CALL FOR PAPERS LCR98: Fourth Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Run-time Systems for Scalable Computers (in cooperation with ACM Sigplan) Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA May 28-30, 1998 Web: www.cs.cmu.edu/~lcr98 IMPORTANT DATES Submission: Friday, February 20, 1998. Notification: Friday, March 20, 1998. Camera-ready: Wednesday, July 1, 1998. OVERVIEW The Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Run-time Systems for Scalable Computers (LCR) is a bi-annual gathering of computer scientists who develop software systems for parallel and distributed computers. Attendance is limited to 75 participants. The LCR community is interested in a broad range of technologies, with a common goal of developing software systems that enable real applications. The organization of high end computer systems is undergoing a dramatic change away from traditional MPPs and towards shared memory systems, distributed shared memory, and (possibly heterogeneous) clusters of uniprocessors and multiprocessors. The theme for this fourth meeting is software support for these emerging systems. Authors are invited to submit 6-page abstracts. Particular areas of interest include language features, communication code generation and optimization, communication libraries, distributed shared memory libraries, distributed object systems, resource management systems, integration of compiler and runtime systems, irregular and dynamic applications, parallel I/O performance evaluation, and debuggers. SUBMISSIONS Paper format: 6-page (maximum) abstract. Shorter entries are welcome. Please include an email address, phone number, and fax number for the contact author. Papers can be submitted via email or postal mail; email submissions are preferred. Electronic submission: Send one postscript file to the program chair (David O'Hallaron) at lcr98@cs.cmu.edu no later than 5:00 pm EST on Feb 20, 1998. To minimize printing problems with your submission please ensure that your postscript file can be previewed by ghostview. Contact the program chair at lcr98@cs.cmu.edu if you need any help. Postal submission: Send three copies of the 6-page abstract to the Program Chair at the following address so that it ARRIVES by Feb 20, 1998: David O'Hallaron School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA NOTIFICATION Authors will be notified via email no later than 5:00 pm EST on March 20, 1998. PUBLICATION An informal proceedings consisting of the 6-page abstracts will be distributed at the conference. Authors of accepted papers will submit full versions of their papers after the Workshop. The proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Each participant will receive a copy of the proceedings. PROGRAM COMMITTEE David Bakken (BBN) Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory) Thomas Gross (Carnegie Mellon University and ETH Zurich) Charles Koelbel (Rice University) Piyush Mehrotra (ICASE) David O'Hallaron, Chair (Carnegie Mellon University) Joel Saltz (University of Maryland) Jaspal Subhlok (Carnegie Mellon University) Boleslaw Szymanski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Katherine Yelick (U.C. Berkeley) Hans Zima (University of Vienna) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Barbara Grandillo, Chair (Carnegie Mellon University) GENERAL/PROGRAM CHAIR David O'Hallaron School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 email: droh@cs.cmu.edu phone: (412) 268-8199 fax: (412) 268-5576