FHPC 2014 - ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Functional High-Performance Computing

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 2014, 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.