Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: parcon@doc.CS.nyu.EDU (Parcon)
Reply-To: parcon@cs.NYU.EDU
Subject: PARCON'94; New York City, October 28
Organization: New York University
Date: 28 Sep 1994 14:35:50 -0400
Message-ID: <9409281835.AA03927@doc.cs.nyu.edu>
   
                                 PARCON'94
        Symposium on New Directions in Parallel and Concurrent Computing
                      New York City, October 28, 1994

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    Dedicated to 35 years of Michael O. Rabin's contributions to Computing
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 9:30   Welcome and Opening Remarks

        Richard J. Cole, Department of Computer Science, 
        Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

 9:45   Convergence Architectures: Efficient Support for Shared Memory 
        and Message Passing
        
        John L. Hennessy, Departments of Computer Science and Electrical
        Engineering, Stanford University

 10:30  Coffee Break

 11:00  Modeling Parallel Communication

        Richard M. Karp, International Computer Science Institute and
        University of California at Berkeley

 11:45  Optimization of Communication in High Performance Fortran Compilers

        Ken Kennedy,  Center for Research on Parallel Computation, and 
        Department of Computer Science, Rice University  

 12:30  Break

  2:15  The BSP Approach to Transportable Parallel Software

        Leslie G. Valiant, Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University

  3:00  Communication Bottleneck in Parallel Systems: Myth, Hardware Problem, 
        or Software Problem
        
        Panel discussion led by Marc Snir, IBM Research Division
      
        Panelists: David Culler, University of California at Berkeley; 
        Tom Knight, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Tom Lawrence, 
        Rome Laboratory; Yechiam Yemini, Columbia University


  4:30   Reception


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                         The symposium is sponsored by
        the Army Research Office, the National Science Foundation, the 
     Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Academic Computing 
                         Facility of New York University
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 Program co-chairs:  Zvi M. Kedem and Krishna V. Palem
                     Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
   
  
 Registration by October 14 is required. There is no registration fee and 
 available seating will be allotted in the order of receipt of registration 
 forms. To register, please contact parcon@cs.nyu.edu. The symposium will be 
 held in the Great Hall, Dagostino Hall, New York University, 108 West 3rd 
 Street, New York City.
 


