Scott B. Baden
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego
email: baden@cs.ucsd.edu
Software infrastructure for large scale computation often fails to realize the full potential afforded by technological advances, and the result is lost opportunities for making scientific discovery. This workshop will examine two important issues in software infrastructure for large scale computation: achieving scalability, and optimization through specialization. Three presentations address scalability: tolerating latency, and aggregating and analyzing voluminous simulation and performance data. Two presentations address optimization: run time optimization of task graphs and compile time techniques for incorporating semantic information into the optimization of object oriented frameworks.