The Next Generation Software Workshop - IPDPS´07

This workshop provides a forum for an overview, project presentations, and discussion of the research fostered and funded initially by the NSF next generation software (NGS) program, and more recently through the advanced execution systems (AES) and the systems modeling and analysis (SMA) components of the follow-up computer systems research (CSR) program. The present workshop is part of the series of the next generation software workshops that have been conducted since 2001, on a yearly basis and in conjunction with IPDPS. The topics addressed in the workshop are on research in systems´ software technology in the scope of NGS and of the AES and the SMA components, namely: methods for systems modeling and analysis, performance engineering, dependability, fault tolerance, and power-management, programming environments, enhanced compiler capabilities, tools for the development, dynamic runtime support and dynamic composition of complex applications executing on heterogeneous, parallel and distributed computing platform assemblies, such as computational grids, encompassing, advanced multiprocessing nodes, mid-range and high-end platforms, clusters, embedded and sensor systems, and special purpose processing systems.