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From: lums@owl.cse.nd.edu (Andrew Lumsdaine)
Reply-To: Andrew.Lumsdaine@nd.edu
Subject: CFP: MPI Developers Conference and Users Group Meeting
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Date: 9 Jan 1996 06:10:48 GMT
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                    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                  MPI Developers Conference
                            and 
                    Users' Group Meeting

                        July 1-2, 1996
                   University of Notre Dame
                     Notre Dame, IN  46556

The MPI Developers Conference and Users' Group Meeting is a conference
for all users of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard and is
intended to support the continued development and use of MPI and its
extensions.  The conference will provide a forum for users from
industry, national laboratories, and academia who are using MPI to
present their ideas about, and experiences with, MPI.

SCOPE:

Examples of appropriate topics for this conference include:
  o) Applications using MPI
  o) Implementations of MPI
  o) Experiences with MPI
  o) Extensions to MPI
  o) Why MPI is better/worse than other message passing systems
  o) Message passing versus shared memory
  o) The future of message passing
  o) Software issues
  o) Anything else about MPI, message passing, or parallel computing


SUBMISSIONS:

Abstracts are solicited for:
    1) Papers
    2) Posters
    3) Panel discussions
    4) Software demonstrations


TUTORIALS:

Two pre-conference tutorials on MPI will be offered on June 29 and 30,
1996.  The first tutorial, on June 29, will cover the basics of MPI
including point-to-point and collective communication operations, and
communicators.  The second tutorial, on June 30, will pick up where
the first tutorial left off and will cover data types, topologies, and
intercommunicators.  Attendees may take either or both of the
tutorials.

Both tutorials will be conducted in one of Notre Dame's SPARC-based
instructional clusters where each attendee will have use of a
workstation throughout the tutorial.  The tutorial lectures will be
interspersed with a series of exercises requiring each tutorial
attendee to write, debug, and run MPI-based programs using C or
Fortran.


DEADLINES:

Abstracts 
    for papers: April 26, 1996
    for posters: May 24, 1996
    for panel discussions: May 24, 1996
    for software demonstrations: May 24, 1996

Papers for proceedings: May 31, 1996
 
Lodging reservations: June 10, 1996

Early registration: June 10, 1996


FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Complete and up-to-the-minute information about the conference can be
found on the Web at

    http://www.cse.nd.edu/mpidc96/

or contact

    Andrew Lumsdaine                    Internet: Lumsdaine.1@nd.edu
    Computer Science & Engineering         Phone: (219) 631-8716
    University of Notre Dame                 Fax: (219) 631-9260
    Notre Dame, IN  46556

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 Andrew Lumsdaine
 Dept. Comp. Sci. & Engr.            email: Andrew.Lumsdaine@nd.edu
 353 Fitzpatrick Hall                phone: (219) 631-8716
 University of Notre Dame              fax: (219) 631-9260
 Notre Dame, IN  46556
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