The National Science Foundation has recently awarded $890,000 to a team of researchers led by Prof. Barbara Chapman that will enable them to perform research into a programming model for productive High End Computing. She will collaborate with Prof. Edgar Gabriel (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UH), Prof. Danesh Tafti (Virginia Tech), Mark Straka (NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Henry Jin (NASA Ames Research Center) to investigate productive, portable, efficient language features for programming emerging petascale computers.