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CompFrame 2003 Workshop

February 24-26, 2003

CompFrame 2003 Workshop

The workshop has been a great success: There were 11 presentations (see the "Talks" directory). In between and in particular on February 26 there was ample time for discussion which led eventually to a strategy of how to proceed to make the various Computational Frameworks converge with respect to interoperability and functionality. The follow decisions were made:

Define a joint EU/NSF project to work on a common API and design pattern.

Produce a common review paper on the Computational Framework initiatives around and the issues to be resolved.

Set up a permanent structure, named "CompFrame" to house the project and the results from the participating groups. To this end the name "www.CompFrame.org" has been registered and a webserver is being set up at Sandia National Lab.

The CompFrame participants will meet 2 times a year at the ICS Conference in Heidelberg, Europe and at SC20xy in the USA and organise workshops at these conferences.

Audience: This workshop is intended for developers and users of Computational Frameworks/Problem Solving Environments for compute intensive High Performance Computing applications.

Goal: Discuss the possibilities for coordination of the many initiatives in this area in order to attain more general applicability of trustworthy components at the least possible cost (in terms of manpower) and the greatest possible performance and efficiency (in terms of machine power).

Format: The workshop spans three days of which the first two will be dedicated to presentations of the work of the various groups (see for a useful survey, e.g. Shujia Zhou et.al's survey).
The last day will be dedicated to discussions about strategies for cooperation, coordination of efforts, inventory of open problems, etc.

Time and Place: The workshop is held at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 24-26th of February 2003. For more information on the venue and the access to the CompFrame Workshop please check the "Venue" and "Access" buttons on this page.

Participation: In order to make this workshop fruitful the participation for this workshop is limited: the upper limit of attendees is 35. This should enable sensible discussions between the participants. It is also understood that the various parties that want to attend are able and willing to present some of their wiews and work in this field.
On the other hand there is no workshop fee.

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