Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi,comp.parallel.pvm
From: tony@aurora.cs.msstate.edu (Tony Skjellum)
Subject: Re: SPLC94 Conference (Schedule and Final Call for Participation)
Keywords: SPLC94, Scalable Libraries, MPI
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: 3 Oct 94 14:53:03 GMT
Message-ID: <tony.781195983@aurora.cs.msstate.edu>


                Scalable Parallel Libraries Conference

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

         [for multiple authored papers, * indicates speaker]

Wednesday - October 12

1:30p    Welcome
          Dr. Robert Altenkirch, Dean of Engineering

****Keynote Address****
1:45      Parallel Program Archetypes
          Mani Chandy - California Institute of Technology, 
            Computer Science & NSF Center for Research in 
            Parallel Computing

2:45      Break

3:00      Jovian: A Framework for Optimizing Parallel I/O 
          Robert Bennett, Kelvin Bryant, Alan Sussman*, Raja Das, 
            and Joel Saltz

3:40      Scalable Libraries for Solving Systems of Nonlinear 
            Equations and Unconstrained Minimization Problems
          William Gropp, Lois Curfman McInnes*, and Barry F. Smith

4:20     Waveform Iterative Methods for Parallel Solution of 
            Initial Value Problems
          Jeffrey M. Squyres* and Andrew Lumsdaine

5:00     Shuttles to Hotels

6:00-9:00 Conference Reception, details TBD
Thursday - October 13 (MPI Applications Day)

8:00a     Continental Breakfast 
          ERC Atrium

8:15      Welcome
          Dr. Joe Thompson, 
            Director, NSF ERC for Computational Field Simulation

8:30      An MPI Version of BLACS
          David Walker - Oak Ridge National Laboratory

9:10      MPI on IBM SP1/SP2: Current Status and Future Directions
          Hubertus Franke - IBM

9:50      Break

10:00     Parallel C++: Experience with an MPI based runtime system
          Dennis Gannon - University of Indiana

10:45     Reconvene at Poster Session Area

12:00n    Lunch - ERC Cafeteria (adjacent to poster session)

1:00p     Implementing MPI: the 1994 MPI Implementors' Workshop
          William Gropp and Ewing Lusk*, Argonne National Laboratory

1:40      Extending MPI
          Anthony Skjellum, Mississippi State University
2:20      Parallelizing a Reservoir Simulator Using MPI 
          Xinglai Zhuang and Jiangping Zhu* 

3:00      MPE Graphics - Scalable X11 Graphics in MPI
          William Gropp*, Edward Karrels, and Ewing Lusk

3:40      Break

4:00      Adaptation of Volume Visualization Techniques to MIMD 
            Architectures Using MPI
          John E. West*, Michael M. Stephens, and Louis H. Turcotte 

4:40      Porting a Vector Library: a Comparison of MPI, Paris, 
            CMMD and PVM  
          Jonathan Hardwick

5:20      Shuttles to Hotels or directly to M-Club

6:30      Banquet (MSU M-Club)


Friday - October 14

8:00a     Continental Breakfast
          ERC Atrium

8:30      Scalable Libraries Using MPI: Abstraction, Performance, 
            and Portability 
          Purushotham V. Bangalore*, Anthony Skjellum, and Nathan E. Doss

9:10      Procedure Call Models for Distributed Parameters in Data 
            Parallel Languages
          Bwolen Yang* and David R. O'Hallaron

9:50      Break

10:05     DaRel: A Portable Data Redistribution Library for 
            Distributed-Memory Machine
          Edgar T. Kalns and Lionel M. Ni*


10:45     Passion Runtime Library for Parallel I/O
          Rajeev Thakur*, Rajesh Bordawekar, Alok Choudhary,
            Ravi Ponnusamy, and Tarvinder Singh

11:25     Conference Ends







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"There is no lifeguard at the gene pool." - C. H. Baldwin
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Anthony Skjellum, MSU/ERC, (601)325-8435; FAX: 325-8997; tony@cs.msstate.edu

