Acar (co-chair), Carnegie Mellon U., PA, USA
Arvind, MIT, MA, USA
Jost Berthold (co-chair), U. of Copenhagen, Denmark
Guy Blelloch, Carnegie Mellon U., PA, USA
Hassan Chafi, Oracle Labs, CA, USA
Dan Spoonhower, Google, CA, USA
Sergei Gorlatch, U. Münster, Germany
Clemens Grelck, U. of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vinod Grover, NVidia, USA
Torsten Grust, U.Tübingen, Germany
Zhenjiang Hu, National Inst. of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
Gabriele Keller, U.New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Jens Palsberg, U.California, CA, USA
Leaf Peterson, Intel, USA
Mike Rainey, MPI-SWS,Kaiserslautern, Germany
Suresh Jaganathan, Purdue U., USA
Sven-Bodo Scholz, Heriot-Watt U., Edinburgh, UK
Guy Steele, Oracle Labs, Burlington, MA, USA
Yaron Minsky, Jane Street Capital, NY, USAGeneral Chairs:
Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, NL
Fritz Henglein, University of Copenhagen, DK