Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: tony@aurora.cs.msstate.edu (Tony Skjellum)
Subject: SPLC94 - Third CFP
Summary: This is the third call for participation, and call for late posters
Keywords: SPLC94, Parallel Libraries, MPI, MPI Tutorial
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: 3 Aug 94 14:19:06 GMT
Message-ID: <tony.775923546@aurora.cs.msstate.edu>


   *** THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT + CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND LATE POSTERS ***

          Scalable Parallel Libraries Conference II (SPLC94)

                            including

                       MPI Applications Day
                               and
        Multicomputer Toolbox Developers' & Users' Meeting

                       October 12-14, 1994
    National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center
                 for Computational Field Simulation,
   		   Mississippi State, Mississippi


The Scalable Libraries Conference series is designed to

	. complement other, larger, general conferences in 
		high performance computing,
	. bring together key researchers from national laboratories, industry,
		and academia to effect technology transfer of high performance
		computing software and effect an interchange of ideas,
	. include vendors as attendees, but not include promotional activities,
	. provide invited talks on topics involving application of scalable
		libraries in applications, developments in scalable libraries,
		and related issues (such as message-passing technology),
	. provide for contributed talks and posters to allow further
		interchange of ideas,
	. introduce potential users to the work done at our center on the 
		scalable libraries, a specific example of technology we hope 
		to transfer,
	. provide user of scalable libraries with an opportunity to impact
		research in the area (i.e., complain/suggest
	        needs/requirements), 
	. There will be no parallel sessions (except that posters will be
		displayed for at least one full day),
        . Support the promulgation of the MPI standard, and its follow-ons,
		including application development and user training,
	. A proceedings of the all papers and posters will be made; the paper
		deadline will be at the conference. [Publisher: IEEE Press]

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Keynote Speaker: Mani Chandy, California Institute of Technology, Computer Science
			and NSF CRPC.
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Note: The Proceedings of the 1993 conference are available from IEEE
	Computer Society Press. 
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Paper:   The deadline for papers has passed.  The list of contributed and invited
	 papers and posters will be published on approximately August 15.

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Late Posters: The deadline for posters in the proceedings has passed.  However, posters
	      that could appear in the HTML proceedings addendum are still acceptable.

	 Please send us the title, authors, institutions, plus a
	 three-hundred word abstract of the work.  It is expected that
	 work-in-progress and completed work will be proposed for
	 posters, so that up-to-date material will appear in the
	 posters.

	 Include the name(s), complete address(es), phone number(s), e-mail(s),
		of the author(s).
		
Deadline:                   September 1, 1994
Notification of acceptance: September 10, 1994

It is STRONGLY preferred that proposal to present be sent by e-mail to 
	splc94-conf@cs.msstate.edu. 

Hardcopy proposals can be sent to:
		Anthony Skjellum
		NSF Engineering Research Center
		Attn: SCL Conference
		PO Box 6176
		Mississippi State, MS 39762

Posters marked "MPI Applications Day" will be considered for poster session
on Thursday, October 13, which will be devoted to MPI-based applications,
and related talks and posters.
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Conference fee: $225 for all attendees.  Attendance will be limited due to
		space requirements (approximately 100).  Fee includes cost
		of proceedings (to be distributed after the conference),
		and some meals.    Shuttle service also provided to/from
		airport during limited times.

		Fees payable by check to Mississippi State University.

		PREREGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.  ON-SITE REGISTRATION 
		CANNOT BE GUARANTEED.

		REGISTRANTS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO STAY FOR THE ENTIRE
		THREE-DAY CONFERENCE, TO IMPROVE THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION.

For further information, contact:  Anthony Skjellum,
				   tony@cs.msstate.edu,
				   phone: 601-325-8435
				   fax:   601-325-8997

Organizing Committee: Anthony Skjellum, Mississippi State University,
	              NSF Engineering Research Center for Computational
		      Field Simulation + Computer Science Department,

		      Donna S. Reese, Mississippi State University,
		      NSF Engineering Research Center for Computational
		      Field Simulation + Computer Science Department,

		      Andrew Lumsdaine, University of Notre Dame,
		      Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

		      Ewing Lusk, Argonne National Laboratory

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Hotel Accomodations:

	Hotel accomodations are available at several hotels close to
	the NSF Engineering Research Center.  

	The following are reasonable choices:
		The State House Hotel, (601) 323-2000
		The Best Western Motel, (601) 324-5555
		The Holiday Inn, (601) 323-6161

Airport:
	Starkville is served by the nearby Columbus, Mississippi Airport,
	(GTR), which provides connections through three larger cities:

		(American/American Eagle) through Nashville, Tennessee,
		(Delta/ASA) through Atlanta, Georgia,
		(Northwest Airlink) through Memphis, Tennessee

	GTR is approximately a 20-minute drive from Starkville, and
	several rental agencies are on-site.

