While object-oriented programming has been embraced in industry, particularly in the form of C++ and to an increasing extent Java, its acceptance by the parallel scientific programming community is still tentative. In this domain performance is invariably of paramount importance, where even the transition from FORTRAN 77 to C is incomplete, primarily because of performance loss. On the other hand, three factors together practically dictate the use of language features that provide better paradigms for abstraction: increasingly complex simulations, numerical algorithms, and hardware (e.g. deep memory hierarchies, numbers of processors, communication, and I/O). This workshop seeks to bring together practitioners and researchers in this field to demonstrate or propose libraries, techniques, idioms, or general approaches to OO software development particularly relevant to high performance scientific computing; also their expected, realized, or intrinsic limitations or shortcomings. URL: http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~poosc01/ Tracks: Concurrency; Languages

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