Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW 2000)

The 9th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW 2000) is a forum to discuss latest findings in heterogeneous computing and promising work in progress. Heterogeneous computing systems range from diverse elements within a single computer to coordinated, geographically distributed machines with different architectures. A heterogeneous computing system provides a variety of capabilities that can be orchestrated to execute multiple tasks with varied computational requirements. Applications in these environments achieve performance by exploiting the affinity of different tasks to different computational platforms or paradigms, while considering the overhead of inter-task communication and the coordination of distinct data sources and administrative domains. Such computing systems support information infrastructure and other terms including Cluster Computing and Grid Computing are also used to describe heterogeneous computing. HCW 2000 is co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, through the technical committee of Parallel Processing, and the U. S. Office of Naval Research.