The International Workshop on Embedded/Distributed HPC Systems and Applications (EHPC) is a forum for the presentation and discussion of approaches, research findings, and experiences in the applications of High Performance Computing (HPC) technology for embedded/distributed systems. Of interest are both the development of relevant technology (e.g.: hardware, middleware, tools) as well as the embedded HPC applications built using such technology.

We hope to bring together industry, academia, and government researchers/users to explore the special needs and issues in applying HPC technologies to defense and commercial applications.

Topics of Interest

• Algorithms and Applications: addressing parallel computing needs of embedded military and commercial applications areas such as signal/image processing, advanced vision/robotic systems, smart-sensor based systems, industrial automation/optimization, vehicle guidance
• Networking Multiple HPC Systems: in-the-large application programming models/API's, partitioning/mapping, system integration, debugging and testing tools.
• Programming Environments: software design, programming, and parallelization methods/tools for DSP-based, reconfigurable, and mixed-computation-paradigm architectures.
• Operating Systems and Middleware: distributed middleware services needs (e.g. QoS, object disribution) of high-performance embedded applications, configurable/optimal OS features needs, static/dynamic resource management needs
• Architectures: special-purpose processors, packaging, mixed-computation-paradigm architectures, size/weight/power modeling and management.

The workshop will feature technical papers, presentations, and an open discussion session.

Manuscript Submission

Authors are invited to submit by email a 4-page extended abstract of their paper to Devesh Bhatt (bhatt@htc.honeywell.com) by January 10, 2000. We also invite authors to submit 1-page abstracts of work-in-progress presentations (no paper submission necessary). Abstracts or extended abstracts must be either in plain ascii or postscript format. If submitting in postscript, please include the title, authors, and affiliation in plain ascii text also. Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee.

Important Dates

Abstracts or Extended Abstracts are due by January 10, 2000

Acceptance notifications will be made by January 17, 2000

Camera ready postscript files are due by January 31, 2000

(for inclusion in the LNCS Volume)

Proceedings

Proceedings of EHPC 2000, and some other workshops at IPDPS 2000, will published as one volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer-Verlarg. You must submit camera-ready postscript file by January 31, 2000, to be included in the proceedings. Abstracts will be distributed in hard-copy to the workshop attendees. We will consider putting the proceedings also on the World Wide Web.

Workshop Co-Chairs

Program Committee

Ashok Agrawala, Univ. of Maryland, USA

Bonnie Bennett, Univ. of St. Thomas, USA

Bob Bernecky, NUWC, USA

Alberto Broggi, Universita` di Pavia, Italy

Hakon O. Bugge, Scali Computer, Norway

Richard Games, MITRE, USA

Farnam Jahanian, Univ. of Michigan, USA

Magnus Jonsson, Halmstad University, Sweden

Jeff Koller, USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA

Karen Lauro, Mercury Computer Systems, Inc., USA

Bruce Lewis, US Army AmCom, USA

Mark Linderman, USAF Rome Laboratory, USA

Craig Lund, Mercury Computer Systems, Inc., USA

Stephen Rhodes, Adavanced Systems Architectures Ltd., UK

Samuel H. Russ, Mississipi State Univ., USA

Philip Sementilli, Hughes Missile Systems Co., USA

Behrooz Shirazi, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Anthony Skjellum, Mississipi State Univ., USA

Brian VanVoorst, Michigan Technological Univ., USA

Sudhakar Yalamanchili, Georgia Tech., USA

Advisory Committee

Viktor Prasanna, Univ. of Southern California, USA

Keith Bromley, NRaD, USA

Dieter Hammer, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands

David Martinez, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA

Jose Munoz, DARPA/TTO, USA

For further information, please contact:

Devesh Bhatt

Honeywell Technology Center

3660 Technology Drive

Minneapolis, MN 55418, USA

bhatt@htc.honeywell.com, +1 612-951-7316

Registration

This workshop is being held as part of IPDPS 2000. The usual IEEE Computer Society guidelines apply for registration at the symposium.