Workshop: Java for High Performance Network Computing

First UK Workshop
[Java for High Performance Network Computing]

EuroPar 1998
Wednesday and Thursday, September 2 and 3, 1998

Venue: Lecture Room 5 and Lecture Theatre 4, at EuroPar 1998
EuroPar Web Site: http://www.europar98.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
Getting to the Venue: http://www.soton.ac.uk/menus/mimenu/where.html

Please note that in order to attend this workshop, you need to Register for EuroPar 1998, please do this as soon as possible.

EuroPar Registration: http://www.webc.co.uk/europar98/

Overview
Programme
Programme Committee
Travel in the UK

External Links:

JavaGrande
Stanford/Palo Alto Workshop March 1998
Java and High Performance Computing

This first UK workshop is loosely based on the ACM workshop held at Stanford in March 1998. The workshop will focus on the use of the Java programming language for parallel and scientific computing, including engineering and scientific applications of Java, simulations, distributed resource management, on-line analytical processing and data-intensive applications, and other emerging applications that combine distributed object technology with networking.

The workshop is also aimed at bringing together the UK research community involved in this area, and to get a broad perspective of community interests and views. Authors are requested to submit short proposals that demonstrate timely results and application of Java based technologies, which could have an impact on the use of Java in high performance computing systems. Similar workshops have proved very successful in the US (Syracuse 1996, Las Vegas 1997 and Stanford 1998). We hope the UK workshop will be even more so.

The topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):

Java based numerical libraries
Java computing frameworks and collaborative environments
Java with parallel libraries such as PVM/MPI
Java compilers for improving execution performance (caching strategies, optimisations, native libraries)
Java as wrapper technology to existing scientific codes
Java/CORBA integration for scientific computing
Translations from C/C++/Fortran to Java
Java applications (e.g. real world high performance computing, grand challenge applications)
Java for real time multimedia / digital television
Java based embedded and real time systems
Java/Web TV

Programme

	Wednesday	September 2, 1998
13:30-15:00	Session 1: Invited Talks	Chair David Walker Department of Computer Science University of Wales, Cardiff Location: Lecture Room 5
13:30	Start and Welcome	David Walker
13:35	JavaGrande and High Performance Java in the US PowerPoint \| HTML \| HTML	Geoffrey Fox NPAC, Syracuse University, Syracuse New York USA
14:05	HPC Java Efforts at Sun Microsystems	Siamak Hassanzadeh High Performance Computing, Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, California, USA
14:35	The ActiveJava Framework	George Thiruvathukal Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois and the Java and High-Performance Computing Organization, USA
15:00	Coffee
15:30-17:00	Session 2: Visualization and Multimedia	Chair Vladimir Getov School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, London, UK Location: Lecture Room 5
15:30	Parallel Java for the Hitachi SR2201 Invited Talk PostScript	H. W. Yau EPCC, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
16:00	Java Performance for Multimedia Applications PDF	R. Akester, D. Terzis, J. Crowcroft, V. Hardman and S. Hailes Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK
16:30	Meta Computing HTML TANGO HTML	Geofferey Fox NPAC, Syracuse University, Syracuse New York, USA
17:00	Break
17:10 - 18:30	Session 3: Network Computing	Chair Jean-Louis Pazat EuroTools, INRIA, France Location: Lecture Room 5
17:10	U-Net/SLE: A Java-based User-Customizable Virtual Network Interface PostScript	M. Welsh and D. Oppenheimer Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, USA
17:35	Locality Optimization in JavaParty by Means of Static Type Analysis PostScript	M. Philippsen and B. Haumacher University of Karlsruhe, Germany
18:00	Speculative Parallel Execution on JVM PostScript	K. Yoshizoe, T. Matsumoto and K. Hiraki Hiraki Lab, Department of Information Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
18:30	End

	Thursday	September 3, 1998
09:00 - 10:30	Session 4: Invited Talks	Chair Giacomo Picenelli Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol, UK Location: Lecture Theatre 4
9:00	Multi-Language Programming Environments for High Performance Java Computing PostScript	Vladimir Getov School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, London, UK
9:30	Java based Mobile Agents for Parallel Computing PostScript	Omer Rana Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK
10:00	Closing the Performance Gap between Java and Fortran in Technical Computing PostScript	Jose Moreira IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA
10:30	Coffee
11:00 - 12:30	Session 5: Applications	Chair Donald Fisk BT Labs, Martlesham, Ipswich UK Location: Lecture Theatre 4
11:00	Java for Controlling and Configuring a Distributed Turbine Simulation System PostScript	T. Breitfeld and S. Kolibal, GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany A. Schreiber and M. Wagner DLR, Cologne, Germany
11:30	Java-based Coupling for Parallel Predictive-Adaptive Domain Decomposition PostScript	C. Germain-Renaud and V. Neri Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, CNRS - Universite Paris-Sud, France
12:00	Java for a User-Oriented Transport Parallel Image Processing Framework PostScript	Z. Juhasz Department of Information Systems, University of Veszprem, Hungry D. Crookes Department of Computer Science, Queen's University of Belfast, UK A. Chaudry Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, UK
12:30	Lunch
13:30	No Scheduled Talk
15:00	Coffee
15:30 - 17:00	Session 6: Aspects of Distributed Computing	Chair Omer Rana Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK Location: Lecture Room 5
15:30	The Cost of Being Object-Oriented: A Preliminary Study PostScript	Z. Budimlic, K. Kennedy and J. Piper Center for Research on Parallel Computation, Rice University, USA
16:00	Aspects of Portability and Distributed Execution for JNI Wrapped Code PostScript	P. A. Gray, V. S. Sunderam Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta GA, USA and V. Getov School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, London UK
16:30	The Do! Project: Distributed Programming Using Java PostScript	P. Launay and J-L Pazat IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, France
17:00	Break
17:10 - 18:10	Session 7: Java Interfaces to MPI	Chair Vladimir Getov Location: Lecture Room 5
17:10	Jmpi and a Performance Instrumentation Analysis and Visualization Tool for jmpi PDF PostScript	K. Dincer Department of Computer Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey
17:40	mpiJava: a Java MPI Interface PostScript	M. Baker, University of Portsmouth, Southsea, Hants, UK B. Carpenter, G. Fox, S. H. Ko and X. Li NPAC, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA
18:10	End of workshop