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From: MPI-2 European Information Meeting <mpi2euro@epcc.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: ANNOUNCE  3rd European MPI Workshop
Organization: EPCC
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:21:30 GMT
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Announcement
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  Please distribute this announcement to all interested colleagues.

		      3rd European MPI Workshop
			 February 13-15, 1997
		 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

MPI (Message Passing Interface) is rapidly gaining wide acceptance as
the standard for message-passing programming. All major HPC hardware
vendors support MPI or have announced that they will do so. Mature
public domain implementations are available and are in wide use.

The MPI Forum reconvened during 1995 to address new functionality and
to develop an MPI-2 standard. MPI-2 is a superset of MPI and is
expected to be finalized in the first half of 1997. The new
functionality in MPI-2 includes: dynamic process creation; single
sided communication; parallel input/output; real time.

MPI-2 was described during a successful BOF at Supercomputing 1996.
The current draft standard can be obtained from
<http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/mpi2euro/>.

The 3rd European MPI Workshop is the successor of the successful 2nd
European MPI Workshop held in January 1996 at VCPC and 1st European
MPI Workshop held in January 1994 at INRIA. This workshop is organized
by EPCC, and sponsored by the ESPRIT project "HPC Standards".

The workshop will include presentations by a number of key members of
the MPI Forum: Rusty Lusk, Convener; Steve Huss-Lederman, Editor; Bill
Saphir, Chapter Author, Dynamic Processes; Marc Snir, Chapter Author,
One Sided Communication; Tony Skjellum, Chapter Author, Real Time;
Bill Nitzberg, Chapter Author, Parallel I/O.  The workshop will also
be attended by European members of the MPI Forum.  We plan to include
a session for vendor and third party developers.

The workshop will provide an excellent opportunity for users and
developers to learn more about MPI-2 and meet with members of the
MPI-2 Forum and the MPI developer community.

The workshop is also an excellent and timely opportunity to provide
feedback to the MPI-2 Forum.  We welcome offers to contribute a short
user perspective presentation and will schedule a user perspective
session if there is sufficient interest. If you wish to contribute to
a user perspective session, please check the box on the registration
form.

Who should attend: European software developers with experience in
message passing programming or tool development. Participants from
universities, research organizations, and industry are welcome to
attend.

Venue: John MacIntrye Centre, Pollock Halls, The University of
Edinburgh.

Fees: GBP 50 (to be paid in cash at registration).  Fees include
refreshments and lunch.

Programme: To be announced, the programme will appear on the World
Wide Web at <http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/mpi2euro/>.

Registration
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To register for the workshop, please use the form on the World Wide
Web at <http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/mpi2euro/>, or e-mail the attached
form to <mpi2euro@epcc.ed.ac.uk>.

Accommodation
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If you need help with accommodation, please fill out the arrival and
departure information on the registration form. We will send you an
accommodation booking form, and we will attempt to place you in a
hotel close to the location of the events. (The typical cost of a
single room is GBP 20-30.) Please note that the cost of accommodation
is not included in the registration fee.

Information
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For further information, please check the information on the WWW, or
e-mail to <mpi2euro@epcc.ed.ac.uk>.

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