Important News

The authors of HeteroPar'2009 workshop will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the Parallel Computing journal, Elsevier. The special issue will be co-edited by Yves Robert, Leonel Sousa and Denis Trystram, and will include the best papers of HeteroPar'09 and ISPDC'09. The deadline for authors to submit the extended version of the papers is November 30, 2009.

The deadline for submitting the camera ready papers to the LNCS is October 21. Authors should submit a ZIP file to heteropar@sips.inesc-id.pt including:

  • the article proof in PDF format,
  • the article sources,
  • the copyright form.

The submitted paper MUST conform the Springer-Verlag LNCS formatting guidelines.

The HeteroPar'2009 best paper has been awarded to:

  • Anne Benoit, Henri Casanova, Veronika Sonigo and Yves Robert,
    “Resource Allocation for Multiple Concurrent In-network Stream-processing Applications;”.

The Heteropar'2009 organization is proud to announce Dick H.J. Epema as keynote speaker. Doctor Dick H.J. Epema will be giving a talk on “Exploiting Heterogeneity in Parallel and Distributed Systems”. [More information]


Welcome

The seventh International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms (HeteroPar'2009) will be held, on its seventh edition at Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. For the first time, this workshop is organized in conjunction with the Euro-Par annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel computing.

Workshop scope

Networks of computers are the most common and available parallel architecture now. Unlike dedicated parallel computer systems, networks are inherently heterogeneous. They consist of diverse computers of different performances interconnected via heterogeneous network equipment providing communication links with different latencies and bandwidths. Traditional parallel algorithms and tools are aimed at homogeneous multiprocessors and cannot be efficiently used for parallel computing on heterogeneous networks. New ideas, dedicated algorithms and tools are needed to efficiently use this new type of parallel architectures. The workshop is intended to be a forum for people working on algorithms, programming languages, tools, and theoretical models aimed at efficient problem solutions on heterogeneous networks.

The topics to be covered include but are not limited to:

  • Heterogeneous parallel programming paradigms and models;
  • Languages, libraries and interfaces for different heterogeneous parallel programming models;
  • Performance models and their integration into the design of efficient parallel algorithms for heterogeneous platforms;
  • Parallel algorithms for heterogeneous and/or hierarchical multi-core systems;
  • Parallel algorithms for efficient solving problems on heterogeneous platforms (numerical linear algebra, nonlinear systems, fast transforms, computational biology, data mining, multimedia, etc.);
  • Software engineering for heterogeneous parallel systems;
  • Applications on heterogeneous platforms;
  • Integration of parallel and distributed computing on heterogeneous platforms;
  • Experience of porting parallel software from supercomputers to heterogeneous platforms;
  • Fault tolerance of parallel computations on heterogeneous platforms;
  • Algorithms, models and tools for grid, cloud and green computing.

Authors are encouraged to submit original, unpublished research or overviews on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms, namely addressing the topics referred above.