PAPP 2012 - 9th International Workshop on Practical Aspects of High-Level Parallel Programming

Computational Science applications are more and more complex to develop and require more and more computing power. Sequential computing cannot go further. Major companies in the computing industry now recognise the urgency of re-orienting an entire industry towards massively parallel computing.
Parallel and grid computing are solutions to the increasing need for computing power. The trend is towards the increase of cores in processors, the number of processors and the need for scalable computing everywhere. But parallel and distributed programming is still dominated by low-level techniques such as send/receive message passing. Thus high-level approaches should play a key role in the shift to scalable computing in every computer.
Algorithmic skeletons, parallel extensions of functional languages such as Haskell and ML, parallel logic and constraint programming, parallel execution of declarative programs such as SQL queries, genericity and meta-programming in object-oriented languages, etc. have produced methods and tools that improve the price/performance ratio of parallel software, and broaden the range of target applications. Also, high level languages offer a high degree of abstraction which ease the development of complex systems. Moreover, being based on formal semantics, it is possible to certify the correctness of critical parts of the applications.
The PAPP workshop focuses on practical aspects of high-level parallel programming: design, implementation and optimisation of high-level programming languages, semantics of parallel languages, formal verification, design or certification of libraries, middle-wares and tools (performance predictors working on high-level parallel/grid source code, visualisations of abstract behaviour, automatic hot-spot detectors, high-level GRID resource managers, compilers, automatic generators, etc.), application of proof assistants to parallel applications, applications in all fields of computational science, benchmarks and experiments. Research on high-level grid programming is particularly relevant as well as domain specific parallel software.
The aim of all these languages and tools is to improve and ease the development of applications (safety, expressivity, efficiency, etc.). Thus the PAPP workshop focuses on applications.
The PAPP workshop is aimed both at researchers involved in the development of high level approaches for parallel and grid computing and computational science researchers who are potential users of these languages and tools.
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