SIPAR WORKSHOP ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS Biel-Bienne, Switzerland, October 6, 1995 http://www.isbiel.ch/~don/sipar/ GENERAL INFORMATION This workshop offers the opportunity for in-depth exploration of selected topics and for presenting the most recent research and development findings in these rapidly changing fields. This SIPAR workshop will provide an opportunity for participating researchers to discuss various aspects of their work and to intensify the collaboration of different research institutions. Registration deadline: September 30 WORKSHOP PROGRAM The workshop is divided into two concurrent tracks. Track 1 10:00 Efficient Data Distribution on Mesh-connected Multicomputer Olivier Suciu, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Deutschland 10:20 Automatic Data Distribution for Distributed Memory Parallel Computers Claude G. Diderich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne Marc Gengler, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France 10:40 A Static Mapping for Distributed Shared Memory Multiprocessing Models Csaba Andras Moritz, Royal Institute for Technology Stockholm, Sweden 11:00 Coffee Break 11:20 Optimal Parallel Algorithm for Gaussian Elimination with Two Processors Mounir Marrakchi, Faculte des Sciences, Sfax, Tunisia 11:40 Vers une Approche Automatique de Parallelisation de Nids de Boucles Conditionnelles Statiques Mohamed Jemni, Zaher Mahjoub, Faculte des Sciences de Tunis, Tunisie 12:00 SPMD code generation for affine recurrence equations Christophe Reffay, Universite de Franche-Comte, France 12:20 Lunch 13:30 SIPAR General Assembly 14:00 Compilation d'un langage fonctionnel base sur des flots de donnees en PVM Marc Hamelin, Jacques Julliand, Universite de Franche-Comte, France 14:20 Integrating task-parallel computations into data-parallel applications Kilian Stoffel, Shamik D. Sharma, James Hendler, Joel Saltz, University of Maryland, College Park, USA 14:40 A parallelizable scheme for partitioning unstructured meshes N. Bouhmala, H,-H. Nageli, and P.-A. Knutti, University of Neuchatel 15:00 P-CoLa: Vers un langage de coordination physico-logique Christian Renevey et Michele Courant, Universite de Fribourg 15:20 Coffee Break 15:40 Programmation Evolutionniste Parallele Mouloud Oussaidene, Bastien Chopard, Universite de Geneve Marco Tomassini, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne 16:00 Asynchronous Strategies for the Parallelization of Tabu Search Applied to the Logical Test Of VLSI Circuits Renata Machado Aiex, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 16:20 Parallelization of a Classical Molecular Dynamics Code Roman Geus, CSCS, Manno 16:40 Radio Wave Propagation Simulator on Scalable Parallel Computers Pascal O. Luthi, Bastien Chopard, Jean-Frederic Wagen, Universite de Geneve 17:00 Simulation of the foreign exchange rate market and its parallel implementation Rodolphe Chatagny, Bastien Chopard, Universite de Geneve 17:20 Data Modeling Programming Assistant Interface for Parallel Systems Peter Messmer, Gina Chu, Chris Britton, CSCS, Manno Track 2 10:00 A low cost Multi-DSP Architecture and Associated Efficient Scheduling Strategies Thomas Bauer, Ole Ejlersen, Niels H. Larsen, Thomas C. Leer, Peter Koch Institute for Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark 10:20 Software Reuse in Parallel Programming Guilbo Peng, G. Libert, Pierre Manneback Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium 10:40 Overview of the Masix Distributed Operating System Fanck Mevel, Julien Simon, Universite Paris VI, France 11:00 Coffee Break 11:20 Etude comparative d'equilibrage de charge sur multicalculateurs Pascal Chatonnay, Benedicte Hermann, Laurent Philippe, Universite de Franche-Comte, France 11:40 Measurement of contention pheonomena on the CRAY T3D architecture Michel Pahud, Thierry Cornu, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne 12:00 Performance Comparison of the Message-Passing and the Data-Parallel Programming Paradigms using Application Kernels Rosario Lorenzo, Paulo Adelino, CSCS, Manno 12:20 Lunch 13:30 SIPAR General Assembly 14:00 High Performance Fortran Interface for ScaLAPACK Yoshimi Murakami, CSCS, Manno 14:20 D^3E: a Domain Decomposition Development Environment N. El Mansouri, H.-H. Nageli, and S. Oualibouch, University of Neuchatel 14:40 Object-Based Consistency in a Distributed Shared Memory Thilo Kielmann, Guido Wirtz, University of Siegen, Germany 15:00 Bridging the Gap: A Generic Distributed Coordination Model for Massively Parallel Systems Oliver Krone, Marc Aguilar, Universite de Fribourg 15:20 Coffee Break 15:40 High Order Gauchy Machines S. Cuche, E. Fiesler, IDIAP, Martigny 16:00 Boolean Logic Inspired High Order Perceptron Contruction A. De Pol, G. Thimm, E. Fiesler, IDIAP, Martigny 16:20 A Consensus Service for Asyncrhonous Distributed System Pascal A. Felber, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne 16:40 CAP: a methodology for the hierarchical specification of pipelined parallel applications Benoit A. Gennart, Roger D. Hersch, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne 17:00 Experiments with Distributed Shared Memory Hans Eberle, Martin Gitsels, Christian Kleitsch, Swiss Federal Institute of Techology, Zurich 17:20 Incremental Object-Oriented Implementation of Concurrent Systems based on Prototyping of Formal Specifications. Didier Buchs, Jarle Hulaas, Swiss Federal Institute of Techology, Lausanne ORGANIZATION Symposium Site: SIPAR95 will take place at the Biel School of Engineering, Rue de la Source 21, CH-2501 Biel-Bienne, Switzerland. Two conference rooms will be allocated for the conference. For transportation information, please consult our WWW page. Proceedings: The proceedings will be distributed to all participants during the workshop. Workshop Languages: English, French, German Registration, Contact information: For registration, please fill-out our registration form on the Web or contact directly: Nicolas Droux, Biel School of Engineering, Rue de la Source 21, CH-2501 Biel-Bienne, Switzerland Phone: +41 32 266 314, Fax: +41 32 266 523, E-mail: droux@info.isbiel.ch The workshop is free. THE SIPAR COMMITTEE Dr. M. Aguilar --- University of Fribourg Prof. H. Burkhart --- University of Basel Dr. A. Gunzinger --- ETH Zuerich Dr. H. Halin --- ETH Zuerich Prof. C. Heritier --- University of Geneva Prof. B. Hirsbrunner --- University of Fribourg Prof. A. Kuendig --- ETH Zuerich Prof. H. H. Naegeli --- University of Neuchatel Dr. E. Rothauser --- IBM Research Laboratory Prof. A. Schiper --- EPFL Lausanne