	Correct directions (better than rental agencies) will be provided
	to registered attendees.  Shuttle to hotels on October 11/12,
	and to airport on October 14.  Also, shuttle to/from hotels will
	be provided each morning, and Wednesday, Thursday afternoons.

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             *** Message-Passing Interface Tutorial ***

			   preceding the

          Scalable Parallel Libraries Conference II (SPLC94)

                         October 11, 1994
     National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center
                 for  Computational Field Simulation
  		  at the <<Center for Visual Creation>>
   		   Mississippi State, Mississippi

The tutorial will be housed at the ERC's new <<Center for Visual
Creation>>, a Silicon Graphics, Inc. National Training Center, using a
state-of-the-art video classroom based on SGI workstations, and SGI
Onyx multiprocessor.  The classroom systems will provide
state-of-the-art interaction between instructors and the attendees, and
will also provide the basis for running parallel MPI jobs.

Tutorial Instructors: Anthony Skjellum, Ph.D.,
		      Nathan Doss,
		      Paula Vaughan,
		      Purushotham Bangalore,
	              Mississippi State University,
	              NSF Engineering Research Center for Computational Field
			Simulation

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MPI is the message-passing interface standard, defined by the MPI
Forum.  This new standard for message-passing incorporates the best
aspects of common message-passing practice together with advanced
concepts to improve software engineering of large-scale message-passing
programs, and to allow access to high-performance hardware of current
and soon-to-be-released multicomputers (MPPs) and networked clusters.
MPI builds on the experience of systems like P4, PVM, Zipcode,
Chameleon, NX, and other systems. MPI builds on the input of vendors:
Cray, Intel, IBM, Meiko, Convex, NEC, Kuck and Associates, Parasoft, and
others.

Intended audience: This tutorial is designed for people who are interested
in MPI and applications development, and who plan to attend SPLC94, but who
may want an in-depth introduction to MPI prior to attending the conference,
which will include/emphasize applications of MPI and libraries built on MPI.

The tutorial is targeted as an advanced introduction, so that people who
are familiar with C and/or FORTRAN programming will be successful at
writing basic MPI codes after the tutorial is completed, but with a
broader understanding of the concepts.  Ideally, it is aimed at people
who have experience with a message-passing system like NX or P4 or PVM,
but that is not required.

Topics will include: writing simple programs in MPI, porting from other
message-passing systems to MPI, and using MPI intermediate and advanced
features.  Furthermore, basic concepts of application-development
in the message-passing environment will be included.

The tutorial presenters have extensive experience with the development
of MPI as well as participation in the MPI Forum.  They have early
efforts at developing parallel libraries with MPI as well as
applications development based on MPI.

NOTE!
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Paid tutorial attendees will receive a copy of "Using MPI: Portable
Parallel Programming with the Message-Passing Interface," by William
Gropp, Ewing Lusk and Anthony Skjellum, as part of the registration fee
(published by MIT Press).  If the book should not be available by
October 11, the books will be shipped as soon as available (expected
publication is in October, 1994).
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Tutorial fee:   $225 for all tutorial attendees, in addition to SPLC94
conference fees.  Class size limit is 10 persons. 

Attendance at the SPLC94 conference following the tutorial is not
required, but is strongly recommended.

		8 hour class, followed by 4 hour open laboratory.
		Lunch included.

		Shuttle service also provided to/from airport during limited times.

		Fees payable by check to Mississippi State University.

		PREREGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.  ON-SITE REGISTRATION NOT AVAILABLE.
		REGISTRATION BY AUGUST 15 IS    $225.
		REGISTRATION BY SEPTEMBER 15 IS $325.  

		REGISTRANTS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO STAY FOR THE ENTIRE
		THREE-DAY CONFERENCE FOLLOWING THIS TUTORIAL IN ADDITION (SEE SPLC94
	        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION).

For further information, contact:  Anthony Skjellum,
				   tony@cs.msstate.edu,
				   phone: 601-325-8435
				   fax:   601-325-8997

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For further information on SPLC94, please see SPLC94 announcement.
Available by ftp from aurora.cs.msstate.edu; directory: pub/SPLC94/SPLC94.2
On Mosaic: http://www.erc.msstate.ed/ss/splc94.html
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Anthony Skjellum, MSU/ERC, (601)325-8435; FAX: 325-8997; tony@cs.msstate.edu

