HPFF94 Acknowledgments

 

The HPF 1.1 version of the document was prepared during the HPFF94 series of meetings. A number of people shared technical responsibilities for the activities of the HPFF94 meetings:

• Ken Kennedy, Convener and Meeting Chair;
• Mary Zosel, Executive Director and head of CCI Group 2;
• Richard Shapiro, Head of CCI Group 1;
• Ian Foster, Head of Tasking Subgroup;
• Alok Choudhary, Head of Parallel I/O Subgroup;
• Chuck Koelbel, Head of Irregular Distributions Subgroup;
• Rob Schreiber, Head of Implementation Subgroup;
• Joel Saltz, Head of Benchmarks Subgroup;
• David Loveman, Editor, assisted by Chuck Koelbel, Rob Schreiber, Guy Steele, and Mary Zosel, section editors.

Attendence at the HPFF94 meetings included the following people from organizations that were represented two or more times.

Don Heller	Ames Laboratory
Jerrold Wagener	Amoco Production Company
John Levesque	Applied Parallel Research
Ian Foster	Argonne National Laboratory
Terry Pratt	CESDIS/NASA Goddard
Jim Cowie	Cooperating Systems
Andy Meltzer, Jon Steidel	Cray Research, Inc.
David Loveman	Digital Equipment Corporation
Bruce Olsen	Hewlett Packard
E. Nunohiro, Satoshi Itoh	Hitachi
Henry Zongaro	IBM
Piyush Mehrotra	Institute for Computer Applications in Science & Engineering
Bob Knighten, Roy Touzeau	Intel SSD
Mary Zosel, Bor Chan, Karen Warren	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Ralph Brickner	Los Alamos National Laboratory
J. Ramanujam	Louisiana State University
Paula Vaughan, Donna Reese	Mississippi State University and NSF ERC
Shoichi Sakon, Yoshiki Seo	NEC
P. Sadayappan, Chua-Huang Huang	Ohio State University
Andrew Johnson	OSF Research Institute
Chip Rodden, Jeff Vanderlip	Pacific Sierra Research
Larry Meadows, Doug Miles	The Portland Group, Inc.
Robert Schreiber	Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science
Ken Kennedy, Charles Koelbel	Rice University
Ira Baxter	Schlumberger
Alok Choudhary	Syracuse University
Guy Steele	Thinking Machines Corporation, Sun Microsystems
Richard Shapiro	Thinking Machines Corp., Silicon Graphics Inc.
Scott Baden, Val Donaldson	University of California, San Diego
Robert Babb	University of Denver
Joel Saltz, Paul Havlak	University of Maryland
Nicole Nemer-Preece	University of Missouri-Rolla
Hans Zima, Siegfried Benkner, Thomas Fahringer	University of Vienna

An important activity of HPFF94 was the processing of the many items submitted for comment and interpretation which led to the HPF 1.1 update of the language document. A special acknowlegement goes to Henry Zongaro, IBM, for many thoughtful questions exposing dark corners of language design that were previously overlooked, and to Guy Steele, Thinking Machines/Sun Microsystems for his analysis of, and solutions for some of the thornier issues discussed. And general thanks to the people who submitted comments and interpretation requests, including:

David Loveman, Michael Hennecke, James Cownie, Adam Marshall, Stephen Ehrlich, Mary Zosel, Matt Snyder, Larry Meadows, Dick Hendrickson, Dave Watson, John Merlin, Vasanth Bala, Paul.Wesson, Denis.Hugli, Stanly Steinberg, Henk Sips, Henry Zongaro, Eiji_Nunohiro, Jens Bloch Helmers, Rob Schreiber, David B. Serafini, and Allan Knies.

Other special mention goes to Chuck Koelbel at Rice University for continued maintenance of the HPFF mailing lists, to Donna Reese and staff at Mississippi State University for establishing and maintaining a WWW home-page for HPFF, and to the University of Maryland for establishing a benchmark FTP site.

Theresa Chatman and staff at Rice University were responsible for meeting planning and organization and Danny Powell continued to handle financial details of the project.

HPFF94 received direct support for research and administrative activities from grants from ARPA, DOE, and NSF.