Unfortunately, RTSPP 2001 received only a few submissions.  
The organizing committee therefore decided not to run RTSPP this year.

 

5th Workshop on Runtime Systems for Parallel Programming (RTSPP)
San Francisco, California, USA, April 23, 2001  (tentative date)

to be held in conjunction with the

15th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium ( IPDPS 2001 )


[ Motivation] [ Scope] [ Submission Instructions] [ Important Dates] [ Program Committee] [ Registration] [ Workshop Organizers] 

Motivation

Runtime systems are critical to the implementation of parallel programming languages and libraries.   They provide the core functionality of a particular programming model and the glue between the model and the underlying hardware and operating system. As such, runtime systems have a large impact on the performance and portability of parallel programming systems.

Despite the importance of runtime systems, there are few forums in which practitioners can exchange their ideas, and these are typically forums showcasing peripheral areas, such as languages, operating systems, and parallel computing. RTSPP provides a forum for bringing together runtime system designers from various backgrounds to discuss the state-of-the-art in designing and implementing runtime systems for parallel programming. This one-day workshop includes technical sessions of refereed papers and panel discussions.

The first four workshops (RTSPP'97, RTSPP'98, RTSPP'99 and  RTSPP'00 ) were very successful and generated a lot of interest. The reviewed papers, invited talks, and discussion sessions were well received.

Scope

The focus of the workshop is on the design and implementation of runtime systems for parallel programming languages and libraries. While the problem domain is restricted to parallel programming, papers that deal with fundamental issues in runtime systems that are applicable to parallel programming systems are also encouraged.

The topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that demonstrate original and unpublished research in the area of runtime systems that support parallel programming. Accepted papers will be published by the IPDPS organization, both on paper and CD-ROM. One of the authors will be required to attend the workshop and present the work.

RTSPP focuses on low-level issues in implementing parallel programming systems. Another workshop, HIPS, also held in conjunction with IPDPS 2001, is directed towards higher-level language issues.

Submission Instructions

All submissions must be completed papers whose length --- including abstract, figures, bibliographies, and appendices --- does not exceed 4 US letter (8.5" x 11"; no A4 please) pages; papers longer than 4 pages will be summarily rejected. Text must be set in no smaller than a 10 pt font, be single-spaced and single-columned, and include page numbers. Each paper will be reviewed by the program committee. It is expected that Springer-Verlag will publish the accepted papers (which will be given additional pages) in their Lecture Notes series.

Submit an electronic version of your complete manuscript in uuencoded, gzipped, postscript format to: rtspp@cs.ucdavis.edu. Please do not send your paper as an attachment (e.g., no MIME!). Please send only one paper per message. Please use standard postscript fonts (Times, Helvetica, Courier) and ensure that the postscript file is viewable using the "ghostview" tool. At the start of the message containing the paper, include in plain ASCII:
 

          1. corresponding author's
            1. name
            2. e-mail address
            3. complete postal address
            4. phone number
            5. fax number
          2. paper's
            1. title
            2. list of authors
Receipt of submissions will acknowledged by e-mail a few days after the submission deadline (see below). (Contact rtspp@cs.ucdavis.edu if you haven't received an acknowledgement by a week after the submission deadline.) Late submissions will not be accepted; sorry, no exceptions. In cases where electronic submission is not possible, please contact the program chair (see below).

Important Dates

October  27, 2000:  Papers due.
December  5, 2000:  Notification sent to authors.
January   8, 2001:  Final copies due for publication in the proceedings.

Program Committee

Pete Beckman, TurboLabs, USA
Greg Benson, University of San Francisco, USA
Luc Bougé, École Normale Supérieure of Lyon (ENS Lyon), France
Vincent W. Freeh, University of Notre Dame, USA
Matthew Haines, Inktomi, USA
Laxmikant V. Kale, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Koen Langendoen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
David Lowenthal, University of Georgia, USA
Frank Mueller, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany
Ron Olsson, University of California, Davis, USA
Raju Pandey, University of California, Davis, USA
Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, USA
Elizabeth White, George Mason University, USA

Registration

This workshop is being held as part of IPDPS 2001 ( http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2001 ). All workshop attendees are expected to pay for the IPDPS 2001 registration, which includes access to all sessions and workshops, coffee break and refreshments, as well as a number of lunches and receptions. 

Workshop Organizers

 Greg Benson  (benson@usfca.edu) -- General Chair
Department of Computer Science
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080, USA
Phone:  415-422-5066
Fax:  415-422-5800

 Laxmikant V. Kale (kale@cs.uiuc.edu) --  Steering Chair
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield
Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Phone: 217-244-0094
Fax: 217-333-3501

Ron Olsson (olsson@cs.ucdavis.edu) -- Program Chair
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8562, USA
Phone: 530-752-7004
Fax: 530-752-4767


http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~olsson/rtspp/2001